Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1926 — Page 5

yxLefif { IS CLUB CALENDER Saturday M s Chas Hrothers' SeotNl of IJ.H. liuiirK A ill PMtry Sate—Bchmkt'» Meat Market. Tuoaday ,vi lota XI Mis* Margaret Zwlck, ‘ V i,ilea - Aid Society ot Calvary K. V. Church, Ice Cream socla'.—Chuch. f *■*"■■* The St. Marys Chorus Choir will entertain the cast of the Wishing Well j their husbands and friends, at a pic-1 nic supper Sunday evening at Sunset Park. I Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst entertained last evening In honor of Mr.l , m l Mrs. Will Hurst and daughter. I „ e l en , of Roek Island. Illinois. Dur Ing the owning, refreshments of ice-' rr eam and wafers were served. The guests besides the guests of honor, included Mr. and Mrs Uoe Conklin of Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bie. 1 borich. of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. I Frank Winans, Mr. and Mrs. Hew Hammond. Mrs. Amanda. Moats, Mr. and Mrs. Jam.- McCullough and child-, ren. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Niblick and daughter. Miss Conklin, Mr. and Mrs. t Anms Fisher, Ed Hurst, Mr. and Mrs ! jess Hurst and children. Vernon, Carl.' Mary and Ralph, and Grace Hurst. , Miss Leosatta Worth man enter-' tained last evening in honor of Miss Ella Wortbman, bride-elect ot July 22. The entertaining rooms were decorated with flowers and colors of pink and white. The honored guest was showered with many gifts. The long tait'c in the dining room was placed under an arohwny of green and a minglare bride - nd groom was used as a centerpiece. The gifts were placed | around the centerpiece. Games and music were enjoyed after which refreshments were -served.. The guests | mentlters of the Missionary Guild, of the MaKley Rpformpd church. A set of amber goblets was presented ; Miss Wjrthntan as a gift from the I Guild. v | The social which was to have been I held tit the Calvary Evangelical Church Tuesday evening has |heen postponed on account of*ut eptflem- 1 ie of the measles in that community. Tuesday— Calvary E. V. Social- Postponed. Mrs. Mary Waldo, of Dunkirk, Frank Arnold, of- Pennvllle, were quietly married recently. The bride is well known in Geneva and vicinity. -he being the widow of the late Rev Waldo. The Waldo family resided in Geneva some fourteen or fifteen years ago, at which time they were in charge of the Geneva Uy B. punish. The groom is a retired former and he and his wife will make their future home In ’ennvllle. Mr. nd Mrs. Russel Owen left last* night for Colorado where they will' spend two weeks. They will visit in St. Louis, Colorado Springs and many other places of interest. Mrs. H. Belling and daughter, Genevieve, Mrs. Carrie Ehinger and dauglic ". Jeanette, will leave tomorrow sor 1 Ken du la . Wisconsin, where they will visit for several davs. | What you don't know won't hurt, you it's often what you kin tell that shortens your d*iys. Now then, if that Angelus Temple radio operator kin Play th’ trombone th' solution o' th' Amy Semple McPherhon kidnappin’ mystery ought t' he solved by this time t'morrow. | Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. Mr. and Mrs. John Wagoner, of N't;i'th Frlat street, motored to Peru today to be the guests of Mr. Wagoner's son, Willianj Secaur and family: Zoma Morewn, of Newark, N. J.. "as a guest at the home of her uncle. George Uhriek, at Monroe, last evening. Mrs. Moreno and sister, Mrs. William Schegel, and Mrs. Mike Mucous are enjoying an extended motor trip through the state. E. W. Johnson has gone to Gary to visit with his brothers, C. L. and Ross Johnson, and attend to business matters. , Mrs. Charles Holthouse came front Fort Wayne this afternoon, lor a few hour's visit. She is with Mrs. Minnie Holthouse, who is a patien* at the St. 1 Joseph hospital. j Membei chips in the Benjamin Franklin highway association were coming in today and the two hundred mark will -be reached tonight, it is '• bought. , , Help the junior band boys out by attending the big roreo show tonight. c - C. Schafer and daughter. Miss

