Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1924 — Page 1

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PERSIA MAKES A SATISFACTORY REPLY

■|ERY is PLEA I [f DARROW IN I IIURUER CASE HB 1 — Hutorni A I or Leopold And ■' Lodi Makes Bitter At- ■ tack On Crowe ■ sEXTIMLX I ( li WGING ■tetter- Reeeixcd By Judge| H shioA Sentiment Favors B Life Sentence ■■[ Sentiment Changing |M| " lb"'m. Chicago, ■ l '.l:!'.-I press I—Chief HB J;.:;,. li c riy. sitting as M -up jitrv a: judicial hear- -; ne nf X.!'ll.m Leopold and ■■ RHiaril I- for the murder of M Itt'-Liv received 15 ■H |.0.-r -I. i.i-e. sliowing a pro- ■■ . i L• ’ letter w ritM 9 inr p:;C . t'iiicle towards the M slayers. ■ .1?i y said that 1 I of ■■ the writers hit. d life imprison■H nrc 'he other one de|H Banding tile gallows. ■I : preponderance of MH b th. "Xternio p nH 9 ,ltv ’ ■B ' i ;r- I’.ooni. Chicago. July IH^Msi -iS|"i" I.aily Democrat) —In [ powerfui and eloquent plea for' M " I i.irmw. i hi f def. use HR:"-’’- '..i. y turned, his argument' MM to P ■ tii.-'iic’il testimony into a MH .c. ;.q n , dim. Id |BfrX.r:,..: and Richard Loeb |Bfnr c murder of Robert Pranks. ■| I,hi.turn, d loose a bitter attack M«s>"- \tmniev Robert E. Crowe |9frr his demand of death for the Ijßyniiis. Mg " X.l that the prosecution has -been to think of is death,” Darrow ■ ««<!. pounding on the judge's desk Kg fiatrow said that at no time has th? j HH 'Fit" civen thought to justice seating |M In- ili.'dHed whether the prosecution ■ know the meaning of mercy. H Darrow said he made it very plain that voutli < (instituted a "mitigating ■ rtamstaiHe calling on the court to ■ look back upon the days of his youth.' ■ the dream world and the unreality Ml built by youthful dreams'” H I ■ Criminal Court Room. Chicago.' ■ July 31—At the end of two mor" ■ hours of argument by the state today Hin i s efforts to exclude defense ■ alienists from the witness stand. ■ chief Justice John R Caverly has not 1 M changed an earlier ruling and the ad-. ■ vantage still rested .with the defense M I ' , ’ <, I ,o ''l Loeb murder case. I 't'cntimied on Page Et«»r I WILL DETERMINE •OTEOF WORKERS I Executive Council Os A. F. 01 L. Meetings At Atlantic City | <By Paul R. Mallon) *’ S,nff !| th» m Clty ' N - J - J “* 31-With-J P workers' votes looking I cil r i' Rultlance> the executive counI l.or „r *" leri, ' 8n of La--1 Wav i'"' ?, 1 ,( " lay determine which lion's try f ° ,llrow ,he organizaber -I, "” la! Ntr, ' nß,h ln the Novemthe <oune’il' S | The V:lrioUß K rou P« on indientt ’° ard have * lven strong atXT. h . at thS ranf,l(,ai y ° f either h ° " tP Will be PBcc ” lra Ked mn o V Stra ‘ gl,t ,orwarrt Til L ’ y 80me Other m *«ns. Follette m ho<i <>f Nanctlonin K the La®lt labor °to ment ’ 80 aS ” Ot t 0 com ’ e *th« of th t* ny ° Pen treak w,th ’''"’Ke itself mal ° r i ’ artf,!B ' or ls the chier e '°cably to any party, ,|y the eleven'll t 0 b<? foußht over Sossionu em, ’ers of council. bM «d O r nX" J o n 7 rrOW at thp Amcontlnue indefinim aFP oxpected or te n days. 7 Possibly a week

