Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1930 — Page 1

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Warns County 1931 Tax Rate 59 Cents On Hundred Dollars

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Labor Day Passes Quietly In Decatur Labor Day passed in Decatur in orderly fashion. Business was practically at a standstill in observance of the day set aside in the United States to honor laboring men and women. A few stores were open in the city during the morning hours. There no kind of public celebration. Hundreds of local people spent the day at lakes, while others attended fairs, races and other sporting events. The autumn season officially | starts today. ADAMS COUNTY I YOUTH EXPIRES Ralph Stonehurner, 16. Is Paralysis Victim At Bluff ton Monday Bluffton, Sept. 2 — (Special) — Ralph* J. Stoneburner. 16. Kirkland , township Adams County young man died a: the home of his sister, Mrs. Ralph Ernst at Bluffton, Monday evening at 7 o’clock. Death was due to infantile paralysis which followed an illness of one week. Mr. Stoneburner attended the Kirkland Township High Schoo! and was well known throughout Wells and Adams counties. He was born in Kirkland town--1 ship. July 6. 1914, the son of Amos K. and Leona SUxuntenberry Stone 1 burner, both of whom survive. 1 Surviving besides the parents are ■ the following brothers and sisters: ■ Mrs. Ralph Ernst of Bluffton, Helen i and Mabel Stoneburner, both at home. The grand parents. Jay S'outenberry and Mrs. Sarah StongI burner also survive. The deceased was a member of i the Pleasant Dale church of the • Brethren. Funeral services will be I held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of the parents I in Kirkland township, Rev. R. E Wenger will officiate and will be assisted by Rev. D. M. Byerly. Burial will be made in the Pleasat Dale i Cemetery. TWO ARE DEAD OF MENINGITIS 1 r Several Cases Reported In ' Bluffton; Local Man’s 5 • Niece Dies j BJuffton, Sept. 2 —(^Special)—A , number of cases of spinal menlng--5 itis have been reported in this t j vicinity and two fatalities have occurred, one Sunday night and the 1 other Monday morning. The. dread ed malady claimed several victims earlfer in the year but for the past ’ few months there were no cases in ' this locality. Miss Ruth Myers, 26, well known ’ Bluffton girl who has been a teacher in the Elkhart schools for the 1 past two years, succumbed to the 5 disease. Monday morning at five o’c after being ill for only 3 three days. Miss Myers was a niece of Ed Engeler of Decatur. ’ It 4s thought Miss Myers contracted the disease while travelling in Michigan a week ago. The attending physician did not determine her illness to be spinal meningitis until 24 hours before her death. IMiss Myers was an accomplished musician, specializing in piano and was one of Bluffton's most bril lianV young women. She was graduated from Bluffton High School in 1921, from DePauw University in t 1925. received her Master’s degree (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Pulling Contests To Be Street Fair Feature 1 The horse and mule pulling con--1 test will be held on the mornings ’ of Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9 and 10 in connection with a tile Decatur Free Street Fair. Through the courtesy of the Steury Brothers it will be held on e Niblick field just east of the city. , In case the ground is too soft, perr mission has been obtained from ~ Col. Reppert to hold the contest on a the driveway at Bellmont park. |. The pulling contest will be in charge of R. B. Cooley and his staff i, from Purdue university. This !: event has proved very successful i- in previous years and much interest is belli shown this year.

