Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. N»t quite .0 warm e „«reme northwe.t portion tonight.

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I FISHERMEN PICK I UP WRECKAGE OF PLANE IN OCEAN pieces Found Northwest Os Brittany Coast May Be Part Os St. Raphael 011) GLORY” FALSELY | REPORTED LOCATED S | oinlon. Sept. 10.— (INS) — I Wrcckutv Oitit may have been B put oi lh( missing British airB plant' St. Baphael was picked B u() |,\ lislu rmen in the Atlantic B ‘MS miles northwest of the BritB hnv coast, according to a On- ■ , ni [ New> dispatch from Paris B this afternoon. B Tht- li-ln-rmeii said they picked up B tw airplan. wings on Septemlwr 1. B The SI. Raphael hopped off at ■ ,v.iii .lirport, Wiltshire, on August B 31B Rrnort Is Due To Error B Ottawa. Sept. IP. (IN'S) —A mix up ■ iu ~ffi i.il messages was responsible ■ f,, r the teport reaching Halifax that ■ . :u . missing Fokker monoplane Old B ciniv ha.l been sighted off Newfound ■ a check-up showed today. B Offiii.tis here declared today they ■ taw ne w.ud tliat the pane had tieeii BB sighted, but inquiries are still being ■ coniluiteil in an effort to find some ■ trace of the missing plane. B Meanwhile the steamship Kyle ■ chattered by -Ire New York Mirror. ■ of which Philip Payne, one of the ■ plane- cr-w, was managing editor, ■ has set nut with the specific mission BB ot searching over Old (ilory’s course B Other trans-Atlantic ships are con- ■ tinuing tlieir lookout for the ill-fated H plane or its crew, but are not deriat- ■ ing from the regular travel lanes. B Abandonment Os Flights Expected B By Internalional News Service B Wi h the tragic results of attempt H etl trail- \tUntie airplane flights causB tug an unfavorable reaction all over B the wurld. indications were today that B ;lle majority of flights contemplated B for the near future or in the process B of formulation would receive severe B setbacks possibly resulting in ultiB tnate abandonment. B Meanwhile, hope for the Monoplane ® OW Glory, which was lost on an atI tempted (tight to Kor. , was revi.ed for a short time last night when an unconfirmed report was received in Halifax that tbe plane had been sighted 400 miles east of Newfoundland. The report could not he verified. Indications were that the attempt of Rene Fonck, French ace, to fly across the Atlantic in th» Sikorsky K'nVi IWRl) ON PACK TWO) AUBURN POET GAINING FAME Poet Who Is to Appear Here Monday Night Gains Fame Through Broadcast Prank C. Nelson, Auburn poet, who »iit give a program at a meeting of the Co-Workers class of the. Methodist Sunday school here Monday evening, became famous over night, so to speak. Although Mr. Nelson has been making public appearances in various cities in Northern Indiana for the last ,ew years, it was not until he broodcast from radio station WLS in Chicaj>°. recently, theft he became widely Mr. Nelson went on the air 'me night recently and recited a numJ ler °f his posems, including “I>ad," “Mather" and “Our Baby" lie went oy er big. instantly people discovered •hat something unusual had been sent cut on tiie air. Requests came in askmg that Nelson be retained by the Nation permantly. Now publishers are Trying to negotiate with him—publlslicts who two years ago turned him down when he wanted his poems br °«ght out in book form. They are to ° late. A syndicate in New York Pity is at Present making all arrangements *° h ut his poems in published form. ‘ r Nelson has received several hundre*l Idters from persons from fortye****t states, commending him.