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Postal Employe Prevents Mail Robbery; Kills Bandit (United Press Service) | East Orange, July 31 Quick thinking and steady aim by a post office [employe prevented a $50,000 mail robbery here today. One of two bandits who attmepted the robbery in the Lackawanna Railway station was shot and killed by Eugene Stack, a postal employe, during a battle on the station platform. Stack himself was struck twice by | bullets. The second bandit escaped. MONEY ORDER FORMS STOLEN Local Postmaster Advised To Be On Lookout For Stolen Forms Postmaster Harry Fritzinger this morning received a bulletin from the postoffice inspector at Cincinnati, asking him to be on the look-out for money order forms stolen from the Valier. Illinois, postoffice on July 11. 1924. The order forms bear the numbers of from 32.801 to 33,000. Tile thieves have tried to pass these orders on merchants, the postoffice inspector states in his bulletin. They are filed in amounts from $lO to $25 and various names have been used for the payee and remitter. It was stated that the thieves, a man and a woman, were working in Dayton, 0.. and that it was possible that they I would try to pass the stolen orders in Indiana. Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky. I The following description of the two persons was sent to Postmaster Fritzinger. ‘‘The man is from 30 to 35 years of age. 5 feet. 8 to 10 Inches, weight ahout 150 to 175 pounds, dark hair and eves, hair thin on top. fluent. . pleasant talker, neatly dressed in dark suit, appearance that of a nrosperlous traveling man. At Dayton the man wore a white checkered suit and straw hat and hy was. described there [as having light hair sallow complex- [ ion pleasant appearanA.” The woman is described as “about? 4 to 30 years of age; 5 feet. 0 or 7 inches in height; weight aljout 125 to 135 pounds; long dark hair; dark eyas; black or dark blue gown. At Dayton she was described as being of fair complexion, wearing a white hat and black suit trimmed with white lace, attractive in appearance, white even teeth, wore thin wedding ring, also small solitaire diamond ring on third finger of left hand. While these descriptions vary slightly, it is believed that there is only one man and woman passing these orders.” Local mercants and hankers ar? adI vised to he on look-out for the money who try to pass them. o Berne Man Admitted To County Infirmary Jacob Haflen. an aged resident of I Berne, has been admitted to the county infirmary. Mr. Haflen has [been feebleminded for ar-number of years and has ben n burden to members of his family. His mental condition has changed for the worse so much lately that he became itncontroable. o Bovs Returning From C.M.T.C. This Evening The Decatur and Adams county boys who have been attending the Citizens Military training camp at ! Camp Knox. Kentucky, for the past month will return home this evening. Several of the boys arc coming home by the way of Rhiffton and their par/ents arc p'anning to meet them there. ' | About twenty boys from this city and ( [ county attended the military school [during the month of July. Richmond Has First Pay Roll Robbery i Richmond. Ind., Juy 31. —Richmond , one of the oldest cities in Indiana, • got a new thrill yesterday when it ex- . p(M-ienced its first payroll robbery. An unmasked bandit held up > Virginia Clemens, bookkeeper for an : overall factory, and escaped with the weekly payroll of SI,OOO.

DAVIS ENDORSES BRYAN'S STAND ON DEFENSE DAY Gives Full Support To Running Mate’s Stand On “Mobiilization Day” THINKS VIEW SOUND Nominee For President Corrects Intimations Os His Disagreement Pre«R Service) New York, July 31—(Special to Daily Democrat)--John W. Davis, speaking as standard hearer of the Democratic party tod-y gave full support to Charles W. Bryan's stand ou “Mobilization Day” Issuing a formal statement to correct printed intimations that he was in disagreement with his running mate on the question of engaging in a military demonstration during September, Davis said: “On the contrary. I think that the view expressed by the governor of Nebraska is entirely sound.” Previously Davis' associates had indicated he might not embroil himself in what seemed to be an extraneous question growing of the issue raised by Bryan when, as executive of his state, he refused to endorse unqualifiedly President Coolidge’s program for a civilian mobilization drill. When the democratic nominee found, however, that his silence was being taken as indicaHve of his embarrassment at Bryau's stand, he promptly corrected the view. - — - ■ oNegroes Are Sentenced (United Press Service) Mound City. July 31 —In a court room heavily guarded against threatened violence. Hess Conners. Cairo negro, last night was sentenced to hang,. Oct. 17 for the slaying 10 days ago of Daisy Wilson. 18 year old white girl during an attempt to rob her father's store at Villa Ridge. Fred Hale, another Cairo negro, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester for complicity in the crime. o HOSPITAL ENDS ITS FIRST YEAR County Hospital Dedicated Year Ago Yesterday; Year Successful The Adams County Memorial hospital has now been in operation for one year, the hospital being formally opened to the public a year ago yes terday. The first year has been very satisfactory and the patronage larger than anticipated Miss Emilie Christ, superintendent of the hospital stated to day. Miss Chriat is now preparing her annual report which will be submitted to the trustees at the meeting Monday morning. It is estimated that more than 500 persons have been patients at’the hospital since it was formally opened a year ago. Th? first day the hospital was opened five persons were admitted, while today there are fourteen patients there. Next Monday th" trustees. A. J. Smith. Mrs. Clara H. Anderson. Frank Heiman and E. M. Ray will receive bids for the construction of cement walks in front of the hospital and dispose of other business matters pertaining to the hospital. Nine nurses are now employed at the hospital and the management of the institution has been most successful, everyone connected with It working harmony for the success of the hospital and the contort of the patients. The hospital was dedicated on Sunday, July 29th, at which time an appropriate program was held.'

