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I (IJIITAUQUA TO I IE OPENED HERE I MONDAY EVENING | six Davs ights I "High Class Entertainment II To Be Offered I JI'MOK CHAUTAUQUA I TO BE HELI), ALSO | PUbs have b.-.-n completed for DeI tapir's Community chautauqua, which I opens under the big canvas, located I M the corner of Liberty Way auJ | Hurt street, next Monday night. The I juior chautauqua will open at the | cent at S o'clock Monday morning I Raymond Harting, president of the | teal association in charge of thia | year's chautauqua. stated today that I he believed this year s program would | excel ah previous programs The I ibautauqua will last all week, with I prjpams Monday night and every I afternoon and night the remainder of ■ the weekI Season Tickets On Sale. | Season tickets may be secured up I to Monday night at $3.00 for adults I and i 1.59 for children. A purchaser I of a season ticket will save more I than S3OO on the week, it was pointI el out today Tickets may be secured I st the three Decatur banks, at the I Daily Democrat office, The Peoples I restaurant or at the chautauqua gates. I John S. Peterson, chairman of the I ticket committee, stated that all the tickets had been distributed to the guarantors and that most of the money was already collected. He urged that all persons having tickets tun their money in to him not Jgtjer than Monday night. Paramount Parisians Open Program The week’s program will open Monday night at 8 o'clock with a concert by the Paramount Parisians, a company composed of seven lady musicians. The Parisians are said to be one of the best concert orchestras in America The program given by this orchestra includes musical numbers and other entertaining numbers, inrludiug Miags and recitations. The Paramount Parisians are al- ■ Wen extremely loriuuau- m i tbe 01 for tne c. •ning night of DecMur's chsntanqua. Children Organize Monday. At 9 o’clock Monday morning, the children will organize their Junior chautauqua. The children's tickets will be good for the Junior programs each morning and also for each afternoon and evening session. (CONTINUED ONI PAGE TWOJh o_ DECATUR GIRLS HONORED ABROAD Naomi Durkin And Josephine Malley Honored At Dinner In Venice Miss Naomi Durkin and Miss Josephine Malley of this city received quite an honor when they left Venice, 00 August 9, on their tour of Europe this summer. A dinner was given in their honor at the Grand Hotel D’ Italie, Venice. The names of the two Decatur Young ladies appeared on the front of the attractive programs. It read farewell Dinner given in honor of Miss Naomi Durkin and Miss Josephiw Malley.” The Misses Durkin and Malley have toured all the principal countries of Europe and will return to this country f his week. They will attend the ses-qui-centennial celebration at Philadelphia before returning to this city the first week of September. • Q Foot Mashed In Accident Deane Dormin, well-known Decatur Young man. suffered a painful injury Ih-iday while working at the sugar factory when a piece of Iron fall on hit left foot. His foot was mashed and 'he skin broken. An X-ray examination was made today to determine if 4nj bones were broken.

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Thirteenth Holdup Attempted Unsuccessful; Three Bandits Caught Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 28. —(United Press) —With three men already under arrest in a police drive to stamp out banditry, members of a youthful gang of outlaws, including a bobbedhaired gitl. weie hunted today. The gang in which the girl is operating was unsuccessful lust night in its thirteenth holdup attempted when Albert Hartman drove past the bandits as they attempted to waylay him. Clifford Harvey. 2!, Mortis White. 22. and Mortis Everett. 25. were under arrest charged with half a dozen robberies. SCHOOL TAX RATE IS NOT CHANGED School Board Reduces Budget $5,322.52 to Avoid Boost In Tax Levy The 1927 tax rate for the school city of Decatur was fixed at $1.40 |kt SIOO valuation, by the citv school board at a meeting held last night, at which time estimates for the budget for next year were prepared The tax rate for the school system is the same rate as in effect this year. In order to prevent an increase in the tax rate for next year, it was necessary for the school board to reduce the budget, since the property valuation in the city has decreased than, iHlo.Ody during, Lhe past year. The total of the budget for 1927 is |»5,51123. The $1.40 tax levy will raise $92,937.47. Levies Are Unchanged The school city tax rat" has been $1.40 for the last two years. The levies for the dltt-'ient funds are: special fund $.51; tuition fnnd. $.75; bond fund, $.14. Each levy is the same as last year's levies. The estimated expenses in the special school fund is $30,641.75. It is estimated tbas #' ellat amount of SI,OOO will be collected ,«■ <«. . leaving a balance of $29.641. to w ra sed by taxation. The estimated expense for payment of bonds is $6,000 and for interest on bond is $3,437. or a total of $9,437.49 to be raised in the bond and interest fund. The estimated expenditures in the tuition fund is $58,233.74. The revenue to be derived in this fund from sources other than taxation is esti mated at $3,800. leaving a balance of $54,433.74 to be raised by taxation. Budget Reduced $5,322.53 The total amount collected for the three different school funds in 192»> was $98,834 76. The budget for 1927 was reduced $5,322.53 over the 1927 budget. The school board will meet on September 7, at 10 a.m.. to consider the budget and finally adopt same. Taxpayers have the right to appear before the board at that meeting and offer any objections that they might have to the proposed expenditures and levies. The proposed budget and levies are printed in detail in another part of the Daily Democrat today. SUNDAY SCHOOLS WILL HOLD PICNIC Three Reformed Sunday Schools To Hold Picnic Near Magley Aug. 31 A joint Sunday school picnic will be given in the Samuel and Jacob Barger grove, one-half mile south of Magley. next Tuesday. August 31. by the Sunday schools of the Magley and St. Luke Reformed churches and the St Johns Reformed church of Vera Cruz. * A program will be given by the three schools and talks will be given by the ministers. A baseball 'game aud horseshoe pitching will furnish entertainment during the afternoon. Refreshments will be served. The public is invited to attend.