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[ Bones And Flesh Found In Quarry Near Portland Are Those Os An Animal Portland, Ind., Sept. 10. — (UP) — Bones and flesh sewed in a sack, found in the waters of the Detamore stone quarry, are those of an animal and placed in the water to attract cattish aud turtles., according to members of the local lzaak Walton league Fiery Franklin and Vernie Fikel, who discovered the sack, believed its contents were the remuants of a human body. ELKS’ FAIR TO~ START MONDAY Tent Erected On Liberty Way For Event; Bands Engaged To Play The tent has been erected ou Liberty Way and all plans have been completed for the opening of the annual Elks fair and bazaar, Monday night, at 7 o'clock. C. J. Lutz, attorney of this city, will give a short address and officially open the week's festivities. The fair will he held every night nt xt week and iarge crowds are expected to attend the big affair. The big canvas tent will be crowded full of entertainment and, in connection with the tent entertainment, a dance will be held each night at 10 o'clock in the K. of C. hall. The General Electric and Junior hands of this city will furnish music In the tent every night and a good orchestra has been secured for the dances. Other entertainment will be held under the canvas during the week, with plenty of enjoyment for people of all ages, Walter Wilkinson is general chairman of the affair and his committee is composed of Bert Colchin, F. J Schmitt, Dr. Roy Archbold. I. A Kalver, F. K. Gass, C. C. Schafer, Raymond Hurling and Herman Yager. Miss Margaret Moran is general chairtnau of the ladies. A lady will have charge of each booth in the tent and they will be appointed by the general committee. Fourteen booths have been erected inside the canvas, and the fair will be held each nignt. rain or shine. Door tickets will be given away free each night and awards will be presented at 10 o'clock each night. The tent has a capacity of several thousand people, and it is predicted that a capacity crowd will attend each night. Fish Worm Club Dommed; Mothers Os Members Object To Initiation Vincennes, Sept. 10. — (INS) The Burnett .Heigh.s fish worm club, of this city, recently formed among the younger geueeft-tion, seems already doomed to failure, because of the opposition of irate mothers. To be a member you have to eat one large, wriggling fish worm. Ihe members are boys between five and six years old. One of the hoy’s mothers started the club on the downward trail when she made him a charter member and hence not subject to initiation, eat his worm, like the new members. From that time the club was destine to parental interference, and eventual disbandment. Now the membership drive for the latest Juvenile organization has been permanently halted by a dearth of sufficient woily worms. Activity In Home Runs, Preferred, At Standstill New York Sept. 10— (INS)— Activity In home runs, preferred was at a standstill yesterday and the standing in the Ruth-Gehrig duel today is still Ruth 49, Gehrig 4. r «. The Bambino collected two singles, hut the Buster went hitless for the second successive day. Knights Os Columbus To Elect Officers Sept. 12 The annual eledtion of officers of the Knights of Columbus lodge will be held Monday, September 12 at the K. of C. hall. The attendance of the members is requested.

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STATEMENTS Os THOSE INDICTED Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. —(INS) —The statements of the Indicted tate and city officials follow: Governor Ed Jackson: "1 have no statement to make at the present time. I may not make one at all. I was notified by my secretary, Pliny Wolford, of the Indictment returned by the Marion county grand jury, f authorized him to arrange for my bond. He advised nu> a few minuted ago that it has been made. I will coufer with friends and attorneys before saying anything for publication." Mayor John L. Duva,T: "I have nothing to say for publication. I do deny most enuphat ca’ly, however, the report that 1 am contemplating resigning from office.- I will face all charges.” George V. Coffin: "I do not consider that 1 should make any statement at the present time. 1 have several things in mind which 1 expect to say after I have eon ulted by counsel. I will say th s, however, that when my statement ik Issued it will he a hot one and a liumlter of per- ■ rs wII be made nncomfortab’e as a result of it. My statement will he rrth'om' 1 ' T the early part of next week." Rdiert I Marsh: “I have absolutely nothing to say.”

