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Inns she gated near n MIDWAY jitural Shows to Be feature of Annual Street Fair OPEN TUESDAY NOON Graham, general an of the Decatur ¥ ree ‘ fair which opens v September 9, prethe biggest fair Decaer had and further "it’s going to be one most interesting and ful events ever held rjham stated that 16 high o»s were already hook; d week. This is in addition • attractions which come Iftair, the merry-go-round, heel, slides and other feaec -acts which wdll start afternoon at three o'clock leld at the corner of North and Jackson street, and Federal lot, opposite the ouse. The acts include ss Lewis Entertainers, and danctrs, and the Fly)ys, dare-devil aerial per(hibits are Located nations for the different and shows in connection i street fair were given William Linn, a member iccutive committee. The are: ■partment—Hensley Bldg. Itural Dept. —Burdge Bldg ock Show —City Hall Show—Tent, corner First son streets. Show—Schlickman’s Feed Show—East end Madison >K! Hi NCED ON PAGE FIVE) r Adams County nan's Funeral Held 1 services for Mrs. Luella 38. formerly Miss Luelia t Jefferson township, Adity, who died at the LutUipital Thursday morning, d this afternoon at 1 o’the home, rural route No dale, and at 2:30 o’clock at el church east of Borne r - Frank Johnson officiatal wa3 made at Geneva, ng are the husband, Clemkel; six children. Crystal |m, Dean, Rutheford, J., Hattie, fCatherine, all at home. The >is. Mr. and Mrs. J. 1.. Yaney bnvoy, Ohio three brothers and sisters, Floyd Yaney of Linn *■ J e 'se Yaney of near thi3 Mrs. Ralph Smitley and Mrs. ) Brunner of Jefferson town- ; Mrs Frank Fowler and Merill P of Fort Wayne, and Miss p Yanev at home with her parI Also survive. EHI FLIERS RETURN EAST N° n te, Coste Stay At Louisville Over Night, Then Start Wsviile, Ky„ Sept. 6.~ftJ.fi>— r* ne ( ' 08te and Maurice BellL”° re l ) aid Charles A. Lind- , Ttsit to New York, gained p much needed rest today beL.ix eastward to receive the ovulations of President HoovL . n nc b a -r pioneers landed ! >'ans-Atlantic plane, the r,, on Mark " at Bowman field , h # ; m ' Yesterday, were givJ! u Prepared hearty htlred e y arly 000 80uUlerners ’< t t 0 take today, It Sinn oUmVl " e ° nly an OVer * T thelr return flight to it lo no r T I pxas ’ w here they ®am P " the * 2s ’ ouo which Col. Rwt aßterwood offered for Nias eßt ° P fllght from Parlß t,t 0 i tlme from Dallas to l UBP r,." 88 com Paratively slow A at n * Said ’ tl,ey wished to n beautiful country” CoNtinued ON PAGB SIX)
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The unprecedented situation In which two women rival* will contest with a former Senator for a seat in the Senate was assured when Mrs. Ixtttle Holman O'Neil (above), Illinois’ first woman legislator, declared she would file for the office as an independent against Mrs. McCormick and John Hamilton Lewis. BEET SHOW IS ONE OF BEST Van Wert County Farmers Display Some of Largest Beets Adams county farmers who visited the Van Wert county fair held this week, no doubt were attracted to the large sugar beet display in Agricultural hall. The display this year was unusual in as much as special classes had been arranged for by Harry Daniels, fieldman for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company in the Van Wert territory, with the result that many Van Wert county sugar beet growers brought in their exhibits for the different classes. In the Fair Association class, some twenty entries competed for the prizes offered for the best type beets. In the class for largest beets, Mr. Daniell had offered liberal prizes of sugar to the farmers and also to the labor who would bring in entries that weighed the heaviest, and when the final weights were taken there were a number of entries that weighed over ten pounds per beet. Rains have been more or less general in Van Wert county with the result that the sugar beets in that territory appear unusually good. For a good many years an average of over two thousand acres have been planted in this county J,nd usually the average tonnage will run ten tons or better per acre, with many fields netting well over SIOO.OO per acre with yields of around 18-tons. With a ten-ton crop, sugar beets are able to compete with any oiher crop, as far as returns per acre are concerned, and this crop has become a major c«op with the Van Wert county farmers. o Lutheran Church Will Hold Mission Festival The Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of this city will celebrate the annual mission festival with special services, both morning and evening at the church, Sunday. The morning service will he delivered ir the German language and will begin at 9 o’clock. Rev. Herman Reinkiug of Woodburn will deliver the festival. address here, and Rev. Paul Schultz of the local church will de liver the festival stermon at Woodburn. In the evening English mission services will be held at. 7:45 o’clock with Rev. Alfred Boester of Fort Wayne delivering the sermon. Rev. Boester has addressed the local Lutheran group before and is weil ’known in this city. He is an able speaker and a large audience is expected to hear him. Gangster Sails Today Bremen, Germany, Sept. 6 —(UP) Jack (legs) Diamond, New York racketeer, left here today to catch a boat for New York. The gangster escorted by two detectives, departed for HVinberg at. 9:45 A. M. Diamond was scheduled to sail on the freighter . lanuover for New York at 4:00 P. M.
