Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1927 — Page 1

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CIVIL WAR LOOM’ IN MRV: PIT-.S CONTINUE/.HIKE (I Trouble Betw< n Whiter And Necrdt* Feared Qvcr School Trouble I LTIMATUM ISSUED BY SjXI’OOL HEAD (Jury, Sc/t 29. (INS) Civil v:u I<m>X in (ury today bitwt l! <* negro colons, and iyKil< s as 1,500 pupils of the i mt-rson high school wiMi iMias . nd Amih flie : uditoriiiin and unanrtwDusk r jecled any comprmnists plea until I wenlv-four nwqrw staslei-ils are ousted from the schttol At the same fine Sispcwntorttauft of S.ii.ol. William issued a i last . ultimatum tlsit all JMih nKthat are not ti flieO •!.*-.(« Ip- S:lf> L><-|. tcmurrpw ri» •■ d far Mi* «ts fcp semester. ® Police ©Ti ’ . „ , Hiindi’iir.' 11 41 ■ l:act> tvi.-.m • eon of®Gary s»nt homed iirtral *waa> ons ami detective btmetni fcatb e.l with machirio pjtim <> 4Jjpww< *py race riot. ® Six megiltMts pf Wit mrrb.'itt V :4y net with nnwMiiene df Um swhssd Itoao’-.l I drafted plane wklA *n4 tude.Up be totowed to rcfctvn to i l . sos with ns damerifc. tlolt tigs 2F> negro studosifc ba rflSmwcil to teigrirer school or 8i:» <hi>- a sir. iiM he s. cregated and b3WM3!--tcom iWWetia or social functions. ® Pupils Stotfe CUtihrntum • *• When the resolution was a'-'tfd ’ln the mditoriian to<:a< the SMidtuita *f -igjto 'heir feet, jrcHeifc ■ htmtmd their feet and made' o«he» foruililo (■monstrations t« ftojnsfy •into dpbwj(ions of contirai'ng Wic stoiljf. Superintendent Wirt- Wxgiw ni) hands and said: igi I am I. is an economic impo-xiHiiHty ,Jor the school board to wnow> the negroes nt this t me. .141 schodFs :tre ■ a • ste 1 Every effort wil|J|>e made ■ i emove them evenliadlr. Kut» it cannot bo done now..” Members of the school boawl if.int-e-i today that the Ku Klux Klan, al- ’•■< neb almost extinct in laboring the Stephenson scandal, nray I” back of the school strike. The 1 on taken by Ac Emerson student 1 >s spread dissWisfaction into other schools, police said. o FUR WEATHER IS PREDICTED * General Rain Drenches Adams County During Last Few Davs A general rain, which has been falling intermittently, has drenched faim hinds of Adams county the last few days, and fair weather is predicted for the remainder of the weeT, according to weather forecasters. The rain has not harmed any of the crops, according to farmers, but it lias slowed the fall work considerably, because farmers are unable at present to get into their fields. Farmers who have beet acreage have been delayed in lifting their beets and it may necessitate a two or three day delay in the fall opening of the local sugar factory, which Is scheduled to open in the next week or two. The beets, however, have not been harmed by the rain, and local sugar factory officials say that the beets this year are of an unusual high grade. Roads were cleared of their heavy coat of dust during the last few days of rain, and many creeks have been swollen to capacity. Many fields had become hard though during the long dry spell and the rain was more of an aid than a detriment to farmers. Most of the fall wheat planting alr“: -dy has been accomplished, and the f*ln is expected to prove a big benefit to the crop. • ■ -