W. A. Kuebler Leaves For Visit In West | W. A. Keuhler left today for Klamath Falls, Ore., where lie will visit with his nephew, Leon Crawford and family. He will also go to Los Angeles to visit w ith his son-in-law and daugh- ( | k ter. Mr. and Mis. Aloysius Schmitt, and at Seattle an i San Francisco. He expects to lie gone two months. LEVINE TO MAKE : FLIGHT TO INDIA I 1 1 Decides To Try For New ! Distance Record Instead Os Crossing Ocean London, Sept, 10 —(UP) —“We are starting to India, pt%bably Karachi, : some time next week," Captian Walter Hinchcliffe, British pilot engaged by j Charles A. iaavine, told the United Press today. | f The statement was in reply to the ( question whether the intended flight : in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia to New York had been abandoned. I | Levine had said several times’that if ( bad weather caused abandonment of the trans-Atlantis flight he and Hinch-j cliffe would attempt to establish a I new non-stop distance record by try- ( ing to fly to Karachi, India. ( -o Col. Runyon To Cry N. C. Johnson Sale Col. Roy Runyon, local auctioneer, will have charge of the N. F. Johnson 1 sale Monday, instead of Col Christ 1 Bohnke, as the latter has another sale 1 south of Fort Wayne on that date. He 1 has turned tlie Johnson snle over to Col. Runyon, After Monday, Col I ke will assist Col. Baumgartner of Fort Wayne, in a large sale at South Bend, 1 during tiie rest cf the week. o .— ROYAL WINDSOR'S HOP CALLED OFFj Trans-Atlantic Flight Os Canadian Plane Abandoned By Wood And Schiller St. Johns, Newfoundland, Sept. 10— (United Press' —Pilots Phil Wood and; C, A. Schiller of the Monoplane Royal Winsor today definitely abandoned i their proposed trans-Atlantic flight to London England." \Vood received definite instructions to abandon the project and to return to Canada.

Sunday School Like Castor Oil, Hard To Take But Good For Y ou,” Says Teacher

I —— Not to be outdone by the hundreds of theatres, .parks and resorts advertising Sunday rates, Avon Burk, who has taught a Sunday school class of young men at the Methodist church for several years, has devised an advertising scheme ail his own to urge the boys to continue their f attendance. I When the class continues with a s good percentage of attendance, all i well and good, but the minute it falls down the least bit, the teacher is on

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BAPTISTS WILL MEET NEXT WEEK Salamonie Baptist Association To Convene At Warren,Next Tuesday The Eighty-seventh annual session of the Salamonie Baptist Association | of churches will meet with the First Baptist church, of Warren. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. A strong program for the two days has been prepared and several people from the local church are planning I to attend as deleates and visitors. Mss Julia Parrottt, for several years a missionary in Mandalay. Burma, will speak; Miss Thomasine Alien, a missionary in a girls school, | Sendai, Japan, will tell of her work , and have with her a native Japanese girl who will enter Franklin College ' for training. Dr. C. M. Dinsmore, state secretary of the Baptist mission work, will lie the closing speaker Wednesday afternoon. Tuesday evening is especially for the young people and Dr. W. G. Everson, of Muncie, will speak from the subject, “Open that Door, let me ' out.” Dr. H. N. Spear, of Bluffton, is moderator and Rev. O, E- Miller, of 4 ( the Decatur church, is clerk-treasurer of the association. I o Mrs. Niezer Leaves Million Dollar Estate The will of Mrs. Rose Neizer, wife of Charles W. Neizer of Fort Wayne, who ' uied front injuries received in an auto- f mobile accident on August 29, disposes , of an estate estimated at $1,000,000. i Her three children are the principal i beneficiaries. Her husband is willed all i her stock in the First National Bank 1 of which he is the president and in the i Tri-State Loan and Trust company. Mrs. Niezer also made several gifts to charities and created a fund of $5,000 I the proceeds frotiti which are to be I used for the aid of the poor in Fort Wayne. o Grand Jury To Meet Again Monday Morning Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10 —(INS)— The Marion county grand jury which indicted Governor Ed Jackson and three other politicians will meet again Monday morning to take up its work. This was the announcement today cf Deputy Prosecutor William 11. Sheaffer. Sheaffer however said that he was not certain whether or not. the grand jury would immediately resume the political corruption probe or whether it would "busy itself with routine criminal probes.

his toes. Thi s week, Mr. Ifurk sent out interesting postal cards, with a real plea on them for his boys to come to Sunday school Sunday. The post card shows the picture of a man giving his son a dose of castor oil. At the side of the picture the following words are printed: “Sunday school may be like castor oil, hard to take but good for you. Come to class 2G for yours." Avon says Uie advertising works, and lie is expecting every one of his boys to be in their place Sunday morning.

