Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1926 — Page 1

weather Mostly cloudy to Blgbt a«d Sunday, probably showers. Continued mild tern-

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Bandits Rob Berne Filling S tation A gain

j RETURN VISIT IS I MADE BY FILLING STATION BANDITS Safe And Twelve Tires Taken Last Night; Abandon Car East Os Town POSSE TRAILS GANG ARE FAR AS VAN WERT A posse of Adams county nun today was following the I trail of a gang of bandits who, early this morning, robbed the gasoline filling station and ac- ! cessory shop of the Eastern In(liana Oil and Supply company. I at Berne, the second time in two i consecutive nights. | One stolen car, a Cadallic sedan. | used by the bandits was found abandI oaed along a highway near Rockford, I Ohio, this inoring. The safe taken I from the filling station was still In I the car. At noon today, the posse | had trailed the bandits as far as Van Wert. Ohio, and had gone on to I Paulding. The loot taken from the filling station last night consisted of twelve tew auto tires. Accessories valued at approximately SSOO were stolen at the same filling station Thursday night It is believed that both robberies were committed by the_ same I parties. The safe stolen from the filling station last night was not damaged when found in the car this mbrning, with the exception of the combination kaob being kocked off. The bandits had failed to open the safe. It Is thought that they discovered thar they wer e being followed and decided to abandon the car and safe and fled in another car. The robbery this morning occnrred •** v «wi:jiwwßarwWw schwander, who was returning from the Bluffton street fair, passed the filling station, which is located at the west aide of town on Federal (COXTINiI EU O.V PAGE) THREE) O . SCHWARTZ HERD TESTS HIGHEST Monroe Township Herd Leads In Cow Testing Ass’n. For September Hight purebred Holstein cows own-1 ed by Jacob J. Schwartz, of Monroe township, led the County Cow Testing association for the month of September by producing an average of 34 5 pounds butterfat, each. Two of the cows in the hyrd landed in second and third'places in individual production. Two hundred and fortyone cows were in the association during the month, according to the report of Roy L. Price, tester. David J. Mazelin, who has been a consistent leader for some time, dropped into second place with an average of 32.3 pounds butterfat for his air cows. John D. Mason was third with an average of 25.8 pounds butterfat. Other members ranked as follows: C. W. R. Schwartz. 25.5; E. H. K'uetznian, 25; Orton Dbeeler, 24.8; J - L. Llecbty, 24.2; M. P. Steury, 23.6: Frank Habegger, 22.5; Sol Moser, 21.7. A grade Jersey in the John D. ■Mason herd ranked highest in individual production with 45.8 pounds butterfat. Following closely after the two highest producing cows in the ■Jacob J. Schwartz herd, was a grsyji Holstein which produced 44.5 pounds for Otto D. Bieberich of Kirkland township. Other records made by individual cowg were as follows: David •J Mazelin, 44; E. H. Rruetzman, 43 9; N oa h Rlch , c. W. R. Schwartz, 40.4; O. D. Bieberich; 40.1; c - W. R. Schwartz, 39.6.

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Two Girls Escape From Indiana Women’s Prison Indianapolis. Ind.. Oct. 2. —(United Press.) — After one short night offreedom, Majela Thornburg. 28, and Janet Curmeans, 24, were in the city jail here today ready to go back to the Indiana woman's prison from which they escaped late yesterday. "They can keep us in prison the rest of our lives," the women declar ed today. i Earl Carroll Sails New YBrk, Oct. 2 —(Dnited Press) The U. S. attorney's office consented to the departure of Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, for Europe, today on Carroll's pomis® to return at any time on two weeks’ notice. His bail was raised from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. Carroll is under sentence to a and a day in Atlanta for perjury in connection with his "bathtub” party and is at liberty on appeal. f o — — ■■ BAD WEATHER HINDERS REVIVAL Baptist Revival Has Good Attendance And Interest Despite Rains The inclement weather of the last few; dayjs, has presented a big handicap to the evangelistic services in progress at the First Baptist church sine® last Sunday night. However, the attendance has been good and the interest is running high. The Rev. M. F. Scruby, of Dayton, Ohio, who is the evangeMst in charge of the services. has been preaching powerful sermons each evening. The public is cordially invited to attend any or all of the meetings. The subject of Rev. Scruby’s sermon last night was fl—ll Hl W A said in part: “In answer to the inquiry of John th® Baptist, made through his friends, »s to whether or not Christ was the Son of God, Jesus said: 'Show John again those things which we do hear and see: The blind receive their fight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Woman Leaps From Hotel Window to Death at Chicago Chicago, Oct. 2. —(United Press.) — Leaping from a window in her room on the 22nd floor of the Hotel Sherman, Mrs. May H. Moore, handsome 35-yearpld matron of Keokuk. la., killed herself here today. Her body landed on the roof of the court, three stories above the ground. Mrs. Moore was fully dressed, and apparently had spent' some time in beautifying herself before ending her life.-Her last act apparently had been to manicure her nails. BLEACHER FANS GATHER EARLY One Thousand In Line At Dawn This Morning; Crowd Is Carefree By Paul W. White (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Oct. 2 — (United Press) —The Army of the bleachers is mobillzipg. the First man to answer the call of the World Series appeared at the Un reserved ticket window at the Yankee stadium shortly after 9 o'clock last night y ' An hour later there were four in line. By 1:00 am. the number had swollen to 21 and as dawn made its father dismal appearance there were (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 2, 1926.

