Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1926 — Page 1

I WEATHER I fair toninht and I Friday- Not so cold I tc n, B ht. Probably I ( .|f Saturday and I Sunday with tempI ( rature near normal

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ISfcphem Utii; Make Personal Plea For Freedom

I UC ft DI MP AM Time Religious IIfLAn IP! b UR nstruction lor Public I nrTiTlAkimi SchookToB( ‘ Sought ■ r l 111 lU.li i Ur ianap<,!is 111 s -‘ “ A bill providing fur par t yypn phntinii re,iKi< “ ! flllla UUII I IllUol students i- inn- Io- . d ./ forthcoming «. ssiuti of the state I.Uvuments On Petition 1 ””',» ‘ I VAwmnv k'lan hritrtm A*”’ ,nd,ana l’’’"' will provide I Formei Klan Dragon A publlc s , h , . h y Highly technical lße a two hours ~ ...r fl „. ~... instruction in pr.vate schools A I ERROR IN VENUE lar measure was defeated at the ' PROCEEDINGS ( I ! session of the legislature. HHR —— (, ■ 4Y COUNCIL I (United Press)—Judge H. wvnuiU I L Krumpacker this afterr fil TA HO HOni/TT I denied I). C. Stephenson’s (jH’DKX hjJLKH I for liberty on a writ of ha -UJI.LI I corpus and Stephenson was - I turned to the Indiana - . n , . I I prison, where he is -serving s . ? u * ,ne! ? I life sentence for murder, special Session Hel (I mu- c-TL —rv - Wednesday Night MBi Michigan City, Dec. 30. - _ _ ■KI (".Stephenson may himself p special session ~r th.- -it> <-.nn■3 for freedom from the state i* as held las! ' *" r ll "‘ i ,l,r ’ Bis on where he is serving a ‘ of all,,wing bills a "‘ l ■HS . „ __ docket of unflnisht! business for Bk. | term for the murder of M; . ■Bh| v w < year. Mayor Kruk presided a: E ■ Obcrholtzer when atton meeting and. after the claims UM hate completed tneir arguni'e allowed, s.-v.-rai resolutions I ® his application for a wrie passed transiT rring balam.-s in MBIB habeas corpus, it was leal different funds to the general here this afternoon. j ■■ Whether Stephenson will fie a hp eity a( |, at ion. during MM t 0 “ ppear in ’ lis own behaltj kept up lbe splendid program of pends upon the decision ot.Lloy c progJ , ~s and at th,, same ’. me BM HUI. attorney, who filed the pet tbp ( . jlv tax lat , f „ r Ilt .xt y.ar. ■3 which is now being argued in bllls have t) ,,. n paid and a sub EB Porte superior court here. ltJal balalH . es remains in th,, elecMM- tephenson will be the las’ lt „ ht wat , r and general funds. ■H plead for the grant of the wrh-M . „ |M decides to allow his appearance. street Car Worker Killed. *“ idianapolis. Dec - <1 nited ■S Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 31).—(i sg ) _Albert Walker, 4s. Indianap■B ed Press.) — Highly technical a street railway employee, was meat over the application of D, bed to death n.tw.-.n two cars ■■ Stephenson, former head of the l[ he ra i] wa y company yaids here gjjgj SBs ,;u FClux Klan, for a writ n ]ght. ■H habeas corpus to release him i ’ 0 . —— ■ serving a life sentence for muj W ("n M Tib! ill" 14 I <ere rfeard by Judge Harry la. K IVV I I!niIUIUV I Packer in superior court here tod ill A I IHTV t John H. Kiplinger, one of Step DI Engl Ira \ DNI I | f wn’s attorneys, started the a iLCnU I I ■H Bents when court convened morning to continuexjhe hea I started yesterday. He cited decir»anoke U 0111311, rating Bn °f the supreme court in suppni\ssault Charge At Blufl- | his contention that an e rror in elm toil. Enters Plea ■ of venue proceedings when Step' ’ sobs case was moved from Mat| u ffton, Dec. :>u A pl -a of in san ' |B to Hamilton county invalidated St was entered Wcdm-sdny in the H enson ’ s trial - Es circuit court by attorney, for M , Ralph K. Kane, representing Wa<j en fancies of Roanoke, charged II H. Daly, warden of the penitenti h assa ult and battoiy with intent I against whom the writ is direi kill Eal ] Willi ims. of Z imsdle 3 answered Kilplinger's arguments. March 26. ” H though agreeing with the proposiv he defense w;,- also granted a of law expounded by Kiplinger tinuaace of trial ft m January 3 M, ““’ended it had no applicatioi.j anuary 31, because of the i Iness ■■ the present case. < Misa praucies’ father Theodore ■ ~ 0 ncies. II 0 EADACO 1111 0'ini an " was shl,t IU. 6, HJKbtb MU^,-“;.X“: IIIMITACTIVITIE""-"-"”? 11 nUI 1 I 1 l IL im) fo|lowing hp! . al that she B I in a delicate physical condition President Rules Trnnns blamed Williams. wiJm" l ' 1,1 ’ I esiaent Rules 1 roops enk>(l IhPS „ slate meut.s Nicaraguan Ports Must the IPa fora .ntummce of tnai. Be Neutral ch was granted by special Judge I , nkW. (Jordon, it was declared that | Washington, Dec. 30. — (Uni ueles is geriou dy ill and will probI Press)—Under the pressure of se y not be able to testify for hie torial and foreign criticism of Uni ghter f or a t least six weeks The I States military occupation of Nlc* mother died a short time after | ORuan east coast ports. Presld- ghooting affr ay. | Coolidge has ruled that occu P>Vancies will testify that hi daugh 1 forces must limUK their acHvit j );is been gu bject to fits of desfe trictly to preventing fighting dency and lilir ing certain states ‘he range of American property, » mental condition she is not res“ot to disarming Liberal rebels a g j b ] e f or her acts, according .o establishing censorships as chare tln t | ie motion. by the Liberals. wjll al3o testify that in XovemA fight is expected to occur hr lq9fj williams solicited Miss ov er the question of lifting the Am ncies to become his housekeeper <««“ arms embargo in favor of f ghe accep ted and that after > laz government, recognized by > discharged in March. 19-6. hited States, and maintaining t de repea ted calls at the ' tnbargo against arms shipments . .„ flee her and remain‘he Liberals recognized by Mexic<“" (S about 7 1’ M. until midm. , there iroin auuiK « The state department last week eath occasicn . ‘as reported exclusively by the Un 111 . , u t liberty under ®d Press)—issued a special pern ll ” 8 ‘ U j 5 000 Th e bend was refor shipment of an.airplane to Di.' 0111 ° non when Williams was but the latter has not been able ad $1 ° th °! boapit al. finance arms purchases here so fA t 0 ea ' f

