Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, w |th probably local thunderstorms.

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ROUND TRIP HOP TO HONOLULU IS begun by smith S' 1 It'S With Two Men Aboard rot; ENCOUNTERED SOON AKTER START San Francisco, July 14. (United Press)—The Federal Telegraph company at 12:12 p. m. today received the following message from the Smith-Bronte mono- , pl ane: M "Our position, 10ft miles southwest of San Francisco. altitude 2,000 feet. Foggy as hell below. Municipal Air Port, Oakland. Cal.. July 14.—(United Press) The silvery winged monoplane “City of Oakland.” which once was'forced Io turn hack after starting for Hawaii, today started on an adventurous flight which may be a round trip between Oakland and Hawaii. At the controls were Ernie Smith, 32-year-old former mail pilot, and Emory’ B. Bronte was the navigator. The hop off was at 10:30 a.m. Few minutes previously, a false start had been made. It was before the plane took the air, by a rut in the run way. The plane was tawed back and the new start made. Round Trip Planned Oakland Ait port, San Leandro pay California., July 14— (UP) —A flrim monoplane rested on the edge of San Francisco bay at Dawn today, equipped for a double challenge to the Pacific. In the silver winged city of Oakland,' Ernest L. Smith and Emory B. Bronte were scheduled at 9 A. M. to attempt two conquests of the western ocean “Oakland to Honolulu, gnd hack again. They were tn attempt the first eiviian California Hawii flight a full moon through the night was regarded by ■heir mechanics as A hearld of good fortune. Fog off Golden gate, but voluntary scouts found that it existrd more than 1,000 above the sea. Smith, a 32-year-old pilot whose first Honolulu flight attempt met with failure scarcely ten minutes after he had ft the ground, and Bronte, his young navigator, spent the night in the home "t Captain William Royal flight manager. ,^ aitl ' an(l his navigator were to be tCOVIIMHu vagk TWO) •Os INJURED BY HAY FORK Edward Neuensch wander Seriously Injured When Fork Pierces His Neck '■frne, July 14—(Special to Daily mot rat)—Edwapl Neuenschwander, ■ s oii 11 Mr. and Mrs. Leon NeuenRanter, residing a mile south of "“■ was painfully injured Tuesday ""mg, while helping unload a load '■*' in his father’s barn. The single Poon hayfork, which was being usth ” y nloa<lin ß the hay. stuck to hav T. 8,111 EdWard climbed into the J -t to unloosen IL Unfortunately, the fnu. PUHed the wrot,g r °Pe and rk came 1008e from the track about th an(l f ° rk fe ” a dlßtanc e of shari ?< ee and one ' half fe «t and the In the ne’l 01 the f ° rk BtrUCk tbe boy of the m!t ’ ]UBt 8 !!ttle t 0 tfle ri &ht 'he firs. <L an ' ine tbe throat, above backwa i' ’ 11 <>nteretl 'townward and right )tmg and P * erCed the **>- ‘he house* 3 ? 1 . WaS ahle t 0 walk t 0 the the rivht S °° n became paralyzed in Pains !n . arin and Sl, ffered intense collection )r at “‘ ng ' Era Phyßema, the the chest i” P " nder the skln ot ' was repo.?? a " d tbrOat foIlow «t- He “‘though his "\ be improvin K today, h 8 comiition is still critical.

