Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1925 — Page 1

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PIRATES WIN SECOND GAME OF SERIES

JOITCHELL I (UKS ON ' I iNSY BOAKD L:««? I Dirigible ( rash I robe liaims subpoena ■ \OT LEG ALIA ISSUED ■ Wa^inK wn. Oct. 8-Colonel WilL MK hell. storm center of aviaEq walked out on the naval l*oard the Shenandoah diaasK, r shell it served him with a formal Kbpoena to testify today. ■ Mil. hell, on advice of his counsel, ■ifweentative Erank Reid, republl- ■ M of Illniois. openly defied the ■tomniiltee. refused to recognize the tbpoena issued and left the navy Kml.ihs where the hearing was held ■arc ■ Mitchell who called because of his ■talement that collapse of the ShenKidoah could have been avoided. Kx.k the position that the naval board Kad no right to question him while ■toiirtmartial proceedings were pend■nc in the war department and that ■any testimony by him might jeoparKite his legal rights. I When the court . opened her« ■Mitchell was the first' witness called, ■ ■nit Reid immediately interposed ob-l ■jwtlnn and curtly told the court' ■Mitchell would not s übmit to ques-1 ■lions I Reid contended had not] been legally subpoenaed and after a Sarcastic colloquy with* Admiral Biliary I’. Jones, chairman of the. bojrd. Mtcheli and his counsel withdrew. ™ u | Jones called the court into execu-. tire session, ordered the jjudges ad-1 rocate generals of the war and navy departments to appear and Inform the court as to its legal right to require Mitchell to testify. There-] upon a subpoena was issued and I rerveil upon Mitchell in an adjoining room Mit< hell and Reid went into iCONTINHPD ()\ PAGE TWO) o — CONVENTION TO tiINVENE TONIGHT Missionary’ Societies Os Evangelical Church To Hohl District Meet The Fort Wayne district convention of the Women's Missionary So-1 dety of the Evangelical church will ' convene at the First Evangelical i church in this city at 7:30 o’clock this] [ wiling. Three more sessions will be lie held on Friday, the convention closing with a meeting Friday even'"F Mrs. C E. Hoiker, of Decatur, ii district chairman and will preside “t the convention. z The Rev. William Kensinger, a miss.onary to Belgian Congo, will be the principal speaker during the convention. In addition to several songs and wlos. the program for this evening . itichidcs a playet by the Circle Girls, an l an address on, “Incidents of Travel in Palestine," by the Rev. Mr. presiding elder of the district. Th.. ' i-cond session of the confer‘nce win convene at 10 o’clock Fri'la? morning. Reports of delegates ai >d election of officers will consume lnost of the time of this session. The third session will open at 2 "'lock Friday afternoon. Rev. KessY<‘r win deliver an address and disT J ! many curios during this session. icrs will bo musical numbers and f'otionals during the session, also, unu. ualll interesting program as been prepared for the closing session. Following a song by the congregation and the devotfonala. a eadin„ will be given by a member of •hmtington delegation. Rev. Kessser will deliver another address, his iect being. "With Christ in Africa." Berne delegation will provide a “s eal number. There will be other “'“sic, also. roo' ea ' S b e SPrvp d in the dining Venn ' f churt 'h during the contend " 11 TtlP put)l * c is invited to at*ll sessions of the conference.

