Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1926 — Page 1

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khittemore is : unmoved as he COES TO DEATH Notorious Bandit Leader 4nd Murderer Pays Supreme Penalty Today dies for murder 01 PRISON GUARD Baltimore. Ang. 13-(United Press) -REbard R«’«- •• Whittemore, Bvullt leader and murderer, was hanged today. With his death, the last one of the Whittemore gang, whose deprada tions netted them more than a mi.lion dollars, has paid the penalty of crime. Death, disease and prison have claimed the others. , Whittemore, who was 28. went to I the scaffold almost i nmoved at the ' prospect of death. , Calmly Says Good-Bye , "I wish to say goodbye. That is the 1 best I can wish for anyone”, was all He had to sav as he Stepped to the gallows in the presence of a room full I >f disinterested witnesses. He was tone as tar as hum.n sympathy was I (aacerned. for his wife and relatives ■ h»d heen barred. Wittemme died for the murder of Robert Hohman, a guard at the Mary- . land penitentiary here. He killed Holtnun while escaping last year and was caught after i st: ies of robberies and (rimer that stirred the East by their daring and success. Womptly a? the 'Pick pointed ‘to! aidnight, and it became Friday, the 23th. guards entered Whittemore's cell. He was handcuffed and led to the death chamber. The narrow, white-washed room was brilliantly lighted. At one end. set like a Mage, rose the concrete balcony of, the siaffold, with its steel death trap f’ndet the glaring light the spectators stirred and shuffled restlessly. A door on this balcony opened, and Whittemore appeared * slim bovish •t- <! front t>o<-k to ankles : it! oulged his schackled hands. A doctor and a guard accompanied him. Smiles At Spectators He smiled faintly as he looked at the crowd below-. The black death hood had hung from his neck. Then it was pulled over his disarranged hair. The' noose was clipped tightly abotf his neck. He stood rigid. The trap was sprung at 12:07 A. M. Twelve minutes la er. Whittetnore was pronounced dead. Twenty-four minutes after midnight Dr. Albert Antlersonv penitentiary , Physician, permitted guards to cut the I body down I

American Co-ed Tells Own Story Os Her Marriage To Indian Prince Hetty Kurlow, Former Northwestern University Co-ed, Tells Os Her Marriage Into Family Os Native Rulers In India. Her Fife In A Harem, Her Escape From India And Many Other Interesting Adventures.

Editor's Note: Thin is the fourth of a series of five articles written for the nited Pres,, by ]j e tty Kurlow,, a for’"’■r Co-Ehl who married Abani Kumar «o*e of Barodi. East Bengal, India, after almost four years of hardship she escaped from Abani in Calcutta and came to Chicago and obtained a divorce. In the preceding articles Miss Kurlow told how she was taken to muia and kept in an incredibly dirty dareni for months while her husband looked for a family Priest,who would not object to his having married her. 1 f By Betty Kurlow (Written for the United Press) Chicago, Aug 13, —After we had lived in Abani’s Calcutta house a few w 6eks he bagan to drink excessively. ' cocktail or two before dinner soon beeam e six or seven. It wasn’t long before he was almost perpetually infoxicated. He stayed out night after night with his Indian friends —Leaving me alone in our home. Had it been in America, I would have preferred/to stay by myself rath*(l than with Abani, but in Caluctta it "as different. Prowlers roamed the ntteets al! night. And upon several occasions they tried to break into our

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Vol. XXIV. Number 191.

’General Motors Pays ’ Record Dividends; Price For Stock Drops Today New York. Aug 13. — (United Piess)—The maiket price for common stock of general motors corporation dropped off somewhat at the opening of the stock exchange today, after announcement of the largest stock dividend in th history of Wall street. The opening transaction was at $202.50 a share, off $1 from yesterday’s close. A wave of selling was evident in the first few minutes of trading and soon the price had dropped to 3201. o FAMILY TICKETS FOH LOCAL FAIR PLACED ON SALE Two Dollar Ticket Admits Entire Family Each Day And Night Os Fair AVAILABLE IN ALL SURROUNDING TOWNS Family t’-kets. which have been highly popular features at many county faits for seveial years, will be sold for the Northern Indiana fair, to be held at Bellmont Park, Decatur, Sept : tmber 1. 2. 3. and 4, this year. Family I tickets have net been sold for the local fair for several years, but the management has decided to make the offer tills year in order to give increased interest and attendance to the event. The family tickets were placed on sale today in Decatur and-surrountding cities and towns in Indiana and Ohio. The sale of family tickets will .-lose on Saturday, August 28 and none will be sold after that date. * Good Each Day and Night The tickets coat $2 each, and they admit the heads of the family and all of their children, both day and night, each day of the fair. The automobile, truck, or other vehicle in which the family conies to the fair will he admitted Also. The ' .mi'.y tickets ar* on sale at the following places: Hecsfe — li'd Adams County Bank 1 nns cig;,, store. Fir '. XaiitJiial Bank H. Knapp * Son hardware store. Central Grocery. Kits Re-uaurant. Peoples Loan & Trust company, Kolter Grocery. Fullt-nkainp's soft drink parlor. Faroute restaurant. West End restaurant. i’obo —Clemen's Grocery. Berne—Peoples’ State Bank. Lehman Bi others, Bank of Berne. Berne Hardware i.-ompany. Monroe—Monroe State Bank, Ijeich ty Brothers & Company. Geneva—Bunk of Geneva. Eli Stuckey. Farmers & Merch -nts State Bank. Preble- Farmers State Bank, Post iCOVriIUKII ON PAGE TWtll

