Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1927 — Page 1

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U "KING BEN" accuses wife OF CONSPIRACY r u |t Leader Alleges Wife Conspired To Get Control Os His Colony "KING” identifies HIS HANDWRITING St. Joseph- Mich.. Aug. 13.—(Unith| press)- Raising Himself on an arm that could barely hold him. "Kin?" Benjamin Purnell today turnf,l , n his wife. -Queen” Mary and rharged she conspired with Francis Thorpe, an official of the House of David, to secure control of the colony , „ Purnell, testifying in the states dissnitition hearing, admitted that cerain papers seized in the raid on the diamond house last November that led to his capture, referred to -Queen" Mary when they said, “She continues to walk with the scorpions see-ng to cut off my head.” Cenrge H. Nichols, chief prosecutor tor the state, who is conducting the fr>?sexnniination. introduced the doc '.mentis, asking Purnel| tn identify them as his own writing. I’iirneU at first refused, saying. “At times I do not even know my own rrifng." Nichols brought the admission that Purnell was the author. “Did you have reference to Mary when you wrote 'She even denied the stars of Bethel’?” Nichols asked. “Yes. I did,” Purnell replied. “Was it Mary you had reference to when you wrote these things?” “Yes. we were having office tfouJitoho's Insisted. hie." Purnell replied. "How did they try to gain control of the colony,” Nicho's asked. “By starving me—if they could.” Purnell relied. "Mary told mo ‘I see these vultures continue to feed you’." “Did they actually starve you?” “No. My followers were too loyal to perm t it." he replied. Purng'.l next admitted he had reference to Mary when he wrote “She is 1 vulture, an immoral woman and a scorpion.” He insisted, however, that he did not believe there was any “Carnel connection between my wife and that scorpion who walked in open rebellion— Francis Thorpe.” Mary, on the stand previously, had Ofnied any conspiracy to usurp the "King's” power. Decatur Priests To Attend Annual Retreat The Rev. J. a. Seimetz, pastor of S>. Mary's Catholic church, and the Rev. Joseph Hessian, assistant pastor °f this city will leave Monday for h>otre Dame to attend the annual priests retreat. They will be yone until about Friday of next week MG MAN IS INJURED BY BULL Angry Animal Attacks t hauncy Sheets On Farm West Os Decatur, Friday f hauncy Sheets, son*"of S. P. Sheets ’ho resides west of this city, was ■’eriously injured yesterday morning *hen he was knocked down by a mad lll 'l. The accident occurred on the Sheets farm west of Decatur. Mr. Sheets had been in the pasture ’here the bull was at large. No one ’ as with him when he was injured and e has not gained consciousness sufl(Jpntly to tell the details of the inlillpnt. It is thought, however, that the ’*' l became suddenly enraged and c ar Bed Mr. Sheets. , Sheets was able to crawl over the ,' ace and he walked to the front of s house, where he fell over uncon®cio'is. He was carried into the house ntedical aid was immediately renv r '"" was badly injured about the Pa <l and shoulders. It is thought, howevpr, that he will recover, unless more 86110113 injuries develope.

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Thief Has Change Os Heart; Returns Purse To His Victim Wabash. Jnd„ Aug. 13.— (INS)— “I beg your pardon Ma’am, 1 Ind a change of heart, so I’ll return your pocketbook,” the sr.eak thief said to the enraged housewife in the bathrobe. “Please don't t eport r.ie •(> the police.” The housewife, who had a gird heart, agreed to maintain silence, providing the ji.tse, which the thief had just ob ained by cli’ebing through a window of her tome, be r< turned Now Clihv of Police Bolte is iiuntlr.s" for the thief, with u* Kiiowng what lie looks like, and the woman who knows is sibni, and "ahead” th- amount in the purse, wh'ch otherwise would have ,cen stolen. OIL FRAUD TRIAL IS NEARING CLOSE Case Involving Leases Near Geneva Expected To Go To Jury Tuesday Detioit. Aug. 13 —The last witness in the case of the United States against Edward Fitzgerald of Detroit for use of the mails to defraud, was called Fiiday. When the trial is resumed next Tuesday m irning file case will be given to the juiy as soon as counsel for both sides have made their closing statements. In contrast to the government, which has been calling witnesses for three weeks, the defense put only a handful on the stand, largely in an effort to prove that when "Walter Values and Charles Eddy. Kansas oil men. purchased a controlling interest in the Security Oil and Refining company they were not interested in the value of the company's leased oil properties at Geneva, Ind., and Scottsville Kentucky but were merely anxious to take over the permit that had been granted the company to sell 1,000,000 shares of stock in Michigan. Charles Sawyer, a Detroit real estate salesman, who was put on the stand, recalled that in June of 1925, while waiting in Fitzgerald's office to sell him seme lots, he had heard Eddy make this statement while in conference with itzgerald in the next room. Janies R. Fleming, Portland. Ind., attorney, was another of those called to the witness chair by Fitzgerald. At one time Fleming represented Will Mesel, manager of the oil company's properties near Geneva, Indiana and engineered the receivership and foreclosure by which Mesel regained control of the oil leases when Fitzgerald did not pay him money owed for drilling operations. Flemming decided that Mesel had been paid in full tor the leases by Fitz gerald. receiving $1.00( in cash and $5,000 in real estate near Detroit, and gave as his recollection that drilling expenses were not to bi* borne by Fitzgerald, but by the owner of the leases, which in this case would have been the Security Oil and Refining company to which Fitzgerald transferred the leases. Q Main Street In Bluffton To Be Paved This Fall Bluffton, Aug. 13—Members of the city council announced today that plans had been completed for paving all of Main street from the Elks Club corner on south. It was first planned to pave a few squares this fall and the remainder next spring, but it was decided the work could done cheaper it done at the same time. — oMiners Hold Picnic At Terre Haute Today Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 13 —(UP) — Miners of district No. 11 of the United Mine Workers of America are holding their 13th annual picnic today at the Memorial Stadium grounds here. Vice-President Phillip Murray of the International organization was to be the chief speaker and a beauty contest open only to miners’ daughters was one of the features.