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 31, 1924.

LETS CHILD HEAD ■j’ [ " * ■L « VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE New York —Viola Brothers Shore, author, who has a daughter 10 years old, the questioning age. recently discussed the question: "What shall I tell my daughter about marriage?” I Mrs. Shore believes in absolute' frankness with children as far as is compatible with age and mental de-1 velopment. "If you forbid a < hild to mention' certain topics,” she said "and if you | refuse to explain when your little girl, asks questions with natural, and only: casual, curiosity; if von forbid her to 1 I look at certain books, you have ac-l |< i mplished nothing. The parental. I veto has never accomplished anything! but an intensification of curiosity, giving it th» morbid slant of forbidden and shameful knowledge. “I have made it a rule to let my 10 year o.d daughter read whatever she ( wishes, and hard as it was on me 1 have never deviated from it.” ADAIRTALKS ~ TO CANDIDATES Democratic Candidates For Congress Meets With Local Candidates — John A. M. Adair, democratic can didate for congress, and James R | Fleming, chairman of the eighth dis trict, met the candidates of Adams county at the offices of Attorney John | T. Kelley last evening and for two house discussed with them plans for an active campaign which will start within the next month and continue until the last vote is cast on election day. Mr. Adair believes in that kind of a campaign and will make an effort to. see every voter. He will devote at least six days to each county and will open here some time the latter part of August, devoting two days and then returning at intervals during the campaign. County Chairman Dan Tyndall presided at the meeting and each candidate promised to see as many voters as possible and to assist in every way to secure the largest majority ever given from this old democratiic county. The poll Tiiloks will be sent here in a few days and the first thing will be the taking of a complete poll. The women will be urged to organize and later plans for a number of rallies and for school house meetings will be made. The headquarters over the Daily Democrat office will be put in condition and within a short time, the campaign will be on in earnest. Mr. Fleming urged as many as can to attend the district organization meeting to be held at Muncie on August 21st. at which time all candidates for state office will be present. Farmer Gets Nearlv $1,500 For His Hogs T. W. Bess, well known farmer living east of the city, received a check yesterday from Butler and Ahr, stock buyers, for nearly fifteen hundred dollars for 54 head of hogs he sold. The hogs averaged about 270 pounds each and Mr. Bess was paid 10 cents per pound for them, the total being $1,458. Butler and Ahr shipped two car loads of hogs to the eastern markets yesterday. Weather Generally fair tonight and Friday: cooler tonight.