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DECATUR MAN IS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Car Driven by Arthur ('loss Turns Over On State Road 3 ONE MAN IS HURT CRITICALLY Bluffton Sept. 6. —(Special)— Three men were injured, one critically, when a large Nash sedan driven by Arthur Closs of Decatur turned over three times at a curve in the road, nine miles south of Bluffton on State road No. 3, this morning. The accident occurred as , the car swerved around the curve. . and a rear tire blew out, turning t j tlie car over three times. Arthur ('loss, driver of the car i was thrown from the car into a side - dit.J'i land escaped w'ijth (several , I cuts about the hips. His father-in-I law William Biggs, 60, of Petersburg, was the most seriously injured, receiving several fractured ribs, , a fractured pelvic bone and a possible brain concussion. He is in the Weils County Hospital, where he was rushed immediately following , the accident, and is in a critical condition. The impact of the accident threw Mr. Biggs through a window and he was later found in a field on the west side of the road. The other occupant of the car, G. W. Stout of Fort Wayne, aged 85, father-in-l-aw of Mr. Biggs, was thrown through the top of the car and landed on the pavement. His injuries, however, were confined to a bruised shoulder and a bump on his forehead. Mr. Closs had been attending to business at Petersburg Indiana and was enroute to Decatur with his father-in-law, Mr. Biggs who in--1 tended to visit with his daugther, Mrs. Closs. Mr. Stout had been 1 visiting with the Biggs family at Petersburg and was returning as far as Decatur in the Closs automoi bile, Intending to return to his home i in Forf Wayne. ■ An eye witness to the accident, C. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WATSON WILL ; OPEN CAMPAIGN I [ Indiana Senator Will Be Headliner at Linton ! Rally i 1 Indianapolis, Sept. 6—(U.R) —Evidence that the congressional race 1 in Indiana this year is being 1 watched apprehensively by Repub--1 lican national headquarters was ‘ seen today in reports that natonal • party leaders have chosen to have ■ Senator James E. Watson open i the nation's congressional cam- . paign in Indiana. i Watson will speak at a etater wide rally and barbecue at Lin- - ton, September 11, and announcei inents from Washington said the , speech will be the opening gun in the G. O. P. national congressional campaign. Plans were being made to give the speech wide distribution, and a national radio hook-up was beI j ing arranged. Watson, Republican floor leader , of the senate, is expected to , speak on national issues and rej (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Democratic Women Are ‘ Invited to Fort Wayne The Young Womans Democratic 1 club of Fort Wayne has planned an elaborate reception for Frame ' Mayr of South Bend, candidate for secretary of state, to be held on the 1 messanine floor of the Anthony ; hotel next Thursday evening. September 11 and have extended an • Invitation to the ladles of Adams 1 county to attend. 1 The affair will be some what dis- ! ferent from the usual political meet ing but those In charge assure that it will he interesting and pleasing and they hope for a large attendance. The Young Woman’s club is a i new organization in Fort Wayne : and the members are taking a leadi ing part in the campaign, planning a number of events for the next two months. Several of those in charge t of the affair are well known hero, I the chairman of the event being a - daughter of Jesse O. Smith former resident here.
Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 6, 1930.
