Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1927 — Page 1

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MAN AND WOMAN HELD IN POISON PLOT

11USPECT HELD AT I MARION BELIEVE!) ■to BE MURI DULL ■horifT Hollingsworth Goes To Grant County To Identify Man In Custody I W KN TED BY ADAMS ■ COUNTY OFFICIALS I ■sh, rlfi' Hai l Hollingsworth left at K,, today for Marion, Indiana, where claim to have in custody Hurl Hull, 30, of Willshire, Ohio, Eanted here for obtaining money false pretenses. Dull has been here on several occasions. |■> f pw months ago he was arrested Van Wert. Ohio, but officials there 8t,,,!,! not permit Adams county offiHials to bring him here. He was held lor a time as a suspect in couI Action with the Payne, Ohio, bank i ■ An affidavit was then filed in Van I Vs ert county court against Dull by ■ . brother, charging insanity. He Kas committed to the Ohio Insane Hosi ital at Toledo, Ohio, and since Ml.it i me has escaped twice. Likely To Be Tried Hern ■ Sheriff Hollingsworth intimated at ■nvi today th. if the man held at ■lai on was Dull, he woultl be brought ■ this city and tried on the charge ■gainst him in the Adams circuit ■ State Policeman Hal Ayres, who ■:> in Marion yesterday, partially ntified the man held there as ■till! When arrested in that city, the ■lan was selling cigarettes. He could ■c give an acceptable account of ■dmre he secured his merchandise ■nil officers locked him up bff'tt ldPh■cal charge. ■ Officer Ayres was in Decatur today I (CONTINI ED OV PAGE EIGHT) ■Sacred Heart Academy Commencement June 8 I The annual commencement exer■riser of the Sacred Heart Academy, ■Fort Wayne, will be held on Wednesday, June S. Among the graduates are ■Miss Naomi Holthouse, daughter of ■ Mrs. Minnie Tollhouse, cf this city. ■The exercises will be hold Wednesday BjUti'.iaj*’ and...se.v.eial peojde from 1 felly ale pil’nTiiTiigm attend scram. CORN BORER LAW UPHELD BY COURT Alien County Judge Gives Government Authority To Enforce Regulations Fort Wayne, June 2 —The state of Indiana yesterday won the right to Fo onto private farming land to enforce the corn borer clean-up regulations in the .Alien circuit court. Judge Sol A. Wood dissolved a temporary restraining order and decided in favor of the state department of conservation, divison of entomologist. Frank N. Wallace, state entomq'ogist, and Paul T. Ulman, his assistant, defendants in the injunction suit brought by John and Martin Caudles, Jackson township farmers, in which it was charged the state officials had damaged oats and clover crops in tiie enforcement of the corn borer clean-up regulations. Judge Wood held the state law. which had been attacked in the Caudles’ complaint, is 1 donstitp.ti.onal. The judge said there would be no excuse for any enforcement of the law in a manner that would destroy other crops, if this could be 1 avoided, but that the menace of the corn borer has been so destructive in other states that every farmer in Indiana should be prepared to do everything possible to assist in the eradication and control of the borer. Judge Wood dissolved the temporary restraining order against the defendants. granted the Caudles last week. The hearing came to a c’ose after a very tedious day, especially tedious fOr the more than 200 farmers in the eastern part of the county where the case originated.