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 30,1926.

CASE AGAINST AIMEE LIKELY TO "BLOW UP" Conflicting Testimony Os Witnesses Causes Collapse Os State’s Case MRS. WISEMAN CHANGES STORY I I By Lincoln Quarbe’g (U. P. Staff Correspondent Les Angeles, Dec. 30 (United Press) —The Aimee Simple McPherson kid-1 I naping case, which has stirred the country for months and extended from Southwestern United States to the Canadian Prairies in the search for its missing characters, appeared likely to "Blow up" today. District Attorney Asa Keyes, who prosecuted the Evangelist on the charge thas she conspired to defeat justice by telling a story of kidnapping while in reality she was on a "Love Holiday," admitted the case might have to be dropped because of the impossibility of getting at the truth of the story from conflicting testimony of witnesses. A new grand jury investigation of the case was called today but Keyes said the charges against .Mrs. McPherson. her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy and Kenneth G. Ormiston, radio operator in Mrs. McPherson's ange'.us temple. might never be sustained. Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman, the state's "star yeeterffay ‘changed her story told at the preliminary investigation. When Mrs. McPherson disappeared for several weeks last summer, she explained her absence by saying she had been kidnapped and held for ran son. It was charged, however, that she spent the time in a cottage at Carmel-bv.-the-Sea with Ormiston. ", " she, not Mrs. McPherson, who was the mysterious “Miss X" seen with OrmI iston in the Love Cottage. Yesterday, however, she said her confession was a Hoax, and she was instructed in the story she was to tell by Roland R. Wooley, persona! attorney for Mrs. McPherson. It was believed the grand jury investigation today was called to consider Mrs. Wiseman’s story. Woolley has been summo’’ed for questioning. — o Fair And Warmer Is Forecast for Indiana For New Year’s Eve Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 30.-1 United Press )-Fair weather with tern-pe-atures slightly be.ow freezing will greet the New Year in Indiana tomor-, row night at midnight the U. S. Weather bureau announced today. Temperatures tomorrow afternoon wi H hover above the freezing point dropping in the evening «nt they reach the middle 20s at midnight. Sr weather was predicted for Saturday and Sunday. High Winds Delay To ur Os Pan-American 1 lanes Tampico, Press) -High winds of the-last 36 hours, attaining a velocity of 93 miles an hour a night-were expected to cause post-Pan-American flight planes for Vera C May H. A. Dargue, in charge of the al ‘erican good will f-ight through centrill and South America, was hopefu hat the wind would abate to permit a'deparUire tomorrow. One of the five planes is already at Vein t n 1 ■ iX, »'«»">»• ’ h “ i ''"' d “" to let the redskins live.

