Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1926 — Page 1

WEATHER Mostly unsettled, probably showers or clider Friday In south and cantral portion*. z _____

TELLS OF VOTE BUYING IN PRIMARY

ten DEATHS AND SI 5,000,000 LOSS DUE TO HURRICANE Check Up Made As Tropical Hurricane On Southern Atlantic Coast Subsides FLORIDA COAST SUFFERS HEAVILY tßy United Press) As the tropical nurricane which has swept the Carribean' Sea and the southern Atlantic, coast of the United States for, nearly a week diminished to the proportions of a gale, a checkup of the territory it swept showed a known death toll of ten and property damage of more than $15,000,000. Kight persons are known to be dead in Nassau, Babuinas. where the storm took its heaviest toll Saturday night and Sunday, accord a radio message fiom the Munson liner Munamar. outside Nassau, harbor. Two linemen were killed in Miami repait ing wires wrecked by the storm. In addition, two sailors are reported to be dead aboard an unidentified British steamer displaying distress signals off Fisher's island, near Miami. The two-masted whale ha k steel batge "Dallas'* is reported adrift in the storm area witli a small crew aboard. No word lias been received from the oil tanker J. M. Huffy, which, however, is believed to be safe in some small port. Property damage done at Nassau by the storm is conservatively Aestinated at Damage- M the Florida const is put at 17,'iOd.Ofto to $1d,506.000. Reports brought' from Bimini by the yacht Zuleita 11, which reached Miami today after riding out the storm off Bimini, were that practically every bouse there had been destroyed, but not estimate of the amount of damage eouiu be made. British consular officials at Miami. Florida public utilities companies and the Vnited States coast guard prepared tlii.s afternoon to tush aid to the stricken Bahamas. At Nassau. according ' a report to the British vice consul at Miami, the entire pub'e»‘; Jacksohviile, Fia., "Savannan. Ga„ Charleston. S. C.. anil small towns along the coast between those cities have felt the effects of the diminish(CONTINIED ON PAGE SIX)

CHECK UP ACRES OF SUGAR BEETS Committee Remeasures Acres Entered In Contest By Boys And Girls A committee consisting of Win. L'nu representing the business men of the county, Amos Stoneburner. cf Ute Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company, and L. M. Buschc. county agent, begin the work Tuesday cf checking lite measurement of sugar beet acres belonging to club boys and girls. According to the rules of the cittb. the committee nuts' visit each member, re-measurg his o’ her acre and change the position sttkia, if necc-sary If the four stakes wi'h which the members now have their acres arc properly located,, no fliimge is read.-. D'lrlng the liy. seven boy* and three Kiris wore vls'led, as follows- Melvin Baumgartner, Florence Tinkham Sylvan Habegger, Mttlo Habeggar. George •'ioser, Curtis Wulliman. Simon M. S hwartz, Ell M. Schwartz, Hertha M. Schwartz, anil Loren t Rich. To show the necessity for re-mea-suring which is beiug done, it might he said that tn only one case were the stakes set exactly as they should he. in two instinct's, the acres were slightly larger than th.y should be. while in other cases more had to be added to the plots to make them, large enough for an acre. About fifteen plots remain to be '•fpproved.

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Vol. XXIV. Number 178.

Mother Gets Drunk; Four Children Placed In A Detention Home Indianapolis, Ind., July 29. (United Press) Four children of .Mrs. I .aura Stewart, ranging in age from seven months to six years, were taken to the detention home after the mother was charged with drunkenness. Officers raid the father is serving a sentence on the state penal farm. CAUGHTSPEEDING; LICENSE REVOKED License Os Decatur Young Man Revoked By Mayor Krick Last Night Ollie Werst, a young man of this city, appeared in police court last night and was arraitiged on a charge of speed Jig. Mayor Krick revoked Wetst's license temporarily, when he was found guilty. Police are continuing their drive against speeders and violators of other traffic ordinances. Si vera! lofal people hale been warned for reckless driving and arrests will continue it was announced. Abolishment Os Police Force At Warren, Ohio, Meets Opposition Warren. Ohio. July 29. — (Vnited I'nrst A temporary injunction was granted today in an effort to prevent this city of 40.000 pnpitlation abolishing its entire pellet department as an economy move. The injunction estrains Mayor Marshall and thiiteen city officials, including meialiecs of the city council from (Usi-harglng the chief of police and twenty men Saturday midnight. The suit claims the ordinance making this a policeless city was passed illegally. o

