Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1926 — Page 1

WEATHER Cloudy tonight. Probably »now In ncr th»a»t portion. Cold ***' tonight with temperature of 20-25 degrees. Continued cold Wednesday-

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MIAN ORDERED ID ANSWER GRAND JURY'S QUESTIONS Court Orders Witness To Answer Questions In Political Corruption Quiz EXPECTED TO TELL ‘ about strong box Indianapolis, Nov. 9,--(l nilcd Press)— Judge Charles Willsie in Marion county criminal court today summarily ordered (i. Julian of Evansville. Io answer all but one of 35 questions put Io him in the grand jury investigation of alleged political corruption in Indiana. Julian, a former business associate of p. C. Stephenson, was taken back to the grand jury room and resumed his testimony. When recess was taken at noon it was understood he had given answer to 25 of the questions. i He was to be recalled tl)is afternoon to answer the remaining questions which Judge Wiltsie ruled he must answer or face contempt of court. Text Not Revealed The text of the questions was not revealed. In hearing arguments on the right of the state to compel Julian to answer, the questions were referred to only by number. It was learned htwever. that Julian had said he secured from a “Mrs. Meed” two .black boxes contjuining important docunipnts belongling to Stephenson and had taken them to Evatlsville. Tne documents contained tn these boxes Prosecutor Remy believes will confirm or refute the charges of political onder Stj’phenI son’s leadership of the klan. It was not revealed in open court what disposition Julian had mane of the Stephenson documents, or whether they were still in Evansville. A spirited verbal conflict between Prosecutor Remy and John Kiplinger. attorney representing Julian, marked the arguments before Judge Wiltsie over competing Julian to I answer the questions. o — Bodies Os Two More Mine Accident Victims Recovered Ishpeming, Mich.. Nov. 9. — (United Press) —Two more bodies have been recovered from the Barnes-Heekei mine -here, in addition to the eight preciously brought to the surface, it was announced today.

The Bodies of Thos. Kirby ami Jack J. Hanna were recovered in the jam of timbers in the shaft 450 feet below the surface, a short distance from the plac e w’here rescuers last night recovered the body of Joseph Manko. HOOSIER POET SPEAKS HERE Barton Rees Pogue Pleases Local Audience With Wit And Philosophy An appreciative audience heard Barton Rees Pogue, Indiana poet, at the high school auditorium last night. Mr. Pogue gave a talk under the auspices of the civic department of the Decatur Woman’s Club. In addition to the members of the club, there was a large number of men and other women present. Mr. Pogue is an entertainer of exceptional ability. His talks are full of Hoosier wit and philosophy. During his talk, he read many of his poems, to illustrate phases of his Philosophy. Mr. Pogue has a wonderful understanding of human nature. He calls Greenfield, Indiana, the home of James Whitcomb Riley, as his home, also. At present, he is head of the department of expression at. Taylor University, at Upland. Preceding Mr. Pogue's talk, the Woman's Club held a brief business session and the famous Poe quartet entertained for a half hour. The selections by the quartet drew several rounds of vigorous applause.

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Women’s Relief Corps To Move Headquarters As the W. R. (’., will move from its present headquarters in the Voglewi de building to the Yeoman hall, the organization wil) offer for sale the furniture and fixtures which it will not move to the new quarters. About GO yards of linoleum, a writing desk und a stove will be sold. The hall over the Voglewede shoe store will be opened Wednesday afternoon and the articles will be sold to the highest bidder. Anyone interested In the purchase of the furniture or lineoleum may get in touch with Mrs. Ida Chronister, president of the W. H. C. o — SOLICIT FRUIT FOR HOSPITAL Annual Drive For Canned Fruit For Local Hospital Opens Soon The annual drive for canned fruits and vegetables for the Adams County Memorial Hospital will be made Thanksgiving week, Miss Emile Crist, superintendent of the hospital, announced today. Persons who wish to donate canned fruit or vegetables may get jars by calling the hospital. The donations will be collected Thanksgiving Day. it was announced today. The drive is made each year in order that the patients may have good, clean, wholesome vegetables and ft nits the year around. The hospital .will sponsor the drive this year. In previous years, a local organization took care of collecting the donations. Thpse who contribute may get their jars back if they so desire. Miss Crist said today. Marines Start Guarding Mails In Indianapolis Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. 9. — (United Press)- A detachment of forty U. S. Marines today went on duty in Indianapolis to guard the mails. The men were assigned to the federal building and the Union station and to trucks conveying valuable shipments of mail to guard against robbery.