To Press At Noon In order to give the employes of ' the Daily Democrat company a half holiday on Saturday, New Years | day, the regular daily edition will i be issued at noon. All advertisements and news items intended for publication Saturday should be in I this office by 9 o’clock Saturday morning. There will be no city or rural deliveries of mail on New Years day, and the regular Sunday hours will prevail at the post office. Men's clothing stores, dry goods - stores, grocery stores, shoe stores | jewelry stores and meat markets will be closed all day Saturday in observance of the holiday. The ! grocery stores and meat markets will remain open until 8 o'clock Friday evening, however. COOLIDGE SCORES WARRING NATIONS Thinks U. S. Should Lead Way Toward A “Moral Disarmament” Ry John Montgomery (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dee. 30—After scoring militaristic nations in a speech | in Trenton, N J., last night. President Coolidge was returning to Washington this morning to face a multitude of foreign relations problems and to meet Prince Chichibu of Japan. The United States should lead the way toward a "moral disarmament,” Mr. Coolidge declared in his address last night, delivered before the Trenton Historical Society at a dinner in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton. "I believe we are strong enough and brave enough to resist another domination of the world by the military spirit through our own indepen.jjent action," the president asserted. ’ - '■ vance in the direction of intefiiaffciK.l harmony, is in danger of relapsing Into the old formula of reliance in force instead of reliance in reason, he asserted. "We can render no better service to humanity than to put forth all our influence to prevent the world from slipping back into the grasp of that ravaging system," the president said. Mr. Coolidge assailed citizens who fail to vote and recommended the furtherance of religion and education as a remedy for the unfilled ballot box Faults in government today are chargeable to the indifference of citizens. he averred, and political dictators can be removed only by the action of all the people. —o — Fire Destroys Historic Hotel In Chicago Today Chicago. Dec. 30-1 United Press) -One was dead and one was missing following a fire which destroyed the tlistor ic Chandler hotel here today, within a stone’s throw cf the t ook county jail. Mary Lach, 65. housekeeper, was found dead in the ruins, her body badlv charred. The management ot the hotel said everyone save one man registered in the hotel had been accounted for. Fire officials could find no trace of another body in the ruins. ' The loss is estimated at $35,000. ! ’

Crawfordsville Publishtr Des Crawfordsville, Dec. 30. —(United ' Presg )-Charles V. Smith, business ' manager of the Crawfordsville JourI na l, died suddenly here las night. Smith was the son of A. M. Smith, ' owner and publisher of the. Journal. He had acted as business manager since the close of the worin war. o I Man Freezes To Death ■ Terre Haute, Dec. 30. — (United . PreEg )-A man, believed to be Steve , Kalbrack, 55. was found frozen to . death early today at Shlrkievil e.» t about 12 miles north of here. An ins vestigatjlon by the coroner showed 1 the man had been drinking at the time of his death.

