Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1926 — Page 1

WEATHER unsettled tonight and Friday Shower* or Thunderstorm* probable. Not bo warm Friday.

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ELECT BOHM OF GOVERNORS FOR COUNTRY CLUB Seven Men and Three Women Named On Board At Meeting Held Last Night 75 MEMBERS ATTEND INITIAL MEETING C. Schafer, C. E. Bell. C. A. Duean. William Linn. Cal Petergon, Haymond Harting J. H. Hellfir, Fan Hite, Mildred Niblick and Mrs. Chanter Porter were elected members of the board of governors of the Decatur country club, at a meeting of members last night at the Industrial rooms This body will work in cooperation with G. T. Telford. Douglas Haney and Paul Schulte in’ operation;: ail activities of the club. In the election of members, two men were tied. Raymond Harting and Cal Peterson, :<nd by unanimous consent of the other hoard members it was decided that both men should serve on the board, br'nging the total of the hoard to ten members. C. J. Lutz, Named Chairman C ('. Schafer presided at the meeting last night and entertained a nomination for a chairman for the evening. C. J. Lutz was nominated and unanimously elected. A nominating committee was then appointed and that committee was instructed to nominate 12 men and 6 women, from which list G men and 3 women would lie selected. While the nominating committee was in session. G. T. Teyford and Mr. Lutz entertained the audience, estimated at about 75, with several interesting stories, Mr. Telford explained I the project in detail, stating that work was being rushed on the 18-hole| golf course and also that work on the ' luh house improvements was started. Tlie board of governors will be called together soon and officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The lioard will act as a governing body Mr. Haney. Mr. Schulte and Mr. Telford. will be advisory members of the board, according to the present plan The fees for out-of-town members ’’•“re discussed last night and it was i:., s ’ tliut a fee of SSO and yearly dues of $25 would be charged members not living in Adams county. Persons residing in Adams county will pay the same amount that Decatur people pay. it is hoped that the permanent golf course will be opened to the members by the middle of August. The temporary courae will be for members of the chib only from now on. it was an ncunced Membership cards will l» e issued soon.

TABLET READY FORMEMORIAL Bronze Table For Elephant Rock Memorial To Gene Stratton Porter Arrives The bronze tablet, to be placed, on elephant rock, in the court house yard, has arrived at the Wemhoff Monumental works and will be placed on the rock within the next few days, it was announced by the committee in charge today. The formal dedication of the rock will be held in tlie fall. The tablet is in the shape of an open book and an inscription is printed in bronze letters on the book. The rock is dedicated to the memory of Gene Stratton Porter, Adams county authoress. The formal dedication, which will be held this fall, will bring to Decatur many contemporaries of Mrs. Porter, who respect her work and honor her life. Th e rock was brought from the bed of the St. Marys river to this city last spring and was placed in the yard under the auspices of the Industrial Association of this city and the school children of Adams county.

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George Remus May Be Deported Soon Atlanta, Ga , July 8.- (United Press) An attempt to deport George Remus, Millionaire Cincinnati bootlegger, as an "undesireable citizen" will be made following discovery that he is not naturalized citizen, M. A. Coykendali, immigration officer of Atlanta district, said today. Remus now is serving a year in Troy, Ohio, Following conviction in the Liquor case for which he already hut served a term in Federal prison here. Mrs. Imogene Remus, wife of the Rum King, announced she would take the stand against her estranged mate in the deportation hearing, it was said. GIRL IS SLAIN BY JILTED LOVER Unidentified Youth Kills Girl He Loved and Shoots Her Fiance Twice Charlotte. N. July 8. —(United Press)—Maddened by the knowledge that a girl he loved was Io marry another, an unidentified youth called •Jimmy" shot and killed Miss Jean Braswell, 17, and fired two bullets into the body of her fiance, O. C. Sooner, Jr., 21 sen of a wealthy merchant Soijvt was i eported flying today in a hospital here.. The shooting took place an a lonely road near here wht n Sonner stopped the car he was driving and in which “Jimmy" and the girl were riding and told ‘‘Jimmy" of his coming marriage to Misi Braswv’.l. According to the wounded “Jimmy" whipped out n revolver and fired at close range, killing the girl instant.y. MAY INSTALL NEW LIGHTS AT BERNE Council And Business Men Consider Plan For Ornamental Light System Berne, July B.—A proposal to install ornamental street lights on Main i .->><l jyj-is of Jeffers n and Sprunger streets in Berne, is under consideration by the town council and the Business Men’s Association. Those two bodies met with George Redd, of Bluffton, representative .of the Electric Light Company, and George Nicholson. of Fort Wayne, contractor, Tuesday, to discuss the proposition. The Electric Light Company intends to move all pests and wire) from North and South Main.street and place them in the alleys this summer or fall. It is estimated that it would take at least eighty ornamental lights to illuminate the streets as proposed. The cost, it is estimated, would be about $11,094. The plan of financing the improvement is to assess the abutting property owners 35 per cent and tax the remaining 65 per cent to the town. In the business section, the posts would be placed opposite each other, eight to a block, while in the residence district they would be placed alternately. If seventy-five per cent of the property owners along the streets file a petition, the improvement will be made at once, it is said. The Electric Light Company is also offering the town a new schedule for light and power for the domestic use. namely a service charge of one dollar per month, and all current used for power and lighting at five cents per kilowatt. This would not affect the rate made for cooking. That remains as it is now. namely, four vents per thousand net with a minimum of $3.00 per month. Gives $50,000 To • Earlham College Richmond, Ind., July 8. —(United Press)—The building fund of Earlham college was increased $50,000 today through the gift of an unnamed donor. Tlie total amount of the fund is now more than $300,000.

