Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Unsettled but mostly fair tonight and vVednesday. Not m uch change in temperature.

TAX BOARD CONSIDERS FARM VALUES

11, S. AIRPLANES HIT IN ATTACK BY NICARAGUANS One Forced Down When Gasoline Tank Is Punctured; One Marine Killed 300 NICARAGUANS REPORTED KILLED Managua, Nicaragua, July 19. __ — Two American airplanes, sent on a reconnoitering trip by Marine Captain Gilbert Hatfield, were struck by bullets yesterday and one was forced down when the gasoline tank was punctured, it was reported today at marine headquarters here. Skillful navigation by Gunner Sergeant Albert S. Munnch brought his crippled plane to earth at Ocotal, where he plugged his gas tank and took off again. He was next heard from at Estell. where he telephoned to marine headquarters at Managua that General Sandinos, liberal leader, was again attacking Ocotal. Hatfield was advised that 300 Nicaraguans and one U. S. marine were killed in the 16-hour battle at Ocotal last Saturday, which ended with the routing of the Nicaraguans by five American planes. Word of the new attack caused marine Major Floyd to leave with a column of troops to prevent Sandinos from reorganizing his forces. o —/ Bluffton Chorus Invited To Sing At Winona Lake Bluffton, July 19. — The Bluffton Community chorus has received an invitation to present the Holy City, by Gaul, at Winona Lake assembly one week from Sunday evening and the matter is now being presented to the soloists. It is thought that if the matter is satisfactory to the soloists, the choir itself will be pleased to make the trip. The invitaiotn was given to Mrs. W. W. Weisel!, director of the chorus, while she was a visitor at the assembly Sunday. The orchestra at Winona wll play the accompaniment and it would be unnecessary for the local orchestra to make the trip. The soloists interviewed today looked with favor on the proposition, but no final decision will be made until the latter part of the week. . .. o Bomb Explodes In Front Os U. S. Consulate In Nice Nice, France, July 19. — (UP) —A bomb exploding in front of the United State consulate on the corner of boulevard Victor Hugo and the Rue Alpozzo shortly before midnight shook the building and shattered all its windows. No one within the consulate *as injured. 1.0.0. F. OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Fred Major Assumer Duties As Noble Grand; Appointive Officers Named At the regular meeting of the I. O. 0- F. lodge, last night in installation ceremonies were held for the newly elected officers of the lodge. L. C. Helm, of Decatur, district deputy grand master, was in charge of the ceremonies. Fred Major was installed as noble Arand for the ensuing year. He named the following appointive officers: Francis Ellsworth, warden; Ira Fuhrman, conductor; John W. Merryman, 1 haplin; Daniel Cook, guardian; John ■Moaure, right supporters; Charles Dettlnger. left supporter. Mr. Major W HI appoint several committees at •he next meeting, to carry on the fraternal work during the year. The term just ended has been a successful one for the local lodge, ihe new officers hope to continue the program.

