Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1926 — Page 1

Sbow*rs and thunder,torms tonmht fol jo wed by mostly fair Saturday Cooler strong shifting winds this afternoon R ud tonight ■

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HORSES RUN mi: THREE FARMERS HURT Christian Selking And Son Henry Injured In Accident Here Today HENRY COYNE HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Christian Silking, «7, well-known farmer residing west of this city, and hi, son. Henry, had a narrow escape from erious injury this morning, when the horse they were driving to a buggy, became frightened at a bicycle and ran away.. The runaway secured on Nuttman avenue, b’lwrsn Ninth and Tenth streets, in this city ah nt 9.30 o'clo-k this morning. Both were badly bruised and scratched, but their injuries are not considered serious. The two men were on their way to thi> cry. g-iir g east on N'uttman avenue. when a boy on a bicycle came up behind them md rang the be’.l on his handle-bars. The noise of the bell frlgatened the horse and i* jumped to one side directly into the path of the bkyele. which struck the horse in the tide This frightened the horse more and it started to run. The harms? broke and the buggy turned over. The buggy was dragged several feet ■with the elder Mr. Silking beneath it before it was stopped. The elder Mr. Selking was injured worse than his son, and he was brought to the office of a local phy-«ii.->n where his injuries were dressed. Ijter he was removed to his home. No bones wer** broken. Henry Coyne Is Injured Henry Coyne, well-known farmer residing south of Decatur on state road 21, 1; recovering from injuries sustained last Tuesday evening, when a team of horses, hitched to a corn plow, ran away and dragged the plowover him. His injuries consisted of a scalp wound, a cut over one eye anad numerous smaller cuts and bruises. Mr Coyne and his two sons had been plowing corn and were taking their plow io the barn Tuesday evening one team was ahead of Mr. Coyne and one behind him. The sou who was driv- - 1,-, tu.ir, aiie id opened a gate and the three teams were driven through. Th. son who was driving the team in the rear stopped to close the gate (CONTIMED ON PAOK TWO) BEET CROP IS FAR ADVANCED Work Os Thinning Sugar Beets About Completed; 7,000 Acres Planted The sugar beet crop in the territory of the local factory of the Holland St. Louis Sugar company is several days in advance of last season's <Top, E. j Fricke, field superintendent for the company, said last night. The work of thinning the beets is Practically completed, Mr. Fricke said, and the beets are growing rapidly. Indications at present point to a bumper crop. Weather conditions, so far, have been ideal for the beets. The acreage of the local plant this year totals approximately 7,000 acres, •Mr Fricke said. About 2,000 acres of the crop are located in Adams county, alone. The acreage is about the same as that of last year. About 1.500 foreign laborers were brought into the territory of the local factory this spring. They were obtained in Tohftlo. Ohio. Ninety per cent of the laborers are Mexicans and about 95 per cent ar e experienced in the cultivation of sugar beets. About "0 per cent of the laborers shipped 111 this year were employed in the 'oeal field last year. Mr. Fricke stated that the company had the highest Haas labor this year that it has had for several years. A force of men is at work daily in foe factory here, overhauling the machinery and putting the plaif in shape for the annual campaign, which will °Pen sometime in October.

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Vol. XXIV. Number 161.