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Submarine Is Hearse for Thirty-three .—■ ,— . —. ii — , ■ n -i i »■!■■■■ ■—,,■■■■■ ■■ — X—. in • T 4 i . ' *LL ; <- y . jJMMfcMwaHpwMFSt •■'dE Er- - • • —Ji — i The submarine S-51 was hauled Io the surface and suspended between the six pontoons shown in this picture. 'Hie tower can barely be seen between the central tloats. Like a steel hearse ilv' ship was towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, carrying the bodies of the thirty-three men who went down in it. Hie sub was rammed bya steamer off New London, Conn, and was raised only til'ler nine months ellorl.

STRIKERS HAVE NEW DIRECTOR Detroit Man Arrives In Indianapolis to Take Charge Os Street Car Strike Indianapolis. Ind., July 8. (United Press.)—W. D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Workers, was due in Indianapolis from Detroit today to assume leadership of the strike of the union street car men, Mahon will attempt/to hold together the organization ot the strikers in the lest of endurance with the street ear company. Only a few men heeded the ultimatum of the company that the men must return to work by last night or lose their seniority rights, it was claimed at union headquarters. Service on all lines of the company has been restored to 85 per cent of normal, according to Janies Tret'on, superintendent. More than 200 experienced car men have already been employed to take the place of the (COS iTIMED OX PAGE SEVEN) O PLANS FOR FAIR ARE BEING MADE Indications Point To Best Fair In History; Dates Are Sept. 1,2,3 And 4 The Fourth of July celebration a matter of history, the attention of the public in Adams county and surrounding counties is turned tv the annual ■ Northern Indiana fair, which will be j held at Bellmont Park, September 1, 2,3, and 4 inclusive. Already, many concessions have booked space on the ground and exhibitors have arranged for their displays. There will be four big days and four nights of the fair this year, starting Wednesday morning and closing Saturday night. Family tickets will be sold this year. It is uaid. Indications are that the fair this year will be tfte biggest and best in the history of the event, Mr. E. B. Williamson, secretary of the Adams County Agricultural Association and general manager of the fair, stated today. The dates for the fair are late .enough that farm products should be well matured by lair time and the agricultural display is expected to be , a big attraction. Work on the premium 11. t will be started at once. Considerable work has been done on the race track this summer and it is in good condition at present. By the time of the fair, the track should be extremely fast and a great speed program is in store for the fair visitors. Several of the concession men who had stands at the Fourth of July celebration contracted for tile same location for the fair, some of them e.ven driving stakes into the ground with their names on them.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 8, 1926.

