Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1926 — Page 6

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♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * «A»t BALL STANDINGS * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ National League W L Pct. Pittsburgh 53 38 .582 Cincinnati 65 <3 .581 St. Louis 51 43 .543 Chicago 50 45 .528 Brooklyn 48 48 .505 New York 48 47 .445 Philadelphia 38 55 .396 Boston 37 57 .394 American League W L Pct. New York 62 34 .646 Cleveland .... 53 44 .546 Philadelphia 51 44 .537 Detroit 51 47 .520 Washington 47 45 .511 Chicago 48 48 .506 Se. Louis 41 55 .427 Heston 29 67 .302 American Association W L Pet. Imuisville 64 35 .646 .Milwaukee 63 35 .643 Indianapolis 62 38 .620 Toledo 49 46 .516 Kansas City 50 51 .496 Minneapolis 43 55 .439 St. Paul 44 57 .436 Columbus 21 78 .212 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis. 9; Philadelphia, 5. Pittsburgh, 4; New York, 3. Boston. 1; Chicago, o. Brooklyn. 6-0, Cincinnati, 3-2. American League New York. 6; St. Louis. 5. Washington. 7; Chicago, 2. Boston. 7; Detroit, 0. Philadelphia-Cleveland, rain. American Association Indianapolis, 8; St. Paul. 5. Others postponed, rain. y ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ Yesterday's hero — Slim Harnss, Boston Red Sox pitcher who shut out 1 Ty Cobb's Detroit team. 7-0 and allowed but fiv e well scattered hits. St. Louis' Cardinals hit the ball high, wide and handsome, backing up the veteran Grover C. Alexander's pitching to drub the Phillies, 9 to 5. Brooklyn split a double bill with the Cincinnati Reds. The Robins with Bub McGraw pitching won the first, 6 to 3. Cincinnati with Carl , Mays on the mound wou the second, 2 to 0. A single run in the ninth inning on , a left field drive by Andy High gave ( the Boston Braves a win over Chi ( cago's Cubs. Score 1 to 0. Pittsburgh Buccaneers, putting over the winning run in th,, ninth over the Giants, 4 to 3. ( Walter Johnson, veteran Senator, defeated Tommy Thomas, rookie , pitcher of the Chicago White Sox 7I • ' In a home run orgy Babe Ruth ( • marked out his 31st circuit drive of ( the season, his team-mate Combs smote another, and the Yankees won ( from the St. Louis Browns, 6 to 5. Despite and McManus of the Browns who likewise lined the ball over the fence. o . — EVANS WOOLLEN TO VISIT COUNTY <CONTIMI!Kn PHOM rtGEOTO eral of the state candidates, including Jap Jones, democratic candidate for treasurer of the state. Detlnite plans for the trip in tills county August 11 will be announced later. The actual campaign will not start for several weeks, it was announced today, and plans are under way at present to get several speakers of national repute to Adams county this fail. o— Dutch East Indies Shaken By Quakes Amsterdam. July 27. — (United Press.) —Dispatc/ies received here today reported an earthquake in Padang. Dutch East Indies, Tuesday night. The islands experienced severe earthquakes about a mouth ago in which the loss of life and damage to property weer large. o Tidal Waves Wipe Out Three Villages, Report Tokyo. July 28—-( United Press) — Dispatches from South Korea state that tidal waves have wiped out three villages there. Two hundred and -lx casualties are reported. 71 persons are missing and 150 houses have betn destroyed, the disjtrtehes state.