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| Gretchen have returned from a visit I in Chicago. Mrs. John s -hug is home from two | weeks at Rochester. Minnesota. Frank Weehter of Herne called on friends here last evening. One dollar bring-i you a membership card in the Benjamin Franklin lli;;h---way association. Send it to A. It. Ho:thouse, secretary or \V. A. bower, pres- 1 i ident. The Gatewood rodeo company which i has lieen here two weeks planning for j their tour and getting their program j lined up will show at Funk's speedway ni“'t Winchester a week from today. They also have dates at Fort Wayne. | Ann Arbor and other cities. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Wehmeyer mot- , ored to Chicago to spend .several days 1 visiting. Mr. Wehmeyer will also look after business interests for the Schafer "(Rnpany while there. ’ Mr. John Schmitz and daughter. Anna, of Dayton, Ohio, arrived today to -pend two weeks with the Frank Schmitz family and attend the wedding v of Miss Constance Schmitz ard Mr.' ' David H; antes, which will be solelyinized at St. Mary's church Tues- ! day aiotning. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Frame, and son, cf Fort Wayne, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Hell last evening Miss Dora Marie Magley has arrived home from Winona Lake, where she has boon attending normal school. Miss Kathryn Dorwin, student at Muncle Normai school, will spend the week and with her mother, Mrs. Maude Dorwin. C. D. Teeple will So to Rome City 5 4.0. spend a we<*k with his | mil;. w< Mrs. P. J. Mougey and son. Admit I have returned to their home at Toledo, Ohia, after spending several days here j with relatives. Harry Sutton, of Fart Wayne, is spending the week-end here with parents Judge and Mrs. J. C'. Sutton. J Mrs. Luella Hubley and Miss Esther Archbold will go to Chicago tonight to spend eeyeral days with relatives. Joe Anderson and Laverne Beitler, both of Geneva, underwent tosil operations at the Adams County Memorial Hospital yestrday, and are recovering nicely. o Confusion Abounds As Radio Stations Pick | Their Own Wave-lengths New York, July 17. — (United Press) Threats of Injunctions were made by several broadcasting stations today because of the confusion caused by several stations in- this area which have changed their wave lengths with the end of government control over radio. With the failure of congress to pans control legislation at the last session, the justice department made a ruling which left commerce secretary Hoover without jurisdiction over radio stations. Six stations in ‘this area, which had been confined to low- ' v.ave lengths, have increased their range into the already crowded higher lengths. I -o . —. Bell Telephone Company’s Assessment Reduced Greatly ndianapolis, Ind., July 17 —(United ■ Press) —A reduction of nearly $3,000,- 1 000 in the assessment of the Indiana ■ Bell Telephone company for this year was ordered today by# the state i tax board. 1

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'CITIZENS AFRAID TO TALK SINCE EDITOR’S MURDER — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Canton politics. Whether the Canton police have had any direct agreements with the ' underworld or not is a question yet to he proved hut officials whose lips are sealed publicly by fear of such bloody reprisals as that of Thursday | night, in private express the opinion that public confidence has been lost , anti the police have no place hi the investigation. — Canton. July 17.— (United Press)—! Don R .Mellelt, the crusading publish- j er of tHe Canton News, who was as- 1 sisinated yesterday, was threatened by j a notorious Canton dijekeeper on v a | few days bofoiohe trai shot to death. It was reveaied today. The threat was made over the tele- I phone, according to H. W. Minor, managing editor of the News, and Lloyd Mellett, th slain man's brother. “I'm going to get you Me'.lett, a voice toid the publisher. “No you won't because I’ll get you first, “Mellett responded. The dive keeper in question is known to authorities and. according! to county prosecutor C. B. C’intock.l it' developments warrant he will b arrested. Brief funeral services were held at noon today at the .Jellett home. The Rev. Bertrand Brundage. pastor of th- 1 Presbyterian church which Mellett at-' tended, officiated } • V.:. • t! t’ a;;-! press men were present. By Kenneth G. Crawford ( U. P. Staff Correspondent) Canton, ()., July 17. —The task of reforming Jltis Ohio city, attempted by Don R. Mellett, publisher of the' Canton Daily News, may be aefcomplished by his death. The young publisher's aggressive anti-vice campaign was abruptly terminated yesterday by assassin's guns. He wag ambushed in the back yard 1 of his home by unidentified gunmen and died almost instantly from a bullet wound in the head. To Return Body To Indiana. t_ Simple funeral rites will be conducted here today and the body sent to Indianapolis. The state of Indiana j was the original home of tiie Mel lett.s a famous newspaper family. Burial will be at Indianapolis. Meanwhile state, County and local authorities were conducting what 1 probably is the most energetic man- ' hunt ever known in the state to cap < tuie the murderers. An sll,lOO ac-j ward fund, which will be fncroaaed ' to $50,000, backs their efforts. | i The theory that paid gunmen from 1 another city killed Mellett was re- 1 garded as most tenable by officers. 1 Canton's underworld hud reason to hate the fearless reformer, and suf- ( ficienf Connections with 1 neighboring cities to secure the services of killers, they pointed out. Although Canton's bad lands are 1 said to run to locally manufacured, * moonshine liquor, it is considered iikely there is or has been some I foreign traffic in narcotics, beer and alcohol which would tend to establish connection in Chicago. Pittsburgh and elsewhere. I Developments of the investigation f into reports that a large automobile, r bearing a Pennsylvania license, was d I

