Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1925 — Page 1

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HIGH CLASS ACTS BOOKED FOR BIG FAIR Manager Williamson Secures Noted Artist For Northern Indiana Fair OUTLOOK IS GOOD Many Reservations for Concession Space Are Made, * Already Several high class acts have been obtained by Manager E. B Williamson for the Northern Indiana Fair to be held in this city September 15-18, according to word received here. The acts will be presented free of charge at various times during the four days of the fair. The Aerial Romans are high grade trapeze artists. They have been showing for several years on big time vaudeville’stages and are making a tour of this part of Indiana for a tew weeks this fall and Mr. Williamson has secured them for the Decatur fair. Their acts consist of tumbling, balancing and novelty acrobatic feats. The Aerial Romans will come to this city highly recommended. Knight’s Comedy Roosters are fifteen in number. They are the largest troupe of live trained roosters in the country. Mr. Knight adds comedy to the spectacular act. The roosters do strange tricks that bring amazement and laughter to the audience. This act will be in Decatur during the entire fair period. Duffy and Daisy are Australian novelty cyclists. Sensational and thrilling bicycle feats are performed in beautiful costume-.). The evolution of comedy rules supreme in this act and Mr. Williamson has contracted for Duffy and Daisy to put on several shows at different places on the fair ground during the four days of the fair. The Flowers are a troupe of aerialists who feature balancing and tumbling in mid-air. The Flowers troup has several comical clowns that aid in making the attraction one of the features of the fair. Other acts also will be obtained for entertainment and several features will be added to insure a good time for everybody that attends the fair this year. Mr. Williamson has asked that everybody remember the dates, September 15-18, inclusive, and help in making this year’s fair the best ever held here. Reservations for concession space continue to come in rabidly and indications are that there will be a midway at least a half-mile in length. The recent rains have benefitted the crops greatly making it probable that the exhibits of agricultural products at the fair will be the best in the history of the local exposition.

TREATIES BEING DRAFTED Steps Being Taken To Check Smuggling Along Mexican Line. (United Press Service) Washington, June 20 —The treaties covering the recommendations of the El Paso conference on measures to check smuggling are being drafted here and in Mexico City. >• i sl sa *‘' al the state department today. o —— JOHN C. LEHMAN DIES IN BERNE Former Business Man Succumbs To Attack Ot Pneumonia And Cancer Berne, June 20 —John C. Lehman, tit. died Thursday afternoon at bis home in this city. Death was due to pneumonia and cancer. Mr. Lehman has been in ill health for several years, but previous to that he was in bu -i ness in Berne. The deceased was born in ibis county near Ver Cruz and has lived in Adams county all his life. Two ci dren, Oscar and Mrs. Mabed Poehlman of Couth Bend, survive. Six brothers and sisters are living and thre. 1 1 ceeded Mr. Lehman in death. Funeral services were held at 1 ■ o’clock at the home at 2:00 o<l"' lv a the Evangelical church at Be) ne t afternoon. Burial took place at Linn Grove cemetery.

