Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1927 — Page 1

LEATHER fail toniflht and probably Tue.day. Moderate temperature.

TO SETTLE JUDGE’S RIGHT TO BENCH

clemency for MCCRAY SOUGHT IN NEW PETITION Application Signed by E very State Senator Presented To President REP. WIL L W OOI) ' PRESENTS PETITION | Washington. Mar. 11 —(I nitcd Press) An application for executive clemency for former Governor Warren McCray of Indiana, convicted lor using Ute mails to defruad. was presented to President Coolidge today by Rep. Will It Wood, Republican Indiana. . The application was signed In the entire membership of the Indiana senate. 92 members of the state house and by the governor and lieutenant governor. ‘I think this document is representative of the opinion of the people of Indiana,” Wood told the President. — o Helen Howard, Motion Picture Actress, Killed I.OS Angeles. Mar. 14. — (United Press)—Heh-n Howard, motion picture actress, died here today from Injuries received in an automobile crash in which two other screen players were injured enront to location a* Riverside yesterday. Loretta Rush, another player, is recovering from serious scalp wounds. William Demarest, well known screen and vaudeville actor, suffered bruises inti lacerations. 0 - Cantonese Troops Suffer Heavy Casualties Today Shanghai, March 14. — (United Press) —Cantonese troops were suffering heavy casualties today near Wu Kiang, west of her, according to reports of the battle in the vicinity of Tatihu Lake, by which the Cantonese expect to vent the Naking-Shanghai railroad. if the Cantonese could cut the line the North China soldiers now concentrated at Shanghai and wtst and south of this city would be cut off from their base of supplies. Reports from Hankow today indicated that dissension within the ranks of the Cantonese was increasing and that Marshal Chaing Kai Hek’s AntiCommunist efforts were having considerable effect. Chiang is the Military leader of the Cantonese. ■ — o TOGIVEPLAY AT PLEASANT MILLS I Junior Class Os Pleasant Mills School To Present Play Wednesday Night g A three-act. comedy drama, entitled S.las, the Chorse Boy", will be presented by the Junior class of the leasant Mills high school at the leasant Mills high echool auditor'"ni; We ‘lnesday night, March 16, at o clock. The public is cordially in't’ed to attend the presentation lyde Troutner takes the part of •‘as and he is supported by a good th 8 D Al ' three aCtB ,a,CO P lace 011 e Ridley farm, an(l ea ch act Js full fun and entertainment. th are on sa '® by pupils of ® leusant Mills high school or aj’ be purchased at the door Wednesday night. T be cast of characters is as follows: clothing ’ a Wolf Bhee *’ 9 Silas qlAu, * Albert Davison all Stebbins, chore boy. thats Cinch -••••-. Cl yde Troutner Jed Perkin n Hani. Richard Evans ns ’ th e town constable Cecil Charles Dague *.< .S’«»• Pert Riitinv , Irene Durbin w S %’ ho know 9 a thing ai) d proves it Nancv tjiail Thelma Johnson si 9 t er ey ’ Hiran >'« en Dellinger

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXV. Number 62.