CALF CLUB HOLDS SHOW TODAY AT BELLMONT PARK E. A. Gannon, Os Purdue, Judges Calves; Compliments Club Members BASKET DINNER HELD AT NOON Today was show day for the boys and girls who are members of the Adams County ; Calf club. abd about, fifty-nine specimens of dairy calves were exhibited at Bellmont Park, in this city. The calves were fine speci- . mens and the judging was a difficult task. E. A. Gannon, of Purdue University, judged the calves. Mr. Gannon stated that the calves were fine ones and he complimented the Adams county boys and girls on their success in feeding the calves. There were two divisions in the club thix year, the junior class for spring calves and the advanced class for yearling calves. The yearling calves were the same calves entered in the junior class last year. Most Calves Exhibited Nearly all members of the club brought their calves to the show here today. A possible forty points is awarded for the showing made by the calves at the exhibit. The other sixty points were awarded on the record books, economy in feeding, and other items connected with the club work. There was a large crowjl of men (CONTINUED ON PAGE T*U| CITES BENEFITS - DLPPnMRiTifIy Methodist Board Os Tem- ' perance Says Modification Would Mar Prosperity Washington. Oct. 2—(fnited Press Any modification of the prohibition flaw would destroy 92 per cent of the country’s prosperity, the Methodis’ board of temperance, prohibition and public morals said today in making public a list of "wonders accomplished by prohibition." Prohibition has resulted in a remarkable decline in the general death rate, the board stated. From the h'gh peak of 18.1 per 1.000 population in 1918 the rate has receded to 11.8. The death rate from alcoholism has also decreased materially. From a high record of 6.8 per 100,000 population this rate has dropped to less than 2.6. ■ The board said that while there was a steady increase dn alcoholism Immediately after prohibition the rate egain declined soon after the fir-jt outburst. Arrests for intoxication are placed by the board at 147 per 10,000 population as compared with 193 in 1914. The board said that while arrests (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) -. Former Postmaster Os Ohio City Dies D. H. Heidy a former resfdent of Ohio City, died Thursday morning in Mt. Clemens. Mich, where he had made his home for the past year. While in Ohio City he was postmaster for eight years. In 1922, he left there for Marietta, Ohio, where he lived until a year ago when he went to Mt. Clemens. He is survived by three children, a daughter, Mrs. Clara Bowe of Mt. Clemens an dtwo sons, Waldo Heidy, of Ohio City, and Harry Heidy, of Marietta. Funeral services are to be held at Oslo City on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. *