Mrs. Ella Parks Dies At Home In Fort Wayne Mrs. Ella Park-., 55, former resident of Willshire, Ohio, died at her home in Fort Wayne, nt 10 o'clo-k Thursday 1 morning, following an illness duo to complicate ns. Mrs. Parks was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Willshire, and of the Shiloh Chapter, Order of Easterr Star, at Fort Wayne. Survinvlng are one son. Earl Os Oblong, HI; three stepdaughters. Mrs. A. L. Summit and Mrs Guy Kile, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. W F. McCray, of Robinson, HI.; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church in Willshire at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon and burial will be made at that place — o OPERETTA CAST IS ANNOUNCED I More Than Forty Persons Have Parts in The > “Wishing Well" i The public is invited to attend the ' operetta. "Wishing Well", to he given 1 bv the St. Mary's Chorus choir of St • Mary's Catholic church, on Monday ( evening, July 12. The operetta, in three acts, is a romance of old Ireland and more than 40 persons will take part in the proj duction. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse is dii reding the cast, assisted by True Fristoe. well-known musician, who will i also furnish the music for the play. Special scenery am! lighting effects will he arranged on the stage ami the operetta promises to be one of real enteitainment. The curtain will rise at 8:15 o’clock. The cast is aa foiiowax . .. . • Twenee Fitgnatrick O'Grady of I 1 Hitchcock court, scion of a wealthy a , family. Paul Briede. Noreen, Lady Mary's niecF. who has lived with her aunt since her mother's death. Miss Patricia Fullenkamp. Lady .Mary Donne!, last of her line, ' the present owner of Falls Park Man-or.-Mrs. Joseph Laurent. j Squire Matthew Baxby. of Shereton Castle, the estate joining Falls Park r Manor., Robert Voglewede. Darby Duffy, an old servant at Falls Park Manor. Mark Braden Kathleen O'Mara, maid at Falls Park Manor, Miss Verena Nibli-k. Dan Tyron, groom at Falls Park Manor. Earl Christen. . Nora. Darby’s wife, servant at Falls Park Manor. Mrs. J. Q. Neptune. Maureen McGibney, a designing coquette from Dublin. Miss Winifred Kitson. Molly O'Tool, a friend and accomplice of Maureen’s. Miss Genevieve Berling. Felix Murphy, a tight-fisted money lending lawyer of Dublin, Arthur Wemhoff. Special dance numbers will be given between acts by Miss Margaret Niblick. Miss Patricia Fullenkamp and Miss Eileen Corbett, of Fort Wayne. One of the special features will be the fairy scene. Miss Virgine Smith will take the part of the fairy queen ' and fairies will be, Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp. and the Misses Catherine ' Omlor, Anna Murtaugh. Patricia Teep--1 le. Halen Holthouse, Charlotte Niblick, Rosemary Smith, Bernardine Christen. ' Another feature will be a -horus of • Irish Gentry, the cast being composed ■ of Mrs. Joseph H. Brennan, the Misses 1 Regina Murtaugh, Rose Vpglwede, ■ Frances Metzger. Germanine Christ- ’ en. Genevieve Kitson. Florence Holt--1 house, Mary Margaret Voglewede, Laurfne Teapie, Alice Clark, Ida Baker. Mildred Niblick and Messrs. Ber- * nard Myer, Jerome Omlor, Arthyr Voglewede, Jerome Bosse. Arthur Wemhoff and Mr. Bernard. This is the first theaterical produc--1 tion to be staged by the Chorus choir. Q ————— ' Temperature Slightly Lower In State Today Indianapolis, Ind., July 9. —(United Press)— Slightly lower temperatures greeted re''.dents of Indiana today following a light shower late yesterday. The rain brought temporary relief from the excessive heat of the past ten days.

