Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Mostly tonlflh ‘ " Tuesday, pre- ‘ by thunderlowers this after,h“ or tonightnoon w Cooler Tueeday.

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I JWY SEARCH FOR I [IBS EXTENDED I UNTIL THURSDAY I Weather Conditions Over I Pacific Hinder Search I For Lost Aviators I FIND no trace of I OF THE PLANES Washington, Aug. 22.—(I’nitfl| press) Navy search of the Picitic for seven missing aviatrl.„ Wil s authorised today to be until Thursday, by Ulmiral I' W. Ederle. acting jecrctary of the navy. Original authorization of the search call.d lor continuing it only until tomorrow. San Francisco, Auk. 22. —(U. P.) ■ Weather reports issued by the San Francisco weather bureau today reauceu still further the slim chances of finding the missing Dole Hawaiian jratnrs alive. Poor visibility prevailed east of the 136th meridian, approximately half way from te Golden Gate to Hawaii, the bureau announced. Meanwhile the search of naval ships and airplanes for the missing "Miss I Doran" and ‘‘Golden Eagle” and I six men and Miss Mildred Doran 1 ■Dallas Spirit” and their crews of I spread on toward mid ocean with ' I no trace of any of the planes to enI courage the searchers. ■o — — I Jess Sellemeyer Arrives In Decatur For A Visit 1 Jrss 0. Sellemeyer, of Los Angeles, I Calif., arrived in the city Saturday I night for a visit here with relatives 1 and o'd friends. Mrs. Sellemeyer and 1 daughter. Martha, came here a few I reeks ago and have been visiting > here ami at Lake Wawaee with Mr. I and Mrs. Dan Beery. Jess is all S nniles and is glad to get back and ■ meet his old Decatur friends. He has I not been hack here since he and his I family moved to Los Angeles five H years ago. He will visit here until M September 1. . . o I Interlocutory Divorce Granted To Mrs. Chaplin Court Room. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 22.—(United Press) —An interlocutory degree of divorce was granted to Lila Gray Chaplin here today from Charles Spencer Chapjin. Mrs. Chaplin is to receive $625,000, and a trust fund of $200,000 has been provided for the two Chaplin children. o Founder Os Horse Thief Detective Association Dies Peru. Ind, Aug. 22—(UP) — John W. Volpert. 63, founder of the State and National Horse Thief Detecffve Association, and former Sheriff of Miami county, died today. His widow and ten children survive. MISSIONARY TO GIVE ADDRESS Miss Alma Iske To Speak At Zion Reformed Church Wednesday Night Miss Alma Iske. returned missionary of China will give a public address at the Zion Reformed church, Wednesday night, at 7:30 o'clock- Miss Iske was also one of the missionaries that tell into the hands of bandits during the present uprising in China, and was held captive for seventeen hours. Miss Iske sailed for China in 1924 and was stationed at Sanchowfu. The Public is cordially invited to hear this address, a free-will offering will be lifted. This service is sponsored by the Girls ' Missionary Guild of the local ehnrch and the members of that organization are requested to mee' Promptly at 7 o’clock Wednesday night i 111 the social parlors.

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Faces Jail my M V-'wii P ywF.Ki »t ■ t te I t -*y.O » OHM** ’•OSBSH Doughis Hapgood, son of an Indianapolis pacer and nephew of Norman Hapgood, the editor, faces a six months* term in the Boston House of Correction. He refused to heed a police warning to cease speaking on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. MARY A. CHRISTY EXPIRES SUNDAY Former School Teacher Dies At Home Os Niece, Mrs. George Ohler Mary A. Christy, 80. a resident of Adams county since 1853, died at the home of her n ece, Mrs. Gem go Older of inion town-hip. Sunday morning, following an extended illness due to a complication of diseases. Miss Christy had resided wi'h her piece since 1918. The decease I was a daughter <f William and Margaret J. Christy amt was born in Allegenv county. Pennsylvania. January 20. 1847. She came to Adams county ii- 1833. In her young womanhood, she taught school in Adams county and in Van Wert and Mercer counties Ohio. Miss Christy was converted and unitea with the Methodist Episcopal church when 13 years old. Surviving, besides the niece, Mrs. Ohler, are thirteen nephews and nieces. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs George Ohler at 1:33 o'clock and at the East Liberty U. B. church at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternooiC with the Rev. Mr. Uucapher officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. ■— o Pleasant Mills High School To Hold Reunion All alumni, ex-students, teachers and well-wishers of Pleasant Mills high school are invited to attend the ninth annual alumni reunion to be held at Trier's Park, Fort Wayne. Sunday, August 28. The committee in charge of the reunion reports that many former students have signified their intention of attending and bring well-filled baskets. — <o Large Tarantula And Young Ones Are Caught In Store At Portland Portland. Aug. 22—A large tarantula, measuring about three inches across, was found in a stalk of bananas at the A. & P. store Saturday morning and was captured and placed in a tin can by Ray Taylor, local banker. A number of smaller tarantulas found on the same stalk of bananas were di owned- _____ o Brazil Man Murdered; Suspects Are Questioned Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 22. — (UP) Two suspects have been questioned and released and a third still is being examined today in connection with the murder of Hugh Cole, 26. of Brazil, whose body was found in front of a house in Taylorville, across the river from Terre Haute, early Sunday. Cole had been blackjacked, suffering a severe concussion of the brain. His body had been left sitting in a chair. * the crime, as relatives said Cole had Robbery was believed the motive for about S6O with him His pockets were empty when the body was found.

