Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1924 — Page 6

w YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American Association Indinnapolia, 5; MHwgilkeo, 6. Lbuiavllle, !♦; Kansas City, 1. Columbus, 12; Minneapolis, n. Toledo, 0; St. Paul, 1. American League Chicago, 2; Washington, T 6 St. Louis, 4; Philadelphia, 2. Detroit, 9; New York, 7. Cleveland, 2; Boston, J. National League Boston, 1; Chicago, 7. Brooklyn. 62; Pittsburgh, 24. New York. 7; Cincinnati, 8 (11 inIngs.) Philadelphia, 7; St. Louis. 4. o Preble Swamped Fort Wayne Team Sunday Preble, July 22—The Preble baseball teain went on a hitting spree Sunday afternoon and swamped the Fort Wayne A. A. nine under a score of 15 to 3. The locals hammered two visiting pitchers hard. Shady was on the mound for the locals and he pitch ed a good game. He would have had a shutout to his credit if one of his out fielders had not committed an error. A ITauhiger hit two home runs and Hoese secured on?. Preble will play Union Township on the local diamond next Sunday. Score; Fort Wayne 03000000 0— 3 Preble 7 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 x—ls Batteries: Bueno, Carington. and Bohnke; Shady and Shady and Boese. Plan To Prove Prison Inmate Is Innocent Indianapolis. July 22 — Affidavits showing him to be a victim of a frame up and innocent will be presented in criminal court here by attorneys for John L. Partlow, President of the Partlow Jenkins Motor Car company now serving In the Indiana State prison for conviction of receiving stolen automobiles. Automobiles were found at his garage here in 1919. He was convicted in criminal court and apealed to the state Supreme court, but after a five year fight, began serving his time February 19. 1924. Partlow ha< secured affidavits sworn out in 1921 by Thomas Sterett, in jail here on vagtancy charges and Carl KI Bernaur. in prison for murder swearing Partlow is Innocent, a victim of their frame-up. and that they put the stolen ecars in his garag without his knowledge. The evidence, however, may not free Partlow, for Prosecutor Remy of Marion county has a counter affidavit from Bernaur obtained July 9 at the prison, in which Bernaur claims he was drugged when he signed the affidavit Partlow secured from him. The prosecutor wants a similar on? from Sterrett. According to Bernaur in the prosecutor's affidavit, he was taken to Noblesville by Partlow and "signed , something somebody ran off on a typewriter.” —— o Fined For Speeding George Scheiman. driver of a truck for the Miltschler Parking company, wns fined |5 and costs by Mayor DeVoss in city court this morning on a charge of speeding. Scheiman was arrested by Traffic Officer Daniels. ' o

ROTARIANS PLAN FOR GUEST DAY (Continued From Page One) “Bob” Heun’s Day It was decided to call the day, “Bob" Heun’s Day. in honor of Robert Heun, of Richmond, newly elected governor of Indiana Rotary. The club at first had decided to hold the conference or Rotary round-up on August lAtli. but as other arrangements conflicted with this date, it was decided to change the date to August 13th. Providing Mr. Heun can be present on that date. nn.sT?”''' Club * «- City. Winchester and Van Wert o The women will send special lnvlta tlons to wives of the Rotarians Invlt ing them to join their husbands an.

enjoy the big day at Bellmont Park. Committees Appointed The executive commitee composed of Mr. Harting, M. F. Worthman, secrotary. Wai Wemhoff, C. C. Pumphrey and James Elberson appointed the members and chairmen of the differ-

ent committees, they being: ] Invitation committee—W. A. Klepper. chairman; C. E. Bell, John Carmody. O. L Vance, James Arnold. D B. Erwin. E. W. Kanipe. A. I). Suttles and H. J. Yager They will personally call oil each club and invite the member* to "come over' to Decatur and enjoy the day. Speaker's committee—J. H. Car mody chairman; C (’. Pumphrey and Fred Patterson. Transportation, committee -George Krick, chairman; A. R. Ashbaucher. Otto Kirssch. jjtunt committee —W. A. Lower, ihairmun;, Fred Reppert. Dan Beery, Avon Burk, H. J. Yager, and F. J. Schmitt. Registration — A. R. Holtbouse, ' chairman; Walt Johnson. H. F. Effilnger Will O'Brien, Dr. L. E. Summers, and Wilson Lee. Decoration and arrangement of grounds—J. L. Kocher, chairman; E. I Lankenau, M. J. Mylott. T J. Durkin I C. V. Connell and C. C. Rayl. Piize committee — O. Lankenau. chairman; L. H. Kleinhenz, C. S. Niblick. Souvenir committee—James Cowan, chairman; J F. Arnold. C. J. Vogle wede and John Fisher. Refreshments —C. V. Connell, W. A. Klepper and H. D. Hite. Banquet—R. J. Harting, chairman: assisted by the women. Reception committee— Henry He]-1 ler. president and every Decatur Rotaiian and his wife or sweetheart a member Music committee —Fred Patterson chairman; H. D. Hite and E. W. Kampe. Ladies division—Mrs. C. V. Con-| nell. general chairman. <t is hoped that several hundred Rotarians and their wives from the dozen clubs will attend the big Rotary entertainment which will be giv- < n at Bellmont park. Word is expected from Mr. Heun I informing the local club if he will be able to come here on August 12th and in the event that the plans can be pushed towards making the day one of the biggest and happiest in the history of the local club and also fori their guests. o SAMUEL HILL DIED SUNDAY (Continued From Page One) B passed away, very much to the shock I of Mrs. Hill who was at his bedside ■ and had given him his medicine five ■ minutes bt<ore. m Mr. Hill was very well known in IB the southern paart of the county and B his death causes his hundreds of B friends to mourn. For many years he has been operating a country store and barbershop at his home, being unable to do heavy work because of a severely crippled back. The deceased was born near Reading. Pennsylvania, on May 26. 1862. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- I Ham G. Hill. In 1866 he came to this county with his parents and has made this community his home practically his entire life. Abo'ut eight or nine years ago. sev eral years after the death of his father, Mr Hill was united in marrl|Bge to his step-mother, who survives i him. Besides his widow, one brother and • two sisters survive him. They are i John Hill of Morley. Mich.; Mrs. Joe’ ; Liddy, of Berne, and Mrs. Mary : Schaupp. of IJnn Grove. , The funeral services will bo belt, ■ this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the i home. Rev. Frank Johnson and Rev. ' i Parr will officiate. — o STEAMER SINKING AFTER COLLISION (Continued From Paco One)

