Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1926 — Page 1

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MELLETT murder PROBE IS BEGUN 81 GRAND JURY Court Instructs Jury To i os e No Time In Considering Evidence In Case decision expected before end of week Canton, 0., Aug. 16—(Unit(d Press)—The Starke county (rrand jury, expected to return idictments in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, publisher of the Canton Daily ;; e ws. was charged by Judge A. W. Agler to lose no time in considering evidence in the case when it convened here today. ■ A number of liquor cases had been scheduled for consideration ahead of the murder evidence. Judge Agler’s instructions will hasten action on the important case, and wine decision by the jury is expected before the end ot the week In his 3.000 word charge. Judge Agler strecesed the importance of protecting the innocent as well as punishing the quality. Investigators predicted a wholesale return of indictments involving several high officials. ’ Prosecutor C. McClintock, has asked attorney general C. C. Crabbe to appoint James A. White, Columbus at-toru-y. former superintendent of the Ohio antisaloon league, as special assistant prosecutor, it was learned. Attion on the request is expected today. Social At Calvary Church Tuesday Night A social will be held in the basement of the Calvary Evangelical chuteh. The publicvis invited to attend. A program will be given at 7:30 o'clock, after which various refreshmeat? uch a- ice-cream, pop, sand witch?*, water-melon, and home-made candy will be sold. W®F" LOOKING GOOD Eleven More Acres In The Sugar Beet Chib Are Remeasured By Committee Eleven more Sugar Beet club members were visited Friday by a committee, who measured their respect've Sees of sugar beets. Although the members had already measured and staked their plots, the sugar beet club rules provide that they be remeasured in order to eliminate any chance of error. Members visited were as fol•ows: Glen Rupert, Floyd Rupert, Nao®t •Schwartz, Huldah Schwartz, Walter Meyer, Virgil Henschen. Richard Johnsc>>. Harold Johnson, Lttdella Fuelling. Ruth Noll, Theo. IJleeke. According to Amos Stoneburner, repfesentatlve of the Holland-St. Ixntis Sugar Company, who was in charge of the work Friday, the above mem Iters ■'ll have excellent prospects for good yields. Although last year, members ittutg up some mighty good tonnage records, some of them running better than twenty tons, it is thought possible ‘hat members may better this record this year. Although tonnage carries the most Ul ' ! ght in determining the winner in •he sugar beet club, various other factors enter into the final ending of tnembers. Basis of awarding premiums to the members Is as follows: Tonnage I’er acre, 20 points; sugar per acre, Points; cost per ton, 15 points; exhibit of six beets. 15 points; story, hiuttageinent and record, 35 points. Eltus far 21 members have had acres 'otneasured by the conjmittee. — q— e Mee t i n g Os Country * hib Governors Postponed The regular meeting of the Board °f Governors of the Country Club, ’•heduled for this evening, will be Postponed until further notice.

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Lieut. Colonel W. L. KIGER W. L. Kiger, of Bluffton, was Lieutenant Colonel of 160th I. V. 1., during the Spanish-Amer-ican war. Lieut. Col. Kiger and his wife attended the reunion of the regiment here today. PREPARES FOR SCHOOL WORK County Attendance Officer Predicts Adherence To Attendance Rules Nathan Nelson. Adams county attendance officer, is busily engaged this week prepaiing for the opening of Adams county schools next month. Mr. Nelson stated that practically the entire county cooperated with him in enforcing the attendance rules in this county, and he predicted that there, would be very little trouble with failure of parents to make their children attend school. Mr. Nelson’s position takes him over the entire county and it is his job to see that .children under the age limit attend school. Since Mr. Nelson accepted the appointment of atendance officer a year ago, there has been scarcely no trouble and attendance records have been high in practically every township. and then parents cannot keeptne® ra school they are classed as incorrigible? and are turned over to the county probation officer Mre. Maude Dorwin. If nothing can be dote, the children are sent to a state reform school. This drastic measure is very seldom necessary in this county and Mr. Ne.s >ll said that the attendance average in the entire county was far above average last year. Miss Cannon Postpones Swim Cape Gris Nez. France. Aug. 111. — (United Press)-Miss Lillian Cannon of Baltimore, who hud planned to attempt to swim the English Channel over the week-end, was forced to postpone her effort by unfavorable weather conditions. o — ORIGINAL SHEIK IS SERIOUSLY ILL Rudolph Valentino !' ighting For His Lite Following An Operation New York. Aug. 16. (United Press) — Rudolph Valentino, the movie actor whose love making has made thousands of flapper hearts beat faster, today was fighting for his life. Five physicians and surgeons attended him at a hospital here, where he was operated upon yesterday for appendicitis and abdominal ulcers, after lie suddenly collapsed in his appartmeats at a hotel. Hundreds of telegrams and notes, from al! over the country were held unopened at the hospital, awaiting the time when Valentino might read some of them. Telephone calls came from as far away as Chicago asking as to the Idol s condition. At the hospital doors a hundred girls and women were turned away after they had come through a rain to ask for the welfare of the. man who had entranced them on the screen.