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MONROE YOUNG MAN IS INJURED Sylvan Rupert Seriously Injured When Struck By Automobile In Peru Sylvan Rupert. 21. of Monroe, was teriously injured about 9:30 o'clock Saturday night, win n he was struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Peru. He is in a hospital at Peru, suffering from a fractured skull and severe bruises. His condiion is said to be critical. Mr. Rupert, who is a son of Mrs. Anna Rupert, of Monroe, has been ■mployed by the Morris Five and Ten Cent store at Peru, since last spring. He had just closed the stere Saturday night and was walking across the street to get repairs for the headlights an his automobile preparatory to driving to his home at Monroe when the accident occurred. The name of the man driving the car which stnich him has not been learned here. The injured youth was taken to the nospl'.al immediately after the accilent. His brothers, William and Harvey Rupert, of Mornoe. wt nt to Peru shortly after receiving word of the accident and had not returned home yet this morning. — » o- —. Mrs. Sarah Bleke Dies In Allen County Saturday Mrs. Sarah H'.eke, 88, former resident of Adams county, died at 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning, at the home of het son. John, in Washington township, Allen county. Mrs. Bleke tad been living on the farm since 61 years ago. She was born in Ohio and. after her marriage to William Bleke. moved to Adams county, where they resided until moving to Al.’en couny. Mrs. Bleke was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church. Surviving ire two sons. Fred, of Fort Wayne, ind John, with whom she made her home; 10 grandchildren; and seven treat grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the home at 1:45 o'clock daylight saving time, this afternoon. and at St. Panj's church at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was to be made n the Lutheran cemetery on the Coldwater road. THREE ARRESTS MADE ON SUNDAY Charges Os Violating Prohibition Laws Filed Against Three Men Three men were arrested over the week-end in Adams county, on charges of violating the prohibition laws. Frank Saxon, of Marion, Indiana, who has a concession at the fair grounds, was arrested Sunday night, charged with selling intoxicating liquor. He was released today on a S2OO cash bond. Arraignment will be held in Mayor's court Friday. Elvan Briggs, of Pennsylvania, a railroad workman, was arrested at midnight (a st night, charged with public intoxication. He will be arraigned in Mayor’s court tonight. Emil Badertscher, of Berne, was arrested Sunday noon for driving an automobile while intoxicated. He was brought to the Adams county jail and will have a hearing in Mayor's court tonight. Police officers have received orders to arrest any questionable characters who might be in this city during the race meet at Bellmont park. Officials of the race meet have asked Sheriff Hollingsworth for his cooperation in making the meet a clean one. A close watch will be kept for thieves, pick-pockets and all law violators. 0 Decatur Woman Celebrates 80th Birthday In Chicago Mrs. Mary Wemhoff, of this city, and daughter, Estella Wemhoff, of ’ Fort Wayne, went to Chicago yesterday for a few days visit. Today is Mrs. Wemhoff’s 80th birthday and she will celebrate it with her daugh--1 ter in Chicago Mrs. Wemhoff is one ' of Decatur’s oldest and best known i residents and her many friends extend birthday greetings to her.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 22, 1927.