I often seen on the street near the i I t I Mellet iionte, tne day before the 1 murder, were nor revealed. Local authorities have adopted a policy of keeping their activities sec ret. Cooperation of state and possi bly federal officers in the search for Mellett's slayers ntay carry into an investigation of conditions which made such a crime possible. Funeral On Monday. Indianapolis, Ind., July 17.— (United Press. I —Funeral set vices will be held here Monday for Don Mellett, 1 slain publisher of the Canton, 0.. News, it was announced today. The body will be returned tonight Ito Indianapolis the former home of - Mellett. and the services will be at I the residence of Roland Mellett. a I brother. CALL WITNESSES IN ILLINOIS PROBE Subpoenas Issued For Eight Persons To Appear For Investigation July 26 Chicago, July 17. —(United Press.) -Subpoenas for eight witnesses to appear before the senate campaign expenditures* committee when sessions are re-opened lfere July 26 arrived today. The subpoenas were delivered by mail to U. S. District Attorney Ed- - ance of the following persons: Col. Frank L. Smith, successful candidate in the republican senatorial ptimary; George E. Brennan, democratic choice for the senate; Charles V. Barrett, republican member of the board of review and associated with the Crow-Parett faction of the republican party; Robert E. Crowe, states attorney; Samuel Instill, multimillionaire, utility magnate; Roy O. West, state republican committee man; Edwin H. Wright, former head of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and Wm. Hale Thompson, former republican mayor of Chicago. To Make Effort To Aid Georgia Banks Alant.u, Gu.. July 17 —(United Prcr-t —Every effort to assist small Georgia slate banks to adjust their finances will be made over the week-end to pt event additional failures, State banking department officials announced toda/T t 'Despite optimistic statements cf bankers throughout the state that the peak of the failures had been reached and that the financial situation would be tfßrmal In a few days, seventeen more institutions closed yesterday. This btings the number of hanks in Georgia and Florida which have been forced to suspend since the collapse Monday of the Banker's Tiust company. financial agent of the smaller institutions to eighty four, officials of the banking department said. —— —e——1 Financial Conditions Oi Farmer improving Washington .July 17 —(United Press)—Financial conditions of; the farmers are improving slowly, the department of t agriculture reported today.

Shoot To Kill Order Macon, Ga., July 17.-(United Press) ] —“Shoot to kill if a mob tries to get I him " was the instruction of Sheriff |j. R- Hicks today to deputies guardJ ing Ed Glover, negro, confessed slayMiss Hilda Smith and her fiance, E. W. Wilson. Glover, captured last -night, admitted he killed the couple in their parked automobile and hid their bodies in a swamp.

m Where C^otidge Keeps Cool UP on the wooded slopes of the Adirondacks during the long, hot days of July, the President of the United . States has established his Summer “ White House ”, The famous Kirkwood estate with its sylvan seclusion has been invaded by secret service men, servants, clerk 3, stenographers, visitors —and reporters. Telegraph wires thread through the ancient trees and the click of the sounder vies with the woodpecker’s r-r-r-r-r-rat-a-tat -tat. With the President is J. H. Montgomery, UNITED PRESS re- . pc/ter of the Washington Bureau who each day files the news story from the Coolidge summer home, which you read in this newspaper. - ! v ' Os the major news-gathering organizations, th# UNITED PRESS is one of the largest. Actually the UNITED PRESS is a great international importing and exporting business, in which facts are the cargo and radio, telegraph wires and cables are the carriers. v The UNITED PRESS directly serves newspapers in thirty-six ■" nations and operates more than 85,000 mites of leased wires on the North American continent alone. Th* newspaper which prints news“BY UNITED PRESS 'is always a dinunguished newspaper. s . 1 SL; Decatur Daily Democrat » » *

Sanitary Conditions In Tourist Camps Criticised Indianapolis, Ind., July 17.—(Unit- ! cd Press} —The stale board of health today directed Dr. William F. King, secretary, to order eight tourists i camps in the state to Improve sauitnry > conditions, or close up. The action was taken followli,, a report of Dr. Louts Finch, inspector for the health board, that conditions at the camps "wore persistently unsatisfactory on two or more visits.” Dr. Finch reported that the garbage and sewage disposal faclli:le« were unsatisfactory and at some of the camps the water supply was not good. He reoommended immediate closing of the camps as a sanitary measure, but the board decided to give the camp nmuugements time to improve conditions. The following were affected: An-

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del-son, Biuffton, Marlon, Knight slows New Harmony and Winchester. • — "O —— - Senator Borah To Make Extensive Speaking Tour Washington. July 17 —Senator William K. Borah, prominently mentioned lU2B republican presidential nominee, in a few days will begin a coast, (o-coast campaign tour that bears an ominous political report. World Court and prohibition will he the chief subject* of discussion, and since these two issues are uppermost in important pending primaries and congressional elections, Borah's tour will be closely watched by political leaders In both parties here. , NOTICE Pleßse return the books loaned to us by the public library for our Missionary reading club contest, to Mrs. Daniels or Mrs. Charles.

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