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HABEGGERFEEDS 3 TON LITTERS Adams County Man Feeds Three Litters Os Pigs Averaging 2,675 Pounds i About fifty neighbors and friends gathered at the Joe Habegger farm, in Monroe township. Friday evening, to witness the weighing of two more ton litters fed this year by Mr. Habegger. The first litter weighed, consisted of eleven high grade Duroc,! Their total weight was 2.640 pounds.] but since they were weighed on the] 179th day. each pig was credited ( wifli two pounds additional, making the corrected weight 2.662 pounds., The largest pig in the litter weighed ! 263% pounds while the “runt” weighed 206% pounds. Another litter, consisting of ten cross - bred Duroc • Spotted Boland Chinas, weighed 2.646 pounds. Since it was their 178th day. each pig is credited with four additional pounds, making the corrected weight of the litter 2,686 pounds. Sets State Record I Just a week ago, another ton litter was weighed up for Mr. Habegger. It consisted of 11 high grade Chester Wh'tes and weighed 2.678 pounds. The average of the three litters is 2.675 pounds per litter, which is thought to be a state record. < Shelled corn, tankage, ground rye. ground oats, middlings and semisolid buttermilk made up the bulk of the sation During the last eight weeks, the pigs were fed corn and tankage in a self-feeder. In addition to the above feeds, the pigs hatl free access during their entire lives to the Purdue mineral mixture, which is made up in the proportion of 10 pounds wood ashes, 10 pounds six(COVIWUEn ON PAGE FIVE) o Bluffton Census Shows More Than 6,500 Persons Bluffton, Aug. 28 — (United Press)— The work ot taking the census of the city ot Bluffton was being completed today by the post master. Indications were this aftenoon that the census would be in excess of 6,500. more than 1,000 more than the government census of 1920.

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Railway Labor Unions Os America To Support Striking British Miners Cleveland. Ohio.. Aug. 28 —(United] Piess) "Locked out” British miners i will have the support of 21 railway j labor organizations in America, Ben, i Tiilet. Fiitisk labor Vader, announced! ] here today. < . t ■J d!-”- will he sent t>» ■ s ♦'■CwWibzW*'-''* «• Grew Britain to aiu tne Miaeta ana i 3.000.000, unemployed, according toj 1 Tiilet. who said the decision of the Ame: lean unions wi s rea died alter ; a recent conference in Washington. 1 Executives of the Lalmr organizations] | connected with the brotherhood of j iccomotive engineers have issued an appeal to their members to aid the I British, A Johnson. Grand Chief, an1 ncunced. MAYUPERRTEON JOHN BANCROFT Farmer Who Broke Back In i Fall From Ladder Is Brought To Hospital — John Bancroft, farrier residing near! Geneva, who broke his back in a tall from a ladder while pick’ng pears.: Wednesday evening, was brought to ' the Adams County Memorial Hospital; this morning. No improvement has been shown in his condition The attending physicians stated to-j day that a thorough examination would be made ot Mr. Bancroft’s hack and if advisable, an operation will be performed, prtobalily sometime Sunday; morning. Mr. Bancroft's temperature, and pulse are almost normal, but he: is paraiized from the waist down. Q Grand Dragon Os Klan Speaks Here Friday Night About 250 persons of this community attended a public lecture given by Lee Smith grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, at the monument on the court house square at the Third street entrance last night. Mr. Smith told of the policies of the Klan in connection with the present Mexican situation. The, I address lasted about an hour.