house while I was staying there alone. It was a teirib'.e feeling -An American girl—to sit by myself and listen to several unspeakably deprived Indians , trying to get in to me. When 1 had stood It ns long as I could 1 told Abani that I needed some--1 one to stay with me. I was afraid to ' remind him of his promise to bring me back to America. But when 1 asked for I a companion I jumped out of my frying pan into the fire. He got a woman, an adventuress to keep me company. She was English and she had hordes !of friends—tire riff-raff of .the world gathered there in Calcutta, the jumping off place of civilization. Among her callers was one Indian Potentate, a prince from Delhi. He came fre- ’ quently and although I tried to avoid ’ him as I did the rest of her associates he saw ine one afternoon. She told me that the Delhi Prince liked me and wanted to be introduced I refused to see him. of course, but my protestations were of no avail. The next time he came to tea. the woman took me by the hands and act(CONTINIJEB ON PAGE TWO*

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Noose Separates Boy Killer and Bride —————————' ' -- ■ ■ —-— < - 6 ’—■ S cl wk ' - ' 1 . 2 OW*" ™ I P When the State of Maryland cracked the neck of Richard Reese Whittemore, young bandit and killer, early today, it made a widow of Margaret Whittemore. His wife was loyal through all his j troubles. , 1

HEAT RETURNS FOLLOWING RAIN Thunder Showers Thursday Afternoon And Night . Bring Temporary Relief “T ’ Rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, yesterday afternoon and I early last evening failed to bring permanent relief from the intense beat wave which has held sway in Adams county and northern Indiana the last several days, and, this morning, the sun peeped through the, clouds early and gave evidence of more hot weather today. The rain yesterday was not very welcome to the farming community as it tended to hold up the important work in the harvest fields which I farmers say must be completed soon The fields were wet this morning, but the sun's rays gave promise that they would be sufficiently dry to work ill • morrow Dust on the roads w settled by ■ the heavy downpour and cool breezes followed the rain for a few hours. Temporaly relit f. however, was ail (COXTIXTEI) ON PAGE TWO) o WOOLLEN AND BALL POPULAR Large Crowds Greet Two Democratic Nominees In The Eighth District Evans Woollen, democratic short-' ! Claude Ball, eighth district congres- , term senatorial candidate, an d sional candidate, drew large crowds throughout the eighth district, according to word received from the various county chairmen in the district.' Mr. Woollen and Mr. Ball toured i Wells county after leaving this couu- > ty Wednesday and, yesterday, they t spent the day in Randolph and Jay counties. Today, the two candidates I are vrtiitiiig Delaware county and, • tomorrow, the eighth district tour > ends in Madison county. ! Crowds gre.’'ed Lite men every- • where in the dis rict. Farmers and • labo.ers joined in welcoming them. . Farmers showed especial interest, inasmuch as both men hav e construe- > tive farm legislation programs. I Mr. Woollen has briefly outlined ■ his plan in every county in the state ■ and it has created favorable com- ■ ment every place. He has proved to ' the tanner that they cannot be pros1 perous as long as they are forced to ( 5 sell in a world market and buy in a protected market. ! Mr. Woollen was raised on a farm 1 and, at present, lives on a farm in - Marion county. Mr. Ball, also, has a similar constructive program for the farmer e.:»d laborer, and both men j are being received favorably throughout the district.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 13, 1926.

