Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday cloudy tonight in north y p art. Colder tonight probably light frost in north.

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buvall expected TO BE SENTENCED THIS AFTERNOON Indianapolis Mayor Rebuffs All Compromise; Speaks At Mass Meeting expected to FILE MOTIONS By Eugene J, Cadon, iINS Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 12.— Rebuffing all compromise, Mayer John L. Duvall today was to “take his medicine” for conviction on political corruption charges. Heart-ned by the cheers of 4,000 persons who attended a mass meeting for Duvall here last night, the mayor was to receive formal sentome of 30 days in jail, SI,OOO fine and a stipulation that he cannot hold office for four years. A report persisted today that Duva'l could have obtained freedom from the jail sentence, if he had agreed to resign the mayor's offi e, v.hich prosecutors contend he loses with the pronouncement of sentence. Motions for a nw trial and the filing of papers to obtain an appeal to the state supreme court were expected to be undertaken by Duvall's counsel this afternoon. “I'll stick by the ship,” Duvall told the mass meeting last night. Those attending consisted chiefly of ci y employes and politicians. The fireworks announced for the meeting failed to materialize. Sponsors for the gathering had announced that the mayor would tell "the truth” about the present and past city administraions, but there were no sensational development in the meeting. o_ Mount Asama In Eruption Tokio, Oct, 12- (INS) — Long dormant. Mount Asama 100 miles north of here, suddenly erupted today sending a steeple of black smoke into the air and covering nearby towns with ashes. Residents are using umbrellas to protect themselves from the shower of ashes. s n Oldrst Rai'way Engineer Dies Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 12.—(INS) —Charles E. Dabbert, S 6, said to be the oldest railroad engineer in the 1 nited States, is dead here today following a lengthy illness. He was born in Germany and came to this country in 1856. o — Dandelions In Bloom/ Seymour, Ind.. Oct. 12—(UP)—Dandelions are in bloom here and elsewhere in Jackson county. Willis P. Stall, county farm agent says “The cold snap in the later part of August followed by hot weather in August ha.kidded nature into believeing spring is here.” o FARM PROPERTY SOLD AT AUCTION Decatur Auctioneers Sell Two Farms This Week; Prices Are Good That farm property is moving these days is evidenced by the fact that Col. Fleppert and Col Johnson, of this city, have sold two farms at auction this week. The L. C. Bobilya farm, in Steuhen county, brought $8,400 and the ■ Uitnan farm in Blue Creek township, *his county, sold yesterday for $7,313. These were considered very good sales for present conditions and shows that farina can be sold. The Putman personal property sale was also a good one. Ten cow's and f >ve calves brought a total of $1,867 or an average of $124.56, all live stock went high and the machinery sold well Col. Roy Johnson conducted five sales last week and they totalled from $3,110 to $5,600. Land values and farm ’’’l’lenrents are coming back and the