“Wishing Well” To Be Given Monday Evening Rehearsals are being held each evening this week for the home talent play, "Wishing Well”, to be given by the St. Mary’s Chorus choir next Monday evening in the auditorium of the Catholic school building. More than forty people will be in the cast and tickets are being sold by members of the cast. Proceeds derived from the play wlil be donated to the school fund. o U.S.NOTTOSELL FOREIGN BONDS Country Will Not Put Bonds Received In Debt Settlements On Market Washington. July 8— (United Press)—High treasury- and debt funding commission officials today categorically denied the possibilty that the United States ever would put on the open market any of the $7,000,000,000 in foreign government bonds held under debt settlement' agreements -of- any ot th« S4. , HK*.- f OOii.OOO more to ili. received if -the French debt settlement is approved. Secretary Mellon, when told of the charge of Franklin Boulion, French ; Deputy, an opponent of ratification,' that Germany m’ght buy the bonds and present them to France for collection a" an un’orjunate moment said: “The world might come to an end. too”. CURRENCY DROPS IN THREE NATIONS Monetary Units In France, Belgium And Italy Slump To New Low Levels London, July, B.—(United Press.)—' The currencies of France, Belgium and Italy slumped to new record low (COXTIXVKU ON PAGE SEVEN) O — Dies of Tpoplexy Warsaw. Ind., July 8. — (United Press)- The body of Frank Colloway, 70, of Elwood, who died last night, at Chapman lake near here, from appoplexy, was to be taken home today for burrial. KNOW YOUR STATE Indiana has a budget law which provides regulation of the expenditures of state money. Through this law it has been possible to limit expenditures for the various state activities and to intelligently estmate the necessities for each department of government. Business men see in this law a step toward reduced tiptes, and the means of securing a more intellit administration of fiscal affairs.

POLICE CHIEF ISSUES WARNING I 1 Merchants Asked to Refrain From Sweeping Dirt From Stores Into Street ! , Complaints that the dirt and rubbish from the floors of several stores in the city is being swept into Second street have been received by Chief of Police Melchi, and the chief has issued an order for merchants to ' reftain from such practice. Thete are ordinances against the sweeping of fftfst and rubbish into the street from stores and homes, and it is also a violation of an order of the .health board. ‘ No arrests will be made, it was indicated, if lhe practice is stopped at once. Health board members also have asked that the practice be stopped and they have stressed the point that every citizen should take pride in having the main streets clean at all times. RESIGNATION OF ANDREWS DENIED Secretary Mellon Tells Press Conference That Dry Czar Has Not Resigned — Washington, D. C. July B.—(United : Press) —Secretary of the Treasury I Mellon, today tol da general press conference that assistant secretary of treasury Andrews, "dry Czar had not i resigned. Andrews himself before leaving for Europe indicated he would I qelt lhl-‘ fall, but denied unreservedly I that be had resigned, or had submitted a resignation. President had already said Andrews has no Intention of resigning. i — 0 Want Dawes Plan Revised Berlin. July 8. (United Press)— The Bavarian diet today unanimously passed a nationalist motion urging the Retch Government to take the initial- ' ive in seeking revision ot the Daws plan.

RETIRING DRY SLEUTH SAYS WOMEN ARE MOST SUCCESSFUL BOOLEGGERS

By Julian Snyder (Unired Press Staff Correspondent) Washington D. C. July 8. — (United Press) —Women are entering the boot-' legging business with a rush and are succeeding more than males in the trade, Major Walton. A. Grees, retiring “Chief Sleuth” of the prohibition department, declared today. The desire for fur coats and expensive clothes is spurring women who lack morals into the liquor business”, he said. “Women are rpore successful in dodging dry slueths that men are.” Green intimated that there 'are a number o( women “leggens” in the

Grand Jury Convenes To Probe McPherson Case Loi Angeles, Cui July 8. —(United Press) The Los Angeles county Grand jury convened in speciaal session today to hear Aimee Simple McPherson's story of her kindapplng and imprisonment tn Mexico. The Evangelist was the first witness called. Her testimony was expected to last throughout the day. She was to repeat iter story in detail, from the time she disappeared at the beach on May 18. until her sensational "return to life" in Agua Prieta, Mexico, June 23. GARROTE USED IN EXECUTION Murderer Is Strangled To Death In Cuba; Suffers Several Minutes Santiago De Cuba, July 8. (United Press) — Salvaito. e Agtfilera wa 14 strangled to death in the steel grip of Medieval Garrote today in punishment for the brutal murder of his aunt whom he killed to obtain her savings of s2oo. Aguiera was executed at 7:02 a. m.. after a 24-hour wait in the death cell for the time appointed for his end. Fiancisco de Paula Romero, a long term prisoner, stood behind the grusome machine and when Aguilera’s neck hail been fixed within the steel that was to contract and choke him, Romero turned the screws which tighten until breath no longer could pass into the lungs. Death is supposed ‘to be instantaneous and therefore painless when indicted by the Garrote, but it was not so with Aguilera. He was led to the machine blindfolded, although he had requested to be permitted to die with his eyes tin(CONTIXLEU ON PAGE TWO) WORK EXHIBITED BY AGED SMITHY R. B. Johnson, Peterson Blacksmith, Has Two Displays At Democrat Office R. B. Johnson, 86. of Peterson, visited the Daily Democrat office today and left for exhibit, two samples of his work in iron. Mr. Johnson has been a blacksmith for 72 years and is still active in making letter plaques and other designs, lx r:' .v---iron. One display brought to this office was a quotation, while the other was a design with letterings on it. Botli pieces show much workmanship and Mr. Johnson’s many friends are proud of him and his work. He is the oldest blacksmith in the county, still active in work. Mr. Johnson was born in Germany in 1.840. and. when very young he began learning tlie blacksmith trade. For several years he acted as an apprentice on a ship and made several trips to Greenland. He came to America in 1867 and a few years later he came to Adams county, where he has since resided. While not active in horse-shoeing, Mr. Johnson still does ornamental work, such as he has on exhibit, and stated that visitors to his shop in Peterson would be welcome.