Bowers Funeral To Be Held Monday Afternoon Funeral services for J. William Bowers. 75, of Monroeville, who died at the Memorial Hospital here Thurs day, will be held at the U. B. church at IJberty, near Monroeville, at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mr. Bowers is survived by the widow, four sons. William Bowers, Frank Bowers, and Earl Bowers, all of Fort Wayne, and Jess Bowers, of Elkhart; five daughters, Mrs. Alice Karney, Mrs. William Oliver, Mrs. Albert Oveiley, Mrs. Hays and Mrs. Daisy Ryne, ail of Fort Wayne; 29 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren FALL, SINCLAIR MUST FACE TRIAL Validity Os Indictments In Teapot Dome Conspiracy Case Is Upheld Washington, Oct. 2—(United Press Appeals of Former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny and his son, questioning validit of indictments charg ing them with consipracy to defraud the government, were dismissed in the District of Columbia court of . appeals here today. The four men, indicted in connection with the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases, now must face trial in District of Columbia criminal court. ■ —o Relief Fund Nearing Hundred Dollar Mark The Florida Relief Fund, being raised here by the Adams County chapter of the American Red Cross, approached the SIOO mark today with the donation of $lO by the Christian Union church at Honduras and $1 05 wK'-i—irjiK—■ MteiUMrxieeM 1 —• stands at $94 45. “Balls And Strikes” At World Series New York, Oct. 2.—(United Press) —The City’s hotels were taxed to capacity today with world series fans. Every lobby was packed with milling humanity from which one phrase, “have you got tickets ’ steadily issued. The large hotels around the tXree squares—Times, Lomu re and Persuing —reported that because the series game at the time of the usual weekend checkout," it piobably would be 1 unnecessary to provide extra cots in ballrooms. Theatres along broadway were al i most without exception completely I sold out tot tonight's performances. One baseball Mobul isn’t going to i be misquoted Frank Navin president of the Detroit Tiger* was asked his < opinion of the probable winner. "Um’’ said Navin ard could not be 1 drawn out further. The world series Is not without its 1 benifits. A crew of workmen were i assigned to scrub the steps and station s I 161st street. “First time it’s been cleared since the Yanks met the giants in 1923," the fans commented. 1 A Box on the Mezzanine was set 1 reside for Jack Dempsey anil ills wife. The Ex-Champion probably will ne t be t able to go, the tickets being used by 1 Gene Normile, bis manager, and a partly of friends. Bert Nesch, “Freak bet Kitfg," kept hls title by wagering S2O against S2OO that more buns would be scored in th" 1 fifth Inning of the first game than any other inning of all the games played in New York, Lou Blue Tigers’ first baseman cam? to see the scries, but thus far has spent most of his time in a dentist’s i chair. “However, I’ll see the game," He said, "Because my dentist has i tickets, too.”

EVANS WOOLLEN 1 TO SPEAK HERE THIS EVENING Democratic Candidate For Senator To Speak At Campaign Rally OTHER SPEAKERS TO BE ON PROGRAM Evans Woollen, denlocratic short term senatorial candidate. Arthur Hamrick, democratic candidate for secretary of state, and R Earl Peters, former Decatur resid-nt who is democratic state chairman, will arrive in Decatur at 5 o’clock this afternoon for the Democratic Rally to be held at the court house at 8 o'clock tonight. Final arrangements have been made for the rally. The General Electric band and the Junior 1 and will furnish the music and a large crowd is anticipated to hear Mr. Woollen’s message. Mr. Woollen and Mr Hamrick will be at headquarters before the meeting and will be glad to meet all the voters personally. Speaking Opens at 8 P. M. Tlie speaking will begin at 8 o’clock and will last about an hour and a half. The county candidates will be introduced. and Mr. Woollen will discuss the political problems that are confronting the laborer, business man and farmer Air. Hamrick will disOuss the state Issues Both men and women are cordially invited to attend the meeting. The cemt house will be open at 7:30 o’clock with Mat. Bieiner in charge. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CARPENDER TO JUBHJJSr State Wins Separate Trial For One Defendant In Hall-Mills Case Somerville, N. J., Oct. 2. —(United Press.) —The state today won a separate trial for Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, one of the four indicted for the murder of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Nrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer, on Sept. 14, 1922. The others indicted are Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, the clergyman’s widow and cousin of Carpender, and her brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens. Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, applied for a separate trial for Carpender. explaining the evidence against the Wall street broker was different from that against his three relatives. Mrs. Hall and her brothers will go on trial Nov. 3, it was announced at the hearing. The Carpender trial will be held later. The identity of the new suspect whose arrest has been promised remained a secret today. The arrest may be made "any minute," it was said. The state also continued to keep the secret of the affidavit made by Henry Dickman, former state trooper who spent months investigating the case and was said by Simpson to have made "startling revelations" that introduced half a dozen new names into case. Woman Drowns Herself In Indianapolis Canal Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. S.—(United Press) —Despondency over ill health was given by relatives today as the cause for the suicide of Mrs. Lucy Mohr, 65, who drowned herself in the Indianapolis Canal. She Mipped away from home unnoticed and after an all day search her body was found in the canal, caught Sgaiust the abutment of a bridge.