Pleads Not Guilty To Fraudulent Check Charge Don I’. Hindman was arrested Saturday. by Sheriff Rolling >rth, on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check. Hindman was arraigned in circuit court before Judge Sutton, Saturday afternoon, and he entered a plea of not guilty. His bond was fixed at S3OO. o COMMODORES TO LEAVE TUESDAY Fans To Give Team Rousing Send-off Tonight On Eve Os National Tourney The Catholic high school Commodores will lie given a rousing sendoff tonight, on the eve of their departure for Chicago, where they will take part in the fourth annnual na tonal Catholic school basketball (tournament, to be held at Loyola University, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A public pep meeting will be held in the Knights of Colutnbns hall at 8 o'clock tonight. Speeches, songs and yells will be on the program and the fans of Decatur are invited and urged to be present and show the Commodores that the home fans are back, of them. The team. Coach Center, Father Hession will leave at noon. Tuesday, via the Chicago and Erie railroad, for Chicago. They will be quartered a', the Belden Stratford Hotel while at Chicago. The Lott Hotels have been selected by the tournament committee as headquarters for the tournament. Scores of Decatur fans are planning to go to Chicago Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. The Chicago and Erie railroad has granted convention rates to persons going to the tournament. The round trip fare will be $935 fare-and-a-half rates. Each person will receive a coupon, which must be cancelled in Chicago, to show that he attended the tournament. Norbert HolthoAse, secretary of the Catholic high school Athletic Association, has received a letter from the secretary of the Lott Hotels. Inc., in which the rates for fans are given. Persons stopping at the Bel den Stratford Hotel may get a room for $2.50 per day. with four persons occupying each suite of two rooms. Two persons will occupy the bedroom and two the living room. Where only two persons occupy a suite, the rates will be $6 and $7 per day, for each person. The Belden Stratford is one block north of the Webster, another of the Lott Hotels. The regular rates will prevail in all of the hotels and they are practically the same in each. Persons who expect to attend the tournament are urged to make their reservations as soon as possible. Mr. Holthouse will be glad to make these reservations. LIFE RESTORED TO DEAD BABY Man And Science Bring Life Back To Bahv Hours After Breathing Stops Chicago. Mar. 14—(United Press) A mite of a baby—brown eyed 20-months-old Justine Draley—squirmed and kicked in a children's ward of a Chicago hospital today unmindful of the fact that man and science had given her life after she had been pronounced dead. Tuesday, the child, after having pneumonia for several days, ceased breathing. The baby was considered dead. Dr. A. J. Ehrlich recalled that at the same time out in Evanston man and science were battling to make breathing possible for Albert Frick who was suffering from paralysis of the diaphram. With Dr. Joseph Sperl, Dr. J. D. Cain, and Nurse Betty Rohrssen, Dr. Ehrlich started artificial respiration on the still and qule* baby. For hours a rhythmic pressure was kept on the baby’s lungs. Each pair (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

ON L Y DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

I — Bandits Dynamite Armored Pay Cars At Pittsburgh Va Kai topßm to"St 4 . ■ In ,WT .-a . .... . 12

—ln'ernational News Service. Five men were injured when bandits dynamited a section of the road over which two armored cars were taking the $400,000 payroll of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company to its mines near Pittsburgh. Ihey escaped with $102,000. I'pper photo Armored car carrying money overturned by blast. Lower photo Second armored car. which c irried ppyioll guards, in four-foot hole caused by blast. _

HAMMONO CHILD | DIES SUDDENLY Little Daughter Os Mr. And Mrs. Charles Hammond Dies This Morning Barbara Charlene Hammond, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammond, died suddenly of hemorrhage of the lung, at her home on N’u'.tman avenue, this morning. The child had been in poor health since her birth, but her death was unex-j pected this morning and the mother was alone with her when the child died. Barbara Charlene Hammond was born in Decatur, September 1924. She is survived by her parents and one brother, Keith Daniel Hammond. | Funeral arrangements had not been made this afternoon. o Seek Instructed Verdict Os Not Guilty For Sinclair Washington, March 14. — (United Press.) —A motion for an instructed verdict of not guilty was made in district supreme court today by lawyers for Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil magnate. Sinclair is being tried for alleged contempt of the senate for refusing to answer Questions of the senate oil committee. The motion was made before Justice William Hitz issued his ruling on admissibility of certain Sinclair evidence. . ii O" Killed In Auto Accident Elwood, Ind., Mar. 14 -(United Press) —Authorities here today investigated the auto accident, which resulted in the death of Charles P. Humphries, 38, near here. Humphries was fatally injured when the car in which he was riding turned over in a ditch filled with water. Two companions escaped with minor injuries. — o Supreme Court To Recess Washington, March 14— (United Press)—The U. S„ supreme court today announced it would recess from Monday March 21, to Monday April 11.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March I I, 1927.