I Owing to lack if space, the regu- I lai daily installment of the serial ■ stety, ’The Gill in the Mirror." is ' emitted in the Daily Democrat to- ■ night. A long installment of the I story will be printed in Saturday’s < «->‘itioii. I MAKING PROGRESS AT COUNTRY CLUB 1 Work On 18-Hole Golf; 1 Course Progressing Rapidly; Work Many Men Work is continuing on the new 18- | hole golf course and tlie Decatur j Country Club, just south of this city, •• and probabilities are play will t - start on the new course in the next i ' few weeks. The fairways have been ; ‘ ctit. and ate in fairly good shape: | s : been h»H t»v»i t i t course and the pump has been eonI ( netted with the creek and the water! i I will be drawn from a reservoir con strutted near the course in the ’ creek. Most of the greens have been I , sown and while it has been too wet to work on them the last few days. I workmen have not been idle on the I rest of the course. Construction of the additions to the dub house will start shortly, G. P. Telford announced, recently. The > dance pavilion and other improveI ments will be added this fall and it' is expected that the dub house will 1 Jbe opened by the latter part of 1 October. ' More than a dozen workmen have •been employed for the last several weeks bn the course, and an addi-’l tional dozen or so men will be eni- , ( ployed in reconsti ucting the club 1 house, it was announced. | o GASOLINE PRICE : IS BEING PROBED! — . . +' Government Investigation , Os Price Advance Under H Way Two Months :' ' ( Wasnington, August 14. — (United ' Press)— The government’s investiga- 1 tion of the price of gasoline—chief ; grief of motorists —has been under ; way secretly for nearly two months. I The federal trade commission to- > day in its monthly report of progress t ' divulged this information, without j r dsclosing how its inquiry was being | I carried forward. I I The investigation is endeavoring i to discover “whether the advances I in prices are due to restraints of ( trade or conditions of ownership or \ 1 control preventing effective eompe- t tition, and to the profits of the prin- t cipal companies in this industry. ’ t

FOOTBALL SQUAD IS COING TO LAKE Coach Marshall Plans To Take 1). IL S. Athletes To Lake Gage, August 30 . Howard Marshall, foodba'.l coach cf Decatur high school, today issued a call for a meeting of all candidates for the Yellow Jacket team this fall, to be held st the high school building at 7:30 tonight. Coach Marshall expects to give out ron.e of the plays to be used this fall and to make arrangements for taking the squad to Lake Gage, Monday August, 30, for a week’s stay. i Alteady, approximately 25 athletes have signed up to go to the lake Each luy is to pa* his own expenses. Tents will be obatined for them to sleep in Dick Durkin and Will Linn will accompany the hoys and do the cocking. Three hours per day will be spent in football practice, and the I tl ted | ........ Coach Marshall will have charge of the boys. The squad spent a week •" latke Gage last Ini’, just before the (CO.vriXl’Klt ON PAGE TWO, FILIPINOS CLASH WITH GEN. WOOD President Os Senate Says Breach With Governor ’ General Is Irreparable Manila, Aug. 13—(United Press)— Intimating that the breach between Gov. General Leonard Wood and the Philippines legislature is irreparable, Manuel Quezon, as president of the senate has issued a statement setting forth the altitude of the Filipinos toward the United States. The existing deadlock between the legislative and executive branches of the insular government is unfortunat but not the fault of the Filipino. Quezon said. Loyalty and friendliness to President Coolidge and the American people has been demonstrated by the warmth of the welcome to the Presi- ' dent's representative, Col. Carmi Thomas, the statement said. Quezon personally will always oppose any backward movement from Autonomy, the statement declared. The statement which Quezon said was made to clarify the situation in tlie minds of the American people, was accompanied by a letter complaning of news dispatches sent to American papers by some of the visiting correspondents. All correspondents will be Quezon's dinner guests tonight at which time he intends to inform them that unless their dispatches are truthful, lie will take necessary steps against them.