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Favorite One of (lie favorites in the betting on the mainland-to-Honolulu flight for the Dole prize is Miss Mildred Doran. Flint (Mich.) school teacher, I who will fly with John Augey | Pedlar. WOMAN TO FLY IN HAWAIIAN RACE “Miss Doran’’ To Take Part; Capt. Harry Rogers Killed In Test Flight Oakland Airport., Calif., Aug 13. — (UP) — Participation of a woman In the Dole air race from San Francisco to Honolulu next Tuesday was assured definitely today, when the Buhl biplane. ".Miss Doran" qualified for the flight. Aggie Pcddlar, pilot, and Lieut. Vilis Knope, navigator, took the "Miss Doran” on a test flight and convinced officials of the race of the plane's air worthiness. Oakland Airport, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 13. —J T P) —Pilots entered for the Dole air race to Honolulu protested vigorously today against the inspection methods of Federal officials. They claimed the inspecors hade icotriM i:n ox TWO) APPROVES PLANS FOR TWO FLIGHTS Aeronautic Assln. Okays Paris-Cleveland, DallasHong Kong Hops Washington, Aug. 13. —(UP)—Regulations for the $25,000 Myron T. Herrick. flight. Paris to Cleveland, promoted by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce were approved today by tile National Aeronautic Association. Simultaneously the association proved revised regulations for the $25,000 William E. Easterwood, Jr., flight front Dallas, Tex. to Hong Kong, China. The Cleveland regulations call for a $25,000 prize for the first heavier-than-air machine making the flight between the French Capital and Cleveland. Five Thousand dollars are added if the trip is completed between August 6 and 28. If a land plane is used, it must start from a point within 30 miles of Paris and land within 30 miles of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce building; while if a seaplane Is used, it may start anywhere on the French coast and land within 30 miles of the Chamber. The Dallas flight requirements permit three stops—one at San Francisco; one at Honalulu; and one at. Tokio. Guam or Manila, the whole trip to consume not more than 300 hours. O— Auto Wrecking Crew Pulls Cow Out Os Well Pennville, Ind., Aug. 13 —(UP) —An auto wrecking crew was used to pull a cow out of a deep well into which she had fallen, the cow spent a night and a day in the well on the farm of Neal Hoover near here, but now roams the pasture as usual.

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COOLIDGE AND HERBERT LORD TALK ECONOMY