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Hartford Citv To Get New Pennsy Station . Hartford ■ City,' Ind.. Oct. 8. The hopes of Hartford City residents that a new railroad station would be built here were realised today when W O. Niece, local agent, received notice that the Pennsylvania Railroad company would proceed at once with the construction of a station. The ne w ture will be located on South High street, it v.as said. An official of the railroad company will come here within the next few days to supervise Hie details of the construction. TOHOLO RALLY #T 11, B. CHURCH I District Meeting Os W. M. A. To Be Held Here All Day Friday The annual W. M. A. Rally of the United Brethern churches of this district will be held in Decatur all day Fiiday, October 9. Three good programs have been arranged by the I committee in charge and it is expect'led that a large crowd will he in at'tendance at all of the sessions. | The program for the Rally is as follows : Morning Session—lo o’clock Song—Congregation. Devot'ons—Lengthen Thy Cords— Rev. R. Smith. Decatur. i Talk—How to Observe Special Days—--1 Mrs. M. K. Richardson. i Special Music —Decatur. Mission Study Methods—Mrs Gerber, I South Bend. Informal Conference on Methods. i Song—Congregntlon. I Noontide Prayer—Mrs. Piatt. Calvary, Ft. Wayne. Dinner. Afternoon Session —1 o’clock Song—Congregation. ] Devotions —Strengthen Thy Stakes — Rev. M. K. Richardson Scio—Beautiful Garden Os Prayer— Mrs. Osterman. Recognition of Delegates. Playlet--Who Killed The EVANGEL — South Wayne. i Duet Mrs. l.enneman and Mrs Rayl. M ssion Sti’ly Book Mrs. Gerber. | South Bend. Dibcuss.on—Plans for the Year. Wb.at the Board has planned— Mrs. Lenueman. What Our Branch has planned - Mrs. Blanche Elzey. Decatur. What Should- We P.an Mrs. Smutts. Talk— Winning The Children—Mrs. H. V. Cole. , Music in the Monthly Meetings— Monroeville. Offertory Nine Mile .Song -Congregation. Directed Prayer- Rev. Bear. Zanes-’ ville. Supper In Basement Evening Session —7:30 o'clock Orchestra —Monroeville. Devotions Miss Leah Morin. Piano Duet —M’sses Ruth and Virginia Bell. A Demonstration— Impersonating Mis sionaries. Music—Ossian. Solo Miss Norrean Burnheimer. i Playlet One of Us- Decatur. | Offertory-Craigville. Closing Braver —Rev. Hively, Ossian. ,. u One Killed. Another Hurt In An Attempted Hold-up Indianapolis. Oct. B—One man is dead, another in jail and a third is suffering from severe injuries today .'as the result of an attempted holdup yesterday. ** > The dead man is Sam Langford, negro outlaw-, wlro w.th his pal, ! Luc us West, was paroled from the Ohio state prison at Mansfield, 0., . October 1. West is in jail and Sam Dorfman, a -'pawnbroker, is suffering from wounds .: inflicted when the bandits attempted i to rob h's store. ’ 1 After commanding Dorfman to put 1 up his hands the bandits beat him • down with the butt of a revolver. In a tussle that followed Dorfman J gained possession of the gun and , shot Langford. West escaped but was captured later.

Winning Pitcher • ■ wu RS A® --3/ Aw? w & & u . W.'Vic Aldridge, the ‘‘Hoosier Schoolmaster,” had the better of a pitching battle with Coveleskie, of the Senators in the second gtune of the world's btisebttll series tit Pittsburgh today, the Pittsburgh Pirates winning behind Aldridge and making the series stand one-all. 100 Poorly Addressed Envelopes Contain Donations In Cash Detroit, Mich., Oct. 8— Postal authorities here were puzzled today by the persistence of a careless philanthropist who has tuckejl into Detroit mail boxes nearly 1N)O poorly addressed, unsealed envelopes containing nothing but cash donations ranging from $1 to S2O each. While some of the addresses have been deciphered, it is expected most of the envelopes will find their way to the dead letter office. The motive for the cash flood is not knowlln .» o i Bucher Funeral To Be Held Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Simon W. Bucher, Adams county farmer who died at the Memorial hospital here Tuesday night, will be held from the St. Peter’s Lutheran church northcast of Decatur, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in the St. Peter’s cemetery. o— Volstead Gets .Job In Prohibition Administration Granite Falls, M:nn., Oct. B.—(United Pressl Andrew J. Volstead, author of the national prohibition lavV, will assume the duties of legal advisor for the northwest enforcement area next week. Volstead was appointed late yesterday to head the legal staff of the newly reorganized prohibition force. ASPHALTBEING LAID ON ROAD Paving Os Thirteenth Street South On State Road Is Under Way The work of laying the asphalt on the Ben Eiting road, extending south on Thirteenth street to the intersection of the Ed Green road with state oad 21. about a mile south of town, has been started. The road is being paved with emulsified asphalt. It will furnish a paved approach to this city on the state hffchway from the south. The paving will completed within two or three weeks, it is thought. The Winchester street south of the Nickel Plate railroad tracks and the extension of the street, known as the Ed Green road, around the curve to state road 21, will be paved with emulsified asphalt, also, the contract having been let to the same contractor who is building the Eiting road. This improvement likely will not be made until next spring, however.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 8, 1925.