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yeoman memorial An dFriend ‘ Ul *< To Attend Program Sunday Afternoon. The annual memorial services O s the Decatur Brotherhood of the Yeoman lodge whl be held In the Yeoman hall next Sunday afternoon. June 21. The services will begin at 2:30 O'clock. All members of the lodge and their friends are urged to attend the services. ( DRY GOODS MEN MEET NEXT WEEK Interesting Program Provided For Annual Two. day Session Plans have been completed for the twelfth annual convention of the Indiana Retail Dry Goods association of which Dan M. Niblick, of this city, is president. The meeting will open June 23, at the Claypool hotel, at Indianapolis, and will last two days, during which time several interesting features will be given to which ail retail ready-to-wear and dry goods merchants are Invited. The convention will open with a 1925 style and merchandise review, which will be given in the Riley Room of the Claypool hotel. Efforts are being extended to make this show the largest and best that the state has ever had, and Mr. Niblick stated that he expected the largest attendance that has ever assembled for a convention of this kind. Talks an<t addresses on business topics directly relating to ready-to-wear and dry goods retail merchants will help to make the conclave worth while. The open forum, a feature of the entire meeting, will be open for all merchants at the convention. Merchants will be permitted to ask any questions pertaining to their respective business and other merchants will answer these questions, basing their answers on facts that they have ascertained. A complimentary luncheon will be given for the merchants attending the convention, according to the present plans, by The Havens-Geddes and HibbetvHollwog Wholesale Dry Goods companies, two of the largest wholesale dry goods companies in the middle west. These two firms also will give a luncheon for the ladies in attendance, at the Woodstock club. The 1925 style and merchandise show will be in charge of sixteen of the largest ladies ready-to wear firnft) in Chicago. The models sot the varioos displays will be girls selected from Butler College. A musical program will be rendered ouiiVg' Vdv style show. The program, which has been arranged chiefly through the efforts of the president,, Mr. Niblick, will be one of the most educational and interesting ever presented by this association. Every minutt} will bo taken up by problems of interest for all those who attend. Mr. Niblick estimates that if the weather is fav(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) — -o — ’ TWO BOYS MISSING New York Men Offer Large Rewards For Recovery Os Lads. Pittsburg, June "20—(United Press) —Frank Harwood, an executive of , hP American Tobacco company, arrived here today to aid tn the search for his 15 year old son, Warren, who disappeared from New York City eight days ago with Webster fosse. 14. son of Charles A. Cosse. civil service commissioner ot Mount Vernon. N. Y. The parents of the two boys have offered a reward of $5,000 for their recovery. Authorities here received a telegram from New York police that the Harwood boy had sent his relatives a postal card from P.Uj burg Both boys were dressed in lx y uniform. -h™ "" homes. —— o — Erie To Put On Extra Freight Local Monday Commencing next Monday. June 22 the Erie Railroad will operate its package freight local in both directions y instead of every other day, as has been done in the past. The change !s being made to take care of the in crease in merchandise business. The east-bound train will arrive in Decatur about 10 a. m. and the west-bound about noon.

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DEFENSE STRIKES AT TESTIMONY OF DR. FAIMANTODAY Shepherd’s Attorneys Attempt To Discredit Evidence of Star Witness STATE WINS POINT Defense Witness Admits Dr. Faiman Kept Germs In His Laboratory (United Press Service) Criminal Court, Chicago, June 20. — Attorneys defending William D. Shepherd against charges that, ho murdered Billy McClintock today attempted to prove that no typhoid germs were kept at Dr. C. C. Fai man's "national university of sciences.” Falman, a star witness for the prosecution said he kept typhoid germs at his school and gave Shep-' herd three tubes of them for the pur- j pose of murdering young McClintock. Walter Smith, a drug clerk who' studied chiropractic at Falman's institution, testified he never saw any typhoid germs in any part of Falman’s laboratories. "I never saw any typhoid cultures out there.” Smith said in an answer to a question by William H. Stewart,' chief counsel for Shepherd. Under cross examination by State’s Attorney Crowe, however. Smith ad-1 mitted he had not studied bacteriol ' ogy and that there "might have been 1 some germs which I didn't see." He I further admitted that he did see tuberculosis and diphtheria germs in the laboratory. Crowe claimed significant victory in leading jhe defense witness to ad- ( mit Faiman kept germs at his school. Shepherd's attorneys have contended that Faiman possessed no germs and therefore could not have given any to Shepherd. Ex-governor Goodrich Is Defendant In Damage Suit (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., June 20 —James P. Goodrich, ex-governor of Indiana. Carl N. Mott, attorney, and Brandt C. ( Wowney, investment broker, were named defendants in a $20,000 damage suit by Harold F. Hall, machine shop owner, alleging collusion to defraud him of money. Hall charged that he bought stock in the defunct Natoinal City Bank on advice of the three defendants and on the basis of statements made by them that assets of the bank were far hTT-a —' _J. DANDIT ADMITS MANY ROBBERIES Youth Known As King Os Indiana Bank Bandits Caught At Indianapolis Indianapolis, June 20 — (United Press) —A 23-year-old youth known | as the king of Indiana bank bandits, who bragged that the police would never take 'lint alive, was safely behind bars today, arrested in a raid that ended one of the most intensive nan hunts ever conducted by Indianapolis police Everett Bridgewater, who boasted that lie would die v.’-h his boots on meekly laid his gun mi the table as police swarmed into the modest little home of his Eister here, from the front, side and rear. Clinton Sims, 25, was arrested also as a member of the Bridgewater gang. Bridgewater is said to have confessed after severe grilling that he had taken part in the robbing of banks in New Harmony, Upland,, South Kokomo and Marion. Three o th«» youths are serving sentences 1!O w for taking part, in the Kokomo robbery. . Squads of police would infest Bridgewater's haunts each day armed with riot guns. They obtained a clew that the hunted man was at bis sister’s home and three squads swooped down on the place. Bridgewater was changing a shirt,. His wife tried to get into the house be fore the police. A lieutenant opened the door first- Bridgewater grabber a gun and tried to escape, but saw h< was surrounded. His boast that b' would die fighting was not fulfills then. \ ' •