: President And Director Os Budget Bureau Discuss Proposed Budget ESTIMATES EXCEED COOLIDGE’S FIGURES Rap'd City, S. D., Aug. 13. — (United Press) —President Coolidge talked over his pet policy, economy, with Herbert Lord, d rector of the budget bureau today. Isird came out here with estimates for the next year's governmental expenditures which run considerably higher than Mr. Coolidge has indicaed that he desired them to go. They would contemplate an expendi|ture of $3,425,000.1)00 as compared with Mr Coolidge’s desire to cut expenses to $3,000,000,000 flat with his announcement that he would not go above $3,300,000,000. Two Items Made Known Only two items of the budget were made known by Lord. He repealed that the government will provide estimates for carrying forward as soon as possible work on six or eight new tight cruisers for the navy. Keels of two already have been laid but only planning work has been done on the other s.x and there has been some doubt as to whether the administration with its program of stringent curtailmfih of expenses would provide estimates for the other six. laird also let it be known the budget would carry $125,000 for initial work to establish a municipal air port at Gravelly Point, Washington, D. C, Whether or not failure of the Geneva disarmament conference has anything to do with the matter Lord did not say. He did declare however that the budget bureau had pared off estimates , for three proposed submarines for the navy, indicating they will not now be Im it. Lord put the whole matter up to Mr. Coolidge this morning. The additional $125,000,000 over Mr. Coolidge’s highest figure were added by Lord, he said, because of a plea for dire need in government departments. Eugene Meyer, chairman of the federal farm loan board, also met with (he president regarding the administration's new farm relief bi?l which would provide an extensive system of co-operative marketing to air farmers in withholding crops from market to obtain fair prices. Meyer said he was merely on a visit through western states and dropped in chiefly to pre<COXTIM F.n (IV PAGE TWO) James Ward Gathers Field Corn Roasting Ears James Ward, who is farming the Dan Bieberich farm in Preble township today gathered a bushel sack full of roasting ears in a ten-acre field of corn on the farm. Six ears of corn was placed on display in the window of the Daily Democrat office this afternoon. So fat as known, these are the first field corn roasting ears gathereed in the county this season.

“Try And Get It” Is Correct, Informal English, Board Os Linguists Decree; Other Similar Locutions Are Okayed

Madison, Wis.. Aug. 13—(UP)—The next tinue you hear some hoy dare his playmate to "try and get it", don’t reprove his grammar. He will be speaking correct, informal, cultivated English according to the judgment of a board of 26 American and British linguists who gave their opinion to Proffe’ssor S. A. Leanord of the University of Wisconsin. “Try and get it." is one cf 45 English locutions ordinarly frowned upon by extreme purists in grammar which are declared to be perfectly proper in speech of a cultivated person by some 222 authorities, declares Prof. Leonard who has completed an investigation sponsored by the National Council cf Teachers of English. Among sentences containing usages, incorrect according to strict ruling, but indorsed by the authors, editors, business men, linguists and teachers of

THE JUDGE ate-sl The fate of Sacco anti Vanzetti rested for a moment with of the Supreme Court of MasJustice George \V. Sanderson His approval of a writi of error sent the case to the full bench of the Supreme Court, MO reception’ IS MARRED AGAIN Employees Os City Light Plant Seek Cause Os Local Interference Radio fans in all paits of the city report that there has been strong local interference for the last three or four days. TKo' interference is said to he very similar to that of a few weeks ago. when a primary circuit of the city power line was found to be touching a transformer at the rear of Millers bak ery, on North Second street. The trouble was reported to M. F. Mylott, superintendent of the city light and power plant this morning, and he said he would have his men run down the trouble today if it was in the city lines. o GERMAN FLIGHTS ARE POSTPONED Attempts To Cross Atlantic Ocean Delayed By Unfavorable Weather Dessau, Germany. August 13 —(UP) —German attempts to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States apparently weie postponed over the weekend today and at least until tontoi row. Reports today showed unfavorable conditions over the Atlantic and at mid-Atternoon these conditions persisted. The Junker company announced that their planes, Europa and Bremen would not start today.

English and public speaking who constituted Leonard's pury are the following: None of them ARE here. WILL you be at the Browns’ this evening? WHO are you looking for? That's a dangerous curve; you'd better go SLOW. It is ME. One rarely likes to do as HE is told. There WAS a bed. a dresser, and two chairs in the room. CAN 1 be excused from this class? That clock must be FIXED. Professor Leonard comments that the rules ot' the grammar and rhetoric text books frequently are at variance with actual cultivated usages of English words and phrases, but that the complete dictionaries generally keep abreast of developments in the daily use of English by Literate people.