MRS. C. CORSON CROSSES SPAN Danish-American Swimmer, Mother Os Two Children, Conquers Channel Dover. Eng.. Aug. 28 -(l’nite<l Press) Mrs. Clemington Corson (Mille (hide) of New York. Danish. American swimmer, today conquered the English channel in a successful and speedy swim from Cape (iris Nez. In so doing she defeated two men swimmers, the powerful Egyptian Helmy, who gave upi when seized by cramps at 2:30 a. m. today and die English swimmer Trank Perks, who quit a mile and a half off shore at 1:40 pan. The plucky 27-year-old womanmother of two children—is the second woman to swim the channel. Entering the water at Cape Gris Nez at 11:25 p. m.. yesterday, she reached the English shores at Dover Beach, about three p. ni.. today. Although it had seemed, as she neared the beach, that she might break Gertrude Ederle's record of 14 hours and 31 minutes, her time was more tha.i fifteen hours. Beats Men’s Time She did. however, beat the best record established by a man. that of Sebastian Tirabochi. Argentine swimmer. who crossed the channel in 16 i hours and 23 minutes. In addition to beating the time of Tirabosehi by nearly an hour, Mrs. t’orsonte -uuie beat* that of all five men who have accomplished the tcuNTI.tVKD ON PAGK TW«», RODGERS' DEATH BLOWTO AVIATION Naval Aviation Development Os U. S. Hindered Bv Death of Commander ' *•' *** v Washington. D. C. Aug. 28. — (United Press)—The navy air forcer, hard hit by the death in Philadelphia yesterday oi commander John R Rog- ' ers, will carry on with plans for i Panama flight and other long airplane tests, wliicn Rodgers was to ha*e directed, it was understood today. The death of Rodgers when his airplane fell Into the shallow Delaware river at the Navel airctaft factory was I iegarded by experts here as a severe ' blow to Naval aviation developments. Veteran Naval Airman Rodgers was one of the earliest naval airmen and it was on him that the Navy relied for such hazardous expeditions as the Hawaiian flight attempted which he commanded last year and the proposed air journey to San Diego via the Canal zone. Commar.de'- Rodg'-rs was relieved on'y a few weeks ago from desk duty | as assistant chief of the Navel bureau | of Aeronautics, which he had found ■ itksome. to take charw of several proi jected test flights using the newly ’ developed PN-10 planes. It was to insjiect these planes, now i being constructed at th- Philadelphia ; plant, that Rodgers set out from heri yesterday on his fata! flight. His most famous exploit, and the one which made him known to the , entire world, was the Hawaiian flight ! attempted in 1925. He commanded the i expedition, hut his seaplane was forced I hy lack of fuel to land in the Pacific : fur from land. Eor nine days, while every resource ot th. Navy was bent on what was feared to be a hopeless search, he ard his small crew rode the waves In safety and all were rescued unharmed. Funeral plans for Commander Rogers had not been completed this morning. The Navy department was awaiting word fiom his father Rear Adniir al John A. Rodgers, Sr., retired, at Harvre De Gras Md. Commander Rodgers' mother was en route to Philadelphia to hie bedside | when she learned of his death.