Libel Suit Against Henry Ford Is Opened Federal Court Room. Detroit, Mich. I March 14.—(United Press)—Attorney for Aaron Sapiro today made a determined attempt to force the issue of an alleged "Jewish Conspiracy" into Sapiro's million dollar libel suit against Henry Ford. William Henry Gallagher, Sapiro’s Irish lawyer, first attempted to make relevant in the case a long series of articles published in Ford's Dearborn i Independent pricr to the actual men-‘ ticn to Sapiro. These articles marked the beginning of Ford's anti-semitic campaign. The court refused to admit those articles as an issue in the case. MORE BANKS IN FLORIDA CLOSE Three Banking Institutions Fail; Six Close In Less Than Week West Palm Beach, Fla., Mar. 14.—| (United Press)—The First National Bank of Lake Worth and the Ocean City Bank of Del Ray closed their doors today following failure of the I Farmers' Bank and Trust Company, to open. The two institutions closed without previous announcement. Six banks in the district have now closed within a week—nine in less than a year. Frenzied depositors were clinging in groups about the streets here, and runs were feared at remaining banks. Attempts were being made by other institutions to import funds from Miami and Jacksonville to (COXTINVEU ON l’X<;K FIVE) Mississippi Governor In Critical Condition Jackson Miss, —March 14.—(United Press) —Governor Henry Whitfield of Mississippi whose leg was amputated in a Memphis hospital recently was in a critical condition there today and not expected to survive, according to a statement issued by Dr. Julius Chrysler, ids physician.

CHURCH OF GOO TO HOLO REVIVAL Indianapolis Evangelist To Have Charge Os Services During Campaign The Rev. M. P. Rimmer, of Indianapolis, an evangelist, has been secured to conduct a revival campaign at ' the Church of God, on Cleveland s'reet, starting next Wednesday evenignt and continuing indefinitely. Rev. Rimmer is a noted evangelist and has travelled through several states, conducting revivals. He preaches the old-fashioned gospel in an interesting manner. The services will be held each night, starting at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial welcome is extended to the public to attend any or all of the services. o — Postpone Mating Os Memorial Committee On account of the Woman's Club meeting this evening, the meeting of the Gene Stratton-Porter Memorial committee has been called off until further notice of the chairman. Those who were notified to attend the meeting will please take notice of the change. o Payroll Bandits Sought In Great Lakes Cities Pittsburgh, Pa., Mar. 14 —(United Press)—Police of eight cities either on the Great Lakes or nearby have been informed to be on the lookout tor tile perpetrators ot the $104,250 holdup of the Coverdale Mine payroll. County detectives believe the robbers, who bombed the two Brink's Express Company armored tniteks Friday afternoon ami seized $104,250 of the funds of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, are enroute to Detroit and have notified police of Toledo, Canton, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo. Detroit and Montreal and Sarnia Canada, to watch for the robbers. Rewards of $5,000 for the arrest and conviction of the men and 10 per cent of the loot recovered have stimulated county detectives and state police engaged in trailing the bandits.

I Must Serve Sentence Which Was Suspended Wllllatn Lough, of this city, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon and will be taken to the state penal farm this week, for violation of the conditions of a suspended sentence. Lough will serve six months at the penal farm. He was sentenced recently, on a charge of larceny. — 0 REVIVAL OPENS ATU.B.CHURCHI Interest And Attendance Is Good At Opening Services Held Sunday The revival services which began yesterday at the United Brethren church were marked with good attendance and interest. The song director, Dean McGrew, of Gibson City, Illinois, is proving a most efficient leader in the song service. The pastor brought the messages yesterday. The morning theme dealt with the “Stirring up of the Church to the fact that folks were lost apart from Jesus Christ." The consecration service In the morning evidenced much interest and willingness on the part of the members. In the evening, the pastor spoke on "Sowing and Reaping." Mr. McGrew sang two splendid solos at the services yesterday and the local choir is doing some special work also. There will be services tonight at 7:30 o'clock. A prayer service will be held in the prayer room at 7:15 o'clock for those who care to come The music director urges all who are going to assist in the choir to be present at 7:25 o’clock in the choir room Tonight there will be a special treat in store, as the pastor has secured Rev. F. N. Myres, and wife to be present. Rev. Myres is a talented musical man and will presidet at the piano tonight. Rev. and Mrs. Myres will also sing a special number. It will be a delight to all to have this opportunity to hear Mr. Myres on the piano at the services tonight. The public is invited to the services to come and help in any way that they can. There will be a 50 minute service at the church Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock in charge of Mr. McGrew. Countv Recorder's Bill Killed By Pocket Veto According to an article in the Indianapolis Sunday Star, the bill providing for the payment of deputies in the county recorder's office was killed by "pocket veto” of the governor. Governor Jackson failed to sign the bill wit Ilin the required length of ♦ime after the session of the general assembly closed. The barber’s and beauty parlor bill also died by pocket veto of the governor. The county recorder’s bill provided that, an appropriation not exceeding $2,000 be made in counties the size of Adams county. The salary of the recorder in this county is only $1,300, plus fees, which amount to about S4OO yearly. HOLD EPWORTH LEAGUE RALLY Large Number Os Leaguers Attend Sub-District Rally At Geneva Sunday About 125 persons attended the Adams county sub-district rally of the > Epworth League of the Methodist church, held at the Methodist church in Geneva, Sunday afternoon. The chapters at Decatur, Pleasant Mills, Monroe, Bobo, Beulah Chapel and Geneva were represented at the rally. , The Rev. E. P. White, of Bobo, de- ■ liverod an inteersting address on, . "From the Basement to the Roof." i Miss Laura Stanley, of Decatur, gave a talk on Missions. The Pleasant t Mills and Beulah Chapel leagues gave i special numbers, and Henry Busche > played a cornet solo. A round table 1 discussion was held during the meets ing, also. In the evening, the Geneva league served a lunch.