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I SEEKS MORE MONEY FOR POLITICAL PROBE Judge Collins, of Marion County Court, Wants $15,000 Mor e To Con tinuc Inquiry I Indianapolis, June 2. -(UP)- Harry Dunn, Marion county auditor, today is considering a request frqm judge II Janies A. Collins of criminal court that a special appropriation of $15,. 1100 be made to continue investigation of corruption in county politics. Judge Collins pointed out that exi penses of the invrsiigation had been mounting rapidly during the eight mon hs it has progressed, but ex- , pressed hope that the entire sum would not he used. At the session yesterday Prosecutor William H. Remy and his assis.an s again heard testimony of William 11. Armitage, prominent politician. The nature of Armitage’s testimony was not learned, although it was understood he was called in connection with affairs of the present city administration. o INSTITUTE OF BANKING CLOSES Decatur Chapter Os Organization Ends Successful Year With Banquet The Decatur chapter of the American Institute of Hanking closed its third successful year with a banquet at the Elks home in this city last night attended by the students of the course in negotiable instruments, which subject was studied this year, Earl P. Adams, instructor, officers of the three banks and several invited guests. O. W. Dannemelser anil F. W. Ilitzman, of the Old National Bank of Fort Wayne, and Donnelly P. McDonnald of the Peoples Trust and Savings company of Fort Wayne, were the chief speakers. They spoke on subjects of interest to the members of the local chapter. Ralph Tyndall, of this city, spoke on how economics is taught in the local high school. The subject of economics will be taken up next year by the local chapter. Enrollment in the course is open to all Decatur persons, and it is not limited to employees of the three banks. The Decatur chapter of the ... * start its fourth year about the first of next September. The organization has grown each year, and it is the hope of officers to continue the growth. Tiie scholarship award, for the student making the highest grades, during the year, was presented to Miss Mildred Lidy, of the First National Bank. The award is given by the three Decatur banks to the student with the highest grade average each year. The local chapter lias been invited to attend a picnic of the Fort Wayne chapter at the Fort Wayne Elks country club. Saturday June 11. and several local members have signified their intentions of attending the picnic. The national convention of the American Institute of Banking will lie held at Detroit, the week of July 10. and it is probable that several Decatur members will attend the conclave. The local organization was founded 3 years ago among the employees of the three Decatur banks and since then has grown to include all persons interested in the various subjects taught in the courses. — —oZeser Funeral To Be Held Saturday Morning Funeral services for Peter Zeser, who died at the hospital here Wednesday forenoon, will be held at St. Mary's Catholic 'church. of which he was'a member, at 9 o’clock Saturday morning. Mr. Zeser was a member of the St. Joseph's Society, also. Friends may view the remains any time at the home of a son, Andrew Zeser, 804 High street. o Spain Confers Gold Medal Plus Ultra Upon Lindy Madrid, June^—(United Pre»s)~ Capt. Charles e A. Lindbergh today was awarded the Spanish gold medal Plus Ultra for his flight across the Atlantic. The award decree appeared in the Gazette. |

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lucky” Lindbergh Rates Only 40 Per Cent In Movie Screen Test; Too Blonde

Paris, June 2—(United Press)—A movie camera being no respecter of persons, screen tests of Charles Lindbergh in Paris have given the worshipped airman a rating of only 40 per cent. It was learned today. 'I ho handsome young aviator is too blonde for ideal screen purposes. It. was explained. Yet movie producers would let Lindbergh name his own figures for his signature to a contract. When lie returns to the American embassy here today he will find stage and screen offers on Ambassador Herrick's desk totaling $1,400,000, all of wh'cli have been unanswered and probably will remain so. While the American flyer was in London, movie directors called him by phone from Paris asking for interviews and offering certified checks. Lindbergh would not even talk to them. He simply isn't interested. Amazed at his refusals, stage and screen magnates in Paris were doubling last-minute offers, hoping lie Receive Letter From Niece At New Orleans Mr. and Mrs. B W. Sliolty have received a letter from their neice. Miss Helen Vincent, of New Orleans, stating that the river is receding rapidly. Miss Vincent wrote “the river is receding quite rapidly and we are out of danger,■ according to old experiencea river men. The suffering of the people in the parishes above New Orleans is terrible. We have a friend, a young man, belonging to the National Guard who has been on duty most of the time in refugee camps. He stated that a woman came in one day with seven children, only one to her I’he ofber six twreit wandering around drenched with rain and almost starved and took them with tier to the refuge camp. It was several days before their parents located them." FLOOD REFUGEES ARE MAROONED Between 300 And 100 Persons Reported Isolated In Louisiana Flood —• .. . New Orleans, La. June 2 —(UP) — Reporis that between 300 and 400 flood refugees were marooned on the west bark of the Achat'alaya river 140