S. S. CONVENTION AT SALEM CHURCH Blue Creek Township Sunday Schools Meet For The Blue Creek township Sunday school convention will be held at the Salem M. E. church, next Sunday, August 1. Two sessi'ns will be held > one starting at 2 pin. other at 7:30 pm. The Rev E. P. White, pastor of the Bobo M. E. circuit, who has had wide experience in the evan gelistic field will deliver the principal address at each session. Rev. White will provide special iilHrumjental music also. Other music will be furnished by the different Sunday schools in the township, and several recitations and leadings will lie given. Following is the program for the convention. Afternoon Session Song . Audience Devotional Rev. F. A. Shipley Quartet Salem Class No. 1 Instrumental Music Rev. E. P. White Recitation Rosa Garwood Quartet Salem Class No. 2 Address Rev. E. P. White Song Union Class No. 3 Quartet Salem Class No. 7 Recitation Charite Myers Recitation Mabie Wblf ftemarks .. E. C. Bier Quartet Salem Class No. b Song Rev. and Mrs. White Offering and Benediction Evening Session Song Audience Devotional Rev. R. R. Risley Reading Grace Edwards Quartet Salem Class No. 3 Duet ..* Bernice and Minnie Fisher Address Rev E. P. White Quartet Salem Class No. 4 Recitation Opal Pickering Song — - Union Quartet Salem Class No. 5 Reading - Mrs. Tickle Song Mt. Hope Remarks Roy Ray Quartet Salem Class No. 6 Music Rev. White Offering and Benediction.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 29, 1926.

COMMITTEES AND DIRECTORS PLAN FOR CHAUTAUQUA Community Spirit Prevails At Meeting Held Here Last Night j COMMITTEES FOR YEAR APPOINTED Community spirit ruled the evening, at the meeting, last night at the Industrial rooms, of the board of directors and committees of the Decatur Chautauqua Association. President Haymond Hatting was host at a chicken dinner to the 25 Decatur citizens in charge of this year's Chautauqua, which will be held hire August 30 to September 4, in, iusive. President Harting outlined Ills plans and a resolution was passed to have all tickets for the big < vent distributed and the money In (he hands of the committee in charge before the piogram starts, August. 30. 1 ledges for the 1927 chatauqua also will he Taken before tlie program opens this year. The committees appointed for this year are as follows: Pub.icity: J. H. Heller, chairman, Frank Downs. A. R Holthouse, French Quinn and Dick Heller. Music:-~T)r. E’red Patterson, chairman R. D. Myers, Ix»o Kirsch, and ('. J. Lutz. Advertising: Wil'.l nn Linn, chairman. William O'Brien. Herman Myers. Lawrence Archbold, Harold Niblick. Charles Voglewede and Martin Mylott. Grounds and Ten : W. A. Ixswer, chairman. Rev. H. W Thompson. Roy Mamma, Tom Durkin.. Tickets: J... S. J’pjfrson. chairman. M. F. Worthman, Clifton Striker. Nathan Nelson. Herman Yager, Wai W»mhoff, C. E. Bell, Frei) Kolter. E. W. Johnsen. Rev. B. N. Covert. Rev. A. Il Fledderjohaun and Earl Adams. Another committee will be appointed in the next few days to solicit tickets pledges for the 1927 Chatanqiia. This committee will work in connection witli the 1926 ticket committee and the entire city will lie canvassed for pledges. French Quinn. Martin Worthman, C.J. Lutz. J.H. Heller and Rev. Thompson said a few words and Mr Harting urged that everyone cooperate with ,I '”‘ .HUtinv ~1-pr 'bi. 1. the best one ever given in this city and the talent is ot the best in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

