Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1927 — Page 1

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fOREIGN FORCES SET IIP MACHINE SUNS IN SHANGHAI fitv Is Calm As Plans Are Made To Protect Foreign Population mii.es or barhei' WIRE IS STRUNG \ Shanglmi. I<b. 2fi.-(United i Press) Armed foreigners on H IC outskirts of Shanghai towere setting up machine guns behind sand bag embankments and erecting miles of a<l(ijlional barbed wire to protect I ||| t > foreign communities from ' Chinese soldiers or mobs. Despite the warlike preparations wftieh have resulted in the creation C f two major lines of defenses and a third for emergency use, Shanghai was calm and >'< emed unperturbed. Shanghai s calm resulted from the kncw’.edgi' that approximately 15,000 i foreign soldiers, sailors and marines I were available for Ihe defense of 1 foreigners and their property. About 1,000 Chinese troops of I Phang Chung Chang's army arrived ' hm this afternoon in high spirits and were placed at the north station. Others of Chang's troops who had previously arrived were sent to the Sung Kiang front. 30 miles south of Shanghai. A foreigner returning from Sung Kiang today said Marshal Sun Chuan Fail's troops tjhertv were ing and that there was every indication that they would make a starid against the Cantonese nationalists. Women To Lead Service At Presbyterian Church . —........— . % I Unusual, but of much interest, will be the morning services at the Presbyterian church tomorrow, at which ' time lhe women of that congregation will have charge. Mrs. C. A. Dugan, I as chairman, has prepared a program including talk 1 ■ several of the on the dohainmed \Vorbl and : special music, in charge of Miss hessolee Chester, will be given. Everybody is invited to attend. Sunr day school and Chris’jan Endeavor sill 1> held at. regular hours. decatur scouts ATTEND BANQUET Several Decatur Scouts Attend Annual Meeting Os I ors Wayne Council ( S, ' veral members of the Decatur of Boy Scouts, including Scoutmaster Bryce Thomas, attended the wnuai meeting and dinner of the Fort ■‘.'De council, Boy Scouts of AmerCa ' l ' P,d in the Wayne Street M. l£. 1 weh mF 0 Wayne last night. The •Peaker of the evening was Fleming ost, director of athletics and Ke ad ™ ball coach at the University of Michigan. ' " the meeting and banquet. J'" 1 ' honora were awarded to 105 n,) ‘ ls of the Fort Wayne troops. L.' P awarda were made in the folZ7 W “ er: Two Eagle Scout 21 merit badge x awards, seven Ut awardß> 20 firat class and 55 second class awards. has ■ n °" 01 n ° otller Program that ,' a gl( ‘ atft r value for the American Coaei t" tlle Boy Scout movement,” befnr ! >SI dee *red in his address nu ../ tloße who attended the anta otl> UnCil meeting - " In ra y opinion does 61 or E au ization ever formed all-roi»n f ° r the deve, °Pment of stun, / hne yollne manhood as the body," he sai(l mission ,H|yed as Boy Scout comtuXr/ Ann Mich., for a how n as* a y ,T TS ' H ® iB nattonally Problems 8 " *°" ’ W# T* hove ani" £ames a PPeal to certain certain m Certaln forins ot w P rk t 0 en joy 'liu'" The adult who does not merely p] a y| ng the ,c^r<Nu EO