GOVERNMENT TO REMOVE POISON FROM ALCOHOL To Make Industrial Alcohol Nauseating And Unpalatable Instead ■—- TO MAKE CHANGE AT AN EARLY DATE Washington. Dec. 30. (United Press) —The Government plans to remove all poison from industrial alcohol at an | early date, secretary ot the treasury | Mellon officially announced today. Federal chemists are now working on a denaturing formula which will make commercial alcohol nauseating and unpalatiable, but will not be poisonous, Millon said. "1 do not say it is (excusable for the government to allow a source of poison liquor if it can be prevented," Mellon said. “This condition is being re medied as far as possible." Secretary Mellon said the Govern ment will enforce prohibition law but does not want to enforce it by the use cf poison. Commercial alcohol must be denatured or rhere will be alcohol all over the country for bootleggers, and | denatured hlcohol is necessary to pro tect legitimate industries and make the product available tax free he said. Mellon said piohibition is bound to give drinkers the use of industrial alcohol and other substitutes as the genuine supply vanishes. Ho pointed out that before America went 'dry people drank bitters, and in one instance, soldiers were known to have drunk red ink because it contained alcohol. o “King” Benjamin Purnell Is Held For Trial At February Term Os Court Benton Harbor, Mich , Dec. 30. — . -■ ■i-liH"" Purnell ot the islaeiite House nt David was today held for trial at the February term of circuit court on charges of criminally assaulting a former girl member of his following, Mrs. Bessie Daniels Woodworth. Explosives Found On Top Os Furnace In Los Angeles Hotel 1 Los Angeles, Dec. 30. — (United : progs)—A disastrous explosion in ' the Winslow Hotel building, where Jack Dempsey maintains a gymnas- • ium, was narrowly averted today when 12 sticks of dynamite, a can of nitroglycerine and two gallons of gasoline were removed from the top of the furnace in the basement. r The explosives and combusiUbles had been packed against the chimney ) flue, to recelive the full benefit of , th efire which is started every morn--8 ing about 6 o’clock. John Newman night clerk started a roaring fire before he discovered and removed the explosives. o

■■ ' 1 ’ —(J Mother Regains Legal Custody Os Her Child Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 30. — (United Press.) —Mrs. Lorton H. McCoy, Detroit, Mich., regained legal custody of her 5-year-old daughter, Peggy, when Judge Mahlon E. Bash rescinded an order by which the child had been legally adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Lorton M. McCoy, Indianapolis. Mrs. McCoy instituted proceedings to annul the adoption following her arrest in Detroit charged with kidnapping her baby from the home of relatives at Kokomo, Ind. Hunting Accident Is Fatal Logansport, Dec. 30. — (United p re ,ss) —Lawrence Coblentz, 16, was instantly killed while hunting near here today when struck in the back of the head by a charge from a shot, gun accidentally fired by Allen Shively. 15. SHively fired the charge at a rabbit near the boy.

LONDON HAS * SOME BAD, BOLD BURGLARS, TOO London, Dee. 30.- (United ITess) — Burglars as bold as any in the United States today escaped from Harrods. ‘ one of Izmdon's largest department stores, with jewelry and watches valued ut approximately $250,000. It was Landen’s largest recent burglary. ( The burglars m>k everything of . good value in the jewelry department, including nearly 1.000 watches, in addition to rings bracelets necklaces and cigarette eases. Scotland Yard operaI teres believe the looters may have ' secreted thms’.Vei inside the store when it closed last night. EX-DECATURITES BELIEVED SAFE Several Former Decatur People Reside In Flood Area Os Tennessee While no woid has been received from any of the former Decatur people now living in Nashville. Tennessee it is not believed any cf them have suffered seriously from the terible floods which have manaced that section for seveial days The Cumberland river today had reached its highest level, more than fifty-six feet, and the pioperty loss is several million dollars, according to reports. Seventeen aie reported dead. The N. C. Covel dale family resides in a very high part of the city on the west side, while Clare Coverdale and family live on the east side. Hugh Route, an old Decatur boy who has lived in Nashville for years, resides in on? of the higher parts of the city. He is a railroad engineer on the Southern line and the road which follows the Cumberland river for miles, is very probably a big loser. GLEE CLUB TO BE HEBE TSHIGHT Ohio Wesleyan Songsters To Give Program At I). H. S. Auditorium The Ohio Wesleyan University glee | club, of Deleware, Ohio, will give a concert in the Decatur high school I auditorium this evening, under the i auspices of the Tri Kappa sorority. > The program will begin at 8 o’clock. . The admission prices will be twentyr five cents for pupils of the grade i schools, and fifty cents for high f school pupils and adults. [> There are thirty entertainers in the company. Professor Guy E. McLean, s director of the club, is recognized as y one of the foremost glee club mentf ors in the middlewest. Under his i- direction the Ohio Wesleyan song-

