Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1927 — Page 1

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loom is I ORGANIZED AT I BLUFFTON TODAY 9 “The Citizens Bank Is | Name of New Institution; E Capita' Stock $30,000 3 w R B A R R IS ■ v \!)E president (Special I- Doily Deniocral) BlullhH!. but., April B.—-A ! n(W bank was organized hen Joday. mnl will .. k P V* "The Citizens Bank. It will ( n | ()1 . business ip the former Studabak.i- Bank building, Monday morning. April 11. _ \V. B Barr, merchant ol tins ritv and governor of the Twenliet|l district of Botary International. u as elected president ol till , new institution. Other officers are: A. I’> Ci ne, vice-president; Mortis E. Stull'. Portland, bank examiner, tashler. The directors elected at a meeting of the st.n klt 'liters this morning are. W. R. Barr. A. B. Cline. Kenneth M. Kunkel. Herbert H Bender, Frank McDowell. W. A. Patton and Hoyt 11. Hartman. The new bank will have a capital | At a meeting of the stockholders of the Studabaker Bank, which closed its doors ten day’s ago. a report i was heard, showing the liabilities of the defunct bank at $1,5(53.000, of which amount, $1,222,314, is due depositors. It was stated that with careful liquidation, little, if any, loss will be suffered by the depositors. It wri< voted that the Citizens Bank act as i qu da'ing - agents for the old Stmlalwker Bank, thus doing away with the probability of appointing a receiver Department Files Report In a special report filed by the •rate banking department the following facts were given out, “Referring to former examiner's reports on file with this department for the last four years, the regrettable condition set forth in this report, was almost inevitali’e; the dominating member of the instßutton could not be dissce IWoncd of the impression that farm land in this locality was of a higher _ ; the <;s., ;: nd that the bank was used; speculate, anti unprofjttabls. The lirectois may partly be excused. because he habitually withheld in formation, which they should have hiil for their guidance. He alianated powerful support by tie practice set forth, which frankness and cooperation would have retained, with which this disaster could •Po' t'iM En ox- mtm two» ROTARIANS PICK NEW DIRECTORS l ive Men Elected Directors Os Club; Plans Made For Boys’ Week The election of five directors of the Decatur Rotary club took place last e'ening at the regular meeting of the club, rhe men elected were, James ' °wan. w. A. Lower, M. J. Mylott, Dore it. Erwin and Arthur D. Suttles, he directors will meet this week at ’ho call cf C. C. Pumphrey, who, by 'htiie of being immediate past-presi--1 p »' of the club, win also be a mentor of the board, and select officers. 1 he new officers will not take office Until the tint meeting in July. Reports on the success of the Boy ■-cout drive in this city and county tentative plans for the observance ? International Boys' week were made '■ M. F. Worthman and ('. C. I’umphrey ' ®° ys ’ w eek will be observed with a two-day program on May 3 and 6. le plans will be announced later. George Saunders and Dr. J. M. Spiey, °t Bluffton, each gave short talks ' '-he meeting. Jack Beiger and Will Kunkel, also of Bluffton, were g >te«ts of the club.

