Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1926 — Page 1

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Demand For Probe Carried To State Senators

ADAMS SENDS telegram to EACH SENATOR Sheriff Goes To State Prison After Stephenson; Daley Expected To Refuse governor opposes SI'EC IA L SESSION In<tiana|»*>lis. Oct. 9.— (I nit,,,l Press)—Demand for a special session of the state senate ( 0 investigate corruption charges in Indiana’s latest political upheaval was carried direct to ' members of the upper house today. x Thomas Adams, head of a committee of editors probing the political activities of D. C. Stephenson, former klan dragon, sent a telegram to . all state senators asking if they. would join in a call for a special sesi sion of the senate. Adams was proceeding on the theory that a majority of the state senators could call the body togethi er for an investigation. hi some legal quarters it is held that only the governor is empowered to call such a special session. , Governor Jackson is not in favor of a special session, holding that Adams' charges of corruption aud manipulation of appointments "Sy-Steph-enson can be thoroughly investigated by the attorney general's office and the Marion county prosecutor. Sher iff Goes To Serve Order Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 9 —(United Press)—The center of interest in the investigation of state politics shifted today to the state prison at Michigah City, where a court order will be served for the [eturn of D. C. Stephenson, former klan dragon, to Indianapolis. The order was issued by Judge Sidney Miller in superior court to ~HL.II 111, a l*r>* 'rlVu z .1 atnst ItiiMlMEir ON PAGE FIVE) —O . COTTON GROWERS IRE FACING CRISIS Bumper Crop And Low Prices Bring Threatened Bankruptcy To Millions By Joseph S. Wasney, V. P. Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 9.—Two million cotton growets in the United States face an economic crisis bordering on bankruptcy, because of the bumper cotton crop and attendant low prices, .federal cotton experts told the United Press today. • With a surplus of about 5,000,000 bales of short staple cotton from the 1525 harvest. 16,627,000 bales- will be produced this year,'most of it of_only fair grade. Federal Intermediate credit banks have already advanced farmers $37,bOO.OOu fur cotton in warehouses, in an attempt to remove the surplus of ’his year from the market, while Prices are low. Secretary of Agriculture Jardbrf has advised the producers to store their Cl '°ps, building up a surplus for leaner ear and marketing only for demand this fall. » > Cotton growers, it was said produce at a close margin of from seven to eighteen cents per pound and*) at ’he present low price of about 13 cents a pound, many farmers depend ent on this crop for a livelihood are facing ruin. federal aid has been promised the growers. A. C. Williams, federal farm loan commissioner and Jardine have assured th e farmers that credit hanks had ample reserves for extending credit on warehouse receipts.

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Jack Robinson Seriously 111 At Wichita, Kansas A letter has been received by W P Robinson from his sister in-law, Mrs. Jesse D. Robinson, Wichita, Kansas, stating that her husband is very seriously ill and asking him to come at once if possible. Penn will probably leave this evening, to be at the bedide of his brother. Jack, as he is known in the west, is an oil operator and has been su<»cessful. About eight yearn ago, he suffered from a severe attack of pneumonia upd since that time has never fully regained his health. He hag been ill now for eight months and has gradually declined. Some ten years ago, he was a member of the Missouri senate and is well known in that state. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where he has developed oil fields. F. J. GARRETT TO SPEAK AT RERNE Democratic Leaderin House Os Representives To Visit County Friday Representative Finnis J. Garrett, democratic leader of the house of representatives, will be in Adams county next Friday and will deliver an address next Friday night at 8:00 o'clock, at the Auditorium at Berne The meeting will be free and the tire county, both men and women, are invited Representative Garrett lives in Dresden. Tennessee, and is one of the most powerful figures in national politics. He has been a member of the national congress for many years and has been the floor leader for the last two terms of congress. Dunbar Band ,To Play. The meeting at Berne will follow a free band concert by the Dunbar band, which will toe held in the bus mess section of Berne and also in the Auditorium. The band will march through the business district to the ..... F S'Tff ■ torium. Congressman Garrett arrive In Decatur next Friday afternoon, an 1 will go from this city to Berne qprly Friday evehing, wlierf he will deliver the only address he will make in this part of the state. Men and women of both political parties are invited to attend the meeting and hear a discus ion of natltoiial problems. The speaker is said to be one of the greatest orators In the country, and he has cancelled several engagements to come to this county. County Uhairinan Dick Heller lias at ranged for 15 automobiles to leave this city at 6:15 o’clock next Friday night and all who desire to go to Berne from this city may do so Incoming to Democratio- headquarters between 6 ahd 6:15 o clock next FriICONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) QUINN SPEAKS ATFORTWAYNE Decatur Man Gives Address At Meeting Os Izaak Walton League French Quir.n, well known Decatur Citizen, delivered an address on the life g>f Gene Stratton J orter at a meeting of the Izaak Walton League in Fort Wayne, last night. Mr. Quinn is presidents the Gene Stratton Porter Memorial Hhighway association, which hc.s tor its purpose the establishment and beautification of the Limberlost Trail in honor of the memory of the novelist and naturalist, with made Adams county and northeastern Indiana famous. . Mr. Quinn paid a wonderful tribute to Mrs. Porter. He u-ged the support of the Izaak Warton League in making the Limberlost Trail project a success.