[NEW SURVEY IS BEING MADE BY NICKEL PLATE Railroad Company Is Considering Branch From Latty, 0., To Decatur COMPARING COST WITH OTHER ROUTE Col. William Beehan. Nickle Plate engineer, is here again with a crew of f.fteen assistants, this time to set permanent stakes over a survey being made between Latty, Ohio, and this city, that the line and the cost of bu Iding it may be compared with j -hat of a proposed line surveyed a few months ago between here and Dupont, Ohio. The Nickle Plate has in view the straightening of the route so as to save considerable milage and, in order to determine just which is shortest and best route, has ordered these surveys made with cost estimates. Would Enter City From East The Latty line, it is said, would strike the Erie east of this city and come in over the Erie bridge near the Mutscbler Packing Plant, while the Dupont line would enter the city in the north part, near the Acker Cement Works and the Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory. It is expected hat def nite act ion will be taken within a few weeks. The Latty line would connect the Nickel Plate road at Latty with the Clover Leaf and Erie divisions of the Nickle Plate system in th s city. O Young Motorists Faces Charge Os Manslaughter Indianapolis. Oct. B—A charge of involuntary manslaughter was expected to be filed today against Owen Fishburn, 19, driver of an auto which struck and fatally injured Frank Murray. 55, last night. FARMER HAS NARROWESMPE William Mitchell Seriously Injured When Clothes Catch In Buzz Saw William Mitchell, well-known farmer living east of Monroe, is bedfast as the result of an accident which came near costing his life. He and one or two others were at the William Rupert farm assisting in buzzing wood, when his coat became fast in the shaft and he was pulled against the fly wheel with terrific force. In an instant his clothing was torn off. his coat, overalls, shirt and underclothing being wrapped around the shaft. Claude Fraizer, who was standing near, saw Mr. Mitchell's predicament and with presence of mind grabbed him around the neck, perhaps saving his I'fe Mrj Mitchell received a number of tenlble bruises, one spot on the right hip being burned raw, one, rib was broken and he is suffering from the severe shock and injuries and will be laid rp several weeks. The accident happened so quickly that no one understood just what did happen until the saw was stopp-d by the jam of clothing. New Wage Scale For Glass Workers Approved Hartford City, Ind.. Oct. B.—A new wage scale for glass workers in this city was approved by the local union today. The new scale is practically the same as that under which the industry operated last year, it was announced. The new scale will be operative until Sept. 1926. IVeaf/ier Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; probably rain in extreme south portion; somewhat cooler Friday and in west portion tonight 4

