Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1927 — Page 1

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MRABE HOUSING OWAGEDIYFIRE Garage Today . UI BI T THREE OF AIL AKS ARE SAVED Efficient work by the Decatur fire department, volunteers and employees (ls me Runvon and Son garage averte(. what might have been a very costly fire, when the large garage conducted by Roy Runyon and Son on South First street, caught fire at 11 o'clock this morning. The rear of the second floor was a mass of flames bei fore the was discovered, and in I less than three quarters of an hour. ! the fire bad been extinguished, and all but three of 43 automobiles in the building had been saved. The'fire started from the furnace chimney, on the second floor. Hot pitch, dropping from the roof, is thought to have dropped on the tops of cast in the rear of the building ami ignited three of them. As soon as the blaze was discovered* Mr. Runyon stayed at the rear of the building, with a fire extinguisher, and fought the flames until the arrival of the local fire department. / Autos Are Removed. The local firemen fought the flames, while volunteers and employees of the garage drove and pushed automobiles, valued at more than $45,000, out of the burning building. The fire wps soon under control, but several chs were damaged by the falling f Jfcb. “ A Buick touring car, owned by ■ Charles Hoffman, local taxi driver, I was practically ruined. The top was I burned off and the body of the car was badly burned. There were several gallons of gasoline in the car, | but the gas failed to ignite. An Oldsmobile Coupe, owned by Dr. Ben Beavers, also was damaged considerably. The top was badly burned, and the windows were broker The ' ■ t. body of car j badly scorched. A NUii .-i'ain. owned by Ben Smith, also was damaged hy the heat. An Esex coach, owned !, y J- V. Owens, Huntington Indiana, was partly destroyed. The body was badly burned, and the glass was broken out of the car. Several other cars were damaged slightly by heat, falling pitch and flames. The building was damaged to the possible extent of SI,OOO, but the quick work of the firemen saved* it from a total loss. Roy Runyon, owner and proprietor of the garage, received slight burns about the bands and wrists from fall-, r ' R un yo n and the local (Continved oy page five* wu given to MRS. H. H. MYERS Kindergarden Sc h oo 1 At Anderson Is Named In Her Honor An unusually high honor has been of (si* 6 '' ° n Alary Omen Myers, 3 City, by school officials of An3"' Ib'iiana. where Mrs. Myers v „ t? 3 kinder Karten for three ta / , he Bch ° ol where Mrs - M y ers Omen he6n named the» Mary Public kind erSarten ' H ' B ° ne ° £ fOUr Mr » fc, £ ar tens in Anderson. which r, >erS taug ’ lt 'in the school, 1925 ■ ' bearS her name - in 1924, ■ ‘here In th 926 ’ resigning her Position was inrit 'i Spr ’ ng °* 192®. when she Myers ouht 1 * 1 marrfage t 0 Heraan Sears that Mm m DUr,ng ' he three ‘ierson 1 M Myers taught in Anand the of fl cu a Ol rt inCreaße(i 8tea " lly ' tribute m», kerned it a fitting school in h rS h Myers '4o name the Mrs ' honor - Nellie 13 the dai ‘Khter of Mrs. Rraduaied f.’ Ot Bluffton - She was school ai d r' nm l ’ le B ' u t f ton high leße of ! **i»n^ ke l Te; ' l "'“ s < * V

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Prison Wardens Oppose Abolition Os Indeterminate Sentence Law In Indiana Indianapolis. Ind. Jan. 26. —(United Dress) —Abeolitlon of the indeterminate sentence law, effective in Indiana since 190*. will be bitterly opposed by prison wardens and trustees, it was learned today. The Wardens and trustees of Indiana penal institutions met yesterday with the state board of charities and a joint committee was appointed to study all pro,.,used legislation pertaining to the institutions. The indeterminate sentence is one of the tai gets of attack in measures proposed by the Indiana bar association. Opposition of the wardens and trustees is based on that prisoners behave better when they are seeking to be released after a minimum sentence lias been served. The opposition was voiced at