Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1926 — Page 1

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D. C. STEPHENSON APPEARS IN COURT

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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President To Make |i Speech This Evening | v ' 1 I l' • Dee. 29 (t nltsd ' Press) President Coolidge will make his first speech of the winter tonight at Trenton, N .1 ~ddt, s ing th<- Tren- I ton Historical society's celebration of • the lfa)th anniversary of the revolutionary battle there. , A special train will carry him to Trentcn arriving there an hour before the dinner where he is to speak The train will return immediate.y aft- • r ■!'<■ fumtion. lying over on a quiet ’ siding just outside ot Washington and and deliveting the executive party in the capital early tomorrow morning. CENTRAL SCHOOL 5 I PLAY NEXT WEEK: ' “His Last Legs" Is Title Os , Comedy To Be Given • By Grade Pupils “His Last Legs,” a three-act com- ' I edy. wSI lie presented hr the pupils • of the eighth grade of the Central school at the high school auditorium. ' Wednesday and Thursday evenings, January 5 and 6, it was announced I today. Miss Grace Coffee, who has successfully coached the Central school plays for the last, several ' years, is in charge of the cast, and i those who have seen the rehearsals ' ■ say that this year's production will Ibe the best home talent, play ever presented by that school. Tickets are on sale now for the 1 ' play, at 25 cents each. The play is t 1 being given early this year, so as to | not conflict with the Simultaneous ; Revival meetings of the Protestant i hurches in this city- The tickets I may be obtained from any Central | school pupil or from the instructors at the school. The play is a comedy and contains many laughs from beginning to end The price has been set low so that | everyone in town may be aide to see j Li... urr.libtion. •H*. . I TtwHIT. Mix O'Callahan ... J mes Engeler | Charles Rivers Daniel Schafer | {lver3 . Randolph Brandy-berry Hr. Banks lrarobl Melchi ' Mrs Montague Bernadine Schroluka Ijuli-k .... Ema I.ankenau < Mrs. Banks Enid Walter I I EPWORTH LEAGUE : TO HOLO BANQUET ■ Young People Oi Beulah , Church To Hold. Watch , Party New T ear s Eve ThP Epworth League of the Beulah £ bu th of the Decatur M'. B. c.rcutt , liirxu X.». i”™ 1 "-" "'*■ i , „„ will be toastmaster. Mr- J° n l • mT n DecaturJ suMlstrictt presi- i pres.dent of tt>n subject that ( e his department of r -'-- serving his tenth year at 1,1 Wavlale church, of Fort th6 2' speak on the subject, A "'' '’fteMhe' banquet itour. Music ST* Wished through o>e eV^ ing ße ulah Epworth . 19 ? e ne w J ague in this community, just a new i R summer " X- >« and brough n o oth Festival ln the Annual Fall They pi«» '- 1 fil . Ht week in February.

°NL\ DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday' December 29, 1926

NEW GRAND JURY 1 TO INVESTIGATE MCPHERSON CASE ': — ] New Investigation To Be Made Due To Alleged Perjured Testimony GRAND JURY TO MEET TOMORROW I.os Angeles. Dec. 29.—(United Press! Alleged perjury testimony given by Mrs. Lrrraine Wiseman at the preliminary hearing of Aimee Simple McPherson has caused district attorney Asa Keyes to order a new grand jury investigation of the McPherson kidnaping mystery, it was learned today. Mrs. Wiseman was the state's star witness and co-defendent with the evangelist and her mother. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, accused of perpetrating a kidnaping hoax and manufacturing false evidence iu connection with Mts. MePhetson's disappearance. The grand jury will convene at 10 A. M.. tomorrow, according to Keyes, when efforts will be made to obtain a blanket indictment of the three women and Kenneth G. Ormston, former Angelos Temple Radio operator. Q Alcoholism Kills 147 Bostonians During 1926 Poston. Dec. 29.—(United Tress)— Alcoholism killed 147 Bostonians during 1926 municipal health records showed today. It was a marke ddecrease from last year when the death toll was 197. CHARLESB.BBOTH TOSPEAKMONDAY Noted Child Welfare Work-1 pr Tn Give Address Here j»~ fN'm iuiiJ Monuay iTh-s A packed house should greet Charles Brandon Bootii. of New York, internationally known lecturer and child welfare worker, when he appears at th e high school auditorium here next Monday evening at 8 o’clock, under the auspices of the Woman's Club. The tickets are fifty cents and may be secured at the Daily Democrat office or from any member of the literary department of the club. His subject will be "The child that no one understands.” Mr. Booth has lectured iu every state and in man> foreign countries. He is a son of General Ballington and Maud Ballington Booth who sent their messages aroll nd the world and who did so much good for humanity a-decade ot