sters have covered thousands of miles of territory while on tour, have won two state glee club contests, have been honored by a trip to the Panama canal zone as guests of the United States government, and have made records for the Brunswick Phonograph company. Dale Bartholomew, feature pianist and accompanist for the club, provides a distinctive part of the program. He has spent a season with the Redpath Chautauqua and is the composer of several songs and the co-author with Beverly Kelley, another member of the glee du'»- ot a

musical comedy, recently produced at Ohio Wesleyan. The following program will be given here this evening: Victory Wesleyan Bartholomew-Kelley Sylvia Sp»aks By the Waters of Minnetonka y Lieurance Solo by George Mullin Glasses up. with a shout Glee Club Rose Softly Blooming - s P ohr Mr. Urias Gensemer, baritone Lassie o Mine " alt Quartette Pilgrim’s (CONTINUEO ON PAGE CIA E)

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STREAMS START TORECEDEiMANY LEFT HOMELESS Crest Os Flood Os Large Streams Expected To Be Reached Tonight OHIO RIVER FAR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 30.— (I nitetl Press) Many of the smaller streams throughout the flooded section of the central south were receding today, leaving in their wake thousands of homeless and more than a score of dead. The compilation of dead this afternoon showed 27 had lost thqir lives from the high water. Nine were drowned in Mississippi, sfx in Arkansas, six in southwestern Virginia, four in Tennessee, and two in Kentucky’. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 30. —The Ohio river will reach a crest at about 40.5 feet hero sometime tonight, weather bureau officials forecast today. Flood stage, 35 feet, was passed several days ago. Memphis. Tenn., Dec. 30.- (United Tress)—Crest of the central south high waters which have wrought destruction to hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of land, are expected to be reached tonight. Conditions throughout the district today continue serious with the water of all streams through five states prov ing a constant threat, but weather forcasters expect the rivers Io reach their highest levels late tonight. The death toll from the floods has reached a total of 17. with thousands fo-ced from their homes and millions of dollars in damage to crops, household furnishings and merchandise. The latest casulties were reported from Mississippi. Dispatches from Bentonia report that three persons riding in an enclosed motor car were drowned when their automobile skidded off a watre-logged highway and .? n v ,_ ,| int., ]ii uI wat r ’’ in Mississippi, three coming when an Illinois Central freight train fell through a trestle. The Cumberland river at Nashville today had reached within a few' inches of 56 feet, the highest record the river ever reached. The river is still rising ed off a water-logged highway and opinion that more than 6,000 persons will be homeless in the city before morning. In many of the smaller towns along the river—soce of which have been isolated for 5 days—situations are re(COVTni'ED ON’ PAGE FIVH) o * BANBIT KILLED: WOMAN WOUNDED Four Detectives Stage Gun Battle With Four Robbers In Chicago i Chicago. Dec. 30.—(United Press.) —A bandit was dead, the woman lie t used as a human shield was near • death, and a police officer was nursing a painful wound here today as the 1 result of a battle between four roh- ? bers and four detectives here last

night. The bandit, Julius Dermativicz. 23, was a member of the quartet holding up the drygoods store of Nathan Bowen. Two of the robbers twisted Mrs. Hessen's arm until she screamed in agony, and her daughter, Mary, unable to bear seeing her mother tortured opened the cash box. Police attracted by the screams, entered the store. They seized John Hlntelman and Walter Kalin, two members of the looting party, used them as shields, and advanced on Bernativicz and Otto Thomas, the other robbers. They thrust Mrs. Bossen in front of them as a shield and either by design or accident one of them shot her in the back.

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