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IGOTHMUSTERED '"MAY 12,1898 ■ ,I^l-.1.1.1 ■ ■>, Veterans Meeting Here Today Among The First To Answer Call To Service The 160 Indiana Volunteer Infantry was one cf the four regiments resulted on the first call for volunteers. The other three were the 157th. 158th and 159th. The 160th regiment had 50 officers and 973 enlisted men, or a total of 1,023. It was mustered in May 12. 1898. The volunteers were stationed at Camp Mount, Indianapolis until .May 16. when it started southward. It departed from the station In Indianapolis amid a storfn of applause and crowds greeted the . oldiers at every ' station along the route. The outfit ■ reaches! Chattanooga Tenn., on the ■ evening of May 17. The following I morning the train was taken to Lytle. I Georgia. Cainp was made in Chickamauga Park, four miles away. The camp was named Camp Thomas In honor of Gen. George H. Thomas, who wan fame there during the Civil war. The 160th drilled at Camp Thomas : The regiment was assigned to the First Brigade. Second Division, of the First Army Corps. Arms and equipment were issued to the regiment, . June 7. On July 27, the 16(>th was ordered to report at Newport News. Va., to join the expedition invading Rico. The outfit arrived at New port News on the morning of July 30 and went into camp on the banks of 1 the St. James river. This camp was ' named Camp Grant. During the two ' weeks stay there, the soldiers had nothing to eat but hard-tack and bacon 1 or canned beef. On August 21 ths reg- ' intent left for Kentucky, and arrived thyjj JtWjtust. S 3. Camp was made at Camp Mills. Peace being evi--1 dent, the soldiers in 160th felt that their duty as volunteers was done and dissatisfaction arose. The regiment ’ marched on to ant w camp, eight t — (CONTINI El> ON PAGE THREE) PASSES HUNT r Indians And White Men i Join In A Man Hunt In Wyoming Waste Lands i Rawlins, Wyo., Aug. 16. — (United > Press) —Indians and white men today . were searching the western Wyoming waste lands for the two bandits who robbed a registered mail car on a Union Pacific train near here early Saturday. Cowboys and national guardsmen 1 joined in the hunt which is centering in tlie mountains near here in the be--1 lief the bandits sought to hide in the Jackson role country, long a favorite rendezvous of bandits because of its inaccessibility. The Indians abandoned work of western motion pictures to pain in the chase. Col. Roosevelt To Visit Indiana Aug. 30 1 Indianapolis. Aug. 16 — (United Press)—Col. Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late President and former assistant secretary of the navy, will visit Indiana August 30 to address the state convention of the American Legion at Marion. Roosevelt will stop in Indianapolis ' for a few !..,urs of the morning of the 30th and ' ill be the guest of the ' Service club at a breakfast in his honor. He Is expected to relate some ’ of his recent experiences on a scien- ’ tific hunting expedition in the Himalaya mountains. From Marion, Roosevelt will proceed to Madison. Wis., byway of Fort Wayne to speak at the opening ' day of the Wisconsin state fair. Cow Kicked to Death ■ Toulon. 111., Aug 16.—(United Press) i —When a team of horese hitched to a > wagon on which a cow was being carried. became Lightened and tan away, i the cow leaped from the wagon into ■ the doubletrees and was kicked to ; death. The animals figuring in the I unusual accident belonged to Franlf Gerard.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 16, 1926.