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0.0. REINHARD DIES AS HORSE FALLS ON HIM Adams County Farmer Fatally Hurt Monday Afternoon WAS GRADING PRIVATE ROAD Daniel O. Reinhard. 57, of I French township died of injuries j sustained Monday when a horso |on which he was riding, lunged I over, pinning him beneath. Death came shortly after the accident. Reinhard was grading the lane from the road to his farm house using a wood grader and a team of horses. One of the animals bucked, and Mr. Reinhard climbed on the horse’s back to break it. The animal reared back and fell over, pinning the man underneath. Reinhard was carried inta his home unconscious and a physician was called, but he died shortly afterwards. Daniel O. Reinhard was born in Monroe township, December 15, 1572, the son of Eulrich Reinhard and Phlipfeana Baker Reinhard, both deceased. On November 20, 1905 he was united in marriage to Katie Kipfer in Adams county who survives together with the children, Eulrich, Ephraim. Alfie, | Silva, Amos and Aaron, all at home. For twenty-two years, Mr. Reinhard was a resident of French township where he was engaged as a farmer. The following brothers and sisters also survive; Mrs. Charley Charlham and Mrs. Sam l>evy of Leo; Mrs. Eli Levy of Bluffton; Miss Sarah Reinhard and Edwin Reinhardj of Ijort Wayne; and Joe Reinhard of Lafayette. The funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 o’clock .at the Christian Apostolic Church and burial will be made in the church cemetery. County Quartet Wins The Adams County quartette won first place in this district, at the contest held in Indianapolis last week, and broadcasted over WLS Sunday afternoon. The quartette will return to Indianapolis Thursday evening and will sing in the final contest Friday morning from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock. Ten districts will be represented at the final contest. A male chorus composed of the Adams county quartette is composed of Ernest Foreman. first tenor, George Yaney, second tenor, Russell Baumgartner . Maritone, and Clifford Mann, base. . 1 THREE HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS Two Automobiles Collide; Bicycle Rider Struck I By Auto Miss Marcia Ohler of this city, ; and Willart Schott of Fort Wayne received minor injuries when the cars they were riding in crashed together at crossroads near the Ed - Ellsworth farm south of this city, 1 Sunday afternoon. Miss Ohler was an occupant of ( a Ford sedan driven by Clarence i Smith, and she received several > bruises and cuts. Mr. Schott of Fort Wayne was the sole occupant of a I Whippet sedan and received only slight injuries. Mr. Smith was uninjured. i Neither driver saw the other car until the crash, it was stated today. A corn field which obstructed both driver's vlexv of the corner was blamed for the accident. When the cars ran together l>oth turned over ' the Schott car hitting a telephone pole which fell across the top of it, ’ narrowly missing the occupant. 1 Both cars were badly damaged, and the Smith car was taken to a ' local garage for repairs. i 1 Bob Johnson. Decatur youth was struck by a hit and run driver on i Winchester street Monday morns ing and received a painful injury to i his leg. The leg was not broken 1 but the knee-cap was badly injured - A physician was called immediately and the injury was adjusted.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 2, 1930.

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George Fernic (inset), New York airplane designer and famous stunt flyer, met instant deatli at Curtiss Field when the plane, wreckage of which is shown here, failed to take a loop and dived ?eventy-five feet to the ground. The plane was designed l>y fernic.

PRESBYTERIANS I PLANISUPPER Missionary Society To Hold Birthday Party Wednesday Night The Women’s Missionary society of the Presbyterian cjiurch will hold its annual birthday supper Wednesday evening September 3, in the form of a pot luck supper at 6:30 o'clock. Every member is invited to be with us and enjoy the social hour. Miss Esther Sellemeyer, a missionary to China will be the speaker at the services which will begin at 8 o’clock. | The public is invited as Miss Sellemeyer is a Decatur woman. I She has been in the service of the Reformed church board for the last 13 years, 11 years of which have been spent as a missionary to China, and she 4s now back on furlough. Coming to China she prepared herself in the language school at Nanking and then was stationed as a missionary at Shenchow, in the province of, Hunan, China. For the past two years she has been instruc tor in music in the Pushing Girl's School at Changsha. China. A public invitation is hereby extended to all to come and hear Decatur's Missionary* to China at the Presbyterian church. The teachers and officers of the Sunday School will meet at the church immediately after this service. Boats In Collision Seattle, Wash., Sept 2 —(UP) — The Halibut boat Orient collided | with the freighter Admiral Nelson off the British Columbia coast yesterday, according to advices to ’.he Pacific steamship company, owners of the freighter, today. The Orient sank after the crash. Ten of her hands were reported missing. c Floyd Death Returns Floyd Death was paroled from the federal prison at Leavens worth. Kansas last week and returned to Decatur Sunday night. He served eight months of a two year’s sen tence, as a result of the liquor conspiracy case in which he was involved in April 1929.