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Blufl’ton Man Held Up And Robbed Last Night Bluffton, Sept. 29—(Special)—Grant ' Pvts wellkn*>w« insurance man cf this city, was l«ltl tip and robbed about J 10 o’,-’- k. hurt night u he was* walk-1 iw to hie home aft® attending the TrH ft fhrt~nssrHteaM seortan of rhe city. Ah automobile drove np W--<i<ie Mr. Pyle and two men climbed nut. Covering him with guns, they ordered him to baud over his purse, which he did. The purse contained between $3 and $3 tn cash and several vaiurtlde papers, Alito Belonging To Adams County Man Is Stolen Bluff ten. Sunt 3» —(special i George Jenkitte, of Adams county, reported to Htafitan police kMt night that his tend | tenrmgnMn A£'2r was stolen ' while hi; wwb attamliuc the street fair hesp In-if night. DISCUSS CORN '• BORER MENACE ® yV, ..« ■- • ".'<* *I. M&ny® F a rm c rAttend, Bemonstaation Os L<m ; Com Ct ttingf? Wednesday ' Ninetv-foiW’' farmers attended the - corn borer meeting aiutlow corn cutting den#m£i ation hem on the Conner Steck farm, jtfst north of Decatur Wednesday afternoon. Owing to the rain, t was .mpcssilde to take the corn Hnder and sl.-d cutters into the fields for demonstration, hut the were operated In the barn yard a> tl those present were convinced that the corn could be cut within four inches of the ground, as required by the cease 1 hotel regulations. Following the demonstration, James G. Covert, engineer in the employ of the United government, look charge of the mining in the large barn. After a brief discussion of the present status of the state's greatest ' corn pest, Mr Covert introduced P. T. Ulman, who is in charge of the Euro- j pean corn b »r?r control in Indiana. Mr. Ulman >s employed by the state de- ■ partment of conservation, with head-' quarters at A’.ib.t: i. lie satisfied those present the corn borer is the worst menace that has ever struck Indiana’s corn growers. Air. Ulman invited the farmers to questions they desired conIjtaaKlng the corn borer and the methods of control The large num ler of questions asked by the farmers indicated I heir great interest in the suhA, Bmiliar meeting will be held on jjjFfai in of Edwin 11. Gilliom, one mile Korth of Berne, on Thursday, October [ 8, starting at 1:30 o’clock.

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ADAMS COUNTY YOUTH FINED Vilas Elzey Os Adams County And Wells County Youth Fined At Bluffton Bluffton. September 29 —(Special)— puy Moser, son of Aaron Moser, residing east of Bluffton near the AdamsI Wells coiiHty line, and Vilas Elzey son of John Elzey, of near Deeatsr, were arrested hers last night and lodged in • the comity jail on a charge of posses- | sion of intoxicating liquor. Police who arrested the youths said they found seven pints and five quarts of moonI shiim whisky in mi automobile said ro belong to Moser. This morning. Prosecutor Elmore Sturgis filed t [ charge of .poasasstoii of intoxicating ■ Ti<t(iwr agninst Hie two youths in the 1 Wolfe ek ouit court. Titair bond has i boon Mmd al Sl .i.'O epeh, I Mesm> and Klwi-rj- wore arraigned hi ' c<H»d Uris njm ndng and wer- fined SI.OO Ami costs atnaunttng to $l4O each, and 1 w.ew? ijimttiiicqd to sol ve thirty days in I .. O— — • . ■- Fifty-Reasons Injured) 1 libels, Sept, tfe -( UPt Fifty ppi:- ,»■!■»■ kijr.ig'd todnj- fti a ooftishm a rizusseW-Ant weiep ecqitess Train .aid ,i f»-ii«i« train. The accident occurred near Meelabi, ifefeiwu. SQUALLS ANO BUN WINDS ARECOMWG I Autumn “Thunder Weather” Forecast For Indiana Late Today And Tonight Indianapolis, Sept. 29—(INS) —Autumn "thunder weather” will sweep Indiaiqj today and perhaps tonight J. •11. Arlington, government metrologist announced todty. .The thunder storni will be accompanißi by squalls and high wind. The weather man said there was little danger of any dangerous twisters developing in the state because “conditions were not right for tornado.—.” He said, however, that (Strong wind would occur. < “I would not predict that these winds will do damage but neither would 1 go on record ns saying they might not” Armington said. Many small creeks in the state were rising today as the result, of more general heavy rain, Armington said. With aditional heavy participations in prospect today for many localtittes there may be some high water in the larger streams.