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Louis Cardinals. today pitched h;.-> team to another victory over the New York Yankees in the sixth game of the world’s series a! i New York, making the series stand tied at 3-all. this was Alexaiuler’s second victory in the present world’s scries, he having defeated the Yankees 6-2 last Sunday.

RENEW SEARCH FOR ORMISTON Efforts Os State’s Force In McPherson Case Concentrated On Search Los Angeles. Oct. 9 —(United Press) —Operatives front both the sheriff s and district attorney’s office joined today in a reneweije man hunt for Kenneth (1. Ormiston, fugitive code fendant in the Aimee Semple McPherson ease. All efforts of the state's force handling the case were to be concentrated over the week-end on the search for th radio operator while the evangelist’s hearing on charges of conspiring to defeat justice was adjourned. Evidence linking Mrs. McPherson and her radio man during the period of her disappearance has been accumulating daily and when the hearing is resumed Monday several new witnesses are to be called to supporting state’s theory they were together at Carmel By-The-Sea and in various southern California hotels. o— Union Center Opens Net Season With Victory The Union Center high school basketball team, of Wells county, and the I afayette center school, of Allen county, met last night in the first basketball game of the season. The game was played on the Lafayette center floor, and Union Center was victorious, 26-13.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 9, 1926.

Prominent Hartford City Physician Dies At Marion Dr. R. E. Dewees. 51, one of most] prominent physicians in Hartford City, died at 11:45 o’clock last night lat Grant county hospital in Marion, following an operation for gall stones. | His body will be brought back to j Hartford City for burial. DANGER GROWS ATBEARDSTOWNi 1 Illinois City Entirely Surrounded By' W ater; River Still Rising Beardstown. Jll., ' Oct. Press) Entirely surrounded by | water and almost completely inundat- | ed, Beardstown today faced the most serious danger of its two weeks of flood havoc. The stage of the Illinois river shortly after daybreak was 25.88 feet, the highest in the history of the city. Addel to this was the prediction by forecasters that the river would reach 26 feet today. A survey of the city by the United Press reveated that only 18 houses in the city are above the waters which have overtle«ed from broken levees and crept into the town. Hundreds of homes are entirely ruined, the water having reached the level of lower flood ceilings. Approximately 1.500 families are homeless. Large Area Flooded Broken Bow, Okla., Oct. 9.— (Unit(CONTIN’IED ON PAGE THREE)

FATE OF MILLER AND DAUGHERTY I RESTS WITH JURY Jury 'Resumes Deliberation This Morning After Dead- I lock Last Night VERDICT EXPECTED SOMETIME TODAY New York, Oct. 9. — (United Press) — The jury in the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial, which retired at midnight after tailing to reach a verdict in two hours of deliberation, returned to the jury room from its hotel a half hour before the scheduled time today and resumed considerat-on of the case. The unexpected arrival of the jury at tlie federal building just before 10 a. m.—it had been scheduled to return from the hotel at 10:30 —caused rumor that a determined effort was being made to ruacji a verdict by 10:30, when court would convene. Only a handful of people were in the building when the jury arrived. None of the principals in the case were there. Despite the rumors of an approach ing verdict, nothing -jme from the jury room. At 10:30 a. m, Judge Julian Mack came to court and ascended the bench, but waa jjjfortned the jury had not indicated a readiness to report. Mrs. Miller, wife of the former alien property custodian, came in with a friend and Vincent Carroll, Philadelphia attorney. The three and the judge sat in the courtroom, while perhaps a hundred people waited in the corridors outside. o Traction Car Collides With Work Train; 6 Hurt Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 9. (United Press.) — Six persons today are recovering from injuries received when .... -H i E tract lon ■ celMded The injured: Walter Weddle, Indiauapolis; W. H. Slaughter, Lebanon, and W. H. Catt, Greenfield. 0 x- , OLIVER P, MARSH EXPIRES TODAY Heart Trouble Causes Death Os Decatur Man Early This Morning Oliver Perry Marsh. 67, died at 2:30 o'clock this morning, at his home 222 South Second street following an ill ness from heart trouble. Mr. Marsh came-to Decatur from Bluffton more than a yestf ago. He engaged In farming most of his life and iecent iy retired 'roin active work. He was bcm in Wells county. He is survived by a widow and, four children, Irene Marsh of Richmond Indiana, Mrs. Sadah Shoemaker. Fort | Wayne, Oliver Marsh Michigan City. I and Leroy Marsh, of this city. One sister. Sadah Lee. of Los Angeles, alco survives. The deceased was a member of the Curch of the Brethren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 o’clock at the house on Monday and at 10 o'clock at the Baptist hurch in this city, the Bev. O. E. Miller, officiating Burial will be made in the Lindenwood cemetery, Fo.t Wayne. -o — — Former Decatur Woman To Broadcast Sunday Evening Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Rauch, of Waterford, Michigan, will sing over the radio, Sunday evening, October 10, between 9 and 9:30 o’clock, stand ard time, at station WJR, Pontiac. Mrs. Rauch was formerly Miss Lottie Lett, of this fity.

