Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1927 — Page 5

FRENCH ace is WINNER IN DUAL WITH LINDBERGH (C(rtTni Ki> i hom pm;i: om:i day. Just seven days after he crawl[cd Into his Ryan monoplane at RooseIvelt Field. New York, to start his 18 li, hour flight to Paris. With few to Iwatcii him, ho performed breath-tak-ing stunts high above Paris. Arising at 4:KO a. m., to escape the (reporters and the crowds, Lindbergh, I tired of being lionized and cheered and forced tn make speeches, went to Le Bourget field without stopping for breakfast and borrowed a plane. for nearly two hours Lindbergh dew over Paris, the city which has Imlled him as a conquering hero for nearly a week. He passed over the Arc de Triomphe, under which he rode between dense crowds yesterday, and skimmed above Eiffel tower at an altitude of a bare 800 feet. Lindbergh put reporters and photo graphers off the trail yesterday by assuring them he was so tired out by receptions and formal functions in hb honor that he intended to sleep until nearly noon. After ills flight this morning, Lindburgh landed at 7:30 a. m.. and discovered he was hungry. He made signs to the fliers at the field, none of whom understood English, and was esc<Fted to lite officers’ ntess. There he found some who knew his language. Then the 25-year-obl aviator, whose chief worries this week have been what to do with offers of movie contracts he didn’t want, and how to greet the president of a republic when lid kisses you on both cheeks, went to the hangar which housed his own plane—the other half of tlie we" with which he always speaks of his flight to Paris. Looking happy and very much at home, Lindbergh set about the pleasant business of getting as greasy as

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I possible In a short time. He looked his motor, which was reported [ to have suffered somewhat at the hands of the mauling crowd which - greeted him lust Saturday, and ex- . .utnined the new covering of linen be- • *"* PUt on the plane to replace the jjone torn by souvenir hunters. MejchanicH have been working on the ’[craft day and night, and Lindbergh • said he was sure he would be able jlo leave tor Brussels tomorrow after- 1 • noon. . | He hummed and grinned ns ho I worked on the plane. Then he rei gretfully noted the time and left the ’, field to return to the embassy where 1 | ho arrived at 9a. m. He was still i greasy and happy, and he laughed i scornfully at the newspapermen gath- • ered there. “| "You’ll have to got up early in the ■, morning to beat me,” he said. , I d— — FOUR DECATUR PERSONS HURT IN AUTO WRECKS tCOXTIM ED IUOM PAGE OXEI ed Into the Connell car, he said. The Decatur paity was enroute to this city ftoni South Bend. Ered Connell, who is a gladuate of the Decatur! Catholic high school this Spring, hadmatriculated in Notre Dame Univer- ; sity yesterday. Mr. I'aiker who owns i a mill in Hamilton, was enroute to Eoi t Wayne. » I Connell Car Is Struck Parker is said to have been driving! at a fast late of speed and attempted! to pass unothei car, when the Connell car a Chrysler driven by Ered Cornell was only a short distance away. Bar-* ker was unable to pass tile car and Ret back on the right side of the rond | before he leached the Connell car, and his car, a large model Cadillac, struck the Decatur- car on the left side, hurling it into tlie ditch. Other motorists who were passing assisted the injured pel sons to their

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1 feet find called an ambulance from I Eort JjVaync. Motorcycle pollcenrefl , were dispatched to the sene of the ac- , cident from Eort Wayne and they directed tiaffice past the wrockd cars. The injured women were brought to , Decatur in the Hauk ambulance from Eort Wayne. Barker was taken to the , Eort Wayne city limits In a truck , driven by Hoy Campbell, and from , Hire to the Methodist hospital in the . 1 city ambulance. Barker remained in n semi-cons-cious condition lust night and Wits unable to dlst-uss the accident. He kept repeating, where am I?” and '•what

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••—— *i happened?” during the evening. Word wan received from Fort Wayne this afternoon that Barker ww dlacarged at the hcapilal this morn | Ing. No ehaißOß have been filed i against him. / Mrs. Voglewede recently undvrweflt a major operation and tills caused her, Injuries to affect her more seriously. However, the attending physician stated that he did not believe the Injuries were of a serious nature ami he was unable to find any fractured bones. Both cars were badly damaged. ‘

PENSIONFUND OVERSUBSCRIBED Presbyterians Give $15,015.000 More Than Asked For Aged Ministers San Francisco, May 27. —(HP) — Will II Hays, of Indiana, was to announce tills morning, al the general i assembly of the Presbyterian church.

In session here, that thn church’a campaign for a pension fund for aged miiilstei'M of the church had been over- | subscribed by 815,048,000. Snn Francisco, May 27. —Dr. Robert E. Speer, of New Jersey, was elected ‘[moderator of the Presbyterian church |in the U.S.A, at the general assembly here yesterday. He succeeds Dr. W. II). Thompson, president emeritus of -'Ohio State University. Dr. Speer was nominated by J. 1 Willison Smith, of Philadelphia, him , I self a candidate for the moderator-

ship. Dr. Hugh K. Walker, of I.os Angeles, seconded the domination. Tha motion was made that thn nominations be closed and that Dr. Speer'a nomination be made uaunimoua. Th!| was done, Mrs. 11. H. Buock, of north of thd city, spent the afternoon here shopping. ■ —o ■ 1 Peru —William Klnkle was painfully injured when attempting to park bln <ar recently. The machine bounded over the curb and crashed into a candy store window.