, capital who cater to “cocktail trade" I among debs and sub-debs. In this connection, it was learned, ' a pretty woman came there looking for government job two months ago, ! was unsuccessful, turned bootlegger ' and since has sold 70 gallons of home Maryland rye whiskey at a profit of about 11,000. Green was unable to give figures but estimated the total number of female liquor seller "up in the thousands”. Florida claims 500 women bootleggers in that state alone, according to a recent statement by the State dry i: directors.

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VICTIMS'BODIES EXPECTED TO DE REMOVED TONIGHT Workmen Near Bodies OI Crew Os Submarine Wrecked 9 Months Ago DELAYS ENCOUNTERED IN WORK AT DRY DOCK Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y„ July 8. — (United Press.) —A cluttered tangle of ungainly black pantoons floated on the sluggish water of No. 4, the world’s largest drydock, today. As pumps slowly removed the water from the basin a Cobra s head of rusted iron appeared, the reddish crumbling hood of a periscope, rising foot by foot above the sinking , pool. Below it lay the flooded compartments of the salvaged submarine S-51 with its crew of hero dead, still locked in their steel sheathed tomb. And from a staff lashed to the periscope tlie stars and stripes, half masted, hung over the submerged hull of the death ship. Difficulty was encountered after the ship was on the drydock and finally Admiral Plunkett, in command at the Navy Yard, said he thought it might be evening before the hull coul.l actually be entered. First the ship was found to be slfghtly off center as it rested on its blocks. When an attempt to straighten it was made, the tackle gav e way, causing additional delay. It was considered possible that it might be , nwHasary to refill the dock and float the ship once more in order to straighten it so as to permit work to proceed. When away is beaten into the inner compartments hospital orde.lie* will enter, to search through brine crusted littered compartments for the bodies of the men who died on the ocean floor when the vessel war sunk off Block Island nine months ago. "The wireless operator was still at his switch. He was seen by a diver through a hole '1 he diver found it impossible to get into the radio room. "Similar conditions were found in tiie engine room; where bodies were seen at the posts. Two men were seen lying near the valve, indicating that they were trying to shut it off." Another delay was encountered soon after - o'clock when a 2'a inch steel wire strap holding the submarine snapped and the S-51 rolled over onits (COXTIXI EH OX PAGE SEVEN! MR. COOLIDGE GOES FISHING President Is Elated Over Snaring Os Three-Pound Pickerel On Troll Line By John Montgomery (United Press Staff Correspondi-iit > Paul Smith's N. Y„ July 8. United Press) —Catching one fish may mean nothing to a great many people, but it means a lot to the president ol the United States. Whether President Coolidge Will break through hi* usual silent reserve to brag about his catrh las night to friends is a matter of great discussion about white pine camp, the summer White House. For Mr. Coolidge has never seemed so elated over a masterful political victory as he seems over the snaring of a three pound pickerel on a tro'l line. After taking the unlucky fish for dinner, the President rushed out ot his cabin to try his luck agaid. Hut it was to no avail, despite a fishing trip which lasted far into the night. Those about the President are predicting considerable fishing this summer. It 's not often, those c’uee t■> the President point ent, that Mr. C olldge > finds a recreation which lie enjoys. And the President is as excited as a school boy over the catch last night.

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