* Fort Wayne Youth Trails In Junior Golf Tourney Culver, Ind, July 28. — (United Press.) —■ Ed Flanigan, youthful golf star from Crawfordsville. was two up I on Tony Druggeman, of Fort Wayne, at eighteen holes in the finals of the ! state Junor golf tourney today. , Flangan's card was 73 and that of Bruggeman was 75. The Fort Wayne contender led in the early stages of the championship fight and at nine holes was one up on Flanigan but on the way in Flan Igan strengthened. Norwegian Swimmer Attempts Channel Swim Cape Gris Nez, France. July ■ (United Press) Olav Forstad, a Norweegian swimmer, began an attempt to -wim the Eng ish Channel today a m at mid day was thre" miles off shore The attempt was favored by fine weather. ■ - -o 1 -— Would-be Sheriff Is Held For Chicken Theft ie>ganei>ort, Ind.. July 28. (Unltet' Press) Wi liam McDonald, candidatt for the nomination for sheriff in tin spring primaries, and Carl Warlike proprietor of a soft dring parlor, to day faced charges of chicken stealing A signed confession of Frank Tam wounded in a raid on a farmer's hen house, implicated them. HURRICANE IS STILL RAGING (CONTINUED FROM PAUK ONE) north as New York it was said. Washington, July 28. — (United Pless.l Forty yachts off the southern Florida coast, near Fort Lauderdale, were sunk in the tropical hurricane, voast guard headquarters reports said today. AiY coast guard ships weathered the storm and are aiding storm stricken vessels. Lieutenant Commander Steph en Yeandle said. / Jacksonville, Fla., July 28. —(Unit ed Press)—After causing damage of at least 11.500.004) to eastern Florida wrecking scores of small boats, dis aiding at least one ocean-going freigh ter and taking an unknown toll it the Bahama islands, the tropical hurri cane which has flaided the soutl Atlantic since Sunday was creeping upon Jacksonville this morning. While the hurricane area crawled north noithwestward at a snal's pace winds within the area whipped and tore and slashed a 7<» to 100 mile an hour tate, tearing down trees, crippl ing telephone and telegraph service, unroofing houses and battering dangerously such shipping as remains upon the sea off the Florida '-oast. Fate of the Ita'ian steamer Ansaldi San Diorio Secuadi. was still in doubt eKMi "|<*»| o* crew of 30 o.i Iroaid, drifted rudder less before the storm all day yesteiday while two other ships stood by. Last night, as the storm increas"'" the rescue ships lost sight of the dis abled vessel, but whether it sank oi was blown farther out to sea is not yet known. A coast guard cutter it hunting for it. o “Shame Death” Trial To Be Finished Today Tijuana, Mex.. July 28—(United Press) — The Peteet "shame death" trial will be completed some time to day, federal judge S. Uris announced when court convened this morning in the cases against four Mexicans, charged with attacking Audrey and Clyde Peteet. • “We will complete the trial today if we have to remain in session until midnight, the judge stated. The alleged attacks upon the two girls were held responsible for the suicides of Thomas Peteet his wife and daughters by a coroner's jury which investigated the case in San Diego last February. o Keyes To Issue Report On McPherson Investigation Los Angeles, July 28. —(United Press) —District attorney Asa Keyes announced today that he would make public, probably late today, a complete report of the Aimee Simple McPherson case. "I am going to inform the public n a full statement just what our office has discovered' in this investigation. Keys said. HILLSBORO— A pitchfork caught in the wheel of a threshing machine and was jabbed into the side of Virgil Mighty, a member of the threshing crew. He was badly injured.

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Children blow soap bubbles and as they float away their eyes are so entranced by the colorful lights in the bubble that they start with disappointment when the bubble bursts Men are not much different. The gorgeous rainbow promises of wealth tn a financial bubble w ill some times cause | the most conservative to lose his sense of values, until the bubble bursts and then comes dlsillusionihent Just often enough to keep the mind in doubt, the vision in The Bubble becomes a reality. The question in the three-act comedy presented on the first night of the Chautauqua la. Does the old German delicatessen keeper. Gustav Mueller.

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Seek Lesser Lights Os “Poison Liquor” (Jang Buffalo, N. Y.. July 28—(United Press) —Facing a first degree murder charge. James Voelker. 30, reputed leader of the Niagara frontier “poison liquor gang, was reported today ready to make a full confession, naming “higher ups,, in the alcohol traffic. Meanwhile, federal agents and pol ice struck hard in an effort to round up lesser lights in the illicit trade. Six men were arrested, including Carl Voelker, father of James. Although prohibition advn|str;| or Roberts said he had positive information that a gang of gunmen has been imported from Detroit to "take care of those they fear will squeal," Voelker. the central figure in the various investigations intothe deaths of 37 persons, is immune from attack because he is locked up in Erie county i jail. o Durkin To Appeal 35-Year Sentence Chicago, July 28—(United Press) ' — Attorneys today were preparing to ‘ile an appeal to thelllimds supreme court following the sentencing of