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Paul Hendricks Breaks Ann In Fall From Wagon Paul Hendricks, about 12 years of age son of Mrs. Hurry Miller of th s city, fell from a wagon load of hay I Wednesday afternoon, and broke both Irones of the right fore-arm. He was at the Frank DJbble farm, east of Decatur, when the accident happened. The arm was broken in two places below the elbow. He was brought to this city to a physician’s office and then taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital, where an X-ray ot the fracture was taken and ' the boat s set. FINED SIOO FOR SELLING LIQUOR Curt Reynolds Pleads Guilty; Penal Fann Sentence Is Suspended Cmt Reynolds, one of the three men arrested in the dry raids made in this city July 2. appeared In Mayor's court last n'ght and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of selling intoxicating liquor. The court fined Reynolds SIOO and costs and sentenced him to 120 days on the penal faun. With the promise that he would stop handling the liquor, the sentence was suspended. Reynolds paid the line and was- released. The series of raids were made by Federal dry agents working inconnoc tion with local officials and three men were arrested. The other two arrested. Harold Schwartz and Newt Mechling, have not yet been tried. Both are charged with sale of intoxi eating liquor. Their cases will pronably ly •rifil Xy smun Liuiu this w ek. Toy Pistol Wound Causes Boy’s Death George Silas Poling, nine years of age. son of Mrs. Ruth E. Paling, of Huntington, died Tuesday at his home of tetanus. The boy was taken ill Sunday afternoon and his condition rapidly became extremely critical. The disease was said to have resulted from a wound made by the explosion of a blank cartridge gun on July 3, the wad entering the hoys’ hand. The wound was dressed by a physician at the time of the accident and gave no further trouble during the week. The family was visiting rela fives in Warren Sunday afternoon when the boy became ill. Several physicians attended the boy and administered tetanus anti-toxin in an effort to check the spread of the disease. Monroe Junior Leaguers Hold Picnic; 23 Present Monroe 'July 14—(Special to Dai'y Democrat) — The Junior League)s of the Methodist church held their annual picnic in the Haggards Woods of east of town Tuesday afternoon. There were twenty-three in attendance. Those present were Ruth Bahner. Margaret Ray, Berneice Hannie, Delores Longenberger, Elizabeth Foster, Helen Mitchell, Harold and Frederick Ray, Alice, Eleen and Marylyn Aurand, Olin Lehman. Eail Mast, Lois Ellen Keller. Ireta and Kenneth Longenberger. Margaret Smith, Chafe Essex. Mary Longenberger, Max Bahner. Ruby Ruppert, and Rev. and Mrs. Foster. —— 0 Three Daring Robberies Believed Solved Today Plymouth, Ind., July 14— (INS) — Three daring robberies in Northern Indiana were believed solved here today by the alleged confession obtained -by Sheriff Salconbury from Hubert Greer, one of four South Bend men held in jail here for the holdup of the Lake of the Woods dance pavilion July 3. According to the statement of Greer, he and Lawrence Morgan and Theodore Peterson held up the Leeds Restaurant at Bapaz June 9 and got S6O. The safe of George Eckert at Linkvllle yielded S3OO on June 16. acoordihg to Greer, and a holdup of the Stateline Restaurant north of South Bend July 1 made them only six dollars.

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■ FREAK WEATHER ' TAKES 35 LIVES : — Death Toll Mostly Due To Heat; Rains Bring Re>i lief To Middlewest 4 . * A death toll of 35, mostly due directly to the heat, has been J taken in the United States by freak weather in the last two days. Most of the east continued to suffer today under extreme I temperatures and high humidity, I! with the only hope of relief held I out by weather forecasters in the promise of possible showers later in ihe day. • Boston. New York. Baltimore, Philadelphia. Washington. Pittsburgh, and other cities were suffering intensely. A high of 95 was reached in Boston and Washington and 91 in New York. Midwest Gets Relief Relief came to the midwest today after a cooling rain. A freak storm in Colorado ended a period of high temperature there. The majority of deaths occurred in metropolitan New Yoik and nearbjNew Jersey. Nine were attributed directly to the heat. Three were drowned and Ignatz Mestricki, overcome by heat while walking on the railroad tracks at Perth Amboy, N. J., was killed by a train. Before relief came to Chicga, ten had died there. The oiher deaths came from points in New York Ohio, Pennsylvania and other eastern states. Storms Kill Several In addition to the heat deaths, others died from lightning and freak storms. A woman was killed by lightning in Massachusetts, while a mother and stiff were swept to death by q seven-foot wall of water when a cloudburst caught their automobile in an arroyo near Walsenburg, Colo. The United States was not alone in suffering from natural disturbances, which apparently have been prevailing over many parts of the earth. Storms, floods, and earthquakes have been reported from Europe. Asia and South America. Argentina and Chile have been suffering acutely from extreme cold and blizzards. Art Wemhoff Receives Scholarship To Loyola Arthur Wemhoff, known to his many friends as “Art” and “Wetnmy” has decided to enter Loyola University, Chicago, next Fall. He has secured a scholarship there, amounting to about SSOO. Art was joint captain with "Mongo" Meyers of the Decatur Catholic high school basketball team last winter. ARfHURSAPP IS WELCOMED HOME New President Os Rotary International Welcomed Home At Huntington Several Decatur 1 Rotarians motored to Huntrington last night where they attended the home-coming reception accorded Arthur Sapp, of that city, who recently was elected president of Rotary International, at the convention at Ostend, Belgium. C. E. Bell, local delegate to the Ostend convention, was among those from this city who attended the reception. Following a public reception held for Mr. Sapp at the city park in Huntington, anl informal reception was held by all Rotarians present. Mr. Sapp will act as international president ot the Rotarians for the following year. Mr. Sapp has been in this city on several occasions and is well known here. He is a prominent Hoosier attorney. ■■ ■ —o Junior Band Notice The Junior Band will hold rehearsal tonight in the high school gymnasium The cornet division will meet at 7:15 o'clock and the entire band at 7:30 o’clock.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 14, 1927.