OR, HALLEY GIVES SECOND RECITAL Another Large Audience Hears Bible Reader At Reformed Church Despite the inclement weather last night, another large crowd filled the auditorium of Zion Reformed church to hear Dr. Halley give the second of his series of Biblical recitals. Dr. Halley continued his readings from the point he left off on Sunday night, giving the history of the Hebrew nation as found in the historical books. Joshua, Judges, I & II Samuel. I & II Kings, I & II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther with a short sketch from the prophets Joel, Amos and Jeremiah. This section of the Bible perhaps is least read of all and its message is relatively little known. Dr. Halley traced clearly the rise and fall of the Hebrew' nations pointing out the causes of its early successes and later disaster in the words of the Biblical record. The preliminary services each evening are very short, allowing Dr. Halley most of the allotted time for his readings. He uses only material which deals directly with the purpose of his message which keeps his audience ever on the alert. His method is probably the most unique of any man who has appeared upon a Decatur platform. Its effectiveness is attested by the splendid response on the part of his audiences. Tonight, Dr. Halley will give the messages of the prophets. Thursday night, the Life of Christ, and Friday evening, the events of the Crucifixion. Dr. Halley urges those who cannot attend all of the nieetings to be present Thursday and Friday evenings. An offering is taken each evening.

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Trusty Who Tried To Stop Fleeing Criminals May Be Rewarded With Freedom

Columbus, 0., Nov. 9.—(United Press)—The prized gift of freedom for a man whose liberty has been forfeited to the state because of manslaughter, was the prospective reward today for Tex Lattimer, one-! time catcher for the Brooklyn and Philadelphia National league clubs. Gov. Vic Donuhey will be asked for clemency for Lattimer, who gambled his life in an effort to stop 13 criminals revolting within the walls of the Ohio state penitentiary yesterday. Lattimer was sentenced to life imprisonment three years ago when convicted of shooting a railroad detective near Enla, Ohio. He pleaded that he shot in self-defense during an argument. Fights To Quell Uprising luittimer, a trusty, fought to quell

EDUCATION WEEK DEING OBSERVED Parents Invited To Visit Classes In Public Schools Os City American Education week is being observed in the Decatur public schools this week. Personal invitations were distributed today to all parents having children in the public schools to attend some of the school's classes this week The letter are signed by the princi pal and all the teachers of each school and were sent to th parents at noon ’ today by thw ’pirptts The patrons are invited to attend any classes and spend as much time as they like in the various departments of the schools. The week is being similarly observed by al! schools throughout the United States in compliance with a request fromt he national department of education. Open Season On Quail Hunting Begins Wednesday Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9. — I Unite' 1 Press) —Hoosier spoilsmen today are oiling their guns in preparation for an early start afield tomorrow when the '•..!> >n . ,>n <1 HUi; |hnUn< begins in Indiana. The open season on rabbit in Indiana is almost continuous and for that reason attention of the nimrods really centers on the date when the bars arc lowered on quail shooting, that sport being the best provided within the state. Mild winters and favorable summers have resulted in an abundance of the feathered game, according to reports from various localities. A bulletin issued today by George N. Mannfe'.d, state superintendent of fish and game, states that the open season on quail will continue until Dec 10 with a daily bag limit of 15 birds. No hunter may posses*, more than forty five birds after three days' successive shooting. Rabbits are plentiful this year, Mannfield said, and the hunter is assured of a well fi.led game bag even if the quail are not abundant. Warning has been issued that game wardens will enforce game laws to the final letter and sportsmen are urged to employ care in the use of guns and fire in the open. In addition to quail, the open season for trapp'ng muskrat, raccoon, oppossum and foa will open tomorcov Quite a few of these fur bearing animals still enhabit itihe state and will provide sport for many Hoosiers this winter. Mannfeld said. o ■ Killed in Fall Down Stairs. Noblesville, Ind., Nov. 9. —(United Press)—Six children today survived Mrs. Sophia Kistner, 69, who died after a fall downstairs at her home, she struck a concrete floor, fracturing ne'skull. o —- Boy Accidentally Shoots Self Laporte. Ind., Nov. 9.—(United Press) —Vaughn, 15, son of William Morgan city band ditector. is recover ing today from a rifle bullet wound in his left shoulder. He accidentally shot himself while hunting.

