Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Generally night and Somewhat unsettled north part. Wanner tonighh Cooler Sunday night.

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I legionnaires VISIT GRAVES OF DEAD COMRADES Inaugurate Stay In France By Visiting American Cemetery FOCI! AND PERSHING WALK ARM IN ARM By George R. Holmes. (INS Staff Correspondent) Paris, Sept. 17. — Among the hundreds of white crosses, high on Suresnes Hill, which commands a beautiful vista of Parf>. the American Legionnaires today inaugurated their week in France, by a solemn tribute to the memory o{ th«ir conimrades who died for France in 191". General John J. Perishing, com-mander-in-chief of the A. E. F.. Marshal Foch, generalissimo of the allied armies; Howard P. Savage. National commander of the American Legion, and other legion officials, stood in the midst of the field of crosses which represent every rank and every state in the union, and paid their tribute to the American soldiers buried there, by reiterating the late President Hardings pledge made at the ceremony at the burial of America’s unknown soldier at Washington: 'They have not died In vain.” Drizzling Rain Falls A drizzling rain was falling as Marshal Foch and General Pershing walked arm in arm up the slope of Ute hill, at the top of which lie 1,50tt American dead. Accompanying the two war-time commanders were the French Generals Qouraud and De Beny. and he American, W. W. Harts I and Milton J. Foreman, who commanded the Illinois division during i the war. Frenchmen. The memorial cervices were brief but impressively simple. Sheldon Whitehouse, councillor of the American embassy, wtfo presided at the services, said: “It is fitting that the firs- act of ■ the American Legionnaires upon their arrival in France should be commemorative of their dead. I present a man who needs no introduction to you General Pershing.” General Pershing then— addressed the men whom he led in battle ten , years ago. "We have come -this morning,” he said, “to pay tribute and loving remembrance to the Americans who lie buried in the cemeteries of France. These companiAts of ours came to France with all the enthusiasm that men hare when they are engaged in (COXTIXUED OX PAGE TWO; MANY ENROLL IN TRAINING SCHOOL Others May Register Monday Night; Large Enrollment In Prospect A goodly number of students enrolled in the Community Training School last evening and received their books, ready for the first lesson next Monday evening. Those who did not enroll are requested to come to the Central school building at 6:30 o’clock -Monday evening, so that they can be assigned before the classes meet at 7:15 o’clock. If any old students have books they care to dispose of, they are asked to bring them along ‘•nd such sale or exchange will be arrainged for if possible. The leaders of the school are glad to note the growing interest taken hy student from the surrounding rural and village churches. Such interest should challenge the largest Possible attendance from students in the churches of Decatur. The indications are bright for a large enrollment for the full three years course. Pastors and Sunday school superintendents are requested to bring the matter before the people tomorrow. This will be the last call, “Come for ah things are now ready." St!!’ the e is room.

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| LOYAL Dr. 11. C. Hill is preporing to light lor his son Harry Hill who is charged with the murder of his mother. ROTARIANS VISIT BLUFFTON CLUB Golf Match Is Feature Os Afternoon; Chicken Dinner In Evening The Decatur Rotary Club was royally entertained by the Bluffton Club at the Bluffton Country Club Friday afternoon and evening. About 15 local Rotarians enjoyed the inter-city meeting. In the afternoon, the Bluffton golf team defeated the Decatur Rotarians. Dr. L. E. Somers was the only local player to win a point in the match play. Several local stars were unable to attend the match because of absence from the city. Following a chicken dinner in the evening. President Howard Uhlman, of the Bluffton club, introduced D. B. Erwin, president of the local dub, and W. A. Lower, secretary. Following several short talks, Judge F. I. Eichhorn delivered an interesting talk on “State Institutions.” Judge Eichhorn made a plea for better means of taking care of Indian's insane patients. He urged that the state have at least one hospital tor the insane, where curable patients might be cared for. Judge Eichhorn is a member of the state board of charities. Following the banquet, S few guests were introduced and the meeting was adjourned. Frank ".Mickey McDowell acted as master of coremonies during the golf tournament and he also had charge of the afternoon entertainment. Decatur Man Fined In Court At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Ind . Sept. 17. —Steve Hodi. pf Decatur, was fined >25 and costs and given a 30-<lay penal farm sentence in city court yesterday for interfering with and officer. Patrolman Oliver lee started to approach Hodi to question him and the man ran. When the officer caught him he resisted. Christ S-ort, Bill Jones, Benjamin Scheffer and John Carney were fined $lO and costs each for intoxication, and in addition to the fine Stoff drew a 60-day sentence. o Gov. Jackson Can Not Understand “Frameup" Indianapolis, Sept. 17. — (INS) Gov. Ed Jackson today for the first time commented on his indictment by the Marion county grand, jury on Sept." l 9 on charges of conspiracy and brib- ' ery. He did so upon his return today from Dunes Park. “To save my life I cannot under--1 stand the motives back of this gigan- ' tic frameup and I suppose I will learn ’ more about it as time goes on,” the governor remarked to newspapermen. I • Pope Grants Audience To President Os I. N. S. Rome. Sept. 17. —(INS) —His hoH- > ness, Pope H its Xi, granted a private ■ audience today to M. „Koenlgsberg, • president! of International News )l Service, and Mrs. Koenigsberg, who are making a tour of Europe.