Ford Planes Due In Indianapolis Tomorrow | I Indianapolis, Ind . Aug. 16. — (Unit|l ed Pres?) Final preparations are beI infl made today for Indianapolis’ reception cf the airplanes in iti» Ford b reliability tour. The planes are due here tomorrow at noon. A tipiing spot Is being marked off at the Indianapolis motor speedway where the planes wi.l land. ; PRESIDENT AND ■ KELLOGG CONFER ; t Situation In Mexico Disf cussed At Conference At 1 Summer White House r — I (United Press Staff Correspondent) s Paul Smith’s N. Y.. Aug. 16. —(Unit- ’ ed Press)—The situation in Mexico • grow ing out ot that republic’s action a- ’ gainst the church. dew secretary of ! state Kellogg and President Coolidge 1 into conference today. ’ Secretary Kellogg ailived yesterday from Washington to discuss with Mr. 5 Coolidge in person the events in the Mexican republic as they affect this country. From the conferences it was expect- • ed will come the answer to whether ’ the United States will inject itself • into the religious struggle or will con ■' tinue to hold that the question is one for the Mexican government to deal 1 with alone and without interference ! —o t 3 ; At The Reunion The following veterans of the 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of the Spanish-American war. and their wives had registered at the reunion ( headquarters here before noon toI day: t Regimental Staff , Don C. R. Kocher. Reg. A. M. Sgt.; Mr. ami Mrs. W. L. Kiger, Bluffton; L. L. Martz. Bluffton; Samuel E. I Hitchcock. Bluffton; E. E. Kelsy, Huntington. Company A Martin Luther Penn, Laketon; WilI liam H. Pittenger. Monroe; H. E. Mcj Clure. Marion; Mrs. H. E. McClure, Ba. L , 111 , M. Holmes. Walla Walla. Wash; I John O. Frayer, Marion; P A. Bogne. Lagro. Company B Frank L. Smith. Sherwood, Ohio; R. S. Peterson, John Lenhard, Chas. 1 T. Kitson. Decatur; Henry F. Tindall. ' Marion: W. A. Gault, Wabash; R. D. ? Myers. Edmund Fulton, William ’ Noll. Charles Brothers, Decatur; G. ’ A. Hahnert. Mrs. G. A. Hahnert, Mrs. Anna Essex. Monroe; James F. Hudson. Sturgis. Mich; George F. Leag--1 er, Louisville, Ky.;’ Mr. and Mrs. -I. 5 C. Burkhead, Fort Wayne; O. L. Br unt linger, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Macy, Frank S. Peterson. George W. Burrell. Charles B. Daly, Decatur; ’ James Hakes. Wien. Ohio; Amos Fisher. Decatur;, J. S. Buchanan, 1 Willshire, Ohio; A. V. Tanvas. Mart Tanvas, Jesse B. Roop and ('has. Omlor, Decatur. Company C I Wilber A. Phillips, Dayton. Ohio. Company D I J. R. Winners, E. C. Carrouther, i Ross A. Miller and D. F. Edwards, • all of Wabash. I Company E i Mr. and Mrs. A. E. McGinnes. Woli cottville: J. C. Schlegel; Will Hesher. Petroleum; W. J. Yarger. Monts jfelier; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. : Thomas, Bluffton; Dillan Myers, ! Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mei Cormick, Marion; Fred J. Taugetnaft, ) Bluffton; W. Carl Mcßride. Auburn. Company F Harry C. Reed, Decatur; James L. (COXTI.VUKI) ON THHKK) o Intoxication Is Charged Roy McClure, who resides east of this city, was arrested Saturday i night by Officers Womack and Hoff i man on a charge of public intoxica- • tion. He was found lying partly on , the pavement of Bellmont Road, east ) of the city. McClure was locked in > he county jail Saturday night and • was released on bond Sunday. He [ will be given a hearing in city court tonight.