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I TWENTY-NINE RECEIVE (PENMANSHIP DIPLOMAS I * Nina Boys And 20 Girls In Catholic School Get Palmer Method Diplomas Twenty-nine boys and girls in the seventh grade of St. Joseph's Catholic school tn this city, have received diplomas from the Palmer Method in Penmanship. Specimens of their writing were sent to the offices of the Palmer Method in Chicago, win re they were graded. There are nine boys and twenty girls in the group receiving the diplomas. They are: Cafl Lose. Lawrence Kohne, Herbert Hess. Edward Metzger, Fran Ms Lichtle, Charles Ijeonard, Joseph Murphy, Robert Kleinhenz. Charles Omlor. .Mary Wertzberger, Estella Lengerich, Patricia Holthouse, Amelia Lengerich, Mary Ann Lose, Barbara Jane Keller, Helen Hain, Rosella Lengerich- Maly Miller. Salome Schmitz. Virginia Geimer. Catharine Schumacher. Frances Lengerich, Naomi Faurote. Edna • .Minch, Helen Tricker, Mary Alice Pennington. Thelma Cook. Matilda Yurkovlc, Amelia Koenig. KIDNAPING SCARE IS FALSE ALARM School Girl, Reported Kidnaped. On 1 y Taken To School By Her Teacher Excitement was thrown into this v'ckiit y this morning when a report reached Decatur and neighboring '.owns and cities that Erma. 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Graft, residing about nine miles north of Decatur, jn_ Allen county, had been kidnaped on her way to school. The news was sent to officials of th: i city to be on the lookout for a large sedan With two men, who kidnaped the little girl as she stood at the cross roads near her home, waiting for the school teacher to take her and her sister, Mildred, aged 10, to school. The two girls were standing at their usual place at 7:30 o'clock this morning and an auto did drive up and Erma got into the car. Mildred began t,o run and, when she got home, told that two men bad kidnaped her " _ ■ ........ j' ; ■ ~ II o'clock this morning, 'he mystery | was cleared up when it was learned that the teacher, who always took the two Graft girls to school, had purchased a new car, and was driving jt for the f'ret time this morning. The older girl did not recognize the teacher, and refused to get into the car. The youngtA- girl got in the ear and drove to school. Mildred, upon seeing her sister get into the car. thought that the man was a bold bad bandit and. by the time she got to iter home, she was _ certain that there were twofold bad bandits in the car. The *iole story was explained to Sheriff Karl Hollingsworth when he arrived at the Graft home trbou* 11 o’clock, after failing to find the kidnapers in Adams county. D. M. HENSLEY HAS OPERATION TODAY Well Known Decatur Citizen Undergoes Serious Operation At Fort Wayne Word at, noon today from St. Joseph's hospital was to the effect that D. M. Hensley, of this city, was as weil as could be expected following his operation this morning. Mr. Hen-1 sley was taken (.• the hosp'tal yesterday when physicians advised an operation. Gas was used in place of ether in the operation, and the attending physician stated that, he was resting well, following the operation. Mr Hensley's many friends in this city hoiy* that he will recover rapidly, and physicians are optimistic regarding his recovery. Coughing Is Fatal Anderson, Ind., April 8. — (LLP.) — Mrs. Margaret Wall of near Summitville, died when she ruptured a blood vessel while coughing.

Television Demonstration Latest Marvel Os The Age Spectators In New York Are Awed As They See Face Os ( Herbert Hoover On Screen And Hear His Voice As Hoover Speaks In Washington; Imagination Is Staggered At Prospect Os What New Invention May Bring About New York, April 8 (United Press) A new vista of human communication was opened up today by the latest triumph of science, television. The eye as well as the voice now can be flung through space, no that human beings miles apart—even thousands of miles apart cgn converse and see each other as though they were face to face.