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Search For Missing Marion Woman Continues .Murton. Ind., Feb. 2G- (United . Press)--Search was continued today for .Mrs. Elizabeth Kerrigan, 33. who disappeared from the homo of her sister here Wednesday. Mrs. Kerrigan was the widow of George Kerrigan, for many years :i business man in Connersville, Ind. She left two sons, aged 9 and 6. when she vanished. Relatives fear for her safety as sh< was dispondent over ti e death of her husband and had not recovered frotn a nervous breakdown which fjllowed his death. " Q METHODISTS END DISTRICT MEET Nine Members Os Area Council Re-elected At Fort Wayne Meeting Fort Wayne, Feb. 26. —Nine members of the Fort Wayne district Muthodrst Episcopal area council were re-elected yesterclay at the concluding session of the two-day dis. treit conference at the Simpson Methodist church, 2501 South Harrison street. The members of The council are: Watren W. Wiant. district superintendent. of Fort Wayne; Rev. John C. White, pastor of the Simpson M. E. church, of Fort Wayne; Rev. If. A. P. Homer, pastor of the First Methodist church at Angola: Rev. L. G. Jacobs, pastor of the Trinity M. E. -church, of this city, alternate member of the council. Laymen members of the cixincil are: A. B. Cline, of Bluffton; Loring N. Scott, of this city; Dr. M. F. Steele, superintendent of the Metho<|st hospital, of this city; D. F. Shannon. of Decatur, alternate member. The area council will hold its next meeting at Indianapolis with Bishop F. D. LcetP. This session is scheduled to be held some time in May. The Montpelier Methodlist Episcopal church was chosen the next conf< rc'.iee city tor'WltJ# >. --i.iii of the districtThe return of the present Fort Wayne district superintendent, Dr. Warren W. Wiant. for another year was* asked in a resolution adopted by the body. The resolution was presented by Rev. R. R. Detweiler, of , the district resolution committee. Other resolutions thanked Dr. Wiant and the Simpson M. E. church for the success of this year’s meeting. and expressed appreciation to Bishop Leete for his presence and address Thursday night. , x o * Condition Is Unchanged W. E. Teeters who is in a critical condition at the Adams County Hemorial Hospital suffeting from a case of blood poisoning,, remains about the same. LOWDEN BOOMED FOR PRESIDENCY Boom Takes Definite Form Following Veto Os Farm Relief Bill By Max Buckingham. (U. P, Staff Correspondent) Chicago, Feb. 26. — (United Press.) — "Lowden-for-President” booms took definite form in the farm belt today. News of President, Coolidge’s veto of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill had scarcely-reached the middlewest when friends and spokesmen of agriculture brought the name of Frank O. Lowrten. former governor of Illinois and, proponent of relief legislation into the 1928 presidential race. Sixty-one members of the lowa state legislature signed a resolution urging Lowden to become a presidential candidate. The Chicago Tribune today carried huge headlines reading: “Veto Puts Lowden In. Race." Another headline read: “West Answers Coolidge With 1928 Candidate.”

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CAL [.PETERSON ELECTEDHEADOF INDOSTRIAI ASS'N. Carl Pumphrey Chosen VicePresident; Other Officers Are Elected PROGRESSIVE PLAN OUTLINED FOR YEAR Cal. E. Peterson, of the Teeple and Peterson Clothing company, was elected president of the Decatur Industrial Ass elation to succeed L. I* Confer, at the annual organization meeting of the board of directors yesterday afternoon. Carl Pumphrey, of the Pumphrey Jewelry store, was elected vicepresident. William Linn, of the Vance and Linn Clothing company, was selected secretary for 1927-28, and Dick Heller was elected treasurer. Mr. Petgrson stated that the standing committees would be announced next week, and that a definite plan would be launched at once. The directors were unanimously in favor of a plan to make all efforts possible to locate new industries, in this city and to assist in every way possible the best intierest of this city. Another meeting will be held soon, at which time definite plans will b» worked out for the year's work, and a membership campaign will be started in a few weeks. A committee was appointed tc lease the rooms now occupied by the association and it is probable that the 'foo'ms will'beJrtßtod Jointly with the Lions club, of this city, or with the American ]<egion. The Industrial Association has b> eti active for the last 10 years in crea'ing a spirit of cooperation among the business men and industrial men of this city and it was largely through that rfganization's efforts that several of Decatur's leading factories were broueht to this city , ,fJ- . . V.-: — — .slWill be appointed by Mr. Petersen in the next week will start at once on a campaign to interest various la?ge indnstiiea to locate branches in this city.