STARTS ON POLAR EXPEDITION xr* j . * ~ 'fTWfTIL' wA The above photo shows Capt. Donald B MacMillan, whose expedition sailed today from Wiscasset. Maine, this afternoon upon the most ambitious . American attempt ut Arctic conquest since Peary planted the stars and , stripes at the top of the world sixteen years ago.

Physician Denounces Old-Fashioned Spanking As Form Os Punishment (United Press Service) Atlantic City N. J., June 20—The ■ old fashioned spanking was denounced by Dr. Joseph M. Marcus in a | speech before he state medical society here. Cruelty, meanness and lying, he said ( were the only offense that made thiform of punishment justifiable. I Parental stubbornness was the pro per antidote for obdurate children, he | said. TO GIVE PAGEANT SONDAYEVENING Young People Os Prebyterian Church To Stage • Interesting Play The young people of the Presbyterian church will stage an interesting pageant in the church Sunday evening, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The title of the pageant is, “A Modern Christian Quest.” The story of the pageant is based upon the legent of the quest of the Holy Grail in the days of King Arthur. The story is told by the Spirit of Service. A young man hears the story and says that he wishes there were t that ort todaj He sure that thoae d'ay’.'iiu’-’ p.i t 4WkW

the Spirit of Service replies to him and seys that there are many quests today. The youngman calls in a number of his companions that they may learn of the quests. The Spirit of Service states that the church offers many opportunities for quest much to the surprise of teh young people who have known the church all their lives. The Spirit of Service suggests the quest of teaching .the little children, of rescuing mis- | guided youths, of meeting the needs of poverty in the community, oi instructing the new foreigners in our country, and of healing the sick and wounded. The young people cou.se- ! crate themselves to the tasks. The > next scene tells of the results of the 'quests. The Sunday School has new 11 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o — t MURDERED WITH ('ROWBAR I Body Os Michigan City Man Found In ’ Alley With Head Battered In. r | Michigan City, lnd„ June 20— - (United Press) —With his head bata tered in a dozen places witli a crows bar, the body of Frank Skibo. 49, , was found in an alley at the rear of 9 his home early today. s Police are holding Mrs. Anna j Skibo, 39. liis wife; Mrs. Mary Putz. 20. his daughter, and Charles, 18. his t son, and several borders in the i- Skibo home, for questioning, a Officers are working on the theory s that Mrs. Skibo murdered her hues baud Thursday night when he went s- to bed partly intoxicated after celes bratlng his birthday. Bloody bed ?- clothes, a clothes line and crowbar d were found in the house. i d 1 Weather ;d Indiana: -Fair tonight and Sunday; |g I rather warm.