Golfer Finds Lost Ball In Coils Os Large Rattlesnake Decorah, la., Aug. 13 — (United Press) —While searching for bis lost golf ball, Leslie Schrubbe of Waterloo, playing on the Onsonta course near here, found the sphere in the colls of a three foot rattle snake. Schrubbe had driven the ball out of bounds and into the brush along the upper lowa river. A collie dog. wandering in the. neighborhood, joined Schrubbe in flip search and warned him of the snake. The snake was dispatched and the ball retrieved. CLIMAX NEARS IN HALL-MILLS MURDER CASE Three Members Os Halil Family Held On Charges Os Murder Today THREE PERSONS ARE CHARGED WITH CRIME Somerville, N. J., Aug. 13—(United Press) —With three members of the Hall family held on charges of murder, the Hall Mills case moved swiftly to a climax today. Nearly four years after the Rev. Edwanl W. Hall and his choir-singer sweetheart. Eleanor Mills. were found dead under a crabapple tree on the Phillips farm near New Brunswick, the state specifically charges the following with the murders; Mrs. Frances Stevens. Hall, widow of the slain clergyman. Willie Stevens, her eccentric broth er. Hemy De Bruyere Carpender, her cousin and neighbor. Stevens and Carpender were arrested last night at the Hall home, where Mrs. Hall is remaining under $15,000 bond. o Coal Prices Advance Indianapolis, Ind . Aug. 13.—(L’nited Press) —Lioal prices in Indianapolis today advanced from 25 cents to one .... V,. t ile increase was explained as due j to heavy exportations to England, necessitated by the strike there during the past month. West Virginia. Kentucky and Pennsylvania coal was affected by the increases, Indiana and Illinois prices holding steady. Director Os Licenses In Sherwood’s Office Resigns Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 13.—(United Press) —Resignation of Robert K. Devericks as director of licenses in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction was announced by Dr. Henry N. Sherwood, state superin tendent. Devericks has accepted a position on the staff of the Indiana state normal schopl at Terre Haute where he will have charge of the valuation of credits. His successor is expected to be named at the next regular meetfag of the state board of education. Sept. 17 0 Knight Os Pythias End National Convention Chicago, Aug. 13.—(United Press) Under the direction of the newly elected officers, the Knights of Pythias in convention here journeyed today to Mooseheart, 111., to inspect the city and institution founded by the Moose for dependents of deceased members. Richard L. Witte, Milwaukee, is the new supreme chancellor of the order; Alva M. Lumpkins, Columbia, S. C„ was chosen vice chancellor. He was opposed by James Hunter of lowa. Fred Atwood, Minneapolis was chosen supreme prelate; Douglas S. Wright, Vicksburg. Miss., supreme inner guard; Judge Raymond Buck, Fort Worth, Tex., and W. R. O'Neal of Orlando. Fla., were named for the board of control.

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ADMINISTRATION STRUGGLING TO KEEP HANDS OFF Catholic And Commercial Interests Clamor For U. S. Intervention KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS STAND IS ASSAILED By Ludwell Denny. I'niled Press Corespondent Washington, D. C„ Aug. 13 . The admini-straf .on today to keep from being drawn into a major controver- , sy with Mexico as Catholic and commercial interests increased I their pressure 1 ti gai nst the I state department's hands otf policy. Developments included: 1— J. J. Flaherty, supreme knight of the knights cf Columbus, called on Secretary Kellogg and is believed to have protested against this government’s non-intervention loathe Mex-ican-Catholic conflict. After a lengthy conference, Flaherty and Kellogg announced they had agreed to give no interview's. Then they resumed their conference. 2 — Reports of a contemplated cath olic drive to raise $5,000,000 for relief of their co-religionists in Mexico. 3. Reports of renewed activities of Mexican counter-revolutionists on th-* > Texas border, necessitating increased , watchfulness by department of justice agents. 4. Secretary Kellogg denied this 1 Government ie withdrawing American ambassador Shetfield from Mexico City as a sign of disple jure toward the Calles Government, uddlng that Shef- ' field was returning olely on a vacation. ' 5. The state department supported Sheffield's urgent representations to ■ the Mexican Government in case of J H. Grande. Los Angeles business man held incommnk-ado by Mexican police. 6. Business and r’ligious interests, continued their demands that the United States Est the Embargo of private arms shipments to Mexico, alleging its continuance is in effect American intervention th "Uetiuif of Calles. 7. Secretary Kellogg prepared a rei (CONTIN'I'ED ON PAGE SIX) CITY HORSESHOE MEET PLANNED Entries For Tourney Close Next Monday; Interest In Game Is High So warm have grown the arguments over who is the best horseshoe pitcher in the city, that arrangements have been made to hold a city hi : .->eshoe tournament to decide the champion. Plans for the tourney were announced today by H. L. Curtis, Decatur high school athletic director. Mr. Curtis will work with Melvin Thomas, present ity champion, in staging the event. All entries for the tournament must be filed with Mr. Thomas or Coach Curtis not hrter than next Monday afternoon or evening The tourney will start next Wednesday. Bronze medals will be awarded to the winners of the singles and doubles. A schedule will be drawn after the entries close. Regular horseshoe rules will govern in the tournament and each match will be three out of five fifty-point games. There are two electrically lighted courts in the south part of the city where several games are played every night. Courts at the General Electric 1 plant are the scene of much activity daily, also. The city tourney mat/ hes • likely will be played on these three courts. One court has been laid out at t the side of the Sta.'.st grocery and meat market on Winchester street, i and another just south ot tile Nickel • Plate station, also on Wnchester ( street. Bofli have powerful lights a- . bove each peg I Melvin Thomas won the city lit e • in the last city tournament held here, which was two years ago.

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