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EXCURSION TO BE RUN AUG. 4 — Methodist Sunday School To Run Annual Excursion To Toledo Park Announcement was made today that the annual excursion to beautiful Walbridge Park, Toledo, Ohio, under the auspices of the Sunday school of the First Methodist church of this city, will be held on Wednesday, August 4. The excursion will be run over the Clover Leaf division of the Nickel Plate railroad system, leaving Decatur earlv In the morning and returning on tne evening of the same day. The fares for the excursion this year will be $1.50 per round trip tor adults and 75 cents for children. Many families plan picnics and reunions for the day of the excursion and take advantage of the low fare to Toledo and return. Walbridge Park js one of the most beautiful and interesting parks in this part of the country. o— Ben Turpin, Os Crossed Eyes Fame, Weds Again Los Angeles. Calif., July 9.-—(Unit ed Press.) —Ben Turpin of the crossed eyes and and recessive chin has waltzed to the altar with a new 37-year-old bride. She is Miss Babette Elizabeth Dietz, formerly of Bismarck. N. D„ marrying for the first time and boast ing that she knows nothing about the movies. For Ben it was his third matrimonial venture. MORE MEN JOIN NEW YORK STRIKE New Confusion Added To Situation By Strike Os Night Shift Motive Men New York, July 9. —(United Press.) —New confusion was added to New. York's transit s'rike today when a group of night shift motive men employed in power sub-stations met at Unity Hall and voted to strike at one a. m. tomorrow. The day shifts of these power men are tonight to take a strike vote and James F. Walsh, head of the motive local, predicted that they will also strike. Two hundred and forty-six men comprise the two shifts forming the local. If the strike threat is made effective, leaders maintained that it would result in a tieup of the I. R. T.. subway and “L” lines. the surface lines of the cty and the lues of the Brook-lyn-Manhattan Transit company entering Manhattan. The company said the situation will be met and service maintaned even if the threat were carried out. o Man Charged With Shameful Crime Ends His Life With Poison South Bend. Ind.—Julius Gander. 32, charged with an attempt of criminal assult on his brother’s wife, bedridden with tuberculosis died today in a hospital from self admisistered poison. (lander was intoxicated at the time of the attempted attack and the womans mother, Antoinette Millwork, filed the charges. Gander had worried over the case and it was believed that he preferred deatn to the scandal and notoriety connected with the girl’s sharges. o rTraffic Policeman Killed Indianapolis. Ind., July 9.—(United Press) —John Buchanan, traffic policeman. was shot and killed and Paul Shafer, who went to the Assistance of the officer, was seriously wounded today in attempting to capture an auto thief The thief, whose identity has not been established, was shot and gravely wounded by other officers after he had escaped on the running board of a passing auto in an effort to escape.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 9, 1926.

Under Fire Mayor W. Freeman Kendrick of Philadelphia was under fire because he authorized the opening of the Sesquicentennial Exposition on Sundays. The Presbyterian and other churches withdrew their support. PEACE OFFERS ARE DECLINED Indianapolis Street (ar Company Refuses To Negotiate With Strikers Indianapolis. Ind.. July 9. —(United Pressi—The Indianapolis street railway company today refused to consider entering negotiations with striking Union men who walked out last Monday in an effort to enforce their demands for higher wages. James Tretton, Superintendent, said those men who failed to heed the Company’s ultimatum must go back to work or lore their seniority hights would not now lie taken back under any circumstances. Strike leaders strove to keep their organization intact and claimed more men had joined the walkout. The Street Cab company management. however, claimed almost nor- ... , m.,)-,. than 3W I . me® JJaw.been employed by the company since the strike started. Renewed acts of violence marked the strike again last night. Dynamite caps exploded neneath the ear on North Illinois street, shattering all the windows. Several passengers were injured by broken glass. VETS TO HOLD REUNION HERE Spanish-American Veterans To Meet Sunday To Plan Regimental Reunion The Decatur post of United SpanishAmerican war veterans will hold a meeting Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, at Kitson’s barber shop in the north part of town, at which time plans for the annual Reunion of the 160th Indiana Regiment will be discussed. The reunion will be held in litis city on Monday. August 16. The place for holding the reunion has not been selected, but it likely will be held at the court house or Bellmont Bark. The reunion was held at Columbia City last year anil 152 veterans were present. The local veterans were members of Company B, and there are only about 20 of them left in this city. There are a few other veterans in the local post but they were members of other outfits. KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA maintains a state militia and a state motor police force, but no system of state police such as operates in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Courts have held the state motor police authority to be restricted to enforcing the automobile laws and the militia Is subject to the executive order for duty only in emergencies.