Price Two Cents.

SUITTOMANDATE JACKSON TO NAME NEW JUDGE FILED Petition To Have Impeached Muncie Judge Removed From Bench Dismissed SUIT FILED TODAY OF FRIENDLY NATURE Indianapolis, Mar. 14.— (U.P) —A move to settle the right of Judge Clarence Dearth to occupy the bench of the Delaware county court at Muncie while awaiting impeachment trial was started today. The move was in the form of a suit to mandate Governor Ed Jackson and appoint a successor to Judge Dearth. Tile suit was fih*d in the Marlon county circuit court. E. R. Temple, Muncie attorney, said he expected to obtain a hearing tin's week and settle definitely the disputed question of Dearth's right to continue on the bench. The petition for a writ of prohibition to remove Judge Dearth was filed by Miller last w : Q k on behalf of eight Muncie citizens who are defendants in suits pending in Dearth's court at Muncie. Miller’s action in withdrawing the petition was understood to be upon agreement with Judge Dearth that lie would leave the bench Tuesday and have a substitute judge hear the cases of the eight petitioners. Temple tiled the suit in the Marion county circuit court here today on liehalf of George Dudleston, administrator of the* estate of his half-broth-er. The administration of the Dudleston estate is envolved in a suit pending in the Delaware county court. Temple is a former partner of Clarence Benadum, close personal friend of Judge Dearth. That the suit is of a friendly nature toward the interests of Dearth is shown by the fact that Governor Jackson will lie represented in the case by Arthur Gilliom, attorney general. The governor has already refused to appoint a successor to Judge Dearth upon an opinion from Gilliom that the law under which the state house of representatives voted impeachment of Dearth was unconstitutional. o PLANS FOR CALF CLUB ANNOUNCED Boys And Girls In County Asked To Enroll In Club At Early Date “Enroll as early as possible in the calf club.” is the word sent out by the county calf club committee, consisting of Carl E. Amstutz, of Jefferson township; A. Z. Smith, of Washington township; H. E. Zerkel, of Root township, and David J. Mazelin, of Monroe township. According to arrangements made by the committee, any boy or girl living in Adams county who wants to be in the calf club this summer is eligible to enter, providing they are not less than 10 or more ■ than 18 years ot age. Each prospective member is asked to sign an en- ! rollment card and forward it to the county agent at once. Early enrollment is necessitated by ■ the fact that, in many instances, the 1 members of the committee will lie askeu to assist in locating good calves for members. Since weight and feed records will start May 1, and it will ■ take some time preceding that date to B locate really good calves, all who t want to enter are urged to report at e once. e Each bank in the county has been e asked to cooperate in the enrollment. Rules for the club, also enrollment a cards to be used in entering have - (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Subscribe For The Daily Democrat The Home Newspaper