Indicted ' 4j| 'j GOV. ED JACKSON IMPEACHMENT STEPSDEMANDED Richmond Paladium, Republican Paper. Demands Steps Against Governor Richmond, Sept. 10. — (INS) — The Richmond Paladium an independent Republican afternoon newspaper, in an editorial today, demanded immediate convening of the Ind ana general assembly tor the impeachment- of Governor Ed Jackson. The Paladium editorial said in part: "Not only should these men be brought to justice without delay, hut if impeachment proceedings can be brought against the governor by means of the state legislature that step should he taken at once for the sake of good government. “There is no place in Indiana government for any official w'ith a besmerched record. Tiie people want the innocent or guiJt of these indicted officials established without delay." Editors Discuss Indictments Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. —(INS) Tiie action of (he Marion county grand jury in indicting Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana and three other politicians on charges arising out of the pol'tical corruption scandal, was the subject of editorial comment the length and breadth of Indiana today. Nor was the comment confined to the (covri.M i:i» o\ i"ai;k thiiuki BROCK,SCHLEE REACH SHANGHAI Round The World Fliers Make Another Hop; May o Quit At Tokyo Shangahi, Sept. 10 —(UP) —William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee arrived at Shangahi at 5:30 P. M. today in tlieir monoplane Pride of Detroit in which they are flying around lh<) world. They had left Honk Konk, 800 miles to the south, at 7 A. M. Their next jump will be across the east China sea and through the interior of Japan to Tokio, 1,075 niTles from Shanghai. Brock and Schlee left harbor Grace, Newfoundland two weeks ago today. Because of the difference of time between Newfoundland and Shanghai, their arrival at Shanghai was almost to the hour two weeks after their departure from Harbor Grace on the start of their flight. At Tokio, the half-way mark, they plan to install a new engine In their plane, then resume their flight via Midway islands. Honolulu, Sanfrancisco, and across the United States to Harbor Grace. s Tokyo, Sept. ID—(lNS)—Efforts of J. V. Walker, representative in Japan V CONTINUED OX I* AGE THREE)

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1 “Give The People Says Gurley’s Editorial Iu Indianapolis Times j Indianapolis, Stp. 10 — (UP) — “Give the people light" was the title of an editorial prepared by Boyd Gurley, editor of tiie Indianapolis Times, for publication today. The times, according to the Grand Jury Indictment agaist Gov. Ed Jackson and two others, dug j out the circumstances upon which j the true bill was based, and they were not known until the Times published them two months ago. Gurley's editorial expressed regret that the chief executive of the state should lie indicted and said ! the Times’ pari in it was a distaste- I fill public service. RESIGNATIONS DUE DECLARES ADAMS I Vincennes Publisher Says Crust Os Big Conspiracy Has Been Touched Vincennes, Ind., Sept. 10.— (INS) — Indictments of Indiana's political leaders should be only the start of a wholesale clean-up of Hoosier politics, according to a statement issued today by Thomas 1L Adams, veteran Vincennes publisher, whose s irring charges of political corruption last fall resulted in the D. C. Stephenson scandal. “Maybe a touch of clean government lias reached Indiana after a year of tiie most wret.hed criminality and conspiracy that ever affected a sate," Adams said. “In the indictments of Jackson, Duvall and Coffin the crust of the big conspiracy lias been touched. Adams demanded that Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Rob inson "dear their skirts of all this rotten mess or resign.” Specific measures to continue the political probe were outlined by Adams, as follows: “We demand the prosecution of alt guilty lawyers involved in conspiracy to conceal those state and federal crimes in tiie disappearance of the Squib';,.- •dLsillcij , W|iu.T,--hvrr>tne .u department, state and federal hanking departments, Evansville, Indianapolis and Gary elections, criminal attacks upon the state highway commission. We ask a complete publication of charges against other high state officials.” Adams said that “the following resignations are in order”: Governor Ed Jackson, Mayor John L. Duvall, George V. Coffin, Marion county republican chairman; the entire republican state committee; Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier; M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue and Congressman Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis and Harry Rowbottom of Evansville. Henry J. Weilemann Dies At Richmond Word was received here today of the death of Henry J. Weilemann, 60, of Bluffton, brother of Mrs. Henry Worthman, of Adams county. Mr. Weilemann died Fiiday night at 7:00 o’clock, at the East Haven hospital at Richmond, where lie had been ill for about a year. Before being confined to the East Haven hospital, Mr. Weilemann was a farmer in Wells county. Several other brothers and sisters survive. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the S:. Luke’s Reformed church, in Kirkland township, Adams county, and burial will take jilace in the adjoining cemetety. Winter Schedule Begun At Catholic Church The winter schedule of services went into effect Monday at the St. Marys Catholic church. The masses will be said a half hour later. Tiie mas- - ses on Sunday will tie at 7:30 and > 9:45 a. m. The services in the afternoon will begin at 2:30.