miles northwest of here without food or supplies. A relief boat was sent to the rescue today. Tiie peia for help was received at Red Cross headquarters in Baton Rouge. It said the marooned refugees have been without food for two days. An engineers I(oa1| was dispatched with rations for the victims and feed for 1.000 head of cattle. The Read Cross report said the marooned persons were between Woodside anil Odenburg. Flood waters were reported receding in that section and' victims were believed to be in no danger except from privation. o Well On Cross Farm Proves To Be Dry Hole Well No. 1. on the John Cross farm in Blue Creek township, drilled by the Paul scjiulte Oil and Gas Company, cf this city, proved to be a dry hole. There was no showing of oil when the drilling was stopped, but the well was shot with 120 quarts of nitroglycerine in hopes that oil could be struck, after the shet, there was some showing of gas and about a half barrell of oil war balled cut. but there was not enough oil and gas there to pay. The well will be pulled and plugged. The rigging is being torn down this week, preparatory to being moved to the Monmouth field, north of this city. o — Bellanca Plane To Try New York-Paris Flight New York June 2—(UP)—The sponsors of the Bellanca plane, “Columbia" which holds the world endurance flight record have notified the U. S. weather bureau here that they expect to attempt a flight to Europe within a few days, it was learned this afternoon.

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v may still change his mind. t| The offers were not hinted to i American producers. The Casino de ■ Paris would sign up the American ■ hero al his own price, while the Ger- . man film producer Spey has spent i the last week in Paris trying to interest Lindliergh in a proposition | guaranteeing him 90 per cent of the : gross receipts from a two-reel aerial • thriller. i' o BAPTISTS TALK FINANCES TODAY I J Financial Plans Arc Before Northern Baptist Convention At Chicago — Chicago, June 2— (UP) Finances were before the Northern Baptist convention for discussion today. Two of the financial plans involved the handling of more than a $11,000,000 fund which lias been reported for suburban revolving fund and benevolent offerings. The suburban fund is a new institution of the church. It is to he of $1,000,000 and will be used for loans | for establishing churches in the 1 suburbs. The goal of the benevolent offerings this year was fixed at approximately $5,000,000 or about the same figure as last year. This year 70 per cent of the fund will be apportioned while last year 80 per cent was apportioned. o Train Is Wrecked In Town Os Hamlet; Car Os Gasoline Explodes Plymouth, Ind.. Juno 2 — (United Press) —Fire threatened th,e visage of Hamlet. 14 miles west of here early today after a wreck on the Pennsylvania railway there exploded a car of gasoFne and ignited four other cars I adjoining the one exploding. The wreck occurred in the center of Hamlet and flames threatened the elevator, railroad station and other buildings. Fire equipment from Plymouth and Knox answered calls for assistance village. Fire was still raging at 8 o’clock this morning but was under control,

according to reports. The wreck occurred this morning at 3 o’clock and is believed to have been caused by a broken drawbar on a freight car. Two box cars and the fuel cars were destroyed. Davton Man Drowns In Reservoir At Montezuma Herman L. Meyers, 32, president of the Sun Construction company of Dayton, Ohio, was drowned in the reserI voir near Montezuma. Ohio, early Wednesday morning, when the boat in which he and two companions, George Hobson and Clarence E. Norris, also of Dayton, capsized. The men had just 1 gone out on the reservoir to fish. The water was very rough, causing the boat to capsize. Hobson and Norris saved themselves by clinging to the overturned boat. — o Schortemeier To Give Radio Talk On Auto Laws Indianapolis, June 2. — (UP)—Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of i state, and chief enforcement officer 1 of highway traffic laws and automo--1 bile laws of the state, officially will 1 open Indiana's safety week when he broadcasts a safety talk at 4:30 "pm., 1 Sunday, It was announced today. The safety week program was suggested by Schortemeier, who Is receiving the assistance of the Hoosier ; Motor club and Robert T. Humes, chief of the s ate motor police. During the week police throughout ' the state will keep a close check on t speeding, glaring headlights, bad r brakes and "loafing drivers,” who -.clutter up state highways at speeds of ten to fteen miles an hour, Schortemeier said.