CHANGE SYSTEM OF PROHIBITION Federal Enforcement Plan Is Reorganized; States Are Grouped Washington, June 20 — (United Pt ess (—Reorganization of the system of administering federal prohibition enforcement through state directors was reported ready for announcement today. The plan will dispense with a large number of the state chiefs, it is understood, by grouping states under several regional directors The reorganization will not affect the handling of the mobile force of federal agents through divisional chiefs. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews had a conference with President Coolidge and it is understood he laid final plans for the change before him for approval. Andrews and prohibition Commission Haynes previously had agreed on its outlines. The move is in the interest of gr< ater economy. For several years after the enactment of prohibition, directors in each state performed an independent (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ■MEAGHEJS HAVE

OUTING AT LAKE Five Decatur Ministers Get Plenty Os Sunburn But No Fish Five Decatur preachers pulled intc

the city late yesterday evening with sun-burned shoulders, tired limbs and happy hearts as proof that they had had a great outing at Lake j Waw’asee- Unlike many would-be , fishormen, the ministers donflessied h today that they did not catch a fish,!, although four of them whiled away, a few hours with the rod and reel , “where the water was deep." as one of them said. The five preachers, Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, > Rev. B. F. Dotson. Rev. B. N. Covert. Rev. R. W. lz>ose I and Rev. H. W. Thompson, together with Mr. Carl C. Pumphrey, local jeweler, left early yesterday morning in Mr. Pumphrey’s car for the lake. They spent the day in boating. bathing and "fishing.” Rev.; ’ Thompson and Mr. Pumphrey say they did not. take part in the fishing. but had a lot of fun rowing the 1 boat and “kidding” the other parsons ' while they teased the fishes with ' bait and hook. Ou the way home. ’ Mr. Pumphrey's car burned out a bearing, when they reached a pointy ' near the Nine Mlle House on the ' Decatur-Fort Wayne road, but a kind 1 passerby brought the party into the ’’ city. 1 “While the cat's away the mice r will play,” runs an old adage, ao the ministers’ wives gathered at the Fledderjohann home on Jackson street and held a picnic yesterday The ladies report that they had a ; fine time and didn’t sunburn their shoulders, either.

MRS. MORGAN IMPROVING Wife Os Noted Financier Reported To Be Getting Better. (United Press Service) New York June 20—Continued Im provement in |he condition of Mrs J P. Morgan, wife of the financier, was reported in the latest bulletin from her Glen Cove L. I. house. She has been ill with sleeping sickness since Sunday. OIL LEASE CASE TO BE APPEALED U. S. Supreme Court To Settle Dispute Over Teapot Dome Washington, June 20 — (United Press) —Only the United States supreme court can bring harmony out of the clashing decisions render- ] ing by Federal Judges McCormick , and Kennedy on vital, identical I points in the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil lease cases. Both are certain tn land in the high tribunal, the Doheny case by way of his own appeal and the Sinclair case through appeal by the government attorneys. Both will go Lthrough the circuit courts of appeals. I entailing a year or more delay before the supreme court receives them, unless there Is agreement to expedite them to final decision. One crucial point common to both cases was the legality of the executive order issued by President HardI ing transferring administration of the naval oil reserves from the navy department, to the interior department. Judge McCormick, in holding the Doheny leases illegal, declared this ' order was in excess of the president's 1 power Judge Kennedy held that the order was legal but immaterial. This is only a sample of the varying finding of facts In the two cases which must somehow he harmonized ' It Is pot customary for the higher 1 federal courts to rule on findings of fact in the lower courts as they ' usually restrict themselves to points ’ of law, but such diametrically oppos--1 ed findings will compel them to reassess the evidence. 1 Other vital points on which the 1 judges found differently on substanI tially the same evidence were: ' I—Loans to Albert B. Fall, former f secretary of the interior; Judge 1 Kennedy held that the $25 000 given ‘ Fall by Sinclair’s attorneys was 1 clearly a retainer for Fall’s services ' to Sinclair in Russia after retiring from the cabinet Judge McCormick denounced the SIOO,OOO given Fall by Doheny as "colossal Infamy, regardless if whether it was a bribe, gift | 2— Secrecy of tne leases— Kennedy ‘ heki there was no unnecessary . secrecy in leasing Teapot Dome though; McCormick held that information concerning the Doheny leases | was deliberately wit from conON PAGE FOUR) I - ■ —