the meeting by M. E. Fcley, a trustee of the state prison at Michigan City. —■ o EVANGELIST OF RENOWN TO SPEAK Mrs. Ida Tribbett To Give Sermon At Evangelical Church Tonight Mrs. Ida Tribbett, a woman evangelist of renown, will sneak this evening at the revival meeting being carried on this week at the Evangelical church. Mrs. Tribbett has served in a remarkable way during the past 20 years and has been in demand all over the United States, and has also worked in Canada." Her Services have been asked for in England and also in China. In her evangelistic work, she has travelled ay' high as 20.00" miles in a single year. Mrs. Tribbett is a forceful and conyncing expounder of the Word, and is clothed with an unusual measure of t.he Spirit of God. She has not only been the means of saving many souls, but has led many believers into a deeper Christian experience and has been used of God in he healing of the body of many kinds ■ ■of-diseases. Mrs. Tribbett is visiting with Rev, Loose and wife, he being acquainted with her since a boy. The is cordially invited. REVIVAL SPIRIT CONTINUES HIGH Three Churches In City Re- ' 'port Heloful Services Held Last Night The three Protestant churches in this ci’.y, which are holding evangelistic services this week, reported excellent services last night. The three churches are the Evangelical. Christian and Methodist. Services will be held in each of these churches tonigh'. and each night during the re- < mainder of the week. Out-of-town evangelists will speak at the Methodist and Evangelical churches tonight, while Dr. McKim, a Fort Wayne pastor, will preach at the Christian church. Methodist Church "God is no respecter of perso'ns. 1 Any person that wants to be right with God, no matter how deep in ' sfn he is, can find God to his soul's 1 satisfaction,” declared Rev. Myron E. 1 Taylor in his sermon last night at 1 the Methodist church on "Sudden ' Riches.” ' “We are saved through Jesus Christ,” he continued. "We are , made joint heirs with Christ to all , the riches and glories of God. Jesus i Christ came into this world ahd di- ■ vided up his inheritance and he gave i us all a chance to share in the same. ■ If we know Jesus Christ we are mll- . lionaires^-flJthough we have not much , of this world's goods; If we do not : know Jesus Christ, no matter how > much wealth we may have, we are as poor as church mice in the things that are of real value. i "We can learn more about God and , his dealings with men from the ex- . perience of David than from any oth(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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I “PEACHES"ENDS HERCASEiHOPES TO WIN DIVORCE Girl's Mother Says Browning Threatened To Kill His Young Wife CASE ADJOURNED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY White Plains. N. Y.. Jan. 26.—(United Press)—Frames "Peaches" Heenan Browning today completed the case by which she hopes to thwart her husband’s efforts to gain separation from her and at the same time win for herself separation from Browning and substantial alimony. After Mrs. Catherine Heenan, mother of Edward West Browning’s sturdy iG-year-old bride, had told tvhat she knew ot her daughter*)? life with the 51-year-old millionaire I and minor testimony had been taken, the case was adjourned this after* | noon until Monday morning. Courtroom, White Plains. N. Y„ Jan. 26. —(United Press) —Mrs. Cather'ne Heenan, ntot her of Frances “Peaches” Heenan Browning, charged in court here today that Edward West Browning* once had threatened to kill his wife and commit suicide. She was called as witness after "Peaches" had completed her own recital of her married life. Browning, she said, ieturned home from his office', one night and complained of being tired. He threw himself on a bed and "acted, queerly” she sajd. “Dorothy Sunshine (Browning’s adopted daughter) was at home at the time,” Mrs. Heenan testified. "She wanted her tea down stairs. Browning came out of his room, ordered her tea served and then returned. "Prtetty soon he came out and had a little phial in his hand. “ ‘I don't know what is the matter with me,’ he said. ‘My heart is bad.' "He kept on acting queerly and then he exclaimed: “ ‘l’m going to kill myself and you.’ “He v-<- talking to Frances.” Mrs. Heei.iiin also told of iupenIng she would call the police. "He put the phial back in his packet and then he pleaded with us to forgive him and said he would never do anything like that again.” Mrs. Heeman said she told Brown(Cd.XTIXVWIi ON PAGE TWO) o PASTOR,CLEARED. TO RESUME WORK Giant Reception To Be Given . Rev. Norris. On His Return To Fort Worth i Austin, Tex, Jan, 26. — (United Press)—The Rev, J. Frank Norris, militant Fort Worth baptist pastor who last night was acquitted of murdering . D. E. Chipps today said he believed , the events of the shooting and trial would make him “a Better Pastor”. “I knew I tyould be acquitted,” he said "It was the only decision that could be given in this case.” Norris plans to-return to Fort Warth immediately and it is understood a giant reception is being planned for him there. The pastor shot and killed fhipps in the study of Norris’ million dollar church last summer. Through the trial i defense witnesses maintained that the shooting was in self defense. I This defense was crystallized when i Norris took the stand himself and told ■ of Chipps’ starting toward him with ' a threat to kill the pastor. The Jury needed only one ballot to ■ acquit the picturesque pastor. 1 Just foity minutes after the jury had retired a verdict was reached but it was two hours before the verdict was 1 reported to the court. 1 Many groups gathered around the smiling pastor to offer their cor grata- • lations. Norris, with his wife, remained in the court room for somq time receiving his friends Then retired to his hotel.

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Suzanne Reported To Be Yielding To Young American’s Courtship Hatana, Jan. 26.—(United Press)— Suzanne Lenglen, frenth tennis nee was reported today to have surrender ed to the rapid-fire courtship of u young American. Baldwin Baldwin, heir to the millions of the "Lucky” Baldwin stock breeding establishment at Santa El Rio Rey, in California, is her fiance, it was said i by W. H. Pickens, who signed her con- ' tract with (’. C. Pyle. Announcement of the engagement, Pickens said, will be made shortly. DURBIN FAMILY STILL IN LANSING ( No Further Report Received On Condition Os Harold Durbin Today No word was received here today from Lansing. Michigan, regarding the condition of Harold Durbin. 35. son of Mr. and Mrs. Josep|i Durbin, of Pleasant Mills, who is in a Lansing hospital, suffering from a bullet wound. Mr. Durbin was found, seriously wounded, in an automobile with the,dead body of Mrs. Mildred McQueen, 32 of Lansing, in front of the woman's home early Monday morning. No further developments in the case have been learned here. Mr. Durbin's relatives are still at Lansing. Although the Lansing police accuse Durbin of shooting Mrs. McQueen and then turn Ing the gun on himself, they have been unable to obtain a confession fron him. Persons here, who are nenuaintcd with Durbin, doubt the theory that he shot Mrs. McQueen. —— o — Petition Is Granted Bluffton. Jan. 26.—The Old Adams County bank of Decatur, receiver in the case of the State vs the Bank of Tocsin. Tuesday- filed a petition of authority to consent to extension of time for payment of money due the Prudential Insurance company. The court granted the petition. SKIN CRAFTED ON YOUNG GIRL Mother Gives Skin To Be Drafted On Burn Wounds ■ 1 Os Justine Wefel t Miss Justine Wefel, age 17, of Fort Wayne, a former resident of Adams county and a neice of Mrs. Albert Aeschleman. of this city, who was seriously burned about eight weeks ago while on duty at the Aurentz Candy Kitchen, underwent an operation yesterday -at the Methodist Hospital in Fort Wayne, where she has been a patient since the accident. Skin was dratted from the body of her mother to Miss Vustine’s wounds. Mother and daughter are resting fairly well, although the outcome will not be known for a few days. In case the operation is successful, further drafting will be done.