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lithe uprising after four guards bad 1 been shot, beaten or stabbed, and ' Will Payne, secretary to Warden , P. P. Thomas, with a trusty at the telephone switchboard, had been beaten. Tex was on duty at the outer gate , when the band of criminals armed with knives and guns taken from the guardhouse came charging on their , way to freedom. Singltvhanded he tried to stop them and failing, ran for the warden’s office wltere he obtained Thomas’ revolver and fired into the fleeing band. One fugitive. Harold Nierengarten, fell with the first shot. He was returned by guards who had started pursuit. A bullet was imbedded in his head but his condition was not • r-tlSlTflXnr.n O1» PAGR TW<l|

Fall And Doheny To Be Arraigned Wednesday WashingUD, Nov. 9. — (United Press) —The machinery of justice that leads to prison bars or exoneration tomorrow brings former secretary of interior Albert B. Fa J and E. L. Doheny. oil magnate, before the District of Columbia Supreme Court f r a: raignment. Fall, recovering from an earlier illness. is here and Doheny arrives today for the purpose of pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government, brought at the •result of the “Little Black Bag" incident and other revelations of th e Senate oil investigation of three years ago. Doheny and Kall have been ordered to trial Nov. 22. The arraignment is only a formality. Both Fall and Doheny expect to be acquitted, although a long trial is expected. They will appeal to the highest courts if they lose, it is understood. ARMISTICE DAY TO BE OBSERVED City Schools To Hold Programs Thursday; Banks To Be Closed Decatur public schools will observe Arnnstje Imy Th ; rsi’ 4 y . Nov. 11. ■■ was anii'- .nced t" S iperintepdent M. F. Worthman today. The schools will hold various programs in the af'ernoon. All programs will begin at 2‘»5 o'clock and will last until school is dismissed at 3:45. o'clock. The programs will be of a patriotic nature, and at most cf the schools a short evplanatory talk concerning the closing of the World War will be given by some teacher or local citizen. The remainder of the program will include singing of patriotic songs and readings. The day is a legal holiday, and local banks will be closed. There will be no public observance, however and none of the other local buir’oss houses will close. CONSTITUTION DAY OBSERVED ’Catholic School Pupils Hold Program In Connection With Education Week The pupils of the Catholic high school thoroughly enjoyed an Education Week entertainment given by tre seventh grade and high school pupils in the auditorium of the Catholic school building Monday afternoon. The program for Constitution Day, as Monday was termed, opened with the entire student body singing "America”, after which the following program was given: Eulogy on American Education R. H. Miller Preamble. Seventh Grade. 'Genesis of Constitution, E. Brunnegraf The American Creed, Seventh grade The Balance Wheel. William Klepper (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