Starts Flight X • .1 t <. By hi '.Qm. i m Wk Jrw Ernest L. Smith Ernest L. Smith, pilot, accompanied by Emory B. Bronte navigator, hopped off from Oakland, California, this morning on an attempt to fly Io Hawaii and return. GENEVA PARLEY - NEARING CRISIS Decision Expected Soon On Agreement Concerning Cruisers Geneva, July 14— (UP) —Today's plenary session of the naval arms limitation commission was expected to show definitely whether an agreement between the three powers on cruisers will be ultimately possible at the present conference. Otherwise it may be necessary to postpone the matter until the November session of the League preparatory disarmament commission No definite decision, however, was expected today, as W. ('. Bridgeman, head of the British delegation, was understood to lie returning to London immediately after tile plenary session to discuss the situation in full with the British Cabinet. If the conferees should decide to postpone final action on the cruiser question until November, they . ■hi be adopting merely trie procedure originally intended when President Coolidge invited England and Japan to conduct separate negotiations simultaneously with the April session of 'he Teague’s preparatory disarmament commission. — _ o . BOBBY JONES RETAINS LEAD # Yankee Star Is Two Strokes Ahead Os Y oung Welchman On 36 Holes St. Andrews, Scotland. July 14. — (UP) —Bobby Jones retained the lead in the second round of the British golf championship today. After a disheartening outward nine of 37 strokes the defending title holder recovered for a 35 on the homeward nine, and his 36 holes aggregate of 140 put him two strokes ahead of B. Hodson, a young Welch champion. Jones was 2 under par on the ticklish half of the historic St. Andrews old course. The gallery number at least 5,000 saw Bobby exhibiting the same brilliant golf that gave him advantage on the first round yesterday. His putts were going down and his approach shots were finding the green almost invariably. Hodson’s rise robbed the Atlantan of some of his glory. The 20-year-old Tendey club player had 32 to the turn —Jones' score of yesterday and 70 for the round. It might easily have been a 69 but a little girl got in the way on the 12th hole and spoiled his drive. Trees And Shrubs Should Be Sprayed With Water Lafayette, Ind.. July 14. —(UP) — Turn the hoe on the leaves of various trees and shrubs that are so shiny and sticky at this time of year, advises C. T. Gregory of Purdue Univerity. This sticky covering Is caused by the exudation of plant lice.