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PLAN DEFENSE FOR AMERICANS IN SHANGHAI: I Havens Os Safety Prepared 1 In Which Americans Can Be Concentrated BRITISH MARINES ( SAIL FOR CHINA i — ( Shanghi. Jan. 26,A(UUnited Pfress) I Havens of safety at which Americans 1 would be concentrated in the event of I a great emergency today were being piepared by the U. 8. Consulate as re- 1 ports arrive from Hangchow. 100 1 miles to the south, that the Chinese 1 [ troops defending Shanghi were being 1 defeated by Cantonese Nationalists. Meantime, the work of adding to the barricades around foreign settlements continued. Fearing that the victorious Cantonese army might threaten Shanghai. Authorities in both the international and French settlements today hastened the completion of barbed wire entanglements virtually encircling the city. Foreign authorities were concentrating all forces for a determined defense of the city. Defense plans includ ed the creation of a neutral area extending approximately five miles around the city. AH roas and railways will be commanded by artillery and machine guns. Japanese Flotilla of distroyers arrived yesterday afternoon to augment the naval forces already in the harbor. The heavy guns of the warships riding in the Wing Po river, facing the city, have been trained on all railways station. Portsmouth, Jan. 26. (United Press) —Amid the cheers of throngs lining the docks and the tooting of sirens, 1,000 British Marines and two atacbinents of aviators left for China today aboard the steamer Minnesota. Warships and harbor craft, with sirens tied down, escorted the steamer out of the harbor, recalling World war day scenes. The troops are the first of the Bt itjsh t xpeditionai > >'oi. -- ireitig assembled for the defense of Shanghai (Copyright 1927 United Press) Washington, Jan. 26 (United Press) —President Coolidge has rejected the Chinese nationalist demands for irnnte(COVTIVI EI) OM I’AGE FIVEt TRAINING SCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY Second Semester Os Community Training School To Begin Next Week The second semester of the Decatur Community Standard Training School will begin next Monday evening, at 7:15 o'clock, according to the schedule previously announced. The enrollment will precede the opening session, and will begin at 6 o’clock. Students are requested to come early so as to enrol properly and get tlteir text books. The' school is held in the Central school building. The first semester, held last fall, was one of the most successful ever held by the school. It Is hoped that ths term will even exceed it in both interest and attendance. The need of leadership training In the work of the church toworrow is being emphasized by the officers of the school. o Frederick Atwood To Speak Thursday Night A large audience is expected to hear Mr. Frederick C. Atwood, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, supreme prelate of the Knights ot Pythias lodge, when the noted blind lecturer speaks in the Decatur high school auditorium, Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Decatur K. ot P. lodge, when the noted blind lecturer ed dufling the evening by the Magley I male quartet and the ladies saxaiphone quartet, of this city.

Tug Caught In Ice; Provisions Dropped To Crew From Airplane Michigan City. Ind.. Jan. 26.—(United Press)- Tbeir small tug, The Imperial. hold by an ice Jam about !'• miles off shore ir Lake Michigan, three men today were being cared for with provisions dropped to them by airplanes. The small tug war taught in an immense drift of. ice and the tug carried well off shore. Last night Pilot N. C. Little, a ccmmprciai aviator, whirled his airplane over the tug and dropped bread cheese, meat and blankets to the im prisoned men. They waved back they were in as good a shape as possible. Previous attempts had been made to carry food to them by airplane but the attempts failed. The men held on the tug are Frank JenUen. Harvey Freyer and Joe Van Kirk. COMMUNITY TO BE BOOSTED Decatur Merchants To Run Series Os Ads, Urging Cooperation On another page in tonight’s Daily Democrat,, the first of a series of twelve page advertisements to be published during the year, appears, entitled merchants and business houses, deeply interested in the welfare of Decatur and community, undersign the page advertisement. The twelve pages will set forth the many advantages Decatur offers as a home and trading point and what fellowship an dcoaperation on the part of everyone can accomplish. The first page is for town fellowship. Fellowship is the first requisite for community success. Fellowship is good cheer and friendliness— the willingness to lend a helping hand—to share your neighbor's joys and sorrows. There is a story about a wise old Hebrew father. Feeling that his life on this earth was not long, he gathered his five sons together that he might impart his fatherly