Wants Charter Os Athletics Revoked For Playing On Sunday Harrisburg. Pa. Aug. 28. — (United Press) —The state of Pennsylvania today took steps to strengthen the Blue I I,aws of 1794 to prevent the playing | of Sunday Baseball. Attorney General George V,’. Wood-1 ruff, in Dauphin county court, asked 1 for a revocation of the charter of the , Philadelphia club of the American League, as a result of last Sunday's game between the Athletics and the I Chicago White Sox. The game was played after the Ath-! letics management had obtained a tem-1 porary injunction .estraining police] from interfering with the game. TWO HURT WHEN AIRPLANE FALLS Two Bluffton Men Injured j InCrash In Adams County Friday Afternoon Two men were injured, one seriously, when an airplane clashed to the! ground from a height of about 100 feet, west of Berne. Friday afternoon. The plane was piloted bv William Sudduth, of Bluffton, and Merman Brooks, proprietor of the Inn case in Bluffton, was a passenger in the plane. Brooks sustained a double fracture of his left leg. a single fracture of the right leg ami was badly cut about the mouth and head. Sudduth's injuries consisted of cuts an 1 bruises. Sudduth has been operating his airplane about the Otto Smith flying field near Berne intending to become a commercial pilot. Brooks and Sudduth are friends and the former accompanied Sudduth to the flying field foi a flight yesterda). The accident occured when the plane was landing on the field. The plane was about 100 feet shove the ground when it went into a nose dive. The plane turned over once before it plunged to the ground. The two men were pinned under the plane, which i was badly wrecked, and it was UH | minutes before farmers in the fields: tance coaid extricate them trom tne wreckage. Sudduth was painfully cut and bruised. Botlt men were rushed to the Wells County hospit i 1 at bluffton, but Sudduth was able to go to his home later in the evening. Brooks' injuries are serious hut he is expected to recover. U. S. Sailors And Marines Are Landed In Nicaragua Washington, Aug. 28. — (United Press.) —Two hundred American sailors and marines have been landed from tlte United States cruiser Gal-! veston at Bluefields Nicaragua, fori the protection of American lives and property, the state department an- 1 nounced today. The landing came after the governor of Bluefields informed the Amer-; lean naval commander he could not | guarantee safety of Americans there . if the beseiging revolutionists attack-1 ed tlie city. TEXAS PRIMARY RUN-OFF HELD Voters Go To Polls To Decide Fight Between Gov. Ferguson And Moody Austin. Tex.. Aug. 28. — (United Press) —Whether a woman or mat is to be the next governor of Texas was to be decided by voters today when they cast their ballot for either Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson or her fiery opponent. Dan Moody, attorney general. Political observers are predicting a victory for Moody. They base their, claims on the results of the first (CONTINIiEU ON PAGE TWO)

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REFORMATORY GUARDS ARE OVERPOWERED Twenty - Four Convicts Escape From Reformatory ; Two Are Captured DON GUARDS UNIFORMS AND FLEE IN AUTOS lonia, Mich., Aug. 28—(I nitied Press) Two Toledo bandits who were recently convicted of I robbing a bank at Hadley, Mich., were leaders of the sensational jail delivery of 24 prisoners at the lonia State reformatory early today, according to two Os the convicts who were captured at Shiloh, Mich.. 1 I i miles from here, shortly before I noon. The captured prisoners are Charles | Smith, serving a sentence for breakI ing and entering, and Napoleon I Srivitli, Jconvicfed of rtobbpry while armed.. They told Warden Charles Shean. j who captured them, that Benton Ford and Franklin Todd, who weqe impl • cated in the Hadley robbery, “had the guns and led the way.” lonia. Mich., Aug. 28—State police and county authorities in all sections of southern Michigan searched today i for 24 convicts who escaped from the lonia State reformatory here this morning in one of the most sensational jail deliveries in the history of Michigan. • Overpowering the entire night force by means es revolvers and a rifle believed to have been smuggled in to them, the convicts herded four guards into the quarantine ward, donned guard uniforms, and filed out through the main entrance, fleeing in two stolen prison automobiles. Two additional cars were reported to have been stolon by the convicts after quiting the reformatory, when the group split into squads of j five. A fifth group of four, believed ' to have escaped on foot, were reportI ed to have commandered a fifth car. ' Two of the cars were found later ■ abandoned at Tstwoll and Howell. I -PrwwKre the delivery two orison •ward of the main building of the institut'on and on rushing to investigate were hel'l up at the point of revolvers by leaders of the rioting prisoners. believed to have been Wesley Baker, serving five to fifteen years (COVTHVI'EI) OX' PAGE SIX) o—————0 ————— NO WORD FROM MISSING COUPLE Dick Vesey, Former Fort Wayne Man, And His Stenographer Disappear Mishawaka. Aug. 28 No word has I been received .by authorities here f- -n | either Dick Vesey, formerly of Fort i Wayne and a former member of t;iI Indiana legislature from Alien county. I whe has been acting president and general manager of the Hoosier Rubber company, of Mishawaka, or from hfs stenographer. Miss Ruth Sleppy, formerly of Bluffton, both of whom disappeared Thursday and are belie'ved to have eloped. Mr. Vesey left the plant about 9 o'clock Thursday morning after drawing $735 in funds from a local bank and Miss Sleppy left at noon allying a traveling bag. Ralph Nichols, an employe of the company, told local police that he saw the couple driving [ out of Mishawaka Thursday afteri noon and Mrs. Mary Curtis, who oper- , ales a restaurant across the street l from the plant, says she saw Vesey and a woman approai 11 the plant about - 9 o’clock Thuisday night, niter he ■ office and then drive away. Since that time no one has seen :>r ; heard from either Mr Vesey or his ■. -ten gtapher, although polic liav? t been conducting a diligent luvestlga(COXTIXKEU ON CAOH FIVE)

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