two ago. , . His tour at this lime is being sponsored by the Big Brother ami Big Sister Federation of the World an this community is fortunate ave s 0 great a man to bring his message herfi . The most important work in the world is the welfare of the ‘ » ' dreii. The public, no doubt, will be eased with this lecture and everyI’dy is urged to bring their friends a ' l Tiekets Should be purchased early aB the capacity of the auditorium Should he sold out in advance. Masons And , Stars Buy Health Bonds The Masonic lodge and the r Eastern Star both purchased of Eastern Brown , TuberofosnA , . ~v The moitii bonds, announced today, in health bonus. continue “ - z anization which has not j%t purchas ed a bond may do so. Office Employes Held Up equal escaped w th between S2OO and S3OO I n cash- A shot was fired at one em- • ploye but failed to take effect. /

Proposes Verdict Os i Suicide Eor Deaths Due To Poison Liquor Washington. D. C. Dec. 29. (United Press.)—“Deliberate suicide" verdicts to expUin deaths caused hy drinking poison bootleg liquor wete proposed by Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-saloon league today. “Everyone knows the danger” the dry spokesman said in a statement "Those who trust the word of a bootlegger or believe his labels are gambling their lives away without tone chance in 100 of winning.” BONDS FILED BY COUNTY OFFICERS Bonds Os Sheriff And Surveyor Filed And Approved By Commissioners The official Itonds of Hail Hollingsworth, county sheriff elect, and Dick Both, who will begin his third term us county surveyor, were filed with lite county commissioners yesterday ..ml approved. Although John E. Nelson does not begin his second term as county clerk, until a year front January he has filed his bond for his next term The township trustees and assessors must also file bonds. Their bonds are to lie filed with the county auditor. Tlte county now pays tin* premiums on the bonds for the county officials. o— Masons To Hold Initiation Thursday There will be a Master Mason initiation at the local Masonic ha’.l Thursday night. December 30. at 7:30 o'clock. AB Masons are urged to attend the ceremony. o Basketball Reports The Daily Democrat will receive a report of the Decatur-Bluffton basketball game tonight. The score will be reported to this office at the half and at the close of the game. If you want information 1 eoneerning the game cal! 1000 at ■■ ■ ■ •-«***“**« —

State Wide Quarantine Is Placed On Dogs Indianapolis, Dec. 29. - (United Press)—All dogs at large in Indiana 1 must the muzzled to conform with quarantine rules laid down by the state board of health, it. was announced here today. The state widt quarantine was decided necessary at 1 a special meeting of 'the board call ed by the secretary of the board. 1 Rapid spread of rabies over the state ’ attracted the order. The quarantine ' i's elective imm'edUatyely and) local f and state officers will be ordered to enforce the muzzle rule. h -—o

COUNTY BUYS ROAD GRADER Motor Driven One-Man G rader Purchased Through Decatur Auto Agency The county commissioners have purchased a motor driven, one-man road grader through the Adams County Auto company, of this city, the auto company agreeing to furnish a Galion Standard grader tor SIBSO. This was the lowest hid filed. The road grader will be turned over to the county highway superintendent and used in repairing and keeping up the roads in this county It scraps the road bed and at the same time levels it, and can be operated by one man and it is believed that it will greatly increase the eftieienc. of the highway department ami make it possible to cover more teritory. view of the fact that it takes only one man to operate the grader, it h believed that it will be economical in operation. This is the first motor driven grader the county has purchased. The county highway department has been busy this week clearing the main of the roads in good condition. Much rO ads of snow and antolsts report mos of the snow has been removed from the main tracks.