OPPOSE LENIENCY FOR GEORGE DALE —— Friends of Judge Dearth Make Belated Effort To Block A Pardon By United Press Putnamville, Indiana. July 14.—(U, P.l —belated error: io oppose len ieney for George Dale, publisher of the Muncie Post-Democrat, was made before the trustees of the Indiana state farm here today, but evidently the arguments that were presented had no effect on the board. Wilbur Ryman and Van Ogle, close friends of Judge Clarence E. Dearth, of Muncie, appeared before the trustees for one and one half hours despile the hearing was announced for and held Wednesday. The trustees said they had made their decision and would forward recommendations to Governor Jackson late today. Judge Dearth sentenced Dale to 90 days in jail for cotnempt of court because of articles in the newspapers. o New Rumors Are Heard About Fate Os Nungesser Quebec, Quebec., July 14 — (UP) — Re-occuring rumors as to the fate of Nungesser and Coll, missing French aviators was given impetus today by a shadow report reaching here from ' Chicoutimi. The report said that two Indians re- ' turning to civilization from northern Quebec had both seen and touched th» "White Bird" the airplane in which the Fiench aces left Leßourget field on May 9. ' o State Road To Be Opened South Os Portland Soon State road No. 27, between Portland l and Randolph county line, will be opened to traffic within a few day.;, it was nnounced today. The road was paved south from Portland for a dis tance of about five miles last fall and the paving is being extended on south to the county Pne this summer. 0 Wemhoff Company Erects Two Large Monuments The Wemhoff Monumental Works, of Decatur and Fort Wayne, which is now in its sixtieth year of business, ig endeavoring to make this year a record year. Yesterday, the Wemhoff company erected one of the .largest and finest monuments in the county on the O. F. Gilliotn lot, in the MR.E. cemetery, west of Berne. Last week, the Wemhoff company erected a large monument on the C. F. Centlivre lot in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. ANNOUNCE DATE FOR EXCURSION M. E. Sunday School Announces Plans For Annual Excursion To Toledo Announcement has been made that the annual excursion to Walbridge Park, Toledo, Ohio, sponsoreil by the Sunday school of the Methodist church of Decatur, will be run this year on Wednesday. August 17. This excursion is awaited each year with much interest by hundreds of people. Last year, sixteen cars carried approximately 1,200 persons from Decatur and vicinity to the beautiful park. This year, the train, which is operated over the Nickel Plate road, will • start at Bluffton, and an invitation has been issued to Bluffton and Wells county people to join in the excursion. The train will stop at Craigville, Peterson, Pleasant Mills and Willshire, in addition to Bluffton and Decatur. It Is thought that the train will he made up of at least twenty cars this year. The train will leave Decatur at 6 o’clock a. m. The roundtrip fare from Bluffton will be $1.75 and from Decatur, $1.50, The general public is invited to enjoy the outing.

Pleasant Dale Bible School To Close Friday 1 The Dally Vacation Bible School that has been in progress at the Pleasant Dale Church ct the Brethren, southwest of Decatur, for the last two I weeks wll close Friday. A program will be given by the school on Sat urday evening at M o'clock. The exhibit rooms will he epen liom ti to 7:45 o’clock. All friends and lelatives of the children are uiged to be pre sent at the program and to visit the exhibit. RAIN FALLS LAST NIGHT AND TODAY Temperature Falls Several Degrees; Rain Great Benefit To Crops Agreeable to the weather predic-; tion. rain in torrents visited Decatur I and Adams county about 12:30 o'clock | today anil continued to fall for al-' most two hours. The lain was the heaviest for several months, and was | of great benefit to crops of the com-1 munity. A slight rainfall last night was not j as general in Adams county as to-' day's downpour. Wind accompanied the rain last night and alleviated the' heat wave, which has held sway in this city for the past several days. Today’s rain also aided greatly in cooling off the city and county, and the temperature dropped considerably immediately following the rain at noon today. Predictions are that there will he more rain tonight and Cboler weather tonight and tomorrow. Farmers say that the rain will be worth thousands of dollars to the community. No severe damage wus reported from the wind which accompanied the rains. Three Dogs Kill 83 Rats In One Day - Newcastle, Ind., July 14 —(INS) j Slaughter ot rats by "Brownie" canine champion of Bill Williams. Newcastle city street commissioner, nas gtcaiiy reduced the number of rod. ~.s on several farms near here. Brownte and two dogs belonging to Watt Williams and Elmer Peckinpaugh of near here, killed 83 rats in one day at the farm of Frank