DRYS OUTWIT SENATE WETS Priority Position Obtained For Andrews Dry Reorganization Bill Washington. D. C. Feb. 26. — (United Press)—Senate Wets were outwitted by Drys today when senator Willis, Repn, leader, pried into the legislative snarl and obtained a priority position for the Andrews dry reorganization bill today. Willis moved pie senate consider the bill under a morning hour rule which prevented continuation of the filbuster against the measure. Willis' motion was adopted without a record vote. Senator Jones. Repn., Washington, then presented a cloture petition for the prohibition bill—the fourth in three days. V Predicts Enactment Os Farm Legislation Soon Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 26. —(Uni'ed Press) —Declaring that veto of the McNary-Haugen farm bill will organize the agricultural south and west against a financial east, William H Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation today predicted enaction of farm legislation during the next session of Congress. “The President's action will mean more than politicians realize.” Settle declared. "It will mean that the Agricultural interests ot the south and west will combine againsr the financial East, replacing the "Solid South" versus the north and east in the furcure.”

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U. S. Marines Charged With Preventing Relief ' Work By The Red Cross Mexico City, Feb. 26. —(United Press)- American marines in Nicaragua were charged here today with preventing Red Cross workers from treating wounded soldiers of the Sacasa Liberal army. Many of the soldiers are dying from gangrene as a result, it was asserted. Manuel Zepeda, Liberal Nicartfguan representative here, said he f would protest to John Barton Payne, head of the American Red Cross. ROSS FUNERAL TO BE HELD MONDAY —' I Last Rites To Be Held For Aged Woman At Church Os God In This City Funeral sei vices for Mrs. Elizabeth Ross, 78, who died at 9:50 o’clock yesterday morning at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Chllcote near this city, will be held Monday morning at 1 o'clock from the house and at 10:30 o'clock from the Church of God in this city. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The Rev. Mr. Bragg, of Marion. will have charge of the services. Mrs. Ross died after an extended illness due to stomach trouble and a complication of diseases. She had been' failing health for the last several years. She was born in Ohio, September 2,1849. Her husband, Purdy Ross, preceded her in death several years. Surviving are two daughters Mrs. Celia Stoner, of Mendon, Ohio, and Mis. Minnie t'hilcote, of Adams county. Two brothers and one sister also survive. Three and one sister preceded Mrs. Ross in death many years ago. Mrs. Ross was a faithful member of the Church of God of this city, attending regularly until her ill health prevented Her from leaving her home.

ATTENDANCE AT Rci’IVAL IS GOOD Large Audience Braves Weather To Attend Serv- , ice At Calvary Church The revival meetings at the Calvary Evangelical church, considering the weather, were well attended last evening. A splendid service was enjoyed and tlie interest in the meetings has been fine from the very start. There were four adults at the altar last evening. There will be a service again this evening at 7:45 o’clock. The Sunday School tomorrow morning will be held 15 minutes early, or at 9:15 o’clock, sun time, in order to close a little early so as to get to the communion service at the Evangelical church at Decatur at 10:15 o clock, standard time. The Rev. F. C. Berg-* er, of Fort Wayne, will preach and conduct the Holy Communion. There will be a service at the Calvary church Stfliilay afternoon at 2.0(J o'clock standard time and another at 7:15 o'clock in the evening. Mrs. Ida Tribbett, who is asisting the pastor, ( will preach at all these services. There will be no'service on Monday evening, but on every other evening of the week. The public is cordially invited. o Former Decatur Child Wins Health Contest Miss Maxine Misener, five-year-old daughter of Mrs. tucile Zerbe, of Louisville, Kentucky, is the proud possessor of a gold trophy cup, which she won in a health contest for childrent The contest was held at the Brown Hotel, Louisville, and Miss Maxine was chosen as the healthiest and best built, child from a group of fifty children. Miss Maxine will be remembered as the little girl who made her home witW Mrs. Anna Brod beck and family, of east of Decatur, for more than a year. While with them, she won the admiration of everyone and made a host of friends.