MEXICAN WORKER SHOOTS ANOTHER LABORER IN LEG Pedro Cortez Fined SIOO And Sentenced To Serve Four Months ANOTHER CHARGE WILL BE FILED Pedro Cortez. 26. Mexican laborer In tile sugar beet fields of this vicin- | ity, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve four months on the state penal farm by Mayor George Krick, in city court, this morning, on a charge of carrying concealed weapons without a permit, as a result of a shooting affray near the Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory, An the north part of the city, last night, in which Blatzara Guerta, another Mexican laborer, was shot through the <qilf of his right, leg. A charge of assault and battery with intent to kill will be filed against Cortez late today or tomorrow. authorities said today. Arthur Clark, night policeman, was called to the sugar factory about 9 o'clock last night, when it was reporter! that one man iiad been shot. Guerta was found in one of the laborer’s shanties, suffering from a bullet wound in the calf of his right leg. He told the officer who had shot him. and Cortez was found tin Otierta's shanty, in company with the latter's wife. Cortez had a .32 calibre Colt's automatic revolver in his pock(COXTIN'I'En OX PAGE FIVE) BANK ROBBERY PLOT DISCO VEBED

Northern Indiana Authorities Investigate Apparent Plans For Robbery t»rw —i, i ■« i» r m- -r i'-n nr.-r Bourn licmr; •.uii: ed Press.) — Northern Indiana authorities today were investigating what appears to have ben a plot to rob two ,] banks. Armed guards were placed a around all banks in the section and I, three men were arrested as result of p its discovery late yesterday. j. Two notes were found, one at Mlsh[p awaka and the other at Winimac, both referring to banks and appar11. ently to plans for robbery. "You get p State bank at 2 o’clock and we will e get the other," read one of the notes. e In addition to these, a woman at d Elkhart reported to police that she 0 overheard a conversation about a bank robbery. Her information re.i •_ nf Arthur Coch-

suited in the arrest nt Arthur t orn- ( ran, IS. and Elbert Lincoln. 20, both < of South Bend, and Clarence Mills. . 24, Chicago. j Mills is said to be an ex-convict. It is believed the notes may have ( been spread around to draw police from the cities to clear the way for robberies there. The State bank referred to in one of the notes was thought to be at Walkerton, south of here. Technical charges of automobile robbery were placed against the three men under arrest pending investigation of the notes and conversation. Police said the trio admitted stealing the automobile in which they were caught. Word of the suspected plot spread rapidly through the section yesterday afternoon. In the cities heavily armed police guarded every bank. Citizens unde the command of sheriffs picketed outlying hanks. Automobiles armed with shotguns and machine guns were held in readiness for hasty pursuit. No actual attempt to rob any bank had been reported this morning but authorities warned against relaxing vigilance. They feared the affair might be a ruse on the part of bandits to excite the populace and take advantage of the apathy that follows such a false alarm. Only one gun was fuond in t e seized autmobile and the three under arrest were said to have denied any knowledge of plotted bank robberies. /

Mob Threatens (’onfessed Slayer Os Thirteen Persons! Colovls, N. M., Dec. 29—(United Press)—George K. Hassel, confessed slayer of 13 people, was spirited away from the Texico-Farewell Jail when a mob formed about the doors threatening to break, in and lynch the rancher, and today was believed held in a west Texas jail. Following his signed confession, feeling ran high and a crowd milled about the jail last night. Before the crowd had a leader and sentiment was sufficiently crystalize for action. Hassel, suffering from self inflicted wounds, was removed on a stretcher to un automobile and taken, into Texas. o DELAY LETTING OF CONTRACT County Commissioners Adjourn Without Awarding Contract For Printing The county commissioners adjourned last evening without awarding the contract for furnishing blank hooks } and printing to the county offices * during the year 1927. The board took the bills under consideration until Monday, January 3, when the regular j session of the board will be held. Tne t board whl meet on Siturilay anti re't organize and elect a president and ’’ then go to the county infirmary where l ’ they take the annual inventory. John p G. Hoffman, of Preble, will take ofE ‘ flee as commissioner for the first district next Saturday. He succeeds Ernst Ccnrad, who has served on the hoard for the last six years. o —