Gangster Is Shot ! | Indianapolis, Sept. 2.—<U.R> —The "honor” of gangster baffled police | today as they attempted to learn I the name of the man who shot Raymond Welsh, 29, in the abdomen last night. Welsh, known to police as a racketeer, hijacker, and gangster, staggered into City hospital and asked to “have a chung of led" removed. He defied police to learn who shot him and merely grinned at their questions. His condition was said to he serious. OLD DIRECTORS ARE RE-ELECTED I Telephone Company Selects H. F. Ehinger As General Manager The thirty-seventh annual election of directors of the Citizem Telephone company was held Monday evening at the company’s office on Monroe street, the old members of the hoard being elected. The directors and officers of the company are: Leo Yager, president Sam E. Hite, vice-president, Charles E. Voglewede, treasurer and Herman F. Ehinger, secretary and general manager. 'There was no change in the personel of the officers. Mr. Ehinger, general manager of the company reported the company’s progress during the last year. The telephone patrons was increased to 2.777, an increase of 30 over a year ago. During the year the iron wire I circuits between Decatur and Fort Wayne, and Decatur to Monroe and Berne, were replaced with copper circuits and an additional line built to each place. Much work was done on the rural lines out of Decatur and Berne, many of the lines being rebuilt, new poles installed and wires strung. Work on rebuilding the Linn Grove line will start within two weeks, Mr. Ehinger stated today and the entire line will be rebuilt The company owns the exchanges at Monroe, Berne and Linn Grove and the central office in this city is one of the most modern and efficient plants in the state.

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ATTORNEYS ARE READY FOR BUSY COURT SESSION [September Term Opens Monday With .1. C. Sutton On Bench CALENDAR TO BE READY SOON The September term of Adams circuit court opened Monday and from the looks of the docket it appears as if the! ■ term would be a busy one. 1 l The docket was called today i I and Judge J. C. Sutton, presiding, stated the term calendar would be ready in a day or two. The criminal docket is not crowded, and it is probable that the few cases will he disposed of early in the term. The cases against the Arthur Hall estate probably will be heard in the present term. Several damage suit cases also will be heard in the next several weeks. It was not announced whether the grand jury would be called, but more than likely the probing body will not be called until the November term of court, it was learned from an authoritative source. New Circuit Cases The case of the state vs. Lyle Fennig, charged with assault ami battery was bound over to circuit court today from mayor's court. H. M. De Voss is attorney for defendant. Summons on the case of Bessie M. Gates vs. Rufus Allison Gates,, appointment of guardian, is returnable September 14. Two damage suits were brought against the B-G Construction Co., and Walter Gilliom. Burton and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o THREE SCHOOLS AREJAMAGED Hoodlums Break Down Doors of Rural Buildings And Enter Sheriff Ilarl Hollingsworth today started working on several clues concerning the rifling and damaging on three Adams county rural school houses in the last few days. Two buildings in French township and one school in Kirkland township have been badly 7 damaged by the hoodlums. All three jbufldings appear to have been ransacked by the same people, as much the same methods were used. Doors were broken down. Seats were torn from the flor. Stoves were damaged and windows were broken. One theory is that a certain party who has made several remarks about the rural schools has decided to destroy them. Another is that a group of young hoodlums did the destructive deeds after imbibing 100 freely of some intoxicant. Damage at each building totalled more than S2OO according to trustee Martin Moeschberger of French township and Charles Arnold trustee of Kirkland township. EfaAjff )! lollingswortfi made a trip to Honduras this afternoon to investigate a rumor that a resident of that section saw the men enter one of the buildings. He also was probing a story in French township that several young men xvere seen pillaging the buildings. The destruction of public property carries a severe penalty, The trustees stated today and all efforts will be made to round up those xvho are guilty of destroying the interiors of the buildings. ( Q Berne Man is Injured Albert Neuhauser, 45 of Berne was injured Monday night at the plant of the Hoosier Milk condensery in Bluffton. He was found unconscious by the night watchman i and it is believed that he may have • fallen through the elevator shaft.. He was taken to the Bluffton hospii tai and it is believed that he is suf- ■ feting from a fracture of the skull. ■ The injured man's brother, Amos ■ Neuhauser, is general manager of the company.

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Chicago Has Million Dollar Loss By Fire Chicago, Sept. 2.— (U.R) — Rain early today checked Chicago's most disastrous fire in three years after it had caused approximately $1.000,001) damage to a candy company,' a boat factory and a Great Lakes steamship line commissary building. Explosions of eight storage tanks sprayed the district with flaming gasoline and oil. Fort a time the fires threatened to spread over a wide section of the Lake Michigan waterfront. Firemen fought the flames from both land and water. All workers had left the damaged buildings before the fires started but four firemen were injured seriously. BELLONTE ANO COSTE BRAVE OCEAN PERILS French Fliers Arrive At North American Mainland Today ARE FIRST TO FLY FROM EAST New York. Sept. 2. — (U.R) — Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte today became the first aviators to have flown westward from the mainland of Europe to the mainland of North America without stop. When at 9:30 a. m. est., they gained a landfall near Cape Canso, , Nova Scotia and came flying down the Nova Scotian coast they had accomplished the thing which so many, beginning with Nungesser and Coli and reaching down through a long, tragic list, had attempted without result. , At noon they were believed in the vicinity of Halifax, and, barring difficulties should reach New York after dark tonight.