Local Young Woman Is Back From Foreign Tour Victoria O. Mills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills of Mercer avenue, arrived home Friday night. Miss Mills sailed on the Homeric June 13 for Europe where she visited several cities ih France, Belgium, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, isle of Crete, and Tunis, Africa. She witnessed the Passion play in Oberammergau. Miss Mills took the Aenid cruise on the Mediterranean Sea, this cruise is quite instructive to one who is teacher in Latin. Victoria will go to Rochester, Ind., at once where she will resume her work Monday as instructor in Latin in the high school there. PETY DISPLAY WILJJE HERE Famous Florist Plans Exhibit at Decatur Flower Show Adams County flower lovers will be interested in visiting this year's flower show which is being held as a part of the Decatur Street Fair in order to see the display of glad iolus blooms which will be entered by H. C. Pety, Gladiolus specialist of Paulding, Ohio. Mr. Pety, for a good m*uy year.s. has worked with gladiolus developing new varieties until his gardens have become famed In the middlewest for the wonderful quality of the blooms. More than 1,000 varieties have been experimented with and bulbs from the Pety gardens have been sent to all parts of the world.. Decatur people are fortunate in having this flower specialist to bring a display to the Decatur street fair and it was largely through the etforts of J. W. Calland, superintenent of the local show that Mr. Pety decided to make such an exhibit. The flower show will open Wednesday noon and will he open to the public Wednesday night and from then on throughout the fair. The display will he in the basement of the Christian Church, where unusually nice quarters makes it possible to display all flowers to good advantage. Vera Cruz, Honduras Have Reformed Pastor The Rev. Herbert H. Meckstroth, the newly elected pastor of the Reformed churches at Vera Cruz and Honduras will begin his duties as pastor of those congregations tomorrow. The Rev. Mr. Meckstroth preached a trial sermon in a combined service of the St. John’s congregation of Vera Cruz and St. Luke's congregation of Honduras recently and was elected as the successor to the Rev. O. H. Scherry who resigned a few months ago to become pas tor of the Emanuel's Reformed church at New Bavaria, Ohio. Hev. Meckstroth has been the pastor of the Reformed church a’ Salamonia, Indiana for the past several years. He and Mrs. Meckstroth both originally i/jme from New Knoxville, Ohio. JANE ADDAMS SEVENTY TODAY Welfare Worker Gives Advice For Happiness On Her Birthday Hulls Cove, Me., Sept 6—(UP) — Jane Addams looked back through her 70 years of life today—a 70 years of life in which the majority have been spent in welfare work and decided that longevity doesn't bring wisdom. "Wisom can be secured only through adaptation to a changing world,” the founder of Hull House in Chicago said as she observed her birthday at her summer home here. For the United Press she discussed unemployment, women in suffrage, so-called change of morality in the young of the country and looked forward to what social welfare will bring in the years to come. Asked what in her opinion women had accomplished with suffrage, Miss Addams said: "Women have brought into politics a more careful consideration of both health and humanitarian ques(CONTINUED ON PAGB SIX)
FIRE TRUCKS MOVED TODAY Equipment Moved to New Location From City Hall Building Today was moving day for the city fire department, the trucks and other fire fighting equipment being moved to the new $25,000 engine house on South Seventh street. The city hall room was vacated this afternoon so that the room could be used next week for the exhibits in the pet stock show at the Street Fair. Firemen started to move part of the equipment yesterday and the job was practically completed today. The trucks will be housed in tne new garage of the engine house tonight and any runs will be made from the new building beginning to!night. Jack Freidt, fire chief state! today. The new engine house is not yet completed, but work is progressing towards that end and another two or three weeks will see the final details completed. The furniture and fixtures are arriving and being installed and when everything is ready, a public inspection and house warming will be held, city officials stated. Yost Bros., of this city have the general contract. The building is one of the finest of its kind in Indiana and is equal to engine houses found in cities of 100,000 population. o Hammond Bank Closed Hammond, Ind., Sept. 6—(U.R) — The Peoples Cooperative Bank, a $i2,000 1 ,000 institution, was closed by its directors today at the order of the state banking department. Frozen assets were said to have caused the closing. It was the second Hammond bank to be closed in recent weeks. The bank has a capital stock of SIOO,OOO and savings deposits of more than $1,000,000. J. G. Ibach, former judge of the Indiana appellate court, is president. BANDITS STEAL COSTLY JEWELS Kraft-Phenix Officials Held Un And Robbed In Chicago Friday Chicago, Sept. 6 —(U.R) — Three wealthy couples, returning to their homes from a night club, were held up by five men in Evanston early today and robbed of Jewels valued at approximately SIOO,OOO. The victims were Jason F. Whitney, president of Kraft-Phenix Cheese corporation, and Mrs. Whitney; Oliver A. Blackburn, secretary of the same cpneern, and Mrs. Blackburn; Jemes Hewitt Manchester, England, who is visiting at the Whitney home,, and Mrs. Gladys S. Mehan, in front of whose home the robbery occurred. Leaving the Coffee Dan Night Club in the Chicago loop early today the couples went direct to Mrs. Mehan’s Evanston home. They believe the gunmen saw them leave the night club and followed them. As the Whitney chauffeur held open the door for Mrs. Mehan to leave the car, the bandits drew alongside and demanded that all jewelry be turned over without delay. Two of the men, impatient because they thought Mrs. Whitney too slow in removing a bracelet, stepiped inside the .car and searched all the occupants. One of them attempted to pull a bracelet from Mrs. Whitney’s arm, but when she complained that he was hurting her he waited and she removed and handed it to him herself. From Mrs. Whitney, the bandits took a diamond ring said to be worth $50,000 and three bracelets valued at $40,000. The other women also lost valuable rings and tevpral hundred dollars in cash was taken from the men. Hewitt told Evanston police he saved his watch and ring by slipping them from pocket to pocket as the bandits went about the somewhat difficult task of searching six persons all seated in one automobile. A valuable wedding ring, taken from Mrs. Blackburn, was found later on the running board of the Whitney car.