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Krick Funeral Held Here This Morning Funeral services worn held at 10 o’clock this morning for Henry Krick prominent Decatur resident, who died Friday night at midnight at his home of Mercer avenue. TJie Rev. F. F. Thornburg, of Richmond, former pastor of the Decatur Methodist church, had charge of the services held at the Methodist church. The Rev. It. W. Stcakes, of tile Methodist church, and the Rev. R W. Loose, of the Evangelical chut ch. assisted. Unrial was made in the Decatur cemetery. Members of the Independent Older of Odd Fellows held a service at the grave. BOAT UPSETS IN LAKE ST. MARYS Three Persons Cling To Overturned Sail Boat For Fifteen Hours St. Marys, Ohio. July 19. —Lashed by the waves and blistered by the snn, Mr. and Mrs. Roll Werts, of St. Marys, and Ralph DeVer, 347 South Cole street. Lima, clung to an overturned sail boat in Lake St. Marys Sunday for fifteen hours before they were able to atrtact anyone's atention. At 7:30 o’clock Sunday evening, they were seen by Ray Perkins and William Hines, members of Saxi Holtsworth’s orchestra playing at the Pier, Gordon State Park. They gave the alarm and in a few seconds Frank Hagaman, John Young, Rufus Roby, and Louis Swarts put out from the bulkhead in Swarts’s motor boat and rescued them. The trio was near exhaustion when taken from the water. Werts and DeVer became unconscious shortly after they were brought To shore and remained so temporarily. Mrs. Werts apparently seemed to fare the best of the three. Four St. Marys physicians gave medical attention to the three. They ate breakfast Monday morning, the first they had eaten since Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Werts and Mr. DeVer went put on the lake at 6 o'clock Saturday evening expecting to spend the night fishing. They put out from the short near Sandy Beach and remained in that vicini.y all night. Sunday morning at 4:30 o’clock, when the wind came up suddenly, they were out from the shore near Sandy Beach out in the middle of the lake. The high waves and the stiff wind turned over the boat. In water beyond their depth and out from shore too great a distance for them to make it by swimming the three grabbed hold of the upturned boat to keep above water. They took turns at hanging on the side of the boat where the waves lashed hardest, so that the boat would not list too much. Thrown against the boat time and again by the water rolling in ’’white-caps’’ all three have severe bruises about their bodies. During the day the sun beat down on them, tanning their faces and shoulders which remained above water. Because of the sail dragging in the water tlie boat drifted but slowly. When the trio were sighted Sunday night they were nearing the bulkhead and had floated about five miles Th fifteen hours since (he boat had capsized. In the long period they were in the (COIfTINUHIJ ON PAGE TW<>» Daughter Os Stoughton Fletcher Dies In West Los Angeles July 19 — (UP) The body of Louise Fletcher, 24. daughter of Stoughton Fletcher, Indianapolis banker who died in a hospital here yesterday will be sent to Indianapolis. Miss Fletcher played a part in the sensational escape here last January when she was brought into police court following a battle witli Virginia Hurst known in the film colony as Lady Diana Bathurst”. Miss Fletcher was fined $5.00 and given a 30 day suspended pail sentence on a charge of assault and battery. She pleaded quilty to beating Miss Hurst and a month later filed charges of grand larcney aginst her opponent claiming that Miss Hurst had rtolen wearing apparel from her valued at SI,OOO.

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Fire Damages DeMille Studio In Hollywood Hollywood, Calif., July 19.—(UP)— Fire that threatened to destroy the DeMille studio in Culver Ci v was reported under control early today after ten fire departments from Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Cufver City had fought the flames tor two hours. Seventy-five police were called to control the crowd of 5.000 persons who gathered to see the blaze, the second at the DeMille studio within a few hours. Sparks from the first fire were believed to have started the second one. Cross wires caused the preliminary fire last night it was said. Total damage was esimated early this morning at from SIOO,OOO to $350,000. o DRY RAIDER SHOI IN GUN BATTLE Shooting Occurs During Raid On Farm House Near Columbus, Indiana Columbus Indiana. July 19 —(UP) — A dry raider and another man were wounded today in a gun fight during a descent on a rarm house near here. Oscar A. Andrew Holman, of Indianapolis. a federal agent, was fired upon, but untouched, Sheriff L. A. Alien was shot on the little finger of his right hand, and Owen Day. 40. was shot in the left thigh. When tlie officets appeared at A. C. Day’s home, Owen Day and a companion were said to have opened fire on tlie otifeers with revolvers. The raiders returned the fire, but which one wounded Day was not known. Day’s companion escaped lint Day was brought to the county hospital here. The officers seized a still, 200 gallons of mash and a gallon of whisky which they brought here. 0 Prize-Winning Float Returns Sullivan, Ind., July 19. —(UP) —Sullivan is celebrating the return of Indiana’s winning float at the National Elks’ convention in Cincinnati. Miss Frances Bays, daughter of Fred F. Bays, rode at queen on the float. Emma Lou Chandler and Ruth Williams of Shelbyville and Ruth Wills and Marjorie Mangrum of Connersville; Dorothy Stuckwish, Vera Haspel and Helen Duggy of Terre Haute and Elizabeth Lorry of Logansport rode with her.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 19, 1927.

COUPLE FINED FOR IMMORALITY Decatur Woman Fined At Fort Wayne; Husband Offers To Forgive Mrs. Velma Garner, formerly of Decatur, who was found guilty of imorality with Nelson Gause, following a healing in city court at Fort Wayne, yesterday, and fined $25 and costs. Her husband, Paul C. Gainer, 1046 Vine street, Decatur, who filed a suit for divorce against Mis. Garner in the Adams circuit court late Saturday evening, was willing to forgive and forget and to pay his wife’s fine and costs, but Mrs. Garner refused, choosing to go to jail. • Don Merchant and Carl Clark, plainclothes officers testified in court yesterday that they found Gause and Mrs. Garner in a room at 1623 East Creighton avenue. Gause was fined $2,5 and costs, also. Mr. Garner testified that his wife left him .June 8 and that he caused, the investigation which resulted in i her arest. Mrs. Gainer, who is the mother of three young girls, and one of them, age four years, in the room where she and Gause were found. Garner named Gause as a co-respondent in his suit for divorce. o FARMERS MEET AT PORTLAND Fourth District Os State Farm Bureau Holds Session Today Portland, Ind.. July 19—(UP) —The ' fourth district of the Indiana farm bureau federation in session here today. The district comprises ten counties —Tipton, Howard, Wabash, Blackford, Grant. Huntington Adams, Wells and Jay. Among those active in farm bureau work in attendance are William H. Settle, state president; L. H. Hull, manager of the state purchasing department; Mrs. Verna Hatch, social and educational director; M. J. Briggs field agent of the state fertilizer department, and W. T. Martindale.