advice to them. He pleaded with them for undying unity and brotherhood. And to illustrate the strength of unity, he had ten sticks. Taking bne stick, he broke it with his hands-I—very 1 —very easily. He broke four more in the same way saying. “Boys, you see how easily I can break these sticks when I break them one by icoynxi kd ox page five) STATE TO PAVE ROAD TO MONROE Highway Commission To Condemn Land For Highway ; To Survey Soon Representatives of the state highway commission were here today and announced that engineers would arrive Monday to survey and plat those farms fronting on Federal highway No. 27, between Decatur and Monroe, and on which easments have not been given, for the purpose of filing condemnation proceedings in court. It’ is desired to improve that section of the road this year and the funds for the purpose have been appropriated. All but eight of the owners haye signed the right-of-ways and four of these ar e willing to do so. The new signs have also arrived and are being put up rapidly as the weather will permit. The road through this city is now marked along Fifth street, but the commission, It is believed, would be Killing to change this to Second street, as it was formerly, provided the merchants and citizens want it. If this is desired, a petition asking for such a change should be forwarded immediately to the state house, so that it can be taken care of now while the new signs are being put up. The commission will ask permission to place the mark- • ings on the ornamental lamp posts, - which privilege has been granted in • Fort Wayne and other cities along the line.

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HOUSE VOTES 2 TOl AGAINST MODIFICATION • Intention To Strengthen Search And Seizure Provisions Is Indicated WRIGHT FIGHTS IN BEHALF OF HIS BILL Indianapolis, Jan. 26. — (L'nil<‘d Press) By a two to one majority the house ot representatives went on record today as opposed to modification of the Wright bone dry act and indicated its intention to strengthen its search and seizure provisions. Following an hour and a half of heated debate marked by the exchange of personalities, members of the house voted 65-30 against substitution of a minority report for the majority report of the committee on public morals on the Scott bill. The measure proposed to extend discriminat|oTy powers to judges in the issuance of wai rants for search and seizure in liquor cases. The majority report favored passage of the Scott bill amended so as to nullify its original intent and providing in lieu still more drastic enforcement measures. The minority report urged passage of the bill as originally introduced by Rep. John W. Scott, of Gary. A last minute effort was made by opponents of the amended bill to kill it by indefinite phstponment. ' A motion to this effect was made by Rep J. Glenn Harris, Gary, and promptly seconded by Scott. Rep. Frank E. Wright, author of the bone dry law and leader in the fight today for adoption of the majority report, sprang to his feet with a mo'/on to table Harris' motion. a standing vote 59 representatives favored Wright's motion to table and a miiwte later 62 arose to favor acceptance of the majority report. It was the first sharp clash to arise in (he 1927 general assemblyover prohibition enforcement, betokening b'tter debates when the amended Scott bill and other anticipated wet-dry measures are presented for second reading or introduction. "If this minority report were adopted,” Wright declared on the floor, “it would take the teeth out of liquor law enforcement in Indiana. "Vesting the proposed powers in the judges would be trying liquor cases out of court and without the presentation of evidence. “It is a question of whether we w-ill uphold our dry law, the best in the United States, or weaken it.” Saying that he was not referring <CnVTIWEn OV P4GE FIVE) TEMPERATURE TAKES A DROP Old Man W inter Makes Return Trin To This Vicinity Tuesday Night After several days of mild, springlike weather, old man winter made a return trip to Decatur and this community early this morning, and the temperature dropped to the zero mark. The cold wave, which started early this morning, will be short lived aci cording to reports. The sun was aiding in alleviating : the cold weather all day today, and i indications are that milder weather ‘ wlil return in the next 24 hours. The ■ roads, which were made impassable - last week beecause ot the heavy snows i are practically cleared of the snow > now, and all roads in the country are > open again, according to reports re- - ceived here today. i Many roads near here are covered i with ice, which makes them dangerous • and warnings have been issued tor , autoists to drive slowly. A few more > days of warm weather will completefl ly melt the snow which still remains c-ti the roads, it is predicted.

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