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NO FUNDS FOR CONTRACTORS Highway Dept. Has Problem on Hands; Hills Becoming Due Indianapolis, Sept. 6 —(U.R) — A situation, more or less chaotic, existed in Indiana highway department finances today after the road commiss'on was denied cooperation of the state finance hoard. At the same time, it appeared that Governor Harry G. Leslie’s mlan to secure $1,000,000 for a drought relief road construction program was doomed to failure. Inability of the highway department to pay for the season's construction work and take over the relief program made fulfillment of the relief plan doubtful. Contractors now doing state work cannot be paid immediately, I-lrector John J. Brown of the highway commission announced. In an appeal to the state finance board for assistance, he intimated that approximately $1,000,000 was needed to pay road . construction bills. The finance hoard frowned on the gas tax revenue, due to cities transferring further funds from and towns March 1, 1931, and indicated plainly that it remained for the commissioners to work out their own problem. It had been definitely decided today that contractors would present their statements and these would be received by the commission as statements of indebtedness, payable when the money was received from highway revenue sources. The statements are not to be confused wfith certificates of in(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Samuel Chronister’s Condition Is Critical Mr. and Mrs. Will Chronister of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Chronister of Battle Creek, Mich igan were called to the bedside of their father and grandfather Sam Chronister on Mercer Avenue who is reported to be in a critic\l con - dition today. Mr. Chronister has been bedfast for the last two months, but his condition was reported to be worse yesterday afternoon. Horse Pulling Meet Starts Next Tuesday The Horse and Mule Pulling Con test for the light classes will be held on Tuesday morning September 9 and for the heavy horses Wednesday morning, September 10 The contest will be held on Niblick field just across the river and will be in charge of Prof. Cooley and his staff. Judging in the following departments will take place on Wednesday. Hogs, Poultry, Pet Stock, Women’s Dept, add the Girls 4-H Sewing ami Canning clubs. On Thursday September 11, the judging will be done in the Dairy department and Agricultural Exhibits. e Home dept, judging will be Thursday September 11. FORD ADMITS TIMESARE BAD Believes Conditions Are Improved Over Few Months Ago New York, Sept. 6 —-(U.R) —Henry Ford believes America is economically sick, but that the illness is not nearly so severe as it was prior to a few months ago. Ford discussed the nation's financial malady just before he sailed on the North German Lloyd liner Bremen for a six-weeks motor tour of Germany today. It took the country a long time to gel. sick, he said. The i'iness was brought on by frenzied .speculation in the stock market. And, by the same token, it will take as long for the cure. "But it's a good thing the recovery is prolonged,” he said. "Otherwise, the people wouldn't ' piofit by the illness. We'li know things we didn't know before. '[ am inclined to view the matter optimistically because I can see. that people are thinking now. Everybody’s thinking now. And (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)
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! Christine Lake, 13 (above), i ’ nurses acid burns on her scalp, 1 ' face, shoulders and chest. She ■ was romping in the street with ' other children, when —splash! Sul- > 1 phuric acid had been thrown on 1 them out of a window in New York : 1 1 City. Christine and four boy - playmates were burned. The j fiendish assailant at this time has’ 1 not been traced. FEDERAL MEN FIND MORPHINE l Gary Republican Politician Charged With Federal Violation Gary, Ind., Sept. 6. — (U.R) —Arrest of Ralph B. Bradford, Gary real estate dealer and republican politician, was sought by federal i agents who issued a warrant on an open charge after confiscating . a package of morphine delivered to Bradford's office. The morphine was receipted by • Miss Martha Machaeck, 30, Bradford’s secretary, and she was ar- , rested by Joseph Walsh, federal (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DETROIT TAXI DRIVER HELD Is Suspect in Fort Wayne Bank Holdup; Will i Return i Detroit, Mich., Sept. 6. — (U.R) — I Wayne Skelton, alias Skelley, a i taxi driver, arrested late yesterday was held for Fort Wayne, Indiana, ' police today in connection witli the ' robbery of the Broadway State bank recently. Detectives said Skelton told them details of the