CLASS OF 249 TO RECEIVE EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS Annual Eighth Grade Commencement To Be Held At Geneva Next Wednesday A. C. MARTIN TO GI V E ADDRESS Diplomas will be awarded to 249 pupils at the annual Adams county ■dghth grade commencement, to be held in the Methodist church at Geneva, next Wednesday morning. June 8, at 10 o'clock. The list of graduates was announced today by Clifton E. Striker, superintendent of the county scnools. The commencement address will be delivered by A. Martin, of Goshen, former superintendent of the Indianapolis schools. His subject will be "Safeguards of Life." Wabash township lias the largest number of graduates, there being 42 in that township. Monroe is next with 38. Fidlowing is program for the commencement: Music, orchestra. Invocation. Rev. N. Paul Barton. Music, Magley qnartet. Class address, A. C. Martin. Music, orchestra. Presentation of diplomas, Supt. Clifton E. Striker. Music, quartet. Benediction, J. R. Knipe. List of Graduates Following is the list of graduates: Union Township Lorens. Bischoff. Rosa Blakey', Glennis Barkley, Mildred Wass, Ruth Fleming, lth» Ittnz. Emma Krueckeberg, Chester William Stetler. Arthur Shamerloh, Perth Mitch, Edwin H. Reinking, Lydia Lehrman, Nora B. Bleeke, Frieda Schearer, Keitli Brown, (CONTINUED OX PAGE TUIh SAFETY WEEK TO OPEN SUNDAY State Motor Police To Test Brakes Os Automobiles During The Week Safety week will be inaugurated in Indiana next Sunday, according to announcement today by Robert Hume, chief of state motor police. Ministers of every church in Indiana have been asked to speak next Sunday on the topic of saftety and local police chiefs of all Indiana towns and cities have been a-ked to cooperate to the fullest extent in reducing the frightful toll from automobile accidents. During the same week. Hume said, efforts will be made by police to test the brakes of every automobile in the state. In this connection he gave out a table showing what brakes should do if they are in good condition: Lieut. Hal (L Ayres, of Portland a member of the state motor police force was in Decatur today, making arrangements for observance of safety week in Decatur and Adams county. He stated that he will conduct brake tests in Decatur next Tuesday afternoon, between the hours of 4 and 6 o’clock. The local police will cooperate with hiin and it is probable that another member of the state motor police force will be here. Seph Melchi, chief of police, will designate a certain struet to be used for the tests. Cars with two-wheel brakes should stop well within the following distances, he declared; 10 feet 10 M.P.H. 21 feet 15 M.P.H 37 feet 20 M.P.H. 58 feet 25 M.P.H. 84 feet 30 M P.H 113 feet 35 M.P.H. Cars with four-wheel brakes should stop well within the following distances: 7 feet 10 M.P.H. 14 feet 15 M P.H. 25 feet 20 M.P.H. 39 feet 25 M.P.H. 56 feet 30 M P.H. 76 feet 35 M.P.H.