Fen Sentenced For Liquor Traffic In Ohio Cleveland, 0., June 10— (United Press)—J. E. Russell, former Ohio prohibition director and ten others were sentenced in federal court here today for conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law in flooding northern Ohio with 22,000 gallons of illegal whiskey from the Hayner distillery at Troy. Ohio, three years ago. Russell and Warren E. Barrett, Columbus attorney and politician each received sentences of two years in the federal penitentiary and fined $7,500. M B Copeland, permit clerk undet Russell, was fined $2,500 and sent emed to two years Imprisonment Sentences of others ranged up t( one year and a day in the peniten tiary and fines upward to $5,000. All but Russell, Barrett and Cope land had pleaded guilty- The tbre< were convicted in federal court week ago.

-——-o ” SET DATE FOR FLIGHT September 2 It Date Named For FHflt F.rom Pacific Coast To Hawaii. (United Press Service) Washington. June 20—The Paciti roast to Hawaii naval airplanes ffigl probably will start Sept.. 2, the nav dopartment announced today, it h: not been decided yet whether it w take off at San Diego or San Fn I cisco.

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MAC MILLAN AND PARTY STARTS ON POLAR EXPEDITION Set Sail From Maine Today For Exploration Os Arctic Region SEEK NEW LAND Conquest Is Most Ambitious I American Attempt Since Days Os Peary (United Preew Fervh-e) Wiscasset, Maine. June 20—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Out of the peaceful little village of Wiscasset, with the cheers and good wishes of . their countrymen ringing in their ears, the explorers of the MacMillan navy polar expedition will set sail this afternoon upon the moat ambitious American attempt at Arctic conqty-st. since Peary planted the stars and stripes at the top of the world 16 years ago. Even before the light little vessels Peary and Bowdoln weighed anchor, the state o f.Malne was disputing Its right to claim sovereignty over any land the expedition might discover Governor Brewster at a farewell dinner presented a state flag to MacMillan and said: "If you find land up there, we hope you will claim it on behalf of Maine.” Those who believed this was contrary to the federal constitution were bitterly opposing Governor Brewster's view while Commander Donald B MacMillan, refusing to be drawn into the controversy said nothing and ordered his expedition northward High on the forward deck of the Peary could be seen the crated aircraft in which the explorer and his right hand men from the United States navy hoped to fly over territory never before visited by while men From Wiscasset's island harbor the procession will sail down the Fheepscott river to the sea. led by the Eagle boats 42 and 46, which were sent here by the navy department. They will be followed by the Bowdoin and Peary, with nearly 100 pleasure craft completing the parade Nearly 25.000 visitors, who have arrived here by train, boat and automobile. will be at the dock and along the liatbor's edge to join In giving the MacMillan party a rousing send off The state has provide.! five thousand multi-colored balloons, which will tie distributed among the hundreds of school children participattag in the fare«-l! ovation. MacMillan and Lieut. Commands) Byrd were the guests of the governor at a Southport inn last night They are expected to return here by beat before noon. | Michigan Bank Bandits Make $7,500 Haul Today * | Ferndale, Mich., June 20.—(United I Press.) Holding up the assistant > cashier in front of the Ferndale State , batik this morning, three bandits forced him to admit them into the s bank and after ransacking the place 7 for an hour, escaped with $7,500. ACCUSE FORMER ; HEAD OF MILITIA d Irregularities Found In Accounts Os Harry I), o Smith n- | Indianapolis, June 20 The accusing e- finger of the state board of accounts »e was pointed at Hurry B. Smith, fora tner adjutant general for Indiana, today. Report of examiners for lite boar 1 which has not yet been made pc charges misappropriation ot r 1,1 thousand dollars by the fort” tia bead during his term o' I Smith retired with th/ of his term Jan 10, wlf fir Jackson appointed Wily r :ht ner to succeed him. / 'L / w vy The former natioy ias said that an audly till had started more t/ •/ an he denied knowl/ ' irregularities w/ ' / o