CLOTURE RULE IS SHUNNED IN SENATE TODAY Motion To Limit Debate On Boulder Canyon Dam Bill Is Defeated WAY LEFT OPEN TO FILIBUSTERS Washington, Feb. 26 (United Press) lite lighting battalion which kept the Boulder canyon dam hill before the senate tor seven consecutive days in lhe most dninudic legislative conflict of a decade was crushed today'when the senate refused to adopt a cloture rule to limit debate on the measure. The petition to limit debate and thus force the senate to vote upon the bill failed to receive the two thirds majority necessary for its adoption. As a result the way was left open U> the filibustering force opposing the bill* so that they can talk endlessly and prevent passage • of the measure. o United Brethren Church To Have Special Services The local United Brethren church has planned a very unique services for tomorrow which they have termed Victory Day Services. The Zimmerman orchestra has been secured foe- the services, both morning and evening, and then they have secured some excellent other talent for a special musical, to be given tomorrow evening at the regular hour of 7:00 o'clock. The public is urged to come and enjoy the services tomorrow and lovers of good music will find a great treat in store for them. The program of the day is found in the announcements of the church .in this paper. o — Admitted To Bail Detroit, Mich., Feb. 26 —(United Press)—Dr. Frank, Loomis, held by police nr. mtirderinir hi* wife, Grace, was admitted to SIO,OOO bail here today by Judge Joseph I. Me lan, before whom a hearing of a writ of habeas corpus .ras held.

INSULL AGAIN DEFIES PROBERS ' Multimillionaire Utility Magnate Is Cited For Contempt Washington, D. C. Feb. 26. —(United Press) — Samuel Instill, traction •multimillionaire again refused to answer certain questions cf the senate election investigating committee today and the committee proceeded to cite him and two othr witnesses for contempt. Instill In a brief appearance on the stand revealed, however, that all the $125,000 he gave to the primary campaign of senator designate Frank L. Smith, Repn, 111., came from the till of the commonwealth Edison Company—an Instill public utility and electric light concern. The committee considered tl-.+s evidence highly important in view o€ the tact Smith was tlfen chairman ot' the state public utilities commission. It was also developed from Instill that he drew a check for $190,000 pay-' able to the electric light company o* June 30, 1926 to reimburse it for money taken from the till. This however was after the primary of April 13, 1920 in which the money was spent It was also after the senate investigation of he primary had been begun. <5. E. Firemen To Bowl On Local Alleys Tonight The bowling team representing the firemen from the Fort Wayne General Electric plant will meet the Decatur G. E. Firemen in a match on the alleys at the Pythian Home, tonight, starting at 8:30 o’clock. Ail three alleys have been reserved for the ma’tch.

Brooklin, Indiana, State Bank Robbed Os SBOO Brooklyn, li.dii'm:,, Fob 26. United Press) Police of t'entnil Indiana today searched for tv.o bandits wh< held up the cashier of the Brooklyn peoples Jeposi. bank and escaped with SBOO. The Laniiits drove to the bank in a car and one remained at the wheel while the secoaa walked in and do manded all available cash. by a revolve: the cashier, 11. II leath ers, gave the bandit $8(X) and he retreated to the stleet, escaping in the auto. o MASS MEETING TD BE HELD SUNDAY • Superintendent Os Indiana State Civic Union To Speak At M. E. Church There will boa citizens mass meeting at the Decatur M. E. church at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon, February 27, addressed by Rev. D. B. Johnson, superintendent of the Indiana State Civic Union. Mr. Johnson has the*reputation of being a dear.and convincing speaker and is well and favorably known ,aniong the leading social reform leaders of the county, and unusually well informed on present day moral and social conditions. The Indiana Civic Union has several important legislature measures on its program. It urges three consti-. tutional changes, giving the state the right to take a change of venue in criminal cases to an adjoining county, to make the prosecuting attorney subject to impeachment for official misconduct, the same lift other law enforcement officers, and to strengthen the governor’s veto power. This state should have a small police force of its own and not depend wholly upon county and municipal law enforcement officers and should reinforce local officers with expert plainclothes help at state expense, the Union declares. Other things sponsored by the Uniontinclude: MoLUff 'f.id.ii i-s should l<- reguh'ed to shut out crime suggesting and lust ex It ng films. Tht ct citizens as a whole should take more interest in all the important governmental problems such as public utilities, taxation, temperance, the problems of sex and social vice, gambling. Sunday observance, the intelligent care of the poor, defectives and criminal, not coddling them but promoting thrift, self-reli-ance and indifference. Civil government is of God. Read Rom. 13:1-10, “This the greatest single human enterprise qnd getting the least intelligent attention ever from good people.” Intelligent and earnest citizens are urged to attend this meeting at 3 p. in., at the First M. E. church Sunday. This meeting will»be of unusual importance and should be largely attended. BROTHER OF WAR PRESIDENT DIES Joseph R. Wilson, Brother Os Late Presidetit Woodrow Wilson, Is Dead Baltimore, Md„ Feb. 26. —-(United Press)—Joseph R. Wilson, brother of the late war President died early today at his home in the Chadford apartments here, death was due to Nephritis. Mr. Wilson had been seriously ill for about two weeks. With him at the time of his death was his widow and their only daughter. Mrs. Alice Wilson McElroy, 4 who came to Baltimore from her Nashville Tenn., home a week ago when it first appeared that her father’s illness was critical. Except in 1913, when he was a candidate for secretary of the U. S. Senate the late President’s brother took no active interest in National politics He was defeated by James M. Baker .of South Carolina.