St. John. New Brunswick, Sept. 2.—(U.R? — Advices from Canso today reported the airplane Question Mark passed over the coast of Nova Scotia there at 9.30 a. m. est. The above would indicate that th? Question Mark after passing southward over Miquelon Island, flew over the ocean to a point west (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o HEARST BARRED 11 FROM FRANCE American Publisher Is Expelled; Accepts Order And Leaves Paris, Sept. 2. — (U.R) — William Randolph Hearst, American publisher, left Paris for London yesterday, afternoon within an hour ' after an expulsion order had been , served against him by an agent of the police. I Hearst’s expulsion was confirm- - edb y the Quai D'Orsay, the French i foreign office. Distinct reasons for the expulsion order were given as the gen- . orally hostile attitude of the Hearst > newspapers toward France. 1 The prefecture stated that the ’ order had been prepared for a long > time, but that officials had not ’ been able to serve it until yester--1 day afternoon. London. Sept. 2. —(U.R) —William ' Randolph Hearst, American publisher, issued a statement today ’ announcing he had been expelled from France because the Hearst newspapers published the secret Anglo-French treaty of 1928. "If being a competent journalist and loyal American can make a ’ man persona non grata in France ’ I think I can endure the situation without loss of sleep,” Hearst’s statement said. 1 o Missionary To Speak Miss Martha Hood, a returned . Missionary from Africa will delivj er an address on her experiences f in Africa, at the Antioch Church, Thursday evening, September 4.

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LOSS IS THREE COMPARED WITH 1929 FIGURES ♦ Cathottc And Lutheran Schools Make Gain; Classes Start OTHERS MAY ENTER LATE J School bells rang hi DecaI tur lodav and 1,355 pupils I answered roll call at the puh- | lie and Parochial schools of I the citv. The enrollment on . 1 the opening dav is three less ’than the 1929 enrollment. Gains were made at Catholic school and Lutheran school, while the public school attendance showed a slight decrease. , Adams county schools opened Monday, but the city schools observed the holiday and opened at , 8:15 o’clock this morning. At . boflh Decatur and Catholic high I schoo’s, classes started immediately- following preliminary assignments and introduction of new I: teachers. The elementary school pupils were given a few hours to obtain their books and reported at 1:15 o’clock this afternoon for first classes. i Decatur High School An enrollment of 274 pupils In Decatur, high school was reported by Suparintendent M. F. Worth- • man this morning. This is several more pupils than enrolled the i first day of school last year, and s more students are expected to i- come in during the week. Several who will attend Decatur high y school have not returned from >, their summer vacations and will n enter the latter part of the week, d Principal W. Guy Brown met j the students in the assembly this r morning and delivered the keynote Ij address of the year. Following j 11 s talk the regular classes were held according to schedule. 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Booth Festival Held The annual Booth Festival of the Epworth Leagues of the Methodist churches in the Fort Wayne district was held in Foster Park at Fort Wayne, yesterday, at which time the contributions from the various churches were made for the Methodist hospital. During the day, booths were erected in the park for the purpose of displaying the quantities of food, toweling and other articles contributed, and prizes were awarded to the best display. Those from this city who were present at the annual event yesterday were Rev. B. IL Franklin and daughter Elizabeth. Mary Maxine Brown, Katherine Flower, Eileen Burk and Gladys Thompson, David Heller. Harold Strickler, Paul Hancher, Marion Feasel, Henry Busche, and Marion Baker. Legion To Complete Street Fair Plans All members ot Adams post, American Legion are asked to meet at Legion hall- at 8 o’clock tonight for a special meeting to make final plans for the Decatur Free Street Fair, which will open here next week. ROAD BIDS ARE BOTH REJECTED Error In Low Bid Is Cause of Postponement of Contract Bids were received today by the board of county commissioners for the building of the William Auman concrete road along the Root-Preble township line, but the contract was not. awarded today. P. B. Putman, Fort Wayne, was the low bidder on the road. His bid was $19,130. The other bid was that of O. W. P. Macklin, Decatur, $23,371.85. Putman claimed that he made an error of S6OO in his figures and stated that he would not contract for the building of the road. Because of the differences in the tw.o bids the commisnioners rejected both bids and will not reudvertise for new bids until (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)