PROGRESS MADE BY DELEGATES AT GENEVA MEET Tentative Arrangement Reported To Have Been Reached By Delegates FIX CRUISER AND DESTROYER STRENGTH By Henry Wood United Press Staff Correspondent Geneva, July 19 —(UP) —Progress toward reaching a nagreement in naval limitation was reported by the Japanese. British and American Delegation today after their leaders had met a!nd conferred at the Suburban Villa of Yotano Sugimura, Under-Secretary of the League of Nations. Hugh S. Gibson, chairman of the conference and principal American delgate said that "progress was general." Despite denials it has become known that radical differences exist’ between naval and foreign office gloups on both the Japanese and American delegations. Agreement Reported Ixindon, July 19—A "tentative arrangement" has been reached at Geneva, among the delegates to the tripartite anval conference, it was learned today. The arangement calls for a total of 1,325,000 tons of cruiser and destroyers strength among Japan. Great Britain and the United States The diision would be as follows: United States 500.000 tons Great Britain 500,000 tons Japan *, .. ..7 . : 325,000 tons It was learned, however, that any final settlement at Geneva must be contingent upon an agreement as to Maximum tonnage of other classifications of ships. . . o Decatur Woman Injured Mrs. Manda Hoover was painfully injured in an acident while doing the laundry at the H. L. Jones residence on North Eleventh street. Mrs. Hoover was carrying a stick used in removing clothes from boiling water. As she entered the house, one end of the stick struck on the floor and the other end etrucg Mrs. Hoover's side, just below the ribs. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIERS IN N. Y. Crews Os All Three Planes, Except Levine, Are In The City Today New York. July 19— (UP) — The crews of all three of the Trans-Atlantic flights, with the exception of Charles A. Levine, who is still in Paris, were in New Yoik today. Commander Richard E. Byrd and his crew and Clarence D. Chamberlin had a day of rest ahead of them, while Coloner Charles A. Lindbergh expected to make a shoit preliminary flight preparatory to his three month’s air tour of the country, with Hartford. Conn., his first stop. Byrd. Chamberlin, Bert Acosta, George Noville, and Brent Balchen, after a day crowded witli receptions and ceremonies which began with their arrival on the Leviatan, attended a musical show last night. Chamberlin spent te evening in the country, getting a good rest before starting his tour in interest cf commercial aviation. Only one event was on the flier's programs today, the five who_returned to tills country yesterda ywill be the guests of tlie city at a dinner in their honor at the Hotel Commodore. House Os David Opens Defense St. Joseph, Mich. July 19 —(UP) — The attempt of the house of David to prove it is not a public nusiance and should not be dissolved was started today. Three defense witnesses had been called at noon today.