Drunk Marries .Justice Os The Peace And Gets His $5 Fine Refunded Galesburg, 111., Aug. 22. —(UP) — George Lewis. 21. got a refund of ,I his $5 fine for being intoxicated, but he had to marry the Justice of tlie Peace to get it. The marriage ■ which took place several months ago was kept secret until yesterday. Lewis met Miss Helen Carr, 27, the Justice of Peace, when he was brought Into her court charged with being intoxicated. He married her the following day after he had been fined $5 and costs. FORMER DECATUR WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Albert Schurger Dies At White Cloud, Michigan, Sunday Afternoon . Word was received in this city today of the death of Mrs. Albert Schurger. 52, of White Cloud, Mich- ' igan, formerly of this city, yesterdy afternoon. About three weeks ago, 1 Mrs. Schurger underwent an operation for cancer of the liver and she .ailed to recover. I<la Rhorer Schurger was born in Adams <( >u,nt|y. In early life, she was tin ted in marriage to Albert Schurger. of this city. About 21) vears ago. they moved from Decatur to Monroeville and later to White 1 Cloud. Michigan. She was a member of the White Cloud Catholic church. Surviving, besides the husband. ' are two children. Mrs. Leota Morris ' and Marie Schurger; a sister. Mrs Herman Heideman, of this city, and three brothers and two other sisters. ' Funeral services will be held at the ’ White Cloud Catholic church, Wed- ’ nesday morning, at 10 o'clock. Burial will be made at the White Cloud Catholic cemetery. Walter Krick Receives A.M. Degree From Columbia ‘ Winter J. Krick, principal of Decatur high school, returned from New York. Sunday, after attending Columbia University, this summer. Mr. Krick completed his work for an A.M. degree this summer. He was graduated from Purdue University a few vears ago. He has been principal of Decatur high school for the last three years. WEEK-END TOLL IS SIX DEATHS Many Other Persons Injured In Auto Accidents In Indiana i Indianapolis, Aug. 22. — (UP) —At i least six persons are dead, and 30 f others are suffering from injuries as ( result of week-end automobile acci- . dents in Indiana. R. C. Helbron, 40, Little Rock, Ark., t met instant death when the automoi bile which he was driving crashed > into another car near Frankfort. 1 Joseph Keys, 19. driyer of the other t machine also was killed. Five other people, riding in the two - cars, weie injured. Helbron was on h oxri x I ia» ox r xi.i: i voi

Tennessee Geologist And Explorer Narrowly Escapes Fate Os Floyd Collins; Discovers t New Cavern Larger Than Mammoth Cave y . ’

’ ... ■ - Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 22. — (United Press) —Escaping the fate of | 5 Floyd Collins, Lawrence S. Ashley. | > geologist, and explorer, was sufficiently recovered today from the effects of ; . six day's imprisonment in Nick-A-' f jack cave to give details of his ex- ( - perience. He announced he had dis--3 covered an unexplored cavern which 1 he said is larger than Mammoth. - Cave of Kentucky. a The explorer owed his life to a i trench shovel with which lie dug his > -way out yesterday at Cancer Knob i gulch, about nine miles south of i

STARTS FLIGHT I AROUND WORLD I Detroit Flier Hopes To Circumnavigate The Globe In 22 Qays Detroit, Mich. Aug. 22. (UP) — Bound on an mound the world flight which they hope to complete in 22 days, Edward F. Sehlee. Detroit, and his pilot, William S. “Billy” Brock, hopped off from Ford airport today for Curtis Field, N. V. The present record for circumnavigation of the globe is 28 days, 14 hours and 53 minutes, held jointly by Edward S. Evans. Detroit, and Linton Wells, of New York, made by use of airplanes, steamers and trains. Sehlee and Brock flew a StinsonDetroiter monoplane, which left at 10.20 A M. They were accompanied by Richard Blythe. o Two Sunday School Classes Are Spending Week At Lake The Methodist Sunday school classes taught by W. Guy Brown and Bryce Thomas, consisting cf boys of the fifth sixth, seventh and eighth grades, are spending the week at the Decatur cottage at Epworth Forest, Lake Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are spending tin week at the lake with the boys. -—•. 4o Country Club Directors To Hold Meeting Tonight Douglas Haney, secretary of the Decatur Country Club, announced , today that there would not be a meeting of the board of directors this I evening, 0 Janitors Begin Work At School Buildings j ■ AU janitors of the public school buildings in the city today began the task of cleaning up the buildings and placing them in shape for the , opening of school on Tuesday morning. September 6. WOULD CALL HALT TO LONG FLIGHTS Vice President Os Aeronautical Ass’n., Wants Federal Intervention St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 22. — (UP) — Believing the purpose of aviation has been accomplished, Carl Wolfley, vice president of the National Aeaumautical Association today sought I'edera! ' Intervention to prevent further transoceanic flights. “The successmul culmination of several trans-oceanic flights,” Wolfley said, in his protest to William > McCracken, tnited States Depart--1 ment of Commerce, ‘‘accomplished the ■ purpose of aviation, which was to show that spanning the waters was pos- . sible. To endanger human lives fur- ■ ther, is unnecessary. I “Colonel Lindbergh believes that ■ oceanic passenger cr mail service by air is not feasable with the present equipment and I quite concur with > him." 1 Wolfley said the hazards were too great for the results attained.

where he entered the cave a week j ago today he said. Food which he had j hidden in the cave for such a con- | tingency and water from underground streams sustained his life. i Nick-A-Jack cave was not new to ! Ashley when he entered it last Mon- ' day with the intention of exploring 1 a new cavern among the subterranean windings. He had gone but a I short distance when a fall of rock I trapped him. For two days, using a carbide light, he searched the maze for an (CONITNI El) ON PAGE TWO)