The fascinating possibilities of the achievement of American Telephone ami Telegraph company engineers were scarcely realized fully by those who attended the first public demonstration of television here yes'erday. They watched Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's face on a creen while his voice boomed out through a loud speaker discussing 'he marvels of the invention. Voice and face were transmitted over wires from Washington. Atmosphere is Tense The atmosphere was tense in the little auditorium on the eleventh floor of the Bell labora’ories where the demonstration took place. The I assembled newspapermen invited for the demonstration were awed by marvel they saw and it was bard for 'hem to go beyond Iho present mirau’e and visualize what it might mean in the future. Even Walter S. Gifford, president rs the A. T. & T.. in his address opening the demonstra'ion. commented, “The elaborateness of the equipment nrecludes any present possibi'ity of television being available In homes end offices generally.” Yet he added: “What its practical use may be I leave t.o your imagination.” The imagination is staggered at the prncftrrT.* It Tr-possible to con'■e. vo some far-off day when the principle which lias been made workable will have been so perfected that a man can s t in his homo and tune in •U will on distant parts. He may possibly see his absent friends and tadk with them; see and hear an opera performed in some distant metropolis: or even, perhaps, catch the broadcast of some stirring event, such as a world series or a big disaster, while it is taking place. From the laboratories’ station at Whippany, N. J. A radio program was later transmitted, and the guests saw and heard a public performance sent ARRANGES HOLY ' WEEK PROGRAM Zion Reformed Church Plans; For Scries Os Special Services Next Week — Holy Week services will be held at the Zion Reformed church beginning Sunday night. There will be services every night with the exception of Monday and Saturday. All the evening services begin at 7:30 o’clock. The entire membership of the church is- expected to give their undivided attention to these services and lay aside all other engagements, and make this a week of sacred consecration and devotion. Each service w ll open with the singing of the first stanza of that beautiful Passion Week hymn, “Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?’’ A complete program of subjects and appropriate song selections is jherewi h published. The sermon and | musical renditions for each night will I tower in one definite thought. The ■Holy Week • services will reach their climax in the observance of Holy Communion on Easter morning and in the rendition of the Easter cantata, “Our Living Lord,” to be given by the church choir composed of more than twenty voices and directed by Mr. Leo Kirsch. Friends o:t the church and strangers are cordially invited to these services. The Good Friday union service from 12 o’clock noon to 3 o’c’ock p.m. Wil also be held at the Reformed church to which all are invited. Following is the program for Holy (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Decatur. Indiana, Friday, April 8, 1927.

Girl Stays Too Late At Dance; Pays For Her Disobedience With Life Fremont, <)., April 8 (United Press) Audrey Smith. Just 19, danced too long last night and for her disobedience she paid with her life and in directly was the cause of her sister, Dorothy, 1G being seriously wounded and her mother severely clubbed. Charles Brandall. foster father of the gill, killed himself after shooting his stepdaughter, Audrey, and wounding the other two members of the family. COUNTY CONTEST TO OPEN TONIGHT Annual County High School Literary-Music Contest to Be Held At Berne The annual Adams county high school literary and music, contests will start tonight in the Community Auditorium at Berne. The vocal numbers of the music contests will bo held tou'glK. The instrumental numbers and the literary events will l>e held Saturday night, at the same place. The program each evening will start at 7 o’clock. The program and names of contestants for the events to be held tonight were printed in the Daily Democrat last Wednesday. The program for the events to be held on Saturday night is as follows: Saxophone Solo “American Legion March" LaValle Hartford, Stanley Hoffman; .Mon(COXTINIED ON PARK EIGHT) • o i W-kk - I-Y iYfeuduuf- ! Banks Os Nca«L’ San Francisco. April 8. —- (.United ) I Press) —Owen M. Sullivan, head of an importing ami exporting firm, was held in the city prison today charged with defrauding San Francisco banks of l nearly a half milloin dollars. Sullivan was said to have obtained ' more than $400,000 through an intricate system of loans. o Man Faces Death Penalty For Murder Os Physician Brooklyn, N. Y„ April 8. —(U. P.) — Francesco Caruso, convicted of killing in his blind ignorance, the physician who was unable to save Caruso’s dying son, today faced the penalty of death in the electric chair. A jury decided at midnight that Caruso committed first degree murder when he stabbed Dr. Caspar S. Pendola to death in a frenzy of grief over the death of his son. Joseph. 1 o Man Strangled To Death By The Stiff Collar He Was Wearing New York, April 8. (United Press) | —Charles B. Kelly of New York, ma--1 nager of the Ulumit)ated arrow company, was strangled to death in his office early today by a high, stiff collar he was wearing. He with a companion named Robert Johnstone of Hempstead, I. 1., had been in the company’s offices al', night. | Kelly fell asleep and slipped from , his swivel chair to the floor. He was In a hunche dposition, with bis head . resting on his knees and his neck I pressed tightly against his collar. Police detectives said the collar stranglI ed him to death.