MEANS TO OUST MAYOR DUVALL BEING SOUGHT Several Movements Under Way To Remove Indianapolis Mayor From Office STATE CAMPAIGN GETTING STARTED Inilitinupolis. Sept. 29. (INS) —lndictment of at least one prominent OtTieiul of the DuVall administration was expected here with the announcement today that the Marion county grand jury that it would submit <i partial report of its investigation of public olficiiils tomorrow. Indianapolis, Sept. 29. —(INS) — Wh. It- numerous bodies were seeking means to oust Mayor John L. DuVall here today, there was evidence that the 1928 state campaign was moving toward an early start. The movements' to ’ remove DuVall, who has been sentenced to 30 days in jail with a fine of SI,OOO for political corruption, were as follows: 11. The Marion county grand jury ; was determining whether it would ut. Mze a right to impeach the mayor. ' 2. Indianapolis Democrats were deciding whether to contest Du Vail's election 'n 1925 on the theory that DuVail'a Democratic opponent, Waltler Myers, was elected mayor. 3. Leaders of the city council still maintained that they had no intention (9 impeach DuVall. 4. There was prospect of the ftlS Ing of a suit by a taxpayer to determine whether a convicted man may retain office. 5. The board of directors of the ~ Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis had beI- fore it a resolution urging DuVall and i- his wife to resign as mayor and c ty n ccntroiler, respectively. p — o a Norma Shearer To Marry (- Hollywood. California. Sept. 29 — n (UP) —Norma Shearer, moving picti ture actress, and Irving G. Thalberg. prominent executive of the film con--3 oxy, will be married kite L'dny in the gardens of t‘.p Thalberg residence in s Beverly Hills . k ? | o— — ALBERT WALTER i EXPIRES TODAY » •. ... Ajred Retired Farmer Os Adams Uounty Dies At Hwme Os Daughter Albeit Walter, Sit- potirertl AtltWlS S o ( eoimty fai-runnt, died o$ suniLii.y at the home o< hfe son-in-law and itantsittoi Mr. and Mtns. Patfl Spesangu-th,. one mile ssitth and To- and one-haX rtflies I vwst Os AR nroe, ts 9 o'clock tins mornI inw ® MS- MSMter vftfe boat ftt Switzertomi ■ Jfmmwy 5, JJ4I4. !»■ «nnd to America I when a eiifld and spent most of Wts life in Adams county. He was a mem* ber of the St. John's Reformed church. - His wife died 27 years ago, 6 ,° c Surviving are one brother, Charles Walter, of Huntington; one sister, Mrs. Sophia Johns, of Decatur; and the foli- lowing children; Charles H. Walter, P of Vera Cruz; Mrs. Mary E. Engle, of 1 Decatur; Mrs. Dora E. Stogdill, of '■ Bluffton; Mrs. John W. Bower, F.-rt r Wayne; Mrs. Ijouise E. Hoffman, Harts ford City; Mrs. Clara Seesenguth. of near Monroe; Mrs. Nellie Klopfenstein s of Delta, Ohio; and Mrs. Grace Hags gerty, of Detroit. Michigan. i- Funeral services will be held at the ” home at 1 o’clock and at the Zion d Christian Union church at 1:30 o'clock. Saturday afternoon, with the Rev. Otto e Scherry in charge. Burial will be made r iu the church cemetery. y ; 0 Bus Line Files Petition a Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 29 —(INS) b The Marion-Fort Wayne motor coach I. company today petitioned the Indiana p Public Service Commission for authors Uy to operate lines from Marlon to a Alexandria, AndersonWendleton and Indianapolis • (

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“Gas Station” Hooch Finds 100 Victims In Rochester Slum Rochester, N. Y.. Sept. 2S -(INS) — Scores of lives within the past mAnth have been saved by quick action on the part of police here, who have taken bottle after bottle of deadly denatured alcohnl, beiudng tliA famililir slwill and crossbones, fr m uncone.lous men lying in steeeto in t-he poorer sectioiri of Hie "< ity, IktptaMi lli ixy McAlester of tire CentraJ Station nas n Sealed. Thesw men are aIU old-timers, said the captain. They ‘paiihundle’ twenty cents to buy a pint of deuuturud alcohol and get drunk on that. e POLING AND MACY RETURN TO CITY Non-Stop Drivers Get Few Hours Sleep In Own Beds; Car Running Fine O. C. Poling and 11. B. Macy, nf this city, who are attempting a 19,008 tniie! rtrn-stop automobile drive, spent most ( of Wednesday and Wednesday night in the vicinity of Decatur. Each was able to get a few hours sleep Iu his bed. Poling-dtiving the car while Macy slept and vice versa. 11 was the first sleep they had had. other than what they obtained in the car, since they started on their bong drive last Satur day afternoon. The car. a Reo Flying Cload twedoor sedan, has been running contin-j uously since the start and not the least kind of trouble has been experienced so far. OU is being changed and fuel and water taken on while the cur is in mot ion. night, approximately 2.500 mtW had been put on the car since lhe start of the long grind. Macy and Poling left Decatur early this morning and headed southward. o Conscientious Alcohol Distillers Found In Raid Chicago, Sep. 241. — (UPl—Conscientious alcohol di«<Litters who tested their reclaimed product before selU«g it for iftti rnal use were discovered hy federal raiders. In addition to a large still, lite pndiibition agents seized a modem appara us for testing alcohol for injurious eubs anees. This Auctioneer Must Be A Graduate Os The Reppert Auction School i So-itta Bend, Ind., Sept. 29—(INS)— The ingenuity of lite auciioiieer Seems lo he unlimited. At lite Wet nwr warehi use a number of odd . articles tmuiitimed as freight ware being auctioned off. Finally cihuc four, loeotnntive wheels, mueeivu iron affuira. Tile luiciioneet thought a moment its be offered them. f ‘‘Ladies.’' he wiiini><>red softly. “A chain .tuislit wisUy be attached to thorn. Jitcte tiiitifi how eany U would be tilen to iniclior a husband.” The Wheels were sold. Tornado Strikes Village Near Fort Smith, Arkansas Fort Smith, Ark, Sept. 29 — (l.\S) One woman was seriously injuVkd, a dozen persons o wete slightly hurt and 60 school children narrowly escaped with their lives when a tornado practically wiped cut the village of Rudy, 15 miles from here today. v ' Superintendent Os Chicago Schotrts Goes On Trial Chicago, Sept. 29. — (INS) —Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew today went on trial on charges of insubordination before the Chicago board of education. McAndrew is charged with having refused to transfer 253 teacher-clerks, after the board had ordered them reassigned as teachers. Their places as clerks were also ordered filled with civil service clerks. The case is believed to be the first of its kind in the history of the country. J. Lewis Coath, president of the ' board, was scheduled to preside at 11 the trial. Hearings may Itftt four J days. '®