ST. LOUIS DEFEATED IN WORLD’S SERIES OPENING BABE RUTH AND BUSTER GEHRIG LEAD ATTACK FOR NEW YORK TEAM; BOTH TEAMS SCORE IN FIRST INNING; GAME FILLED WITH FAST ACTION; PENNOCK IS WINNING PITCHER. C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9—R. H. E. ST.L. . 1000 00 0 0 0-1 3 1 N.Y. , . 1 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 X-2 G 0 Batteries: for St. Louis, Sherdel and O’Farrell; for New York, Pennock and Severeid. Yankee Stadium, New York City, Oct. 2—(United Press) — Babe Ruth and Buster Gehrig, the two big guns of the New York Yanks, put the American League champions out in front in the first game of the world series when the Yankees defeated St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 2-1, in the first game of the cham-

~ 1 EDITOR OF U. B. | PUBLICATION DIES i Dr. J. M. Phillippi, Editor < Os Religion Telescope, Dies At Dayton, Ohio J. M. Phillipi, editor of the Re ligious Telescope the denominational paper of the United Brethren Church, died suddenly, Monday, in a hospital at Dayton. Ohio, following an operation for appendicitis. Dr. Philippi was recognized as one of the greatest writers in the church and has been in rtle tditorial position rince 1902. He is he author of several books that have a widespread circulation over the d» nomonation. Dr. Phillippi was the leading person who was instrumental in the securing the orphantage in the United States com- , prising nearly 5.000 acres of land. < Those who have been readers of the Religious relescope know for them 1 selves the loss that the Church sus- j tains. His editorials were reprinted in all the leading church magazines and I many imes the secular papers. o i Prospective Ton Litter To Be Weighed Tuesday Arrangements have been made to weigh a prospective ton litter on the • M. Davison farm, in St. Mary’s township next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Mr. Davison's son. Albert, en- ! tered the ton litter contest last spring I nominating a litter of nine purebred 1 , Spotted Poland Chinas. That he has! given them good care and feed this 1 ‘ summer is evidenced by the fact that ■ they are expected to reach the ton on j 1 their !80th day. Every one interested ' in seeing these pigs weighed are ask- ! ed to be at the Davison farm at 41 ■o'clock, sharp. o FIVE BURN TO : DEATH IN HOTEL ’ • — .I' Ruins Os Sibly Hotel In Sibley, La., Being Searchs ed For More Bodies Sibley, La., Oct. 2. — (United Press) 1 —Five persons are known to have been burned to death when the Sibley 1 Hotel was destroyed by fire early today. F. W. Mlnchew, his wife and two sons and a nephew, O'Grev, of Castor La., are among the known dead. It is believed a man and his wife and their ' small child also lost their lives Ruins of the Hotel an be ig searched for bodies ' ( A dozen lioust s in the vicinitv of , the Hotel, were burned by fire which was discovered shortly before dayligth

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pionship series. It was a hectic game, in whi c h each team crashed through a nervous pitcher for one run in the opening inning. The pitchers then steadied and the Yankee attack, which had been very dormant, broke out with just a fluster in the sixth inning, when Babe and Buster put over the run that won the game. It was fast action for a crowd that was looking for action. Yankees Cardinals Combs x- CP Doutbit Koenig SS Thevenow Ruth RF SouthWorth Meusel LF Hoft'ey Gehrig IB L. Bell Lazzeri 2B Efbttomley f Dugan 3B Hornsby Severied C O'Farrell Nennock P Sherdel First Inning St Louis—Douthit doubled off right third. Hornsby was out, Pennock to Gehrig, on an easy chance. Douthit holding third. Bottomley scored (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST AIMEE Evidence In Hearing Shows Evangelist Visited Four Hotels With Ormiston Los Angeles, Oct. 2 —(Un’ted Press The record in the hearing-of the Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson, charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, contained testimony today that the evangelist visited four hotels in California in company with Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her temple. Agnes Callahan, chambermaid at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel, testified for the prosecution that she saw Ormiston visit the evangelist in her room at the Ambassador "On at least one occasion” and that she reported to the housekeeper what she saw. One of the evangelist’s own followers, Thos. Scott Neville, who was baptized by Mrs. McPherson, corro borated the testimony of Walter Lambert that he saw the evangelist enter the Clark Hotel, five hours before she disappeared from Ocean Beach, May 18 and that Ormiston entered two minutes later. Melville was a door man at the hotel. The handWTiting of Ormiston will be compared with the names “Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gibson” in the St. Andrews hotel in San Luis Obispo, Calif., before the end of the hearing, District Attorney Keyes announced. Paul Hibbard, a bellboy at the hotel, identified Ormiston as the man who occupied a room at the hotel wtith a woman on the night of May (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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