Bloomigton May Build Water Purification Plant Bloomington. Ind.. Oct. 8. — Plans for he construction of a water purification plant for this city were discussed xt a conference between Mayor and engineers of a Chicago firm employed to investigate the local situation. Since the construction of Grlffy Creek project which assures Bloomington plenty of water members of the •ouncll have taken a stand favoring i purification plant. It is estimated that such a plant would cost $75.00(1. AVIATOR KILLED DURING AIR RACE Plane Crashes To Ground In First Event Os International Races Mitchell Field. Long Island. Oct. 8 —One aviator was killed and a second seriously injured in a crash today during the first event of the international air races, held here. Two mon—Clarence D. Chamberlain. a pilot, and Lawrence Buraj nelli. a passenger, were in the machine when it crashed several miles away from the judges’ stand. First reports stated both men were dead, but thig was later corrected to an announcement that one had been killed and the other was in the hospital It was officially announced that Chamberlain was the man killed and then changed to state that Butanelli had met death while Chamberlain was injured. The machine crashed so far from the field that the accident was not witnessed by spectators and it was first repored by telephone.. The contestants in the race did not stop when Chamberlain's plane crashed. The winner of the flight was Pilot B L. Rowe, who flew a Thomas Norse S-4-2 at an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour. o Marion Fights Increase In Bell Telephone Rates Marion. Ind.. Oct. 8. —This city is planning a determined fight against an increase in’telephone rates. Mayor Daniels announced today that the city council will be asked to appropriate a large sum of money to be used in fighting the petition of the Indiana Bell Telephone company for an increased tariff. President And Wife Arrive In Washington Washington, Oct. B.—(United Press) -’-President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived in Washington at 10:05 a. m. today after four days of almost continuous travelling to Omaha ami return. Their special train was an hour and 35 minutes late because of a train wreck in West Virginia which blocked the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. FEDERATION OF CLUBS TO MEET "Local Clubs To Send Delegates To State Convention, Oct. 13-15 The annual state convention of the Indiana Federation of Clubs will be held at Hammond. October 13-15. according to word received here by Mrs. I J. S. Peterson. Adams county chair man. Several members of various women’s clubs in Adams county will 1 send delegates to the state conclave, ' it is thought. Among other business will be the ! election of officers for the ensuing ' year. Several ladies, prominent in ' Indiana club work, are candidates for the offices and several spirited con- ! tests are bringing predictions of a record attendance at the annual meeting. , The various Decatur clubs that are connected with the federation will ; elect delegates to attend the rneeitng. - It is probable that, ten z or fifteen 1 Adams county ladies will attend the sessions

WASHINGTON DEFEATED IN CLOSE BATTLE, SCORE 3-2 THREE HOME RUNS FEATURE SECOND GAME OF WORLD’S SERIES—ALDRIDGE BESTS COVELESKIE IN A PITCHING BATTLE -SENATORS’ RALLY IN NINTH INNING FALLS SHORT. Innings 12 3 45678 9—R H E Senators 010000001-2 82 Pirates 0001 0002 0-3 70 Batteries: For Washington, Coveleskie and Ruel; for Pittsburgh, Aldridge and Smith. (United Press Service) Forbes Field, Oct. B—“Kiki” Cuyler. Pittsburgh’s outfielder, broke up the second game of the 1925 world series this afternoon and produced the long waited Pirate punch at the critical moment. With the score tied at one to one and Max Carey on first in the last half of the eighth. Cuvier straightened one of Stan