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McAdoo Says Not Seek Former Cabinet Member Al Political Feud With Gov., Is Far From Ended; PI; For Progressive Wtwhingon, Sept. 17. (INS nounceil hxlny he would not |>< presidential nomination next yea He burned all his bridges definitely: t *‘l shall not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination ' in 1928." HI s refusal to enter the race was contained in a letter to George F. Milton. publisher of the Oiiattanopga News. Milton. publicity manager for j McAdoo in 1924, had urged him to be ( i candidate again. i Feud Not'Ended At the. same time, McAdoo served notice that ids political feud with' Governor Al Smith of New York, which deadlocked the Democrats In the weltering heat of Madison Square Garden in 1924, is far from ended. He 1 . said he would continue to fight for i the triumph of progressive principles in the party, and ’or the suppression of the nullificationists. or the wets. | , A desire to free the party from a repetition of the disastrous 1924 fight, was advanced by McAdoo as me of his ch es reasons for retiring, l Yle said also that he had earned a ■ respite, “an honorable discharge,” . i from the rigors of active political ■ life. 1 i He warned the party that defeat lay ahead in 1928 if the next convention degenerated “into a mere strug- ’ fie of individuals tor personal prefer- . ment at the expense of and 1 policies of fundamental importance to party character and tp the welfare ■ of the nation.” ' “My chief concern.” he said, “is the supremacy of Democratic princi- • pies and progressive policies, for , these mean the preservation, unimpaired. of the constitution of the , United States; tjie supression of nul-, ■ lification and the enforcement of: 'aw, without which stable govern- : ment is impossible and without which the blessings of liberty will disap- ■ pear; justice to agriculture, without which the farmers cannot get their rightful share of national prosperity; and sociall and econom'c justice for i all classes, without which human op- : portunity cannot be widened, ’ ‘Terhaps I can do more to advance these objects as a private citizen • NEW GREENHOUSE I “x. BEING ERECTED Irvin Elzey And Carl Fisher Erecting Building In This City i i A large greenhouse and hot house ■ is being constructed in the west part qf the city, at the corner of Adams i and Thirteenth streets, by Irvin Elzey and Carl Fisher, who recently puri chased .the Moses Greenhouse company. The entire plant was moved from i the Ed Moses property to the west I part of the city, and the buildings are . being rebuilt and enlarged.. The new concern will carry a complete line of flowers, plants and bulbs and also some vegetable seeds. The concern is open for business at pres- ’ ent, and the additions will be completed in the next week or two. The interior space of the buildings ! will be almost doubled, it was stated ' today, and the ziew company will bej ■ able to take care- of a much larger, trade in tkiwers and plants than here-j tofore. The buildings will be open for inspection of the public soon. o i Anxiety Felt For Martin Jensen, Dole Flight Flier Roosevelt Field. L. 1., Sept 16 (INS) As landing fields along the northern: ' air mail route reported no word of . Martin Jensen, Dole flight flier, and > Leo, the moving picture lion, enroute here from San Diego officials at Rooi stfvelt field were given to expressions > of anxiety this afternoon. Jensen was 1 an hour overdue at 3 o’clock

