Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1927 — Page 5

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CLUB CALENDER Thursday Community Meeting at Aber School 8 pntM()O se Legionaires—Moose Home, 8 P 111 ■ rres byterlan Woman’s Home and foreign Missionary Society—Mrs. W. A. Lower, 2P- m - • Baptist Woman's Society — Mrs. Brice Butler. Thursday—Work and Win Class of V B. church— Parsonage. Evangelical Missionary Society — Church, 2 P- m. Missionary Sewing Society—Mrs. Al Straub. Ever Ready Class of M. E. Church -Mrs. Delton Passwater, 7:30 p.m. Friday Woman's Missionary Society of M. E. Church— Mrs. A. J. Smith, 2:30. Saturday bake sale by Christian L. A. S.— Uchtle meat market, Monroe street, 9 A.M. Formal installation of the Gamma Cpsilion chapter of the Tri Kappa sorority. supervised by the national officers. of the organization, was held Tuesday in Warren. The ceremony ended with a banquet served to some seventy persons Tuesday night. Members of the Huntington chapter of the sorority pledged the members of the Warren organization, and the Bluffton chapter conducted the initiation. Members attended from Montpelier Hartford City and Kokomo. The following officers were elected: Pearl Bartholomew, president; HaddieJ Black, vice-president; Ruth Jones, corresponding secretary; Errnyn Prude Shultz, recording secretary, and Ethel Click, treasurer. A hefiing was held in Decatur Tuesday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dierkes. The couple had returned home from, several days the East. The crowd took them a ride in an old vehicle. Those who attended the belling were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sttaub. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Bresick and daughter. Susan Ellen, Misses Betty Lee Wallace, Anna Dierkes, Susie Dilling, Fay Shimp Jeanette Spade, Mildred Werling, Lorine, Irene and Erma Kirchner. Mrs. John Kirchner, and John Dierkes. The Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet Friday as ternoon with Mrs. A. J. Smith. Mrs. Winifred Russel will have the devotionals and Mrs. John Niblick will give the lesson on "Temperence.” All members are urgently requested to attend. The Willing Worker class of the Bobo U. b. church met at the home ot Mrs. Mary Shaffer Tuesday evening for a tegular monthly meeting. A progrim was given by the class, after which a contest was held, the prize being won by Miss Sarah Best. Those Present were: Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Walters and daughter Bernlece, Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Hilton and children Marie. Iris. Hazel. Lawrence, and Jaunita, Mr. •nd Mrs. J. W. Thatcher. Mrs. Margaret Waltke and son ohnny George. Mrs. Lavina Heath and children Bertha and Deris, Mrs. Susie Bowen find son Kerfit. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Shaffer and children Cecil and Celesta, Mr. and Mrs. William Hilpert, Mrs. Ida Chronister, .Mrs. Levi Shaffer. Mrs. Milton Lbronister and children Dolile and Marjorie, Mrs. Mary Shaffer, Misses Manie Jones, Stella Walters Beulah Yerkey and Sarah Best, Franklin Kel■er, Jacob Heath, Marshall Hilpert. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess at the close of the meetlag. o : NEW WITNESS IN OIL FRAUD CASE ritOM PAGE ONE) were defrauded. • never owned any leases in Ken- ’ l|, ’ky, Sweso maintained. 'Tin lr,) tn Escanaba originally and have never been Kentucky." The government contends that tzgerald’s purpose was to secure ar Ke blocks of the company’s stock ‘'■“'l to make it appear on the books nt this had been given in exchange or leases and that cash had not been D®id for it. • — o Miss Gerturde NicMols, nurse a* ■•'e Adams County Memorial Hospital, enjoying a two weeks vacation at 11 parental home in Wisconsin.