Big Slump Hits Dan Cupid’s June Business This Year New York, June 2 (United Press) The June wedding tradition may be going the way of other sentimental relics of the nineteenth century, a survey by the United Press today of marriages yesterday Cities where statistics were available were almost unanimous in reporting a drop in the number of June 1 marriage licenses. One of the few exceptions was Boston, wljere 70 licenses were Issued yesterday compared with 69 the year before. In Now York, only 190 couples obtained licenses yesterday, a drop of 53 from the 1926 figure, and in Detroit a reduction of 57, from 127 to 70. was reported. Other cities with the 1927 and 1926 figures follow: Chicago, 238. 280. Cincinnati, 27, 28. Washington. 33, 49. Cleveland, 53, 67. Indianapolis, 18, 27. LINDBERGH IS DELAYED BY FOG Air Hero Forced To Postpone Fisht From England To France Today London, June 2 —(United Press) — Dangerous flying conditions which today prevented Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, from departing by air for Paris will probably continue tomorrow. The air ministry announced this afternoon that banks of fog and low clouds over the English channel had reduced visibility to about 500 yards and that there was no promise of much improvement within 24 hours. The weather was so bad that wireless communication between Paris and London was almost, impossible. Flying men who have confronted fog understand the reason which caused Lindbergh to forego his scheduled flight today. Navigation would have been impossible. To Reach U. S. June 11 Washington, June 2—(United Press The speedy li.ghti c‘,'ili|<ei Memphis will start from Cherbourg Saturday iV 1W # ' Lindbergh, and. weather permitting, will be in Washington by noon Saturday. June 11. This word from her commander was announced today by Postmaster General New after a call at the white house, where he discussed with President Coolidge arrangements for the national welcome Washington will give Lindbergh. First arrangements for the Washington celebration and for the New York greeting which follows it will necessarily be somewhat rientaj.ive. New explained, since there is no tolling exactly when the speedy Memphis will warp In at the navy yard hero. •* Should the Memphis be delayed, the celebration planned for Saturday Juno 11. may have to be curtailed or postponed to Sunday or Monday. London, Juno 2—(United Press) — Tired of crowds which have surrounded him during every waking hour for almost two weeks, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh arranged today to leave London secretly. The name of the airdrome from which Lindbergh will fly to Paris to make good his promise to bid bis Parisian friends farewell was withheld by the air ministry today at the flier's request. After his experience at Leßourget where kindly throngs manhandled his Ryan monoplane and at Croydon where the airman hesitated to alight because he feared he might kill someone, Lindbergh apparently has decided that, crowds and the business of flying do not mix. For the first time since his arrival here, Lindbergh today was given a morning with which to do as he pleased. Lindbergh remembered his expressed desire of Tuesday and "did nothing." The flier remained all morning in his room at Ambassador Alanson (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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TAKE BOY'S LIFE TO COLLECT HIS INSURANCE MONEY Young Mother and Her Husband Arrested For Death Os Former’s Cousin POISON GIVEN IN LEMONADE Marion, Ind., June 2 —fl nited Press) A young mother and her husband were held in jail here today accused ot planning and executing a scheme to poison the girl's 12-ycar-old cousin lor insurance money. The cousin. Clifford Cox. 12, died In convulsions at Fairmount Friday after drinking a glass of supposed lemonade at the home of Mrs. Arthur Walser, 16. Walser, 29. and his wife are under arrest and formal charges were to be filed today. Sheriff Jacob Campbell. who brought about the arrest, made public a statement by Mrs. Walser that her husband contrived to have Clifford drink the poison. Blames Her Husband The statement was an admission by Mrs. Walser that she executed certain parts of the plant, and invited her cousin to drink the poisoned lemonade and charged that the plot was the work of her husband. Several weeks ago. Mrs. Walser said, she took out an insurance policy for Clifford for $445. naming herself as the benificiary. Her husband was in Chicago at the time, supposedly Ui search of employment, but she told him about it. on his return and together they planned to do away with the boy during one of his frequent visits at their home. Use Paris Green Mrs. Walser said she purchased 25 cents worth of Taris Green and that with this her husband prepared a solution. He instructed her. she sad, where to place the giass and to invite Clifford to drink it. Clifford came to the house Friday to tell his cousin about the good marks he was getting in school. She invited 14m to partake of refreshmen’6 and pointed out the glass of poisoned lemonade. The boy drank, but the poison was so strong that it had its effect before the girl had anticipated and he beyoung w'fe. hardly old enough to be (CONTIXI ED ON l-AGE TWO* FLUOD CONTROL CONGRESS MEETS Nation’s Leaders Meet At Chicago To Discuss Flood Prevention Plans Chicago, June 3—(United Press) As the south wrestled with angry Blood waters of the Mississippi and tributary rivers thousands of the nation's leaders gathered here today in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disastrous overflow that has wrecked the Mississippi basin (this spring. Government aides, senators, representatives, engineers, bankers and men from all walks gathered for the Hood control congress called by Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago; Mayor Victor J. Miller of S. Louis and Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. The meeting can only be likened to a national political gatheringsave that the political aspect has been dropped. The bail room of the Sherman Hotel was draped with the flags ot many stales. Treaders in the national life of the country caucused. Committee meetings were held. Platforms and plans were discussed. Vanderbilt Divorce Recorded Paris, June 2.— (UP) —Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's divorce from William Kissarn Vanderbilt, noted sportsman and capitalist, which was signed MonI day was formally entered today in the records of the Seine tribunal.

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