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see a bubble, or is he keen enough to see reality where persons of less experience see the bubble? The eccentricities of Gustav am) his wife Amelia, the romance of their daughter Rosie, and her young lover Dick, will Interest and entertain you from the rise of the curtain on the first act to I the finale In the third act. It is a play that Is full of action So rapidly does one funny situation follow I (mother that at the end of two hours, when the curtain falls, you can haAliy ' believe that It has been more than a few minutes. Only when you come to the realization that your sides are . sore from laughter are you convinced that you must have been laughing for the full two hours

| Maltin Durkin yesterday to 35 years in the penintentiary for the murder iof federal agent Edwin Shanahan. I I Before sentencing Durkin, judge Harry B Miller refused him a new trial. "The verdict was a just one and followed a fair and impartial trial", judge Miller said. The judge granted Durkin a 30 day stay of mil,‘timus. however, for time to file an 1 appeal to the higher court. I Durkin’s blackened eyes and bruised cheeks were evidence of an attack upon him by fellow prisoners in tlie Cook County jail after he was said io have made insulting remarks about their women friends. Uatricksburg, Indiana, Has Disastrous Fire Brazil. Ind.. July -o. — (United Press) —Only charred ruins marked the spot j where the business section of Patlicksburg. Indiana, had stood, follow--1 ing a fire which completely wiped out every store in the section. Damage estimated at SIOO,OOO was ■ caused by the blaze which is thought • to have stalled in a barn about midnight. Eleven business houses and three residences were destroyed

i SETTLE BEPIiiT 10 SEC. WHINE I Head Os Indiana Fann Bureau Reiterates Stand On Fess-Tincher Bill Indianapolis, July 38. " H Settli, president of the Indiana farm bureau federation today reiterated his charges I that "the brains which promoted the grain marketing corporation were the brains which promoted the Fess | Tincher legislation, at the last sens I ion of < ongr» 4 SM. i Settle's statement was made in a I letter to secretary of agriculture Jar ' dine, replying to a previous letter from Jatdine on the Issue of farm re lief. I in JardiiTe's letter a statement given by Settle near the close of < - otl 1 gress was assailed. ( "I have given your letter careful 1 consideration and conclude that the , greater part of it is a denial <>t , charges that to my knowledge were never brought against you that you certified incorrectly 'to the statue of the grain marketing corporation as a cooperative organization." Set He wrote. | "My statement did not refer io tile ' remotest way to that matter. 1 did 'say that the same people that con.'ceived the grain marketing corporation had also conceived the FessTincher bills and I might a<i3. ftossilily, without your knowledge. I “1 said further in my statement ' state Secretary Jardine ami Secretary ' Hoover would have to originate some--1 thing far more clever than thW be fore the American farmer would be deceived. | "1 have no apologies to make for this statement. 1 know of no deliberate efforts to discredit you as charged, but it occurs to me that you Jlsi.edited yourself when you broke faith with the western farm organizations." — ——o I Public Stile horses, cuttle, sheep, and hogs. Butler X Ahrs Stile Barn Decatur Ind.. Satur day .Inly 31 12:30 p. tn. Sunset I Dancing Pavilion Square Dance tonight. Thursday evening regu I a r dance, music hv Ludys orchestra. Dancing (.lass Friday evening. Saturday evening dancing will he featured by Fort Wayne Night Owl orchestra, starting aUL3O. 2t

A new beauty note in the Hupmobile Six. And performance that wins and holds the appro val of men who „. n flTtoufTno'ior H cars. Built to stand \l U Pl°w cost over a \ l° n £ Period of years ■I —to hold its own with ro mos t expensive HI SEI cars on the road, llihr- HUPMOBILE FWitaW ’MSS&SR-F 1 isl 1L» 355®* —SlroM, Ri,,d A’ Mh Gwolin. C.iu. I L—Oi.lt — Sp.<i.i Vibr^tl^ 1 n‘ v, • I,IJ Graaf. — Combuidj. Ch.u.b.rt D *®»* r — M.chuwd ft r- ootooly S.C.UM th.r ai. “•'•■in., but .In be..ua« B VsT H with your comT. J. Durkin rsx.

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