Personals Clarence and Glen Beavers and Charles Hite motored to Van Wert, Ohio, last evening to visit friends. Miss Helen Kirsch is spending the week at Winona latke. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch have returned from a few ; days at Winona Lake. Miss Kathryn Nichols is spending a - tew days at Van Wert, Ohio, with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.-and Mrs. I Arthur Meyers. Mr. and Mrs. Alv. Nichols return''l i last evening from a ten days motor trip to Detroit. Bay City, Sagniaw and Midland, Michigan, where they visit- . ed lelalives and former Decatur friends. Mis. Fred Elzey and children are spending a few days in Fort Wayne . with relatives. Miss Victoria Mills, of Decatur, Ind, who is spending the summer here at the home of her uncle and aunt, Rev. and Mrs. Clarence G. Reynolds, of 819 Kilsyth road, passed the week-end in Ashbury Pary as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Elston V. Binns, Miss Mills 1 is enrolled at the summer schol of Columbia University. —Elizabeth, N. J., Daily Journal. Among those from here who attended the funeral services for Samuel Slmison. well known Berne business man, this morning were O. L. Vance, A. D. Suttles, French Quinn. Eugene Runyon. W. A. Lower, H. S. > Michaud, H. B. Heller and J. H. He’.ler. The services were held at the Evangelical church and largely attended. The Baker lunch room opened for business this morning in the Elk's building opposite the court house. Harry Reed of Milwaukee is visiting here for a couple of weeks with his sister, Mrs. Will Winness. Ex-sheriff r>obilya of Allen county attended to business here this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Harkless and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hollman are enjoying a vacation at the Hollman cottage at James Lake. County Auditor and Mrs. Martin Jaberg were marled eighteen years ago today, August 4th 1909. They celebrated their anniversary this afternoon by a trip to Fort Wayne where they will have ninner this evening. “Pooh, lie chooses t’ run agin or he wouldn’ have dressed up in that cow puncher's outfit th' other day." said Mrs. Ike Lark, when she read th' President's statement. Mrs. Em Moots carries her head as high as any one in th’ community, but she has two chins‘when she’s sittin' down. —Abe Martin, Indianapolis News Mrs. Edna Stanley, who has been visiting relatives and friends at Cleveland. Atlantic City, New Yolk and other cities in the east, is spending a week here with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler before returning to her home in Los Angeles, California. Hoyt Hartman and Frank McDowell, of Bluffton, played a round of golf here this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Spangler, of Preble township, were shoppers here this afternoon. __o Wild Bank Depositors To Organize For Protection Indianapolis, Ind., August 4 —(UP) —Depositors having accounts in the defunct J. F. Wild and company state bank here, which failed last Sautrday will organize to protect their interests at a meeting here today. Audit of the bank’s books is being continued by state bank examiner under agreement with Eugene H. Igleftait, the receiver. The bank had total resources of $7,000,000 and was one of the largest state banks in Indiana. o Thirty I. U. Students Record Perfect Grades Bloomington. Ind. August 4 (IP) —“Spring fever" may have hit the campus of Indiana university heie last semester but it didn’t have any effect on the scholastic ability of 30 I. U., students,” according to Dean David A. Rothrock. Eighteen men and 12 women soeied 100 per cent. Seventeen of the 30 were in the college of arts and sciences and nine in the graduate school. Two music and one each in law and commerce students scored “A" also. ,rm-r " —-O ■ Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay*

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Swimming Pool Reopens Wednesday Afternoon The municipal swimming pool in Rugg Memorial park was re-opened Wednesday, after being closed for < nearly a week while it was drained, ] cleaned and refilled with clean water. ] A laike number of bathers took a dip' ( in the pool yesterday afternoon and evening. The water is much cooler than 1 usual, and Is said to be about, the cor- 1 rect temperature for swimming. i O : Roth Baby Dies One Hour After Its Birth Donald Roth, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Roth, residing three miles ' I east of Monroe, died at 6 o’clock Wed-, nesday morning, one hour after birth,l and was buried in the St. Luke's ceme-i tery yesterady afternoon. Short funeral services were held at the home at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Scherry. ot Craigville, officiated. The child is survived by its parents and one brother, Leland. —o Earthquake Is Felt In Los Angeles Today, Los Angeles, Aug. 4 — (UP) —An earth tremor of considerable intensity was felt in Los Angeles at 4:25 a. m. today. The shock was felt as far north as Ventura and as far south as El Centro. No damage has been report-' ed. I The quake also was reported to have shaken Long Beach, San Piedro, San Bernardino and C'atlaina Island. o To Handle Shell Products A. N. Anker today closed a contract with the Shell company and will handle Shell gasoline and oil, exclusively. This will be the only “drive in” Shell station in the city and Mr. Anker announces that he expects to open for business within three weeks. The new station at the corner of Adams street and Mercer avenue is being rushed along and the concrete drives are now being poured. —o Polluted Water Killing Fish In Wabash River Wells county fishermen are reporting that hundreds of fish in the Wabash river are found dead along the banks, west of Bluffton. Crawfish art reported lying along the banks. It is thought pollution of the waters from city sewers is causing the fish to die. It was stated that in many places along the river fish could be seen coming to the top for air. o Prizes Os $25,000 Offered For Trans-Oceanic Flight Philadelphia, Pa. Aug. 4.—(UP)— A piize of $25,000 for the first non-stop flight from an European capital to Philadelphia teday was offered by the Bulletin, an evening newsparer here. The effer, contained in a letter to Hollingshead N. Taylor, chairman of the Pennsylvania commission, specified that the flight was to be made before August 4„ 1928. o Mrs. Chester Hitesman and son, Robert of Winnepeg Canada are spending a few days here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Pennington. Mr. and Mrs. John Schug and daughter, Mary Kathryn, and son, Richard and Gerald Somers, will return tonight from Luke Wawasee where they enjoyed a two weeks outing.