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EARLY TRIAL OF | GOVERNOR TO BE AIM OF OFFICIALS | Jackson, Collin And March To Be Arraigned In Criminal Court October 3 DUVALL TO HAVE SEPARATE HEARING Imliantipolis, Sept. 10 (IN'S) Governor K<l Jackson, George V. Collin, Marion county Hei publican chairman, and Robert I Marsh, klan attorney, will he | arraigned, October. 3, on the | indictments charging them with | conspiracy to bribe former (iovernor Warren T. McCray, I Judge James A. Collins, of the J Marion county criminal court, announced today. The arraignment of defendants is j ht'M on the first Monday of each i month and Judge Collins said he would make no exceptions in the case of Governor Jackson and his co-de-fendants. Duvall's Hearing Not Set The court has not yet set. a date for arraignment of Mayor John L. I Duvall, of Indianapolis, charged with v'oHating the corrupt practices act, but it was regarded as probable the mayor also would lie arraigned Oct. 3. There will he no delay in bringing tiie four officials to trial. Deputy Prosecutor John E.j Hci'tzman said today. “Every effort will he made to have tiie trial this year,” Holtzman stated. Rv Eugene J. Cadou. (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) fmffahapolls, Ind , Sept. 10. — Stunned by the indictment of Governor Ed Jackson and three other prominent Hoosier politicians, the state 6T Indiana today faced the turning of more dark pages of its Ku Klux Klan tainted political history by the further probing of the Marion county grand jury and by the hints of reprisals by the indicted officials. Four Persons Indicted The grand jury brought an 11mon:h corruption probe to a dramatic close by indicting the following person's Governor Ed Jackson on a conspiracy and bribery charge. Mayor John I, Duvall of Indianapolis, on a charge of violating the cor(COVI'IXI'KI) «!X IMGK M\l LITTER WEIGHS NEAR 3,000 LBS, Litter Os Twelve Pigs Owned Bv John E. Heiman . Wins Gold Medal A weighing committee, consisting of Joseph P. Habegger, Manas Lehman and the county agent, weighed the sixth ton litter produced this year in Adams county. John E. Heiman, Washington township farmer, produced and fed the litter which consists of twelve cross-bred Poland China-Durocs. Their total weight at 180 days of age was 2,934 pounds or an average of 244 Vi pounds per pig. This is the heaviest litter weighed in Adams county this year. The heaviest i>ig of the litter weighed 279 pounds while the lightest wteigly'd 196 pounds. As soon as the pigs could “crack corn,’' they were given shelled corn and tankage in a self-feeder. The feeder was located in a “creep” so situated that the older hogs could not reach it. During the first two months they received a very small amount of skim milk, hardly enough to be of any advantage to the qxigs. They ran on pasture consisting of blue grass, timothy and white clover. I Corn and tankage made up the sole ration until they were ready for 3 market at 6 months of age. Heiman undoubtedly will be among 3 the winners in this year’s county contest. It will be remembered that d S7O cash premiums are to be awardr- ed to this year's winners by the Schmitt Meat market.

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