i Coveleskie's spittcrs for a home run that bounded into the temporary stands in right field, the Pirates winning. 3-2. As “Kiki", face wreathed in smiles, bounded around the bases the 40.000 fans went wild with joy. Previous to this there had been a homer by Joe j Judge into the same stands that ■ put Washington in the lead and an-, other by Glenn Wright, which tell into the same stands, tying the score. Vic Aldridge, who worked in the box for the Pirates, gave one of the | gamest exhibitions of pitching that has ever been seen in a world's series. He filled the bases twice and escaped by having only one run i scored. Rodger Peckinpaugh, the veteran shortstop who was voted the most valuable player in the American league, broke out with two bad er-' rors in the eighth one of which put Moore on ‘he base with the run that won the game. WASHINGTON PITTSBURGH . Rice, cf Moore, 2b S. Harris. 2b Carey, cf Goslin. It Cuyler, rs 1 Judge, lb Barnhart, If J. Harris, rs Traynor, 3b Bluege, 3b Wright, ss Peck, ss Grantham, lb Ruel, c Smith, c Covelesk e, p Aldridge, p First Inning. Washington—Rice out. Wight to Grantham. S. Harris fanned. Goslin died to Carey. No runs, no hits, no errors. r Pittsburgh—Moore out Peck to Judge on easy chance. Carey out on strikes. Cuylor out. Harris to Judge. No run. no hits, no errors. Second Innings. Washington—Judge hit a home run to right field stands. J. Harris singled past V right. Bluege flied to Barnhart. J. Harris out. Peck out. Traynor to Grantham. One run. two hits, no errors. Pittsburgh—Barnhart flied to Rice. Traynor out. Bluege to Judge Wright singled over Judge's head. Grantham up. Grantham out. S. Harris to Judge. No runs, one hit. no errors. Third Innings. Washington — Ruel was called out on strikes. Coveleskie fanned. Rice singled over Aldridge's head. Rice wont to second on a balk. Harris out. Wright to Grantham. No runs, one hit, no errors. Pittsburgh—Smith up. Smith singled past Peck on a hard chance. Aldridge forced Smith at Second. Coveleskie to S. Harris. Moore up. Moore fanned. Carey singled past Judge. Aldridge stopping at second. Cuylor forced Carey at second. Pock to Barris, on a very fast play. No runs, two hits, no errors. Fourth Inning. Washington — Goslin out. Wright to Gra'ntham. Judge flied out to Barnhart. J. Harris singled over Traynor’s head. Bluege flied to Cuy--1 lor. No runs, no hits, nor errors. Pittsburgh—Barnhart flied to Rice.

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Traynor out. Peck to Judge. Wright hit a home run into the left field stands. Goslin made a hard attempt to knock down the ball. The score was tied. Grantham fouled to Ruel. 'One run. one hit. no errors. Fifth Inning. Washington—Peck singled to left. I Ruel singled to left. Peek stopping lat second. Coveleskie bunted. All | safe. Bases filled. Rice forced Peek |at plate. Aldridge to Smith. Harris forced Ruel at the plate. Wright to Smith. Goslin out. No runs, two hits, no errors. Pittsburgh—Smith fanned. Aldridge out. Peck to Judge on an easy chance. Moore out. Peck to Judge. No runs, no hits, no errors. Sixth Inning. Wasnington -Judge flied to Carey. .1. Harris flied to Carey. Bluege was hit by a pitched ball. Knocked unconscious. Buddy Myers, a rookie, ran for Bluege. Peek up. Myers out stealing. Smitli to Moore. No runs, no hits, no errors. Pittsburgh-—Carey beat a bunt to I Coveleskie. Cuylor sacrificed. Carey :to second. Barnhart out. Peck to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) BOOM PERSIC FOR LEGION HEAD Election Os National Commander Scheduled To Be Held Tomorrow Omaha. Neb.. Oct. 8. — (United Press)—General John J. Pershing was boomed for national commander of the American 1 egion today by the Missouri delegation to the national legion convention in session here. Tlie Missourians cabled Pershing, who is in South America, asking hint to accept. The boom for the former commander of the Atner'can expeditionary forces in the World war was greeted warmly by other delegations. Election of a national commander atkes place tomorrow. A hands off po'.lc y in regard to United States entrance info the league of nations was voted. However, the convention voted favorably on a proposal lor the United States to send an official observer to all league sessions. The convention is at peace over the Mitchell issue, it was apparent today. Supporters and opponents of Colonel William Mitchell patched up a truce, - compromising on demands, that the Mitchell air policy be endorsed. ' The American Legion is “profoundly > impressed'' with Colonel Mitchell's , proposal to reorganize the nation’s defense under one cabinet officer, but the delegates were not asked to apI prove the program by their aeronaut- ■> ical committee. r The committee presented a resolu- - tion to the convention today in which all reference? to Mitchell had been de- !. leted.