TEACHERS NAMED IN HARTFORD TP. I ■ ——— I), A. Studler, Trustee Os r Hartford Township, Announces Teaching Corps D. A. Studler. of Hartford township, has completed his list of instructors for schools in that township for the ensuing year and the Hat I has been verified by County SuperI intendent Clifton Striker. Mr. Striker announced today that all of the instructors for Hartford township are worthy teachers and ne predicts one of the most successful school years ever experienced in Hartford township. Teaching corps for the other eleven townships in Adams county will 1 be announced soon. Mr. Striker said ’ this morning. Most of the vacancies in the various schools of the county have been filled and the trustees announce that they are ready for the opening of schools September 6. The list of teachers for Hartford township is as follows: High school —Frank McDee Smith, principal; Charles Kizer, Miss Esth- . er Munro and Miss Madge Stuckey. [ Grammar grades at high school building—Victor Eicher. Intermediate , grades. Harold WJndmiller. Primary I grades. Mary Schlagenhauf. Janitor. William Anderson. LJnn Grove school —Lester Reynolds. grammar grades and principal: Eilna Glendenning. intermediate; Wilma Spichiger. primary. Janitor. John P. Steiner. Mr Studler announced that Mr. Windmiller, also, would have charge of the Hartford high school basketball team, which was one of the outstanding teams of the county last season. Hartford township basketball fans say that their team this year will be even better than last year's. COAL BOOM IN prolonged British Miners’ Strike Increases Demand For Indiana Coal Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug 16. —(United Press) —The prolonged British 1 minets' strike is beginning to be felt in Indiana, according to President E. D. Logston, of the Knox Consolidated ' Coal Company who predicts a boom in Indiana’s coal busines because of ■ the shortage being created by the British strike. Logston’s predictions come on the reels of a 25 cent to $1 per ton increase in the price of coal. This ini crease brought the present price to a . level of 50 cents higher than tlie average price at this time last year. "Depletion of the Nation’s coal supply by heavy exporting”, Logston said, "has widened the market for Indiana coal and definitely lifted the state’s mining industry out of its post war slump “If exportation continues at the present rate and cold weather arrives early, it is posiblc that production in Indiana biluminous mines will readh the peak of the war time production which was 100 per cent higher that pre war production In the last two , months production has jumped to within 35 per cent of the war time peak.” , Logston said, however, that the IndTana coal is not being exported but Is being sent into the east to replace the coal expoited from that territory. o —— Ex-Trustees To Hold Annual Reunion, Aug.2s The annual Picnic of the township trustees elected in the year 1908 and inducted into office on January, 1909, and serving until December 31. 1914. will be held this year at the residence of Charles El. Magley, in Root township, on Wednesday, August 25. All the members ot' this organization are ’ earnestly requested to take notice amt be present on this occasion, an enjoyable time is anticipated.