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s He Will ’ Nomination Iso Serves Notice That His Al Smith, Os New York, lans To Continue Fight e Principles S) William Gibbs McAdoo anti candidate lor the Democratic :>r. s behind him when he said I i * ' 3 W* « 5 s • Ji SP I — — 1 than as a candidate for the presidency. I prefer to stand aside in order that the field may be left dear, so far as -I can clear it, for the development of a leadership that can more effectively gain these ends.” Indirectly, he advised the party to . <<OXTIX<EDOX PAGE l-'OI l< > AVON BURK TO GIVE ADDRESSES Decatur Man To Speak At Pleasant Mills And Bobo Churches Sunday Avon Burk, of this city, who is known as the teacher of one of the largest young men's Sunday school classes in the community. v»Hi speak hr a. double header program Sunday! night. He will address his first audience at Pleasant Mills, at 7:15 o’clock and will speak before the congregation at Bobo at 8 o’clock. Mr. Bulk will speak somewhat from his experience with a class that is a hundred per cent attendance class, but in reality lyis subject will be “Training Our Youth in the Mind of Christ”. Certainly this teacher is qualified to speak when Sunday after Sunday he hillds his young men's class to a 100 per cent attendance. Infantile Paralysis Found Near Rockford The first case of infantile paralysis in Mercer county, Ohio, was reported Thursday morning by Dr. Paul Fishbaugh, of Rockford. Bevin Alt, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Alt, of Blackcreek township, having taken ill, Tuesday morning with stomach and bowel trouble and fever Thursday morn- ' ing the right side of- the child's body was paralyzed. His condition is cou- ' sidered very serious. The home has been placed under a rigid quarantine by county health officer, Dr. Frank Ayers, and every effort will lie put forth by the county • health board to keep the dreaded dis- ■ ease under control, and prevent its 1 spread throughout the county. Adam Alt. the father of the child, who is a raiser of thorough-bred hogs is making an exhibit at the State fair, this week at Lexington, Kentucky, has been summoned to the l>edside of the child. —— - ■■' ■ ■ —-C ' ** Berne Young Man Enlists In Army Palmer Lehman, a young man residing northeast of B«rne, has enlisted in the United States army. He passed the entrance test and was assigned to Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis He enlisted for a three-year period.

BRITISH FLIERS FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO SPAN OCEAN Forced -Back By Winds And Squally Weather; No Further Attempt Planned I TURN BACK AFTER THREE HOURS AT SEA I Ballybunion, Ireland, Sept. 17.-—(IN St—No further attempt to span the Atlantic from east to west by airplane, is likely to be made during the remainder of the present year by Capt. R. H. Macintosh, and Commandant James C. Fitzmaurice, Irish aviators, who failed in such an attempt yesterday, they announced today. The flyers, exhausted by their long battle with the elements yesterday, awakened late today, hoping to fly their plane, the Princess Xenia, back to Baldonnel flying field, Dublin. They said that, because of the likelihood of adverse weather during the remaining x months of this year, any farther attempt to fly the Atlantic would be almost hopeless. Attempt Meets Failure Dublin. Sept. 17.—(INS)—The sixth attemp; this year to span the Atlantic ■ ocean by air from east to west has i met with failure. • Captain Robert H. Macintosh, of ’ the British Royal Air Force, who 1 started from here yesterday afternoon for New York in the monoplane ’ Princess Xenia, was forefed to turn back last night when a forty-mile an hoflr headwind made progress across ‘he ocean impossible. He brought his plane safely to earth at 7:30 p. m. at Beaie Strand, near Ballbunion, county i Kerry, Ireland, after deciding that I further attempts to brave adverse weathef condi ions would be little less than suicide. Captain Macintosh, accompanied by ' Commandant James C. Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free state air force, hopped tiff from Dublin at 1:36, Irish time, Friday afternoon, in spite of <<OXTIXI ED o“\ PVGE l-.’OI It > I ° TWO FINED IN MAYOR’S COURT James Sprague Fined SIOO And Costs; Nick Jenney Fined $25 And Costs James Sprague, cf this city, was ( found guilty in Mayor's court this morning of a charge of violating the prohibition law. Judson W. Teeple, sitting as special judge in the case, fined Sprague SIOO and costs, amounting in all to $138.90. A 60-day penal I farm sentence was suspended. Nick Jenny, of Berne, entered a plea of guilty on a charge of public intoxi- ’ cation in Mayor’s court this morning, ; and the special judge fined him $25 ■ and costs, amounting to $58.40. Jenny [ paid the fine and was released. Anoth- . er similar charge is still pending a- • gainst Jenny. Harve Sprague appeared in mayor’s eouit th s afternoon and entered a i plea of guilty to a charge of viola- ■ tion of the prohibition law. He was ■ ined SIOO and costs and sentenced • 'o serve sixty days on the penal - farm. The sentence was suspended, i Judson 'W. Teeple was special judge in the case. , A large number of citizens were in i the court room ths afternoon and . launched a protest to the penalties , meted out to the defendants. Sever- ' al persons spoke, declaring that the maximum sentence instead of the minimum should have been given the defendants. Although each of the - Spragues have been (convicted of violating the prohibition law before, ' the fact was not mentioned in the 1 affidavits, the speakers charged. s Members of the Women’s Christian t Temperance Union, ministers and 1 other citizens were represented in the gathering.