- the sinking steamer. Upon a report that the liner might ’, have to ha beached before reaching t here, another naval tug went out this I morning. Already on the scene early > today were three naval tugs, the coast ■ guard cutter Acushnet, the liner New York, s'ster ship of the Boston, and several vessels of the Fall River lino. The Priscilla was due in New York with the Boston's passengers about 11 a. nt. The only available passenger list of the Boston as aboard the liner itself, and company headquarters at Boston could not furnish names of those who h«l taken the steamer which left at 5 p. m. Monday on her regular run to New York. Th,- Boston Wlch left Boston for ' ‘.New York last night, was nosing her

*ay cautiously to the southwest a ’hort distance off Point Judith R. 1.,1 ln « dense blanket of fog when the 1 “evident occurred. ' rh “ Hner has a capacity of 900 ed ttnd K<!nera 'ly well tax- 1 * , "»• »■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924.

LOCAL VETERANS TO ATTEND MEET — (Continued From Page One) to business 'sessions, delightful, music and programs of addresses by statesmen and prominent clvilnns of national reputation. Here on ‘the shores of Lake Michigan. the vet< (tins will light their , camp fires- and hold their regimental and state reunions in view of th«* several hundred cottages>which the veand their families will occupy while in attendance at the convention. Summer residents of the. Michi

CLEAN ■ UP SALE of Broken Sizes of Men’s and Young Men’s SUITS 1-2 PRICE I Regular S4O Suits -at S2O Regular $35 Suits at $17,50 Regular S3B Suits at sl9 Regular S2B Suits atsl4 MOST OF THESE SUITS ARE H ART SCHAFFNER & MARX MAKE. GUARANTEED TO BE ALL WOOL AND FAST COLORS. PALM BEACH MOHAIR GABERDINE ZEFFERETTE SUMMER SUITS in two groups at greatly reduced prices GROUP No. 1 GROUP No. 2 20% OFF 25% OFF AU Men’s Press Child’s Wash Hals~4oc ’ STRAW HATS Chitd’s Straw Hats 1-3 OFF , BSSStt. ...... . sS regular $2.00 Value at $1.50 Holthouse Schulte & Co. “Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys” | CI.E ANI NG-P RE S 1 ' ll ** — > , - —1

[gun City resort have turned their cotpages over to the Michigan City '(.'lmmlier of Commerce to b? used to house 10,000 .visitors, supplementing j city and resort hotels. The lake front, j tile wide expanse of beach, the cooling and scintillating waters of latke Michigan offer the viators an open road to the unusual pleasures of this popular lakeside resort. Here will bo [held bathing parties, fishing excursions and picnic parties on the beach. (Here wll be held n fish dinner, at which it Is expected 10.000 or more fresh water perch will be served to a multitude. Here in nature's ampitheatre will thousands of voices merge Into the songs of i generation

ago. Other diversions will be the military bull and reception tendered in a huge Casino on the lake front to the [national officers and other dlstin'guished guests. An afternoon has [ been set apart for a lake cruise aboard several large steamers, which "ill carry the big party over the southern ■ end of Lake Michigan to the hug? steel mills of the United States corporation at Gary, whose officers will provide special trains to carry the [visitors thru the immense mills in i comfort. | The military and naval display will bo worth going-hundreds of miles to [witness. It is expected that <B‘- I 111

7", ?,tatei nuvv will assign several , < hasers u nJ training ships to ; ln ""' ,he ° in additions there Is prosuinury ' ' X. 1 of bands to provide music. street, the main street o l the b , lslnes district is to be turned , nto ~ thor ofare of beauty w,th flags. . 1,,., hP s. etc, and renamed for the en-_

campament the 'Maino Way " Tthrill of 1898 will cause the ' B l u Jt circulation to become active » M | Michigan City with a population 26.900 people, but with the spJ . a town of tens of thousands and win a soul insipred by the spirit O s ■ i Can Be Done" invites all the Spanish War Veterans there are to conm and enjoy u five days outing Thk „ vention is an epoch with Michi • City, whose hospitable people "Welcome! The city and l ts tunities are yours." And. when you ride from beach to hotel or hotel to Casino, to this place [or that it will be a "Free car" j n which you will ride.