Mary Hay Gets Divorce From Richard Barthlemess Paris. Dec. 29.—(United Press)— Attorneys for Mary Hay ( aidwell, actress, were informed today tliat she had been granted a divorce by a Pariis court from Richard Barthelmess. of the movies. Both Miss Hay and Barthelmess re returned to the United States alter a brief stay. Both admitted Miss Hay had filed suit. PNEUMONIA IS FATALTOBABY Peggv Louise Gage, Age 3 Weeks, Dies At Hospital This Afternoon

Peggy Louise Gage, three-wek-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gage of Mercer avenue, this city, died at 12:15 o'clock this afternoon at the Adams County Memorial Hospital, following a seige of pneumonia, which the child was not able to withstand. Tlie baby was taken to the hospital for medical aid when it became apparent that she had pneumonia. She is survived by the father and mother I and one sister. Thelma Gage, ami ' two borthers, Robert and Donald Gage, all at home. The arrangements for the funeral services will be held at the of7 TA services have not yet been completed, but it is probable that the services will be held at the home on Mecrer avenue sometime PTiday. Methodist Sunday School Names Officers Officers of the Methodist Sunday school of this city were elected at a meeting held last night. John E. Nelson was re-elected superintendent ami Harry Magner was made assistant. The other most important officers for the ensuing year are: C. O. Porter, adult superintendent; Mrs. E • Downs, primary superintendent; W F Beery, special days superintendent; Mrs C. L. Walters, temperance superintendent; Charles Downs, secretary; F. V. Mills, treasurer; Mrs. Christens B. Vail, choirister; Mrs. A. D. Suttles organist; Miss Dorothy Walters, pianist

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STARTS FIGHT FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Amendment To Original Petition Is Filed; Recess Granted Defense STEP H E N S 0 N IS RETURNED TO PRISON Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 29. — (United Press.)—D. C. Stephenson, former dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, now a life prisoner at the state penitentiary. appeared in court here today to start his fight for freedom. An amendment to the original petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed only last night made an adjournment of court necessary this morning Prosecutors asked time to study the • amendment and Judge Harry Krum- ; packer granted a recess until 1:30 i p. nt. , t Stephenson was in the court house 1 only a short time this morning in r conference with bis attorneys. Ho . was returned to the penitentiary to . await the start of the hearing this 1 afternoon. 1 Robert H. Moore, Stephenson's at--4 torney, asked that he be held the short time of the court recess in the Michigan City police station but the 1 penitentiary warden objected and his ’ prisoner was taken buck to the state

pi Ison. "This petition introduces new features into proceedings and makes it necessary for the defendant to examine the peition.” said Attorney General Arthur Gill'otn in asking a recess. The amendment made more specific the grounds upon which Stephenson's attorneys’ base their contention that the Hamilton county court which sentenced Stephenson had no jurisdic- .. ... t l mention is that ■ sign the transcript for change of venue invalidated the change, Gtlliom will answer the amendment as well as the original petition in his bref filed today. Arguments will be heard this afternoon if preesnt plans mature and Judge Krumpacker will probably make his decision at once either granting or denying the petition to Stephenson a writ of habeas corpus.

GENEVA TO HAVE POULTRY SCHOOL E I). Griffin, Os Purdue, To Give Address At School Next Wednesday Duo to an insistent demand from farmers who wish to hear Mr. E. ’’ Griffin, of the Purdue Poultry Department. who was unable to attend the poultry school at Geneva a ew weeks ago because of sickness, plans have been made to have the schoo next Wednesday. January 5. It will be remembered that about 50 people were disappointed at the time of the other meeting so Mr. Griffin felt under obligation to give his Hrst open date to Geneva. The same plans are being ma “ the school as were in effect for it. as originally planned. A forenoon session will begin at 9:30 o'clock, instead of 9. as this change from the previous plans was deemed advisable The afternoon session will begin a 1:30 o'clock. It is suggested that those attending plan to be theie hot i forenoon and afternoon, in order that the connection between the two scs Bions wtill not be lost Sessions will be held in the Masonic Hall. Although the "School” is being put on by the Geneva Hatchery, in co- . operation with the Purdue Extension > Department and the local county • agent, everyone Is invited to attend. There are no charges.

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