SEELEY SETS A NEW NON-STOP DRIVING RECORD Drives Automobile 120 1-2 Hours Without Making A Single Stop COLLAPSES AT END Driver Taken To Hospital In Ambulance; Drove 3,173 Miles Fort Wayne. July 31 —(Special to D.Tily Democrat) —“Daredevil" Seeley the robust Oklahoma cowboy and movie stunt actor, today became the holder of the world's record for continuous automobile driving. Seeley cam ■ to a stop at the corner of Court and here at 112:45 o'clock this afternoon, after driving his Essex six for one hundred ■ and twenty and a half hours without 'making a single stop. Hi< speedo- | meter showed that he had driven a I total of 3,172 miles since he started [here at noon last Saturday. A smile crept across the big cowI lioy's face as he drove down Berry street behind a band and before a cheering mob of several thousand people. As he brought his car to a stop. Seeley gripped the steering I wheel and :istemted to raise himself from the seat, in which he has sat continuously for five days and five nights without sleeping, but tho strain had been too great and he j collapsed. The handcuff which had held hirti 'fast to the steering wheel was' unlocked. the chains and straps removeci and Seeley was carried to an amI bulance. which was waiting at the stopping point, and the tired, but I victorious driver was hurried to a hospital' where he will recuperate. | Seeley did not speak a word after finishing his sensational drive. Thousands of people crowded into the streets in an effort to see Seeley finish his drive. The entire police ! force was needed to handle the crowd. The amount of money which Seeley will receive for his accomplishment was not made public. The E s‘ X car (Continued on page two) CHECK FORCER IS APPREHENDED Man Who Forged Checks At Local Stores Held At Columbia City The clever check forger who cashed checks for $49.50 and $21.50 at the John T. Myers <olthing store and the Elzey shoe store in this city, respectively. on July 18. was apprehended yesterday by State Highway Police Officer J. D. Thacker, of I (range, and bound over to the Whitely circuit court at Columbia City, where he was ujanted for cashing a similar check. The man gave th<- name of Ar ! h”r A. New. 43. a stockbnvcr. of Pendleton. I 1 " is being held in the Whitelv conntv jail in lieu of SI,OOO bond, charged with pissing forged ehe< k '. *'hn T. Mvers. went to Colnmb , i> Citv th*s morning to p ish the charge, against the man. Ho is certain ho 'a" ld< ntify the man. New nunc to grief a< n result of a transaction which occttred list week, when he entered th" Chesbro A Stricter jewelry store at Igigrange, buying a S2O watch and giving a check for $49:50 on Joseph Meyer, stockbuyer of Columbia City. Chesbro who waited on New. took the number on New's ear and notified the state highway police when It was found the check was bad. New is alleged to have passed chocks tn Decatur. Bluffton. Columbia tty, Angola and possibly other North evil Indiana cities and towns. Iho checks passed in this city and at Bluff (Continued on page two)

Mrs. W. J. Myers Is Enjoying Visit In West A postal card from Mrs. W. J. Myers, written from Estes Park, [ Colorado, says she is well and greatly enjoying the delights of that very wonderful part of America. She is enjeying her home paper, has Viafted many interesting places and sends kindest regards to all Decatur friends This is the fifth year her daughter Wilhelmena and family has spent at Estes and she is their guest at this time. They will go to Denver early in September. AGED RESIDENT OF COUNTY DIES Mrs. Cordelia Marbaugh Dies At Daughter’s Home In Jefferson Twp. Mrs. Coredila Marbaugh, aged 84 years, widow of the late Gottlieb Marbaugh. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. Newton Smitely east of Bern? at 11:30 o'clock on Monday evening. Death was due to complications and infirmities due to old age. Mrs. Marliaugh has been ailing since last March and has been very feeble since that time until her death on Monday night. The deceased lady was well known in Jefferson township. . She has been making her home with her daughter. Mrs. Smit!ey. during th? past 15 years, since the death of her husband. The deceased wis a daughter of Mr. aand Mrs. William Conk, and was horn in Mercer conntv. (Mvo on April K. 1840. At the age of twenty roars she was united in marriage to Go’tH°h Marbaugh. also nf Mercer countx' Ohio. Her entire wedded life was snent on a farm in that county and after the union had been severed h>’ the death of her husband fifteen years ago. she moved to the Smitlev homo In Jeff'fson townshin and iPnncefiillv snenf the remaining years of h"r life with her daughter She is survived hr th" following ehidren; H«nrv Marbaugh of Bh'p Creep 1 ownshin’ I'd Marbaugh of