BANDITS ROB BAGGAGE MAN Three Men Get $50,000 In Cash And Valuable Mail On Eastern Train Amesbury, Mass., July 29.—(Unittd Press.)—Three men held up the baggage master on a train of the Amesbury branch of the and Maine railroad today and escaped with $50,000, mostly in cash and two sacks of mail. The Ahree men entered the train as passengers, went i;ito the baggage car and forced the baggage master into a corner at the point of a gun. No shots were fired. The loot included $50,000 in cash being sent to a bank at Amesbury. An additional $15,000 in money' and securities is thought to have been contained in the two sacks of mail. ■ Q-— Youth Drowns In Futile Attempt to Save Two Girls Evansville, Ind., July 29. — (United rPess.) —Sailors of the U. S. S. Kankakee, revenue cutter stationed here, were searching today for the body of Leonard Blackburn, 17, who with two girls, Viola Kincade, 17. and Dolores Saulman, 16, were drowned in the Ohio river near here late yesterday. The party had paddled up the river in a canoe. Blackburn was drowned in a futile attempt to save the girls who had stepped into deep holes in the river.

George Dale Released After Providing Bond Muncie, Ind.. July 29. —(United Press) George Dale. Muncie publish er, was free on bond today following his arrest on charge of criminal libel. His.arret l resulted from a newspaper article in which he is alleged to have unlawfully injured the name of Raymond Warner of Muncie, a member of a jury which found Dale guilty i of carrying concealed weapons. BEN HOAGLAND I EXPIRES TODAY 'Decatur Man, Prominent In 1 Lodge Circles, Dies Os Spinal Meningitis Ben Hoagland. 37. well-known Decatur resident, died at his h une on Eight street, al 6 o’clock this morning. after a ten-day illness of spinal meningitis. Mr. Hoagland had been seriously ill for several days and all hopes for recovery were given up yesterday. Death relieved him at 6 o'clock this morning. Mr. Hoagland lias been prominent in lodge work in this city for several years, being a member of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen lodges. He was employed at the Decatur branch of the Genera' Electric company until his illness. Benjamin ('. Hoagland wag born in Adams county October 19, 1888. He was a son of William and Amelia Hoagland. He received his early education in the Adams county schools and. when still a young man, he wa» united in mairiage to Gavlie Nelson few co*. children are Rosaniind, Mario. Phy’is. and Dorcas. The mother. Mrs. Ame'ia Hoagland, and four brothers also survive. The brothers are Willis, of Los Angeles, 'Cal., James O. of this city. Dorse, of Boulder. Colorado, and Earl of Fort Wayne. Many distant.relatives and a host of friends also survive. Mr. Hoagland, for many years, was, active in lodge and church work. He was president of the official hoard of the United Brethren church, from which church the funeral services will be held. The Rev. Cecil Smith will have charge of the services and burial wilt take place in the Decatur cemetery. The funeral will be he'.d Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home and 2:30 from the church. f ATTEND DISTRICT MEET AT BLUFFTON Decatur Women Attend Dis--1 trict Meeting Os Mooseheart Legion Several Decatur women, who are members of the Mooseheart Legion, attended a district .meeting of the order, held at Bluffton Wednesday afternoon and evening. One, hundred and ten visitors were present from Decatur, Auburn, Angola, Kendallville, and Fort Wayne. The meeting slat ted at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternon. Most of the afternoon was devoted to district business, after which the visitors were ushered to the dining hall for a big banquet. A class of ten candidates, furnished by the Bluffton Lodge, was initiated last night. The meeting was one of the best district meetings ever held by the lodge.