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STATE CHAIRMAN I OF DEMOCRATS DEFENDS PARTY Declares Democrats Have Not iShirkfd Duty In Scandal GILLIOM ATTEMPTS TO SHIFT BLAME Fort \\';iync, Sept. 29. (I P) R. E;irl Peters. Democratic slat# chairman, today accepted the cliallengv <4 Attorney General Arthur L. Giliiom, who had dared him .Io show that QIC Democratic party had not shirked its duly in Indiana's political scandal. Peters asserted the democratic party had not sidestepped the issue and said he “wished to direct the lion of Attorney General Giliiom to tlie efforts of Democratic members of I the 1927 legislature unsuccessful as . they may have been—to pass a resolution for an investigation of political corruption iu our slate government” As a r'suit of the latest statement, the controversy between Giliiom and Peters over who was res|totisible sos the Ku Khtx Klan gaining a hold on government promised to become an astte as acute as the debate on ‘‘Wlto won the war ?” New Moves Awaited Indianapolis. Sept. 29—(UP) —New moves were awaited from Democrats and Republicans today in the political battle between Attorney General ■tot bin U Giliiom and R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman. The argument began when Peters r issUMd' a statement declaring that Gib licim coittd no- “saddle on the Demoeratie party responsibility for supergovi rnnient in Indiana,'’ and Giliiom ■ replied by asking Peters to urge his I party to come out strongly against th.* forces of such super-government. Giliiom in a speech at Terre Haute Tuesday had declared that it was up to the Republicans to root out supergovernment and charged the siienca , of Democratic leaders "points trt an avoidanc* of this issue by our Derate I eratie friends.” Peters immediately objected to lite reference to his party in the speecjt. He assorted Giilintn's charges weT-ts a "chi ~p j.u’ltteol trick d»s-:gu«l t» enhanc' Gilliom’s preconceived campaign for the Republican gubernatorial niimination.” I , In his latest reply Giliiom insisted Peters still remaiaad s tent as to lUr parly’s attitude iu the supor-goverip u» ox p to is svtiievt D. k S. FRESHMEN ELECT OHICERS Arthur Schamerloh Named President; Miss Clark Is Class Guardian ■Arthur Schamerloh, freshman at the" Decatln high school, was elected president of his class at the organization meeting'h'dd today. Russell Jaberg was fleeted vice-president. James Engoter was chosen as secretary and Wayrte Z»rkel was set >cted to act as treasurer. Mi tte <'lark, physical education insiruitor of the local schools, was selected as guardian for the first year class. The freshmen were the last to organize for the year, the other three classes having elected their leaders earlier this week. Another class meeting will be held in the near future to plan the aortal ' activities for the freshmen this year, ' the election of officers being the only business transacted at the first ineet- : Ing, 1 Bulletin I The Julius Haugk coal yard, a tthe rear of the Decatur Produce building (.'in the south part of Decatur caught , ! fire at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon. a quick run and at 4:15 ( > o’clock had the fire well under con- ( | trol. Stfrhe damage was done to the r produce building. The loss was not estimated.

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