HUNTER I •’ i . I / I a h ’■' JI The great Pacific man-hunt was extended to include Captain William P. Erwin, one of the hunters, after his plane, from which he was seeking trace of the missing mainland-to-Honoluiu fliers, went into a tail spin. rTceleehST OPEN TOMORROW Four-Day Program Os Dog And Horse Races To Be Held At Bellmont Park With ideal weather predicted for the week, everything is in readiness for the opening tomorrow of Decatur's four-day race piograni, to be held at Bellmont Park. The race program will start at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with five dog races on the schedule. The 35 grey-hounds, which are entered in the first series of dog races ever to be held in Indiana, arrived in this citv Sunday and manager Cook stated that all were ready for the meet tomorrow. The dog races are expected to create great interest. They will start promptly at 1:30 o’clock. Tuesday afternoon. Three Days of Horse Racing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, will lie devoted to horse racing and 75 of the best horses making the race circuits aie at the park ready for the start. All horse racing will start promptly at 1:30 o'clock each day Speed Manager Kelly stated today that ' every tace on the local program was filled ahead with the exception of one. Tlie races this year will be unusually interesting, it is predicted. The Hoosier Carival company arrived in tltis city this morning and the three rides, shows and concessions will be set up as quickly as possible, ready for the opening day of the meet tomorrow. All concession space lias been sold, and the midway has assumed the aspects of a genuine county (COX'I IX I Kl» OX PAGE T’.X O) Memorial Held For Gen. Wood In Kansas Fort Riley, Kans., Aug. 22. —(UP)--More than 3.000 persons, many of them veterans of the 89tli and 10th divisions, attended the memorial service here yesterday afternoon in honor of the late Major General Leonard Wood. The ceremonies were conducted near an obelisk he had ordered built to the men of the two famous war ‘ divisions trained at Camp Funston, i Col. Fred O’Donnell, chief surgeon of the old 89th, delivered the eulogy.

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EXECUTION SET FOR 3 MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT Counsel For Condemned Radicals Unable To Secure Stay Os Sentence PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO PREVENT VIOLENCE Stonington, Me., Aug. 22.— (t'niled Press) .Justice Ilarlaii I*. Stone, of the I'. S. Supreme Court today denied a petition for a stay of sentence for Sacco and Vanzetti. His adverse action was taken after chief defense consul Arthur I). Hill had gone 35 miles by lioat to Isle Au Haul, off Rockland, to present the petition. Stone was the fourth member of the nation's highest court to refuse intervention. Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Justices Olix’er WendaU Holmes and Lewis Brandis having previously been appealed to. Papers Are Filed Washington, Aug. 23. — (U. P.) — Documents to accompany the petit'ons for writ of certiorari in tlie Sacco and Vanzetti case were received at z the clerk's office of the sunreme court this morning by special delivery mail. They will he read prompH'y to determine whether the necessary preliminaries to the docket.'ng of the petitions have been fulfilled. The petetions for writs, applicable lioth to the supreme court of Massa'.husetts and the superior court of Massachusetts, were “lodged” at the clerk's office Saturday, but were not recognized as actually “filed” because of the absence of records of proceedings required by the supreme court rules. Execution Set For Tonight Boston. Aug. 22.- (U. P.) —The last day of life for Nicola Sacco and Hartoiomeo Vanzetti, unless the unexpected happens, began today with the defense forces still working frantically to stay the execution, set for three minutes after midnight. After speeding across three states in an automobile, Arthur D. Hill, -h es of the defense counsel, and three assistants arriv/d at Rockland. Me., ai 2:05 u.m. They chartered a launch and started at 6 a.m. on a four hour journe through Penobscot Bay to the summer home of Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the United States supreme coutt. HEI will ask for a stay of executio, a request already refused by Justices Holmes and Brandeis. Chartering an airplane, Michael A. Musmano, another defense attorney, waited all night in Hills’ office in Boston for a reply to a telegram sent to Chief Justice WFliam Howard Taft, on a vacation at Point Au Pio, Quebec, asking him when and how Musmanno could reach him to ask (to vri x t i:n ox i>.u;e iivei — o FARMER INJURED WHILE THRASHING IL C. Clark Seriously Injured When He Falls From Wagon Backward 11. C. Clark, 61. well known farmer residing south of Decatur, was seriously injured Saturday afternoon in an accident while engaged in helping thrash on a farm near his home. I Mr. Clark was standing in a wagon, facing the team of horses hitched to it. when the horses made a sudden moveI' ment forward. Mr. Clark lost his bali ance and fell out the back end of the • wagon alighting on his head and ■ shoulders. I An examination showed that Mr. Claik had suffered fractures of three tl ribs and was severely bruised and t sprained. He was so sore from tlie r injuries Sunday that he was unable i. to move himself in bed. Although his n injuries are very painful, it is thought r. that Mr. Clark wil recover.

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