ALEXANDER HOLDS YANKS WHILE MATES DAT HARD iST. LOUIS TEAM EVENS WORLD’S SERIES WITH NEW 7 YORK YANKS AT THREE GAMES EACH BY WINNING THE SIXTH GAME IN EASY FASHION; WINNERS GET FOURTEEN HITS OFF THREE Y ANK PITCHERS; BELL HITS HOMER; DECIDING GAME SUNDAY. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 —R. H. E. 5T.L..3 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 1-10 14 2 N.Y. .0 0 0 1 0 0 1 00- 2 8 1 • / Batteries: For St. Louis, Alexander and O’Farrell; for New York, Shawkey, Shocker, Thomas and Severeid, Collins. Yankee Stadium. New York, Oct. 9.—(United Press)—With a vicious hitting attack against very spotty pitching, the St. Louis Cardinals drew up even with the New York Yankees in the world’s series, when they won the sixth game here today, by the

HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE TODAY Blaze at Charles Gage Home In Monmouth Causes Damage Estimated at S2OO Fire, originating either from a spark from the chimney or an overheat".! stove pipe, at 1 o’clock this afternoon, did about S2OO damage to the kitchen at the rear of the Charles Gage home, at Msnmouth. located on the east side of the Fort Wayne-Decatur road, north of this city. Mrs. ‘..age had hri n baking a c.:ke in the stove and one of the neighbors called to her that the kitchen was on fire. Mr. Gage was '-ailed and neighbors also responded to the call for help and, through nf-roic efforts the flames were extingnished bet" < tb--> ■■ ■ old ach the mail PjJlLotUie houj.. i «**>■****»■«? - in the kitchen an 1 pumped water which was thrown on the fire The east wall was burned through and th.' ceiling was ruined. Evans Woollen Speaks At Huntington Meeting Huntington, Ind., Oct. 9.—(United Press.) — Warning against what he termed an immediate danger of our republic becoming a bureaucracy, Evans Woollen, democratic senatorial nominee, pledged himself to afd in the reduction of superfluous governmental agencies if elected, in an address here last night. Woollen pledged himself not to vote on any question which might be brought up without first determining whether passage would entail enlargements of government activity. ANDREWS GAUS OF BORDER TRIP Dry Czar Cancels Proposed Investigation Os Prohibition Conditions Washington, Oft. 9. (United Press Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews announced today he had definitely cancelled his proposed border investigation of prohibition conditions. “It will be impossible for me to leave Washington this fall for any lengthy of time,” Adrews said. will meet with congressional leaders who arrive in Washington during November to discuss pending dry legislation. A conference is also to be held with Canadian custom officials. Andrews said he hoped to organize (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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I lop-sided score of 10-2. It was an epidemic of hitting, such as struck the Yanks in St. Louis that gave the National r I league champions the game | and forced the series into a seventh game here tomorrow. I Manager Huggins lost when he » : put the task up to Bob Shawkey lone of his oldest and most exi perienced pitchers. Shawkey was in danger from { i the start and was allowed to rei main in the game until the seventh I inning, principally with the help of ' some very fast fielding. 1 | The Cardinals scored three runs in ■ the first inning on two singles, a double and an infield out and a base 1 on balls. They scored again in the fifth on two a sacrifice, and an infield out. ’ They put the game oil ice by scor- ' Ing five runs in the seventh on Bell's home run, two doubles, a single and i Lazzeri’s error at first base. Again, lin the ninth inning, a triple and an j infield out enabled the National •rgrr.'rir-r- ir.;- . tfiFr tr ;u- ~w ••• (CONTIM F.l> ON PAGE SIXT REVIVAL TO END SUNDAY EVENING Baptists To Close Successful Two Weeks Cami paign Here I I | After two weeks of successful services, the evangelistic campaign at | the Baptist church will come to a - close Sunday'night. A great mass meeting is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. to which both men and wo- ■ men are invited. There will be no service this evening. The evangelist, the Rev. M. F. Scruby, of Dayton, Ohio, preached a powerful sermon last night on the subject, "The End of the World.” | He said in part: "Although we today, are two thousand years removed from the time of [Christ, we are amazed at his wonderI ful words, and works, and his match--1 less ministry. Jesus was always saying, and doing, the thing that was different, and startling. We may well understand something of the emo--3 tions of the disciples, when Jesus ’ calmly announced the destruction of - the temple, and the extraordinary r events that would transpire before - hie- return. "These things sobered and solm- > enized their hearts, and caused them y to inquire, ‘when shall these things I be; what shall be the sign of thy s coming, and Ute end of the age?’ f Jiris question was not born in the y hearts of the disciples. Many ceno furies before that, God had been lay- - ing bare before Daniel these things, until he was moved to cry out: 'O, e my Lord, what shall the end of these (CONTINUED ON P AGE TWO»

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