PYTHIAN SISTERS HOLDING ANNUAL CONVENTION HERE More Than 250 Women From 25 Lodges Registered This Afternoon LARGER ATTENDANCE EXPECTED TONIGHT More Ilian 250 Pythian Sisters from more than 25 lodges hat) registered at the Pythian home in this city tit noon today, and 150 more were expected before the night session of the annual district convention. now in session in this citv. The morning was taken up with the registration of delegates and visiting sisters. Among those prominent in the lodge work present were: Edna .May Carty. Grand Chief, of Hope, Indiana; Leona Burkett. Grand Senior, of Rome City; Daisy Duvall, Grand Manager, of Richmond; Mattie Bonnewitz. Grand Trustee, of North Manchester; Iva Leverton Kirwin, Past Grand Chief, of Huntington: Lydia Rnser, Past Grand Chief of Richmond: Emma Schattell, Grand Temple Committee, of Richmond; Cora Hood. Grand Mistress of Records, of Bluffton; Luelia Hall. District Deputy, of Pennville; Florence Ba'n. Past Grand Chief, of Decatur. The convention is one of the largest ever held by the fourth district, which consists of 19 lodges. Members from Fort Wayne, Willshire, Ohio, and Van Wert, Ohio, were also registered. These three cities, however, are not in the fourth district. The firsts business session started this riYtcrnoon following a luncheon given for the visitors at the Pythian home. The session will last all afternoon. A dinner for ail those attending the meeting w'll be held at 5:30 o'clock this evening. It is expected that at least 400 will attend the dinner. The night session will start at 7 o'clock and will include initiatory services. The convention will come to a close tonight, following the final report of officers and committees. The local members of the organization composed most of the committees for the convention, and the visiting delegates commended them highly for the <ine way in which they ■ —- ~ ' AMERICANS *r IN PICKETING Soviet Russian Consulate In Shanghai Is Surrounded By Pickets Shanghai, April 8. (United Press) — Americans participated today in the picketing of the Soviet Russian consulate here. Members of the municipal picketing council ordered the Cordon of police stationed around the building despite the angry protests of the Soviet consul general. Stiring Fessenden. American chairman of the council said that he and his council would take full responsibility for their action. The Americans participating in the picketing were several who were members of the reserve volunteers in polic service. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, National Commander-in-chief, was to leave for Nanking tonight to establish headqunrtersthere from which he would direct the Nationalist drive northward toward Peking. A battle was expecte 1 soon at Hsu Chow Fu. in north Kiangstt province, about 250 miles north of Nanking. The city was regarded as the key to the middle north and its captint would mean the collapse of Marshal Chang Chung Chang's anti-nationalist resistance. o Band Practice Tonight Junior band practice will be held at 8 o’clock tonight at the high school gymnasium. Members are urged to lie present.

Heads New Bank F I t Wiii iiwirhi wl Ji ! J 1 I I J / / s few-tv..,',,,..*. ~a Will R. Barr Will R. Barr, prominent Bluffton citizen and district governor of Indiana Rotary Clubs, was elected president of the Citizens’ Bank, organized at Bluffton today. FORT WANE GETS DIE. CONFERENCE Methodist Vote To Hold Annual Meeting At Wayne Street Church In 1928 Goshen, Ind., April 8 — U nited , Press) —The north Indiana conference . of the Methodist Episcopal churdh will hold its next annual meeting at 1 the Wayne Street Church at Fort i Wayne, it was voted today, i Logansport also bad asked for ’he - conference. 1 Goshen, Ind., April S. — (U.P.» — 1 Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pitts- ' burgh spoke last night to the north Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in a plea for more support for colleges and universities. Despite popular belief, atheism and ' immorality are found in a less degress in colleges than outside, he said. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of Washington. D. C.. secretary of the Methodist Episcopal board of temperance and morals said in an address before *-h.e_.. la Yn-.en'q a-sedation tha* the ■ ■■■■- He charged that enforcement id the law is put into the hands of men who are not in sympathy with it. o WOM AN’S C LU B TO END SEASON MONDAY Girls Os Public And Catholic High Schools To Be Guests At Closing Meeting The closing meeting of the Worn- ’ an's club will be held May 9 at the i ’ Decatur high school auditorium, it 1 was announced by those in charge of i the final meeting of the club year. All girls of both the Catholic and public high school, of high school age, will be entertained at the closing meeting. ' A program of interest to the young 1 ladies of this city is being compiled ' at present and it will be announced later. All girls of high school age are 1 cordially invited to attend the meet- ' ing and further details and plans will ■ be announced in the. next few days, according to those in charge. I . GLEE CLUBS TO SING AT PLEASANT DALE Men’s And Women’s Glee Clubs Os I Manchester College To Give Program Sunday 1 The young ladles' and young men's ’ glee clubs of Manchester college will , give a sacred concert at the Pleasant I Dale Church of the Brethren, Sunday t evening, starting at 7:30 o'clock. The singers will be under the direction of Prof Roy Dilling, director of glee clubs and choruses of the college. t The public is cordially invited to 1 attend the concert. No admission will s be charged, but a free fill offering will be lifted.