Winona Orchestra Director Is Dead Paul T. Smith, director of the Win-1 ona Assembly orchestra died at Warsaw at midnight Saturday, following an operation for appendicitis Thursday. He was stricken two weeks ago shortly after a picnic in which members of the orchestra participated. A recognition service was held at the assembly Sunday evening and the Itody was taken to Grenecastle Monday where tlie funeral service were held today. Smith is survived by the widow and two children. Mrs. Smi’h was formerly Miss Helen Foust, of Warren. RADIO RECEPTION STILL IMPOSSIBLE Local Interference Continues Unabated; Trouble Not Located Yet Radio reception was still impossible throughout the city today, as the local interference continued unabated. It is said to be the worst intereference ever experienced in Decatur. Not a single station can be tuned in through the interefence, which started Sunday. The interference had not been difinitely located today. Some persons thought the interference was caused by a leak in the high tension power line running from Fort Wayne to the local plant of the General Electric company, but officials of the local factory stated today .that tlie power was not turne don that line. M. F. Mylott, superintendent of the city light and power plant, declared that there was no leak at the power plant. The intereference undoubtedly comes from the high tension line and it appears to lie stronger in tlie vicinity of the city plant than in other parts of the city. With tlie heavyweight fight be ween Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey scheduled for Thursday night, action toward eliminating the interference is necessary at once if the blow by blow accounts of the fight are to be received by local fans. o Policeman To Face Trial On Charge Os Slapping George Dale’s Newsboy Muncie, Ind., July 19— (UP) —lra Pittenger, Muncie Policenfan, will go on trial in Delaware circuit court Friday on a charge of slapping Jennie Raines, newsboy an echo of the impeachment proceedings against judge Clarence W. Dearth of the same court before the Indiana State Senate. it is aleged that while the boy was selling copies of the Post-Democrat George R. Dale's weekly newspaper, who was sentenced for contempt of court by Judge Dearth, he was shipped by the officer. The officer is declared to have seized copies of the newspaper by ored of Judge Dearth. Dale last week as paroled by I Governor Ed Jackson and is to re port at the Indiana State farm at Putnamville this week to lie formally notified. State Supreme Court Convenes At Capital Indianapolis, Ind.. July 19. —(UP) — The Indiana supreme court, convening today to sit for the remainder of tlie week, is expected to hand down a decision in the appeal of D. C. Stephenson from the Laporte superior court ruling that failure of the Marion county clerk to sign the transscript did not nullify his subsequent trial for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. The court Monday granted an extension of time until Sept. 24 for filing of briefs in another Stephenson ease —the appeal from the actual convicition. Stephenson is serving a life sentence for the murder in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. o Junior Band To Give Concert This Evening The regular weekly concert will be given on Liberty Way this evening by the Decatur Junior Band. The concert will start at 7:45 o’clock.

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FARM BUREAU OFFICERS ARGUE FOR REDUCTION W. 11. Settle. Farm Bureau Head. And Phillip Zoercher Exchange Hot Words EARLY DECISION IS PROMISED BY BOARD Indianapolis. July 19.— (UP) —A brief exchange between William 11. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation and Phillip Zoercher, memi her of the Indiana tax board, | marked the boards hearing today on equalization of farm real estate assessments. Settle appeared before the board with other members of the bureau to argue that present valuations wore burdening farmers and that 25 per cent, reduction should be made. Interrupted by Zoercher Zoercher interrupted him to charga that th.’ farm bureau had not supported the tax board when Remedial legslation was needed, and Settle retorted that, if it. had not been for the assistance afforded by his organiation the tax board would have been abolished at the last general assembly There was not further reference to the matter and the rest of the hearing proceeded quietly:. There was not further re'.,*'rence at the close that a decision would be reached as soon as possible regarding revaluation in order to assist county auditors in making up their books. Geneva Man To Be Tried At Berne Friday Morning Geneva, July 19. —Harve Eekrote of Geneva, who was arrested last week on a charge of assault and battery, is scheduled to face trial in the court of Chris Stengel, justice of the peace, at Berne. Friday morning, at 9 o’clock. Eekrote was arraigned in court of James W. Barr, local justice of the peace, last Saturday, but a change of venue was granted. It is alleged that Eekrote attacked his son. William, 17, with a hammer, inflicting several wounds. Salaries Os Two Officials Raised Bv Budget Board Indianapolis, Ind.. July 19 —-(UP) — The salaries of Geoi ge N. Mannfield, superintendent of the division of fish and game of tlie state department of c nservation, and Chalies G. Sauers assistant director of the department, were raised from $3,600 to $4,000 by the state budget committee, in session here Monday. The commission continued its sessions today ami was to act on seveail other salary adjustments bet ne it adjourned. TO HOLD PARTIES AT COUNTRY CLUB Committee, Appointed By President Schafer, To Arrange For Events President C. C. Schafer, of the Decatur Country Club, lias announced the appointment of a committee to have charge of a program of parties and entertainments for the season. The committee, as named, includes: Mrs. C. A. Dugan, chairman; Mrs. J. L. Kocher. Mrs. J. H. Heller and the three members of the board of governors, Mrs. Chalnier Porter, Miss Fanny Hite and Miss Mildred Niblick. The ladies are requested to meet as soon as convenient and work out the details ami to name sub-commit-tees for such events as decided upon, in other places alternate Bridge and dancing parties are given and every lady member of the club is expected to participate in some manner. The r men will assist in every way possible to make these features as delightful ? as possible. Tlie golf tournament will *’ be on soon and the club is expected t to be the center of many happy occasions from now on.

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