President ' I R. D. MYERS R. D. Myers, of Decatur, who I i served as second lieutenant of [ Company 8., 160th I. V. L, dur-' ing the Spanish-American war, was president of the regimental i reunion held here today. j CHARGE PLOT I AGAINST MEXICO 150 Men Held Following Discovery Os Alleged Plot On Government San Diego, Calif., Aug. 16. —(United Press) —Fating charges of plotting a revolution in Mexico. 150 men. headed by General Enique EMcada. former Mexican secretary of war, were in the county jail here today as the result of . widespread week-end round-up. A heavily armored car. guns, ammunition and other equipment to be used > in the proposed descent on towns below the border were included in the loot taken. Along with General Estrada, his chief cf staff. General Aurelio Sepuli veda and Ear! C: Parker, local hardware and at ms dealer, also were captured. o Sunday Movies Again Result In Arrests Columbus, Ind., Aug. 16. —(United Press)—Frank Rembusch. operator of ».. Cretan theatre here, todsv was a , , police raid of his movie house on charges of Sabhath desecration. The manager and two employees were taken into custody for the third time in thiee week? when they tried • to operate the show as a charity benei fit on Sunday evening. t o i Two Erie Trains Collide In New Jersey r Jersey City, N. J.. Aug. 16.—(United Press)—Two Erie railroad trains • collided head-on in the Erie railroad terminal here today. Seven persons were injured so seri ious’.y they were taken to hospitals . while 12 others were slightly hurt and taken to their homes after receiving ■ emergency treatment. , o — CORN BORER IN THREE COUNTIES I ' 'Dreaded Pest Discovered In DeKalb. Steuben And > Allen Counties Indianapolis. Ind., Aug 16.—(Unit- ’ ed Press) —The fear ot' the European ! Soru borer in Indiana has materialived in three counties it was discovered today when state and government officials began un extensive survey. The dread borer has been found in l dangerous numbers in five DeKalb county townships, four Steubbu and J one Allen, according to telephone re--1 ports from Frank N. Wallace, state . entomologist. Wa'.ace acting for the state is bei ing assisted by L. H. Worthy, federal - administrator of the corn borer ?on--1 trol and fifteen gevornment operatives » With Worthy on the spot, it is exI pected that Wallace will diaw a quar- - antine line about the area and prohibit the export of any corn in that area.

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SCORES OF WAR VETERANS MEET IN REUNION HERE .Veterans Os 160th Regiment, Spanish - American War, Meet Here Today NEXT REUNION IN HUNTINGTON Veterans of the 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, who served for one year during the Spanish-American war in Cuba, met in Decatur today for their annual reunion. A total of 108 veterans registered before noon today and several others came for the afternoon session. It was estimated this afternoon that 125 or 130 veterans were in attendance. Many of them w'ere accompanied by their wives. The next reunion of the regiment will be held in Huntington, on the third Monday in August. The Huntington veterans had not chosen their president to take charge ot’ plans for the reunion, at a late hour this afternoon. H. W. Elser, of Bluffton, is the permanent secretary of the organization. He was unable to attend the reunion today. He is attending a national meeting of the veterans. Lieut. Colonel Here Heading the list of visitors today, was W. L. Kiger, of Bluffton, who was lieutenant Colonel of the regiment. He was accompanied by Mrs. Kiger. Colonel George W Gunder, of Marion, was unable to attend the reunion, on account of illness. R. O. Myers, of this city, was president of the reunion today. Mr. Myers served as a second lieutenant of Company B, in the 160th regiment. The reunion opened this morning at 9 o’clock, with registration of the veterans and their wives in a tent erected at the west side of the court .«.•<»%TINI Kl> ON PAGB THKKK) IWIMMINGPOOL m. wirr 1 ; CLEANED AGAIN City Pool Is Drained And Cleaned Sunday Night; Exhibitions Planned The municipal swimming poo! received another thorough cleansing Sunday night. The big pool was drained after hundreds of persons had taken a dip Sunday afternoon and the city firemen cleaned the walls and floor with the fire hose. The work of refilling the big tank was started immediately after the cleaning was finished, but it will be three or four days before it is filled again. H. L. Cuttis, athletic director of the city schools, who has charge of the pool, stated today that it likely would he opened for children Wednesday afternoon, but adults will be unable to use it before Thursday night. A large number of bathers took advantage of the pool Sunday afternoon. A professional diver and swimmer from Fort Wayne was present during the afternoon and gave exhibitions in fancy and high diving and in swimming. He climbed to the top of the light pole at the south end of tile pool, which is about 30 feet high, and dived into the pool several times. He also did fancy diving from tlie spring boards and he swam across the pool with his bands and feet tied. It is planned to have a program of diving and swimming exhibitions and life-saving tests at tlie city pool on Thursday evening. September 9, at which time the Fort Wayne diver v ill return and give exhibitions. J. D. Saffron, Red Cross llfe-gua 'd and swimming instru 'or who has been giving instruitions ii< tlie local pool and the pools at Geneva and Berne, this summer, was able to t eturn to this city Sunday afternoon, after be ing confined to his h.ime in Fo:t Wayne for several days with an infection ot one ear. He will tesume his work here Wednesday.

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