MAN SAYS HE SAW AIMEE KIDNAPPED Eye-Witness Os Purported Kidnapping Os Evangelist Is Discovered Los Angeles, July 9. — (United Press.) —An eye witness of the purported kidnapping of Almee Semple .McPherson was produced today by the evangelist. He is Harry C. Swift, who claims he satv Mrs. McPherson thrown into an automobile near the Venice bath house on the afternoon of May 18 and whisked away by two men and a woman. Swift's story may he told to the Los Angeles Yount y grand jury when it reconvenes next Tuesday. Agua Prieta, Mexico, July 9.—(United Press.) —Ernesto Doubion, president of this village, where Almee Semple McPherson. Los Angeles evangelist "came to life,” five weeks after her supposed drowning, released further alleged evidence today that the evangelist was seen here before her "official reappearance.” Gustav Cardinas, Mexican woodchopper, told Mayor Doubion and the United Press correspondent he saw the blue sedan in which Mrs. McPherson was alleged to have been seen here on the night of June 18, parked on the night of June 22, two miles west of Niggerhead mountain on the road leading to this city. It was on the following morning that the evangelist was found here and taken to the hospital at Douglas. Arizona, across the border. G. 0. P. RAISING CAMPAIGN FUND Committees Seek $400,000 To Fight Independents And Democrats By Paul R. Mallon (U. P. Staff Correspondent- ' $ congressional campaign committees set out today to raise $400,000 to fight independents and democrats in the fall congressional elections. Advances will life made from the fund to aid needy administration senators and representatives in the races to determine control of the congress with which President Coolidge will have to deal the last two years of his term. Betting is one to three in Washington now that the democrats will win the next senate and two to one that 'the upper house will at least be controlled by a democratic independent coalition. The situation in regard to the lower house Is less easily surmised. With the launching of the $4(10,000 aampaign by the republicans, the campagin committees of both parties are swinging into action. Only about $25,000 has hen raised by democrats, but more is expected to be forthcoming in contributions shortly. The democrats will not need much money for the primaries, hut intend to center their operations on the November elections when the inter-party tickets clash. — o — Durkin Case Expected To Reach Jury Late Today Chicago, July 9.— (United Press.) — The case of Martin Durkin, who is described by the state as the “coldblooded murderer” of Federal Agent Sbad&han, and by the defense as a "good citizen who shot in «e|f defense” when he thought he was being robbed, today was expected to be in the hands of the jury before night. Defense Attorney Eugene McGerry Intended to finish his impassioned plea for Durkin by noon. The state will then close, leaving Durkin’s fate with the 12 men who will decide whether he shall be freed—or hanged.

Phi) Sauer Gets Two Road Contracts Here Phi! Sauer received the contracts for the construction of the Scheumann road in Preble township anil the Henry Breiner. road in Kirk and township. Mr. Saner was the low bidder on th“se two roads, the contract price on the Schuemann road being $5,745.00 and $7,342.00 on the Breiner. Arnold and Bcibrick received the contract on the Bowen roud in St. Marys township, the contract price being $4994. The county commissioners awarded the contract for furnishing groceries salt and tobacco at the coun'y Infirmary. The Koehler company was awardtd the contract for furnishing dry goods supplies at the Infirmary. 0 RABBI SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS “Fellowship of Man” Is Subject Os Talk Given By Rabbi Markowitz Rabbi Markowitz, of the Fort Wayne Temple, was the principal speaker at the regular weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club last night, giving one of the finest talks ever heard in this city. Rabbi Markowitz spoke on the "Fellowship of Man." telling of the many things in common that all people of the earth, regardless of creed or color, have. “All people are brought into the world in exactly the same manner,” the Rabbi said," and all people leave the same way. Every one looks upon life and religion from a different angle, but regardless of this we are all sons of the same God. "We are all neighbors. The land of an Adams county farmer reaches down to the center of the earth, and the land of a Chinaman reaches from the other side of the earth to the same point. We are neighbors to Chinese and all other persons in the world. "Tiie greatest commandment is “Thou Shalt Thy Neighbor.” Ts this is true, and it is accepted at the truth, then should love every human being and the brotherhood of man should be one great family.” The Rabbi held his audience almost spel’-bound for more 'han an hour. ( j le Epistles of John, which said. “A Perfect Love Driveth Away Fear.” Rotarian E. A. Krane. president of the Fort Wayne club, also said a few words at the opening of the meeting. asking the Decatur club to assist them in making the district meeting at Fort Wayne the best, one ever held. The local club pkdged its whole-heart-ed support to the meeting. Rotarians Ralph Clark and .Max Krauss, of Fort Wayne and William McPherson, of Bluffton, also were present at the meeting. o Mehlhorn Hard Pressed In Golf Tourney Today Scioto country club. Columbus. 0., July 9. — (United Press)—Fighting to retain the lead which lie established over the field in the National open championship by a brilliant 68 on the first day. Wild Hill Mehlhorn. of the Old Colony Club, Chicago, went out in 36, even par. today. The Chicago pro was not as accurate, nor as lu.-ky, as on Thursday morning, but with the knowledge that several of the other leaders were pressing him closely, he fought every minute and reached the turn in even fours. Mehlhorn had a lot of trouble on the last nine, however, and finished with a 75. A total of 143 for the two days. The Chicagoan was disgusted with today’s performance but still is cer tain to be one of the low scorers. His 143 is one -stroke under par i for the 36 holes played. »■ o — Brothers, Married To Sisters, Are Defendants In Suits For Divorce , South Bend, Ind., July 9.—(United Press.) —Two brothers married to two , sisters were defendants today in I divorce suits here. , The husbands, Herbert Foster and > Harold Foster, are charged in the j complaints of their sister-wives, Alice and Portia, with cruelty.