MORE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS STORY OF “PIG WOMAN" Detective Says He Saw Hoof prints Made By Mrs. Gibson’s Mule FINGER PRINTS ARE EXAMINED Courtroom, Somerville, N. J. Nov. 9. — (United Press) —One more bit of evidence was added today to the record of the Hull-Mills case to support the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, “The Pig Homan” that she was on the Phillips farm the night of September 14. 1922 and saw the murder of the Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. A detective testified that he examined the murder scene and found there •'hoofprints.” The state will p<> nt to this as corroboration of “Jenny,” her mule. Aside from this bit of evidence the entire morning was devoted to exhaustive studies in the technique of finger print experts. The jury heard two experts tell how long such prints could be preserved; the process of preservation; and the methods of reading the prints. The evidence, while it failed to produce the thrills that some testimony has given, was of the highest importance, for one of the ma n points of the state's case is based upon the presence of finger prints of Willie Stevens on a card found on the body of Rev. Edward Hall. Although lobbed of thrills at the morning sessitita, followers of the case were promised recompense this afternoon. — ——. —o Prominent Gary Citizen Held On Assault Charge Gary. Ind., Nov. 9. — (United Press) —Fred Hamilton; secretary to Wm. I'. Hodges when Hodges was mayor of Gary, was held under $5,000 bond today on a charge of assault and battery with intent to rob .pending investigation of an attempt to crack the safe of the Gary Baking company. Hamilton, a member of one of the most prominent families in Gary, was taken home from Mercy Hospital after bond was fixed. He collapsed with a ■si iffi , err srttat k—. appea: Udtla.. jeJj lie questioned by police after the attempted robbery. The young men .--'aimed he was forced under threat of death to drive three other men to the bakery in hi? auto. They were frightened away and left his machine at the bakery. Later Hamilton went to police headquarters to report his machine stolen but was held and identified by the watchman at the bakery as one of the four who bound and gagged him. Hamilton then admitted being in tii bakery but claimed he was forced to aid the otheis under threat of death. o Epidemic Feared In Wake Os Typhoon Manila, Nov. 9—(United Press) Medical authorities and relief workers in the province of Batangas, which was devastated by a typhoon Saturday, were working today to avert a possible epidemic among the homeless and destitute survivors. Many families of Pauan and other coast villages found themselves penniless, their homes, stock and crops wiped out. They will be obliged to begin life anew with whatever assistance can lie given them. o Farmer Catches Golf Fever; Builds Private Courses On His Farm Glenwood. lowa, Nov. 9.—(United Press)—Three trips to the golf links in Council Bluffs inoculated RoyLewis, farmer, with the golf fever so badly than he laid out a two-hole course in his pasture. He enjoyed the two hole course so much that he laid out another of six holes on the nearby farm of his father. Lewis has turned the two courses into profitable ventures for he uses sheep for lawn mowers.

fAimee Prepared To Fight Slander Suits — Los Angeles, Nov. 9. — (United Press.) — Aimee Semple McPherson announced today that “he Is prepared to light the $3,000,000 worth of slander suits, which, It was expected, wil) have been filed against her by the end of this week. S. S. Hahn, attorney, already has (lied one of the suits in behalf of Mrs. Virla Kimball, sister of Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman, who is a defendant with Mrs. McPherson and her mother in the "kidnapping” conspiracy case. o—. . SCHOOL DAY IS LENGTHENED Decatur School Officials Decide To Add 15 Minutes To Afternoon Work Ihtblic schools In this city will remain in session until 3:45 P M. each day, instead of dismissing at 3; 30 o'clock it was decided at a meeting of principals last night, with Superintendent M. F. Worthman. The new ruling becomes effective at once. Five minutes will be added to each afternoon period at the high school and the additional 15 minutes to the school day will be divided equally atnong the afternoon classes at the ward buildings. The new time schedule for all schools is: Fotenoong, 8:15 to 11:50; Afternoons. 1:15 to 3:45. The new schedule became effective today. O State Inheritance Taxes Total $1,143,469 In Year Indianapolis. Nov. 9 —(United Press State inheritance taxes collected during the last fiscal year totaled $1,143,469.14 an increase of more than $20,000 over collections of tile previous year, according to the annual report of Schuyler C. Mowrer, state collector. Os the 3077 estates levied against last year. 200 were non resident and yielded nearly $90,000 of the total Total value- of the estates levied against was $71,244,877.58. DECLARE WAR ON GANGS AT HEREIN Civil Authorities Plan To Stamp Out Gangsters In Illinois City Heirin, 111., Nov. 9. —(United Press) Civil authorities of Herrin —so called battle center of strife-swept Williamson county—today declared war against the gangs which have started machine gun warfare in the county. “If necessary, I will recruit 1,000 men to put a stop to this gangsterism," Mayer Marsha 1 McCormack said. He wa s especially bitter towards members of the Shelton gang—who have been at odds with members of the Hirgar gang -and said that the gang had attempted to intimidate Herrin city officials. “I will drive the Sheltons away from Herrin, and if they will let me know where they are I'll have a crowd to meet them at any time.” the Mayor said. — o American Legion To Hold Meeting Tonight There will be an important meeting of the local American Legion at the offices of Lenhart, Heller and Schttrger Tuesday night, at 7:30 o'clock. All members ate urged to attend. o bulletin La Plata, Md„ Nov. 9. — (United Press)—At least four school children were killed, six seriously hurt, and forty less seriously injured when a windstorm wrecked the school house and four residences here today.