robbery but | denied he was implicated. He agreed to return to Indiana, they said. Four gangsters under arrest at Chicago have been identified as participants in the holdup. They are under heavy bonds on charges in connection with a series of other crimes on which they probably will be tried. | BULLETIN Albion, Sept. 6—(U.R) —Directors of the Carreers State Bank of Albion voted today to suspend busi- ! ness naming Fred Moore, vicepresident, as liquidating agent. K. M. Kunkle of the state banking department who has been in charge of the institution since the suicide of Abel Barnum, cashier, turned the bank over to Moore. ! Officials said that depositors ’ would be paid in full. BULLETIN 1 Huntington Sept. 6 — (UP) — r A sheriff’s posse from Huntington r captured Robert Jones 32, near here today a few hours after he escaped > from the County Jail at Bluffton. ; Jones was traced to Ossian, . where he stole a small sedan, and thence through Markle and Warren. » He made his way to the home of Mrs. Frances Holsinger in Hunting- . ton where his wife and daughter were visiting and Mrs. Holsinger, [ a sister of his wife notified police. i Jones fled from the home but was soon captured. A charge of check forgery led to t Jones’ arrest in Bluffton Thursday. He was said to have forged several I checks, purchased poultry and eggs with them and motored to surrounding towns to sell his prouce.
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WRECKAGE IS CLEARED AWAY IN SOME PLACES Two Thousand Dead Are Disposed of to Prevent Disease Spread FOOD LANDED IN LIFE BOATS Sunto Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sept, (i (U.R) Outside relief reached devastated Santo Domingo today. With survivors hungry and exhausted by the task of disposing of some 2,000 dead and attempting, the first work of clearing awav wreckage of the capital, arrival of an American transport was a happy sight for suffering thousands who had awaited relief. The S.S. Catherine, which put out from San Juan with two other supply ships yesterday, was unable to communicate immediately with the port, however, because the river was still running high and other arrangements were made to receive her cargo. Latent official estimates placed the dead at 2,000 and wounded at 6,000. Five ships and an overland automobile expedition from Haiti were understood to be on the way. but the havoc wrought by the storm is slowing their progress. Airplanes with physicians and more medical supplies, as well as tents and clothing, were expected today from Port Au Prince. The marine officers said) nurses had been advised to stay behind, having been warned by Dominican authorities that conditions were too bad at present to permit women to enter the city. Tragedy lay on every side. Bodies were cremated by the hundred (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Adams County Quartet Awarded Eighth Place The Adams County Male quarte*, winners of the fourth district in a contest held last Monday, received eighth place in a state contest held at the state fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Friday morning. First place in the finals was awarded Kosciu/.o County. The local quartet received a number of engagements following the contest Friday and will leave Sunday to sing several numbers a a special Homecoming celebration at Pennville. Local Man’s Sister Dies In Mississippi A telegram from L. C. Waring received this morning, announced the death of his sister, Miss Elizabeth Waring at her home near Columbus, Mississippi, yesterday, after an extended illness. She was eighty years of age and had lived at the old home nearly her entire life. Mr. Waring went to Columbus two weeks ago and has been with his sister during her last days. BUENOS AIRES IN REVOLUTION Administration Is Cause Os Attack; Serious Outbreak Buenos Aires, Sept. 6—(UP) — A revolutionary movement against the administration of President Hipolito lrigoyen was started today and gained rapid headway. Most of the police force joined the uprising, throwing their strength with heavy troop concentrations outside the city under command of Gen. Jose Uriburu. Fighting broke out in the streets between police and demonstrators who renewed the rioting that occurred last night when president Irlgoyen announced he had temporarily delegated his powers to the senate. General Nriburu left Campo de Mayor this morning at the head of 4,000 troops, demanding the retirement of lrigoyen permanently. Revolutionary airplanes armed with machine guns flew over tlis capital dropping thousands of leaf lets inciting the population to join the revolution. The leaflets were signed by a "Military Junta” or committee, which led the revolutionary movement.