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CORN BORER RILL IS ALSO PASSED, AWAIT SIGNATURE Vote On Corn Corer Bill Is 40-0; Teacher Tenure Bill Passes, 27-19 STATE SCHOOL BILL IS PASSED IN HOUSE Indianapolis, Feb. 25.—(U.P.) —The corn borer and teacher tenure bills were placed in the hands of the governor for his sgnature today when' the Indiana state added its approval to “that of the hosue of representatives on both measures. Under suspension of rules and with no opposition, the corn borer bill was passed by a vote of 4S-0. The teacher tenure measure won over strong opposition by a vote of 29-19. Meanwhile the house of representatives passed with little discussion by a vote of 73-3, the bill establishing a 2-cent tax levy over a 10-year period beginning in 1928 to raise a fund of $10.0(10,000 for new buildings and equipment at Purdue University, Indiana University and the state ormal schools at Muncie and Terre Haute. Indranapoiis. Feb. 26. (United Press; —The Moorhead Bill designed to amend the Shively-Spencer utilities act lay deeply buried in the Legislative grave-yard today.By a vote of 31-18, the Indiana senate late Friday defeated the measure and sound'ed the knell for drastic utility legislation in the present session of the Indiana general assembly. The defeat was followed by a motion to reconsider and then to table, thus making the defeat decisive and placing the Moorhead hill beyond hope of reconsideration. Nine Democrats and nine repnlilicans voted for passage while six Democrats and 25 republicans joined forces to administer defeat. The moattire sought to abrog .te the of utilities to *Fed -3al court from decisions of the public s«-r---vice commission, and would have brought holding companies within the jurisdiction ot the commission. Provisions tor ousting present commissioners and for the election of members of the Commission fri-m the five judicial districts of the state it'iißrTitvmn ov pagr two) SHIP IS HELD AS SMUGGLER Crew Os British Steamer Held on Charge of Smuggling Valuable Liquor Philadelphia, Feb. 26. — (Unite;! Press)--The captain and 27 of the crew of the British steamer Clakamas were heid by U. S. Commissioner Long here today in connection with the smuggling of 10,000 cares of Liquor valued at $500,000 into the country. The crew was arrested after wireless operator Michael Long, 19. had left the vessel yesterday and laid his charges before the authorities. The hearings began at midnight and lashed until the early hours this morning. Long charged the Liquor was loaded from the French Barque Pierre Miquelon at sea two days after the vessel had cleared port Mulgrava, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of pulp wood and was unloaded at Port Newark. N. J. into a fleet of motor trucks when the Clackamas docked there Feb. 13. Long testified lie had been kept virtually a prisoner on the vessel by Copt. J. H. MacDonald and made his escape on a coal barge as the Clackamas was coaling in midstream. Capt. MacDonald, chief officer J. P. Frazer and chief engineer J. P. Fijtzgerald were held in $5,000 bail each and 25 members of the crew were held in sl,000 bail for a further hearing. Six men who Long said were not implicated in the rum running remained on board the ship.

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