Man Hurles Gasoline, Mistaken For Water, On A Burning Truck Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 13.—(1.-'Si Throwing a buc'.et of gasoline, which he thought '..'as water, on a burning truck, Leo Stroup, ot this i tty, was severely burned about e ankles a>d feet. A three year old eht'd was burned on the right leg by th n femes which shot (.* as the bucket of gasol no camo in contact with the tire. The truck had been left in front of the Si’uep residence by Leo’3 brother. It caught afire. Seeing the flames, i,eo dashed the bucket of liquid out > the truck which !•>)- mediately iLshod into a mass of fire. ADAMS APPEALS TO BAR OF STATE Vincennes Editor Thinks Its Members Have Great Duty To Perform Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 13 —(UP) — James Van Osdol. of Anderson, president of the Indiana Bar Association, and other members of the oragnization were asked today by Thomas H. Adams, editor of the Vincennes Commercial. whether they did not “have as great a duty to perform as the press.” Adams, in an open letter printed in' his newspaper, said that a number of “vital events have penetrated the very soul of Indiana in the last two I years" and asked the association [ "whether or not it is incumbrent on the Bar Association to take cog nizance of illegal and unfair practices with a view to regulating the evil things that are transpiring. Attacking what he termed the “abject and picturesque staging of the legislature" and the “illegally drawn juries,” Adams inquired if Bar Associations "proposed to abandon the practice of law by books and resort j only to the trickery of the "do and don't jury system and ‘do and don’t legislature.” • o Teachers Are Hired For Geneva Schools Otis Burk, trustee of Wabash township, has completed his teaching corps of the Wabash township schools at Geneva. Those who will be employed in the Geneva high school ate Virgil Wagner Miss Nellie Knipe, R. O. Hunt. Leslie Reeves, Mrs. Ruth Mahoney and Mrs. Arveda Wagner. Mr. Wagner will also act as principal of the entire Geneva school. These teachers are all residents of Geneva except Mr. Reeves, whose home is in Muncie. He wi’l have charge cf the manual training and commercial departments of tire school. Mr. Wagner, Miss Knipe and Mr. Hunt all taught in the Geneva school last year. Mrs. Ilahoney and Mrs. Wagner ate also ex-teachers. Ralph Pontius and the Misses Gladys Long and Agnes Hiery, graduater of the Berne high school, arc again listed with the Geneva grade school teachers, all three having been on that squad last year. The other teachers in the Geneva grades ate Blanch Aspy, Mildred McCray and Mary Brennan. o State Convention Os Elks To Open Tuesday Muncie, Ind., Aug. 13—(UP) Streets here ate being decorated for the state convention of the B. P. O. Elks which will open next Tuesday to continue three days. It is planned to have all the decorations in place by Saturday. A force of six men is engaged in the work o “Art” Clark, Decatur Cop, Is Catching Lots Os Fish Friends of Arthur Clark local night policeman, have received cards from him at Sherwood, Michigan, where he is spending his vacation. He stated that he had been catching lots of fish and enjoying his vacation. Clark will return next week.

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MORE SPECIMENS FOUND IN ADAMS, WELLS COUNTIES Eleven Os Twelve Townships In Adams County Found To Be Infested QUARANTINE IS BEING EXTENDED Indittntipolis, Aug. 13.—(United Press) The European corn borer continues to spread. Six I new townships were added to I the quarantine list today hy State Entomologist Frank N. Wallace. Adams county reported Hartford. Blue ('reek. Washington and Kirkland infested; Wells county reported Lancaster, and Allen county. Marion township. In Allen county, all otwnships except Aborite and are infested and the same condition prevails in Adams county, where all townsh'ps except Monroe and French have been invaded by the pest. Government scouts working in Alams county this week reported yesterday that they had found specimens of the corn borer cn the E. W. Busche farm, in Monroe township. The specimens were sent to headquarters Tor identification and if it is deter nuned that the ar» European corn I borers, as it undoubtedly will be. French township will be the only township in Adams county where . specimens have not been found. | Scouts work in Wells county reported today that they found specijments of the pest in Harrison townalso. Harrison township is the township ivxt to Blackford county. 0 Seek Troops To Aid In lowa Mine Strike Situation i Des Moines.,Aug. 13 —(UP)—Declaring the mine strike situation in Appiinoose county largest of lowa fields “is beyond our control." County Attorney William Hay ami Sheriff Real Gaughenbaugh arrived in Des Moines today to make a direct appeal to Gov. John Hqmmill. for troops. The two county officials wont into immediate conference with the governor who also called James Risden chief agents to his offices. Condition Os James Oliver Curwood Worse Owosso, Mich., Aug. 13.— (UP) — James Oliver Curwood, the writer, today showed "very rapid weakening of the heart," Dr. A. R. Jirus, of Detroit, Curwood’s son-in-law, announced. Dr. Jirus said that unless a charge for the better occurred soon Curwood could not live more than 24 hours. SALVATION ARMY FUNDTOTALSS4O4 Albert Schumann, Treasurer, Makes Report On Recent Campaign A total of $404.29 was raised in Decatur in the annual drive for the 'home work <l.vision of the Salvation Army, it was announced today by Albert. Scheumann, treasurer of the local organization formed to conduct the drive. While the quo|a for this city was set at SSOO, it is thought that later contributions will more than make the quota. The money will be sent to the division, headquarters of the Salvation Army at Grand Rapids, Michigan, as soon as a complete report has been made. I The campaign to raise the money was started two weeks ago and local 1 business men assisted in the cam--1 paign for funds. No house to house -’[canvas was made and anyone who 1 wishes to contribute may do so by n giving their contribution to Mr. I Schetirnann at the Old Adams County bank.

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