ANOTHER HELD FOR MURDER OF CANTON EDITOR Mike Cantos Arrested In 1 Youngstown, O.; Psilias Locked Up Again MUCH EVIDENCE AGAINST BOTH Youngstown, O„ July 29 I (United Press) Miike Cantos, suspect in lite murder of Don R-1 Mellell. publisher of the Canton j Daily News, was arrested here | today al the Palestine Hotel, lie is being held on a charge ol suspicion. Detective Conners, of Pittsburgh, who asked for the arrest, will come to Youngstown to grill Cantos. Cantos' wife and another man also ar ß held. All deny knowledge of the murder. Conners said in Pittsburgh today that with the arrest of Cantos and the locking up for a second time of Beorge "the Greek" Psilias he had Sufficient evidence to place charges against the two men of being accessories before the fact in the killing of the editor. Canton. Ohio, July 29. — (United Press.) —Tile home of Don R. Mellett, murdered Canton publisher, was guarded by special police today following an attack with gas fumes in which the widow. lier sister-in-law and two children were temporarily overcome. The guard at •homes of other Canton citizens who have been threatened was Increased. Although provided with a description of the men who drove by Mellett's house yesterday and either tossed a gas bomb or tired with a gun similar to those used for tear gas, no arrests have been made. The attack was regarded as a gesture of defiance from the underworld. Definite action on the part of tile executive committee of inter-civic organizations which/ met yesterday in secret sesslo nwas postponed until today. The meting was attended by two representatives of Governor Donahey. Carl Studer, reputed underworld leader, was questioned a second time by Joseph '’’leary, the governor’s deAIMEE'S CASE AT STANDSTILL District Attorney Refuses To Issue Statement Before Complete Report Los Angeles, July 29.—(United ! ress) The Ainiee Simple M -Pherson kidnapping case today again was officially at a st anilstill. After deputy district attorney Joe Ryan ami detective chief Herman Cline returned to Los Angeles from Monterey where they hud investigated the presence of a man and woman who took a cabin near there shortly after Mrs. McPherson disappeared—they conferred with district attorney Keyes. “I have nothing what ever to say”, Keyes said foilowing the conference. ”1 will not make any statement until I have a complete report to make." in tlie i eport Keyes experts to mjke dear why the county grand jury failed to indict anyone in connection with tlie case. / Moody Regains Majority In Texas Primary Race Dallas, Tex.. July 29. — (United Press.) —Dan Moody regained his majority standing in the Texas democratic gubernatorial race on the basis of returns to the next election bureau from Saturday s primary at 9 a. m. today. incomplete returns from 249 counties including 173 complete gave Moody a 668 majority out of a total taubulated vote at 797,714.

Bargain Rates For Auto Licenses Will Be Effective Monday Indianapolis, Ind., July 29. — (United Press) Bargain rates will go into effect Monday for state auto llcen Under the state law the fees are reduced to half price for tlie last six months of tlie year, ii was pointed out by Frederick Schortcmejer, secretary of state. KAHN CHILD DIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT Pneumonia Causes Death Os Robert Kahn, Son Os Leo Kahn Robert Kalin, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kahn, of South Tenth street, died last night at 8 o’clock, after an illness of pneumonia. Tlie child was born March 3, 1922. The parents and ,’oiiowing brothers and sisters survive: George, E'raa, William. Clarence a brother was struck by an Erie train and killed four years ago. Funeral set vices w.ll be held at the United Brethren church Friday afternoon. at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Cecil R Smith will have charge of the services. Burial will take place at the St. Joseph cemetery near Mun ay. — o —- Church Picnic Postponed Owing to the fait that farmers are so busy harvesting their ewops at present, tlie picnic which was to have been held at Bellmont Park here next Saturday. July 31, by the three churches of Bobo Methodist circuit, has been postponed until further notice Tlie picnic will he held when tlie farmers ure not so busy. DEPUTIES ADOPT POINCARE'S PLAN French Premier Backed In His Project For Increasing Taxation By A. I. Bradford. 7*1.1; * iWWMgWMIK Paris, July 29. — Tlie chamber of deputies finance committee today adopted Premier Poincare's projects for increasing taxation and rehabilitating French finances. The vote was 19 to 13. Poincare will go before the entire chamber tomorrow to reek enactment of his projects Into law. French currency continued its alarming slump today. Shortly after the opening of the Bourse, tlie franc was quoted at 209.25 io the pound sterling and 42.95 to the dollar. Wednesday’s dosing prices were 202.80 and 41.70, respectively. The cabinet today approved a uieas ure providing for government control of wheat, including present stocks. London. July 29. — (United rPess.) —The French franc opened on the Bourse today at 210 1-2 to the pound sterling but later rose to 208 12. o — Makes Report Os Elks’ National Convention Fred T Schurger, delegate to the National convention of the Elks lodge, held in Chicago this month, gave an interesting report of the convention at the regular meeting of the local lodge last evening H. M. DeVoss, exalted ruler, presided at the meeting and an interesting meeting was held. o ’Young People To Hold An Ice-Cream Social The Young Peopl&s Society of St. Peters Lutheran church in the Fuelling settlement will give an ice-cream social Sunday evening on the school law>> A free entertainment will be provided anjd,' refreshments will be sold. The public is invited to attend.