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(DEFENSE HOLDS (EVIDENCE ONLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL Trial Os F ormer Adams County Man, Charged With Murder, Goes To Jury JURY COMPOSED OF TWELVE MEN Lansing, Mich.. April B.— ((United Press) — Ten minutes latfer a jury found .Harold Duri bin guilty of second degree murder in connection with the killing of Mrs. Mildred Mcj Queen, h evvas sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in Jackson prison bv Judge L. W. Carr. His mother fainted when sentence was passed but Durbin remained calm. Lon«in<r. Mich.. April R.— (U. !P.)—The fate of Harold Durbin, formerlv of Adams county, Indiana. charged with the murder of Mrs. Mildred McQueen, today was in the hands of a jury coml posed entirely of men. The case went to the jury at 11:05 o’clock a. m. Council for Durbin, in summing up the argument for the defense, emphasized that the evidence against Durbin was circumstantial. Previously, Durbin had asserted lie could remember nothing from the time he went to the McQueen home until ho woke up the next morning with a supposedly self inflicted bullet wound in his head. The Lansing State Journal gave the following account of the trial of Harold Durbin, forme rresident of Adams county, who is on (rial in that city: “Indications were Wednesday adternoon that the defense in the murder trial of Harold Durbin, will attempt to prove that Mrs. Mildred McQueen shot Durbin and then turned the gun on herself early in the morning of Jan. 24. This defense plan was revealed when Durbin took the stand in his own behalf at 1:15 o’clock. “After Durbin had told of his early life in North Dakota and Minnesota lie told of meeting Mrs. McQueen for the first time in July, 1926. He said that he had visited her and that she had been in bis Poem several times. “On one occasion when he was ill • 11" . I::, ■'■ : ■■ '■ jn- <D-ii'V.-er in 'll:' dip'-? -: There he kept ni.s revolver, lie iesiiiled Hi..-. 1., not seen the revolver since he bad placed it in the drawer after he had returned from a trip to Indiana some time Before the shooting occurred. “Window glass in the car in which Mrs. Mildred McQueen, 32-year-old waitress, was killed, was shattered by a bullet which struck the glass from «yvrivw>> <>X PAM® TWO) CLUB CONDUCTS ESSAY CONTEST Literary Department Os Woman’s Club Awards Prizes To H. S. Pupils Two prizes werv awarded by the Literary department of the Woman’s club of this city to high school pupils at the Decatur high school this morning. The contest 'in which more than 200 papers were submitted, was held for high school pupils only. The subject on which the paper was to be written was a historical narrative of Adams county prior to 1860. A $5.00 prize was awarded to Helen Mosure, in the sophomore-freshman division of the contest. Miss Mosure wrote on the Henry P Miller family and her essay was selected as the best in that division. Miss Margaret Haley, a senior, won first and a $5.00 cash prize in the Senior-Junior division of the contest. Her essay concerned a general history of the country prior to 1860. Both essays were regarded as splendid papers, and both winners were highly cc<nplimented for their work by Mrs. John W. Tyndall, who awarded the prizes for the Literary section.

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