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COLD WAVE ON WAY EASTWARD; SNOW IS FALLING Blizzard Starts In Western Canada and Moves Across United States DUE TO STRIKE INDIANA SOON Chicago, Nov. 9. — (United Press) Winter swooped in on the middle west today with general snowfall and sharply lower temperatures. Snow, which fell hr a depth of three inches in western Kansas and drifted in embankments large enough to delay train schedules, fell in lesser degrees in a half dozen middle western states. Nearly every where the rcury was reported dropping. Western Canada, source of the blizzard, reported temperatures near the zero mark yesterday but the mercury has started up In that territory while the storm continues southeasterly over the Missouri and Mississippi valleys. Several trains on the Rock Island and Santa Fe lines in Kansas were held up while drifted snow was cleared from the right-of ways. From parts on Nebraska. lowa. Minnesota, upper Michigan, and the Dakotas came reports of snowfall in varying amounts. In some places it melted almost as rapidly as it fell. Northern Illinois and Indiana wi l encounter temperatures as low as 26 degrees abov e Zero by tomorrow, the Chicago weather bureau predicted. Approaching Indiana Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. 9. —(United Press)- Riding on a high wind from the northwest, a cold wave, probably accompanied by snow flurries, was due to strike Indiana today, according to w-eathe; bureau forecasts. The mercury in Indianapolis at 7 A. M„ legistered 54 degrees. 14 degrees above norami for this time of year. By 9 o'clock it had dropped to 52 degrees and the drop is expected to continue throughout the day. Rain changing to snow as the mer cury nears the freezing point is anticipated. During the night a low mark of 20 or 25 degiees is expected. The cold wave probably will contiaHv- ’;-a.-Cj)'.'.:Wdnesdav. although lair weather is predicted for Wednesilav Fire Chief Dies Van Wert, Ofc'o. Nov. 9.—Lou D. Johnson, chief of the Van Wert fire department, died Monday morning of pneumonia, at the Van Wert County Hospital. Mr. Johnson was attacked with ptomaine poisoning about 10 o’clock on the night of November 1. This illness developed into pneumonia. TWO GIRLS ARE KILLED BY TRAIN Young Man Probably Fatally Injured In Crossing Wreck At Crawfordsville Crawfordsville. Ind.. Nov. 9. — Two girls were killed and a young man was probably fatally injured here this afternoon when a passenger train on the Big Four railroad struck an auto at a crossing here. The dead: Mary Whalen, 19. and Louise Van Seoyoc. 12. Leslie Van Seoyoc, 17, brother of lamise and driver of the car is expected to lie front his injuries. Tlte two girls died a few- minutes after they had been taken to the Crawfordsville hospital. o ■ — Heckman Found Not Guilty Clem Heckman, of this city, was freed in Mayor's court this morning, when he appeared on a charge of driving a ear while intoxicated. Attorney Clark I'utcher represented rhe defendant in the ase. and piodtt -.-<1 ev deme to show that lle.kman was not intoxicated. He was dismissed utter the hea: in ;.

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