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ONE WITNESS ORDERED CITED FOR CONTEMPT Senate Committee Probing Illinois Primary Has FastMoving Session PHILADELPHIA MAN DEFIES COMMITTEE BY UNITED PRESS Chicago, July 29. — The first story of alleged vote buying in the Illinois primary was told to the senate primary investigating committee today after a fast moving session, in which a witness was ordered cited for contempt. Timothy McCarthy, East St. Louis newspaperman, charged that Charles Sendry, secretary of the foreign voters league of East St. Louis, hail agreed to support Frank 1,. Smith, republican senatorial nominee, for $6,000. McCarthy said that Sendry claimed to control 125,000 votes In .southern Illinois. Federal Building ‘Tieago, July 29. —(United Press)—While two Chicago political leaders waived any legal rights to silence, Thomae Cunning, ham. Philadelphia politician, today defied the senate primary investigating committee and stirred a sensaUon when chairman Reed informed him be would be cited to tlie (Sente for contempt. Charles V. Barrett and State's attorney Robert E. Crowe opened up their county campaign financing to the committee, hut Cunningham, refused to (ell where he obtained SSO. 000 which he a court clerk at SB,OOO a year—donated to the William S. Vare, Pennsylvania republican senatorial nominee. The committee turned from its Pennsylvania and Illinois inquiry to question Smith W. Brooiihart, repub’ican senatorial nominee in lowa, who was in tlie audience. Brixikhart said he raised about sl.900 or $2.K00 in his successful campaign and that his e.it ire organization spent about $6,000. ‘‘You don't seem to have -petti much money’" Reed said. •W. Mssw for something.” Bro lihart replieii ’ Baby Dies Today Noon / A seven-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Daniels, who reside on the Leigh Bowen farm, southeast of the city, died at noon today. The child had been weak since birth, having been prematurely born. The family recently moved to the Bowen farm irotii Willshire. Ohio. VEGETABLES AND FRUIT PLENTIFUL Water-Melons, Cantaloupes, Roasting Ears, Tomatoes, Etc., On Market Water-melons, cantaloupes; roasting ears and tomatoes are plentiful at tlie various Decatur grocery stores this week. The melons are said to he much finer this year than in previous years. Home-grown sweet corn is on tlie market at several stores today, it is selling for 35 and 40 cents a dozen ears. Cantaloupes are selling at 10 to 20 cents each and water-melons are quotefl »o retail at from 40 to 75 cents. The cantaloupes are mostly Indianp melons and the water-melons are shipped here, largely ftom Georgia and other southern states. Indiana Hatermelons will lie a few weeks late th/ year, due to the inclement weather this spring, but grocers indicated that they would be on the market ro tn. Tomatoes, potatoes, berries and fruit wi j be plentiful for the to xt several weeks, grocers predicted. B.icl's this year are about the seme in most instances. compared will) lust year, lint are considei i ably lower compared to prices in neighboriuc cities.

DECATUR has the only beet sugar plant in Indiana. It manufactures 18.t>00,OiHi ponnda of sugar' annually.