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Frees Himself !««>■ I ■L 15t.............. . .a V Representative T. Alan Goldsborough, by his own eloquence obtained his freedom from the State Asyium at Springfield. His wife had tried to commit U,im as insane. STATE RESTS IN DUVALL'S TRIAL Defense Scheduled To Bein Introduction Os Evidence This Afternoon Indianapolis, Ind. Sept. 17 —(INS) The prosecution in the trial of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis, for political corruption rested its casts at 1:45 o’clock this afternoon. After a ten-minute recess the defense was to begin presentation ot witnesses to combat the picture of job trading and political axe grinding in testimony of the state witnesses. Indianapolis. Ind. Sept. 17 —(INS) The Klan political oath which Mayor John L. Duvall nnd dozens of other Indianapolis municipal candidates were alleged to have taken in violation of'the law was revealed t-day in Duvall's trial for political corruption. The Rev. S. Henninger, former Klansman whe •*- pastor of-the east Tenth Street Miihodist church, said that Duvall and the other candidates had pledged both orally and by 'heir signatures to the following promises “In consideration ot the support of the Klan I agree to the following: “I will give sixty or more per cent cf the offices to be appointed by me to Klan members, provided their qual ifications are equal to those of others applying. “I will appoint to office no man or woman of known vicious habits. “I will not receive instructions or dictations from any other political group in Marion county other than the Klan.” The pledge which Duvall was alleged to have signed disappeared mysteriously from the desk of George Elliot, who when Duvall was a candidate was exalted cyiflops cf the Marion Kian. Elliott testified. He corrbarated the minister’s testimony in the main, concerning the meeting of 1,500 Klansmen when the oath was taken, but said the percentage of offices promised was eighty-five per cent. Standing dramatically beneath the American flag, Duvall promised to take care ot you boys you vote tor me" at a meeting of Klansmen in an office in the National «’ity bank building, according to the tesujnouy of Orin S. Davis. One Year Enlistments In Army Are Being Accepted Sergeant John Kane, in charge of the U. S. Army Recruiting Station at Fort Wayne, received authority on September 13, to accept first enlistments (recruits) for Infantry and Field Artillery to be assigned at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, for a period of one year, o Railroad Brakeman Killed Logansport, Ind., Sept. 17 —(INS) — Ralph Gibbs. 31, A breakman, was killed instantly early today when he was struck by an engine near the local passenger station. The body was drag- | ged thirty feet.

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GILLIOM ASKS THAT SENTENCE BE INCREASED Files Motion To Reopen Contempt Case After Shumaker Accuses Watson SAYS SENATOR TRIED TO INFLUENCE COURT Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 17. - (UP) A motion to reopen the eontempl of court case against Dr. E. S. Shumaker superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, and increase his sentence was filed in the Indiana supreme court today by Attorney General Arthur S. Gilliom. Dr. Shumaker is now under sentence of 60 days in the Indiana state prison farm, and has a SSOO fine to pay. but execution of this sentence has been delayed. Makes Charge Against Watson GiKiom’s motion followed publication of correspondence between Sen. James E. Watson and Dr. Shumaker, and the statement by the dry leader that Sen. Watson and Sen. Arthur R. Robinson were active in his behalf before the supreme court announced i decision in the confempt action. Shumaker charged that Watson told him oC consulting members of the court regarding the decision. Gilliom’s motion asked that Wats n and Robinson, Clyde Walb, Republican state chairman; Henry Lane W .’son, former ambassador to Mexico, and Boyd Curley, editor of the Indianapolis Times, be called as witnesses in reopening the case. It was in a telephone call from Wilson’s home that Watson was deci'ared by Shumaker to have told him of approaching tjie supreme icourr justices. Walb was chairman of the Repubfcan party at the time. Text of the motion follows: “Comes now the state of Indiana and moves to modify the judgement rendered against the respondent. Edward S. Shumaker, and to increase the sentence imposed ou him on the ground that the same now appears inadequate because of corrupt attempts by nim, the said Shumaker, to corrupCy influence a decision favorable to him lin this case. “In support of this motion, the state offers the testimony of Clyde E. Wa’b, James E. Watson. Henry Lane Wilson, Arthur Robinson and of others. “The state of Indiana requests that the court fix an early day for hearing the testimony of witnesses in (COXTIM ED OX I’VGE l-’IVEI O ALLEGED BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY Bert Parker Admits Guilt When Arraigned In Court At Blurt ton Today Bluffton. Sept. 17— (INS) —Bert Parker, arrested in connection with the Poneto bank robbery on September 8. was arraigned in the Wells circuit court this morning before Judge Hafliilton. and entered a plea of guilty on three counts. The three counts in the affidavit against Parker were burglary. bank robbery and grand larceny. Parker's correct name is William Eddings, it was revealed today. His I home originally was at Springfield, Mo. Judge Hamilton took the case under advisement and announced that lie i would delay sentencing Parker until - some future date. Affidavits have been 1 filed here against two or three others 1 in connection with the Poneto bank i robbery. o —, Erie Freight Wrecked Logansport, Ind., Sept. 17.—(INS) - Erie railroad officials today were 1- searching the wreckage of 25 freight s cars at Athens, near Rochester, for .1 the body of a vagabond believed ktll- ;- ed. The property damage was estimated near $50,000.

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