Hosea, west oi here, where Williams is tenant. A “hurry up” call from members ot' the Williams family that tats were eating feed and destroying property on ibe fatm was answered by the champion and assisted by the dogs of the two farmers. A tail pile a wood pile and 150 bushels of corn yielded the rats. Similar of the gueer hunts have re suited in the deaths of from eignty to a hundred rats in one or two days. o Oil Well Rig Moved Out Os Monmouth Field The Paul Schulte Oil and Gas Company today moved the rig used in drilling the test well near Monmouth hack to the Blue Creek township field. The well at Monmouth was abandoned, there being no showing of oil. The Schulte company has several producing wells in Blue Creek township and a new well will be drilled there immediately, it is said. o __ Tocsin Man Escapes From Penal Farm At Putmanville According to 'local officers, Hugh King, residing south of this city, who has just completed serving a term at the state penal farm at Putnamville for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, reported upon his arrival home that Arthur Clark, Tocsin laborer, sentenced to the penal farm recently for wife beating, had absented himself from the farm “without leave” in an effor to get back to Tocsin to see his wife. His attempt to see his wife was said io have been prompted by his desire to induce her to withdraw a divorce suit now pending in the Wells cirucit court. According to Mr. King, Clark was recaptured and was taken to the state reformatory at Pendleton. As a result of his attempted escape, he may face a 1 to 5 year sentence, officers stated.

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GOVERNOR DENIES ACCUSATIONS OF 0. C. STEPHENSON Says He Will Not Be Blackmailed Into Granting Ex-Dragon A Pardon GIVES EXPLANATION OF CHECK FOR $2,500 Indianapolis. .Inly 11. (United Press) “Blackmail" was the reply of Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, lodtty. to the charges lof D. C. Stephenson, that the governor's campaign for nomil nation was financed by the former klan power who is now a life prisoner in the Indiana I slate prison. “I). C. Stephenson is in prison for the murder of a young girl, and 1 will never be blackmailed into granting him a pardon.” the governor declared j In a formal statement denying the accusations of Stephenson. Jackson said the $2,500 check he received from Stephenson was for “a very valuable saddle horse and equipment.’’ “This transaction," he continued, “occurred the year before I became a candidate for governor and months before I know that I would be a candidate.” This check, the governor said, was the only one be ever received from Stephenson. Remy Expects Important Data Indianapolis, Ind.. July 14—(United Press) —The most important information yet uncovered in the Indiana po’.itica|l investigation is to i>e delivI ered to Prosecutor William H. Remy, of_I n d anapolis, through D. C. Steph I enson. Fina’ly determined to back up his I charge that he was absolute master I in state and many municipal governmeats in Indiana. Stephenson front I his cell in the Michigan City state prison has written two orders for Hie delivery of documents to Remy, the United Press learned today. Jubilant a t tho success of his demands upon Stephenson, Remy con forred with his assistants this morning regarding the procedure to he followed in obtaining possession of the papers. Governor Jackson Returns Indianapolis, July 14.— (UP)—Despite publication of purported evij deuce of political corruption dealing with his administration. Gov. Ed Jackson of Indiana, smiled as he arrived in Indianapolis from a vacation trip and prepared today to strike back at his accusers. Jackson may issue a statement today the first during the controversy —to refute charges of D. C. Stephen- << <»> rixt i:i> ox i*a<;e tivo) ROBBERY AT REDKEY SOtVED One Man Is Sentenced; Affidavits Are Filed Against Four Others Portland, July 14— One man has been sentenced and affidavits have been filed against three others in connection with the robbery of the Appenzeller department store at Redkey, early on the morning of April 8. Charles Farmer, 43, alias Charles Murphy, of Muncie, pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree burglary when arraigned in circuit court before Judge R. I). Wheat, yesterday. He was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the state frrison and was , disfranchised for a period of live years. Two of tile other three men charged with the robbery are serving terms in prison at present for other robberies. They are Ed Locke and Bien Howell. : who were sentenced for robbing the G. M. Burch store at Blountsville, ; April 1. The name of the four men ■ implicated in the Redkey robbery has - been disclosed. • Lieut. H. ('. Ayers, state motor po- > Beeman, was largely responsible for the solution of the robbery.

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