X’’e]ls count?” Mrs W. N. Smitlev nf Jefferson townshin: Fred Mar|luineh of Willshire. Ohio, and ,Tam°s Marbaugh. of Decatur. A host of grandehilren and great grand children also survive. Two sons. John and Amos, and a d:iu"’hter. Emma, preceded her in i death. x Funeral services were b°ld f-om the Bothel Brethren church in Jefferson township at 10:30 o'clock this morning. Burial was made in the cemetery at Rockford. Ohio.o — American Flyers Delav Resumption Os Flight y’Ai'vh $») Aboard 'the U. S. Richmond. Scappa F’ow Orkney Islands, July 31 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fog delayed resumption of the American world flight today. At noon it was announced that de-

parture for Iceland wns definitely postponed until tomorrow. The airmen, who spent the night aboard the cruiser Richmond, flagship of the United States Naval Cot'lla that is to convoy them across! the At ant c. had left a cdl for six a in They turned over in their bunks: for another snooze when told lhat the morning was foggy. The course of the airmen on this Soil mile "hop" lies due north from ... . _ i ai.rtiul Hill which

the Richmond over Signal Hill, wblcn once served the British Navy as Ad niiral Jellicoe's lookout station and over Kirkwal and out to sea. Once over the high seas, only the trackless way of the old Vikings and disscoverers marks lheir course. Down below three American war vessels will be on the watch —the Billingsles at. the Faroes, the Reid on the sea between the Faroes and Iceland and the Raleigh at Hornafjord. Our aviators are conedous of the difficulties that lie jusUaheud > but doubt if they will prove as severe as the Alaska!, and Aleutian flights.

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MAKES REDRESS FOR MURDER OF U.S. VICE-CONSUL Reply Agrees To All Demands Os United States Government TO PUNISH MURDERERS Note Says Government Is Endeavoring To Punish Those Guilty Washington. July 31 (Special to Daily Democrat) A re- ( ply from the Persian government considered as satisfactory to the American note demanding redress for the murder of Major Robert W. Imbrie. American vice counsel al Tehran. was received and made public at the state department. The reply agreed to all demands made by this government. ” I he imperial government is making extreme effort in pursuing and punishing the persons Mho caused and perpetrated, the killing of Mr. Imbrie" the note declared “and if will not hesitate to take any kind of steps in this connection." Noted Race Horse Driver Is Stricken North Manchester, Iml., July 31y—- , William Baer, race horse driver known to practically every racing ciri cult in Indiana, suffered a stroke of paralysis at the fair grounds here, where ho was training horses preparatory to entering them in a number of meets. Physicians have told him that while his recovery is assured he will not lie aide to pilot steeds in :nv race this season. Farmers Urged To Avoid Grain Marketing Company (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind.. July 31—Direc- , tors of the Indiana Farm Bureau Fe-

deration today urg'd Hoosier farm ers to avoid any connection with the Grain Maketing Company, formed by the merger of five of the largest grain firms in the country for cooperative marketing purposes. Resolutions adopted by the directors of tli > Indiana "Federation described the merger as "an atti nipt to secure control of the eooperativ ■ marketing movement by the very interests which have oppo -d every , constructive effort in that direction by the farmers.” HUG PRICES 1 FALL SHARPLY i Fall From $1 To sl.lO When ' Receipts Far Exceed General Demand

Indianapolis, Ind-. July •»!. —(I nitod Press Service). Hog prices fell oft abruptly from $1 to SLK) on the Indianapolis Livestock Exchange today. All grades were se’ling at. the flat I price of $9.75 as compared with , $1i).75 to slo.Bb yesterday. Tile decline was attributed to continued heavy receipts and a general slackening in demand. The slump was the worst since war days. Chicago, July 31. Hog prices drop-

ped 50 to 75 cents at the local yards today. Today’s cut together with a smaller dip yesterday, brought the top price to SIO.OO or $1.15 lower than ‘ruesday’s record high mark. Omaha. Neb., July 31. —Refusal of the big packers to buy hogs is causing the break in hog prices of the last two days, according to commission houses here. Big packet’s bought very few hogs during the recent high prices, the t commission mon say. Little packing houses and speculators are said to (Continued on page two)