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ELEVEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED FROM SUBMARINE Identification Os Remains Is Difficult Due To Decomposition OTHER SHIP BLAMED FOR THE DISASTER Brooklyn N. Y. July 9, — (By United Press)—One by one the S-51 gave up her dead Slickered and booted inemj bers of the S-50, ollicial ship .of the Cossin craft moved j through the interior of the di v (lock submarine and at 3:35 had sent up 11 bodies. Navy Yard. Brooklyn, N. Y., July 9. — (United Press.) — The submarine S-51 today began to give up its dead. Soon after noon a slow moving morgue wagon, a marine guard seated beside the driver and a motorcycle policeman preceeding, drew up to the naval hospital morgue here 'ami from it was carried the first body recovered from the interior of the wrecked submersible. There was no announcement of identifications, if any had been made. The second body was brought out shortly before 1 o'clock. It was carried in the same wagon with the same escort. The third body was brought to the morgue at 1 p. m. The fourth and fifth bodies were brought to the morgue at 1:30 p. m. The sixth body was removed and taken to the morgue shortly before 2 p. m. One of the bodies renfcived from the submarine was identified as that of Lieut. Frederick D. Foster, of Nutley. N. J. Hospital authorities announced that the first body was in fairly good condition and that it might be possible to identify it by finger prints but the second ami third bodies were badly decomposed. The first body was believed to have come from the engine room, hut no attempts, to identify it were made by the morgue authorities who may wait until al! the bodies have been recovered before seeking Io determine the (contiNTed ON !’IGE TWO> 0 RAIN FAILS TO HALT HEAT WAVE Farmers Os Adams County Are Busy Making Hay And Cutting Wheat Rain yesterday afternoon and late last night failed to have much effect on the local temperature and this morning brought indications of another heat record for the year. Threatening clouds all morning today and several small showers brought a slight breeze, hue the temperature «t4ll held high at noon. Forecasts are to the effect that cooler weather is in store for Adams county and the forecast also calls for additional rain today and tonight with Saturday mostly fair. Farmers have been taking advantage of the weather the past few days. Corn crops are said to be in good condition, with littli disease marring the prospects of a good crop. The corn has grown considerably the last several days and tanners say that ft will be about as high in a week or , ten days as it was a year ago. Hay-making and cutting of wheat have been in progress iti the county the last two days. The first wheat was cut on farms between Decatur and Monroe with farmers in the north part of the county following suit. I Little home grown fruit has been i placed on local markets yet due to i the late spring, but indications are that fruit will be plentiful. Dust has I been settled by the recent rains, and s many persons are making efforts to > keep cool in the evening by motoring through the country.

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