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REPRISALS ARE FEARED ABROAD AND IN AMERICA (CONTINItBD FROM PAGE ONE) ; conclusion of Governor Alvan T. ■ Fuller's decision, a 2100-word docu-j meat made public last night, were taken to the condemned men this I morning by William G. Thompson.,; director of the legal fight to save them from the electric chair. Attorney Breaks News At his own cpquest, the chief counsel was permitted to be first to. break jthe disheartening news to the two mon who, unless all signs fail, will , .pay with their lives one week from' today for a double murdor committ-' jed in a hold-up at South Braintree seven years and three months ago. I With Thompson came Mrs. Rosa Sacco, loyal mother of Sacco’s two children, and an interpreter. For an hour and a quarter, they remained ’ in the death house, talking in low voices. Separated by iron bars, the sad little group gathered close by the path that leads to the nearby electric chair and talked of the governor’s decision. Mrs. Sacco did most of the talking. Tn rapid Italian, which was interspersed with an occasional bit of broken English, the little woman who has fought valiantly that her husband's life might be spared, seemed ( to be explaining in her own way the verdict of the state's chief executive. Guards Are Increased I Paris, Aug. 4. —(UP) —Guards at the American Embassy were increased today to prevent violence or other disorder in connection with Governor Alvin T. Fuller's decission that Nicola Sacco and Bartalomeo Vanzette must die. Sheldon Whitehouse, counselor of the embassy and in charge during the absence of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, today asked the foreign office to take precautions against trouble in the vicinity of the embassy. It was understood Whitehouse acted on instructions from Washington. So far today there had been ho hostile attempt against the embassy nor any serious threat, although the usual j quota of protesting letters was received today. Meantime, agitation against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was intensifying here. Order Boycott of U. S. Governor Stockholm, Sweden. Aug. 4. — (UP) —An international strike and a boycott of all American goods was urged today by the Swedish Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee in n telegraphic message to the international t'ederaft iff Skinny Folks’ Build Up If you are discouraged because of failure to put on weight and to build' yourself up through Cod Liver Oil or otherwise, you owe it to yourself to try Burke’s Cod Liver Oil and Iron in sugar coated tablets. Be sure to specify Burke’s in order to secure a full IS days’ treatment for SI.OO. Guaranteed to benefit ov money refunded. Callow & Kohne.

tlon of trades unions. Vanzetti's Sitter Delayed Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, Aug. 4. — (UP)—United States immigration regulations today prevented the sister ot Bartolomeo Vandetti from sailing from | tills port in an effort to see hor brothI er before he is electrocuted as a murderer in Massachusetts. I Miss Vandetti arrive dfrotn Italy I last night intending to board the S. 'S. Volendaam but American regulations governing third class passengers require that all such must be assured of employment or other support in the I United States. Miss Vandetti had no such assurance and was barred from the vessel. i Although there seemed no possij bility that Miss Vanzetti could reach i the United States before her brother’s death, she was endeavoring to arrange today to sail on Saturday. Extra Precautions Taken Buenos Aires, Aug. 4. —(UP) —The United States Embassy in Buenos Aires and consulates in other Argentine cities were under guard today against possible demonstrations over the Sacco-Vandetti decision. It was understood that American firms would also be protected by poCallouses Quick, safe, sure relief painful callouses on the At all drug and ihoe itorer I JXScholfs 99 • . Paton* on— the £tUlO”PaaS turn (one GIFT DAY Monroe, Ind., Saturday, Aug. 6. You’re Invited. Monroe Industrial Assn. ■MBI—BM———

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lice and thut the gathering of groups on the sidewalks in front of the buildings would be prohibited. A general strike of all industries throughout the country may be called.

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The workers union announcod last night before the decision was made known that such a strike would occur If the decision were unfavorable to Succo and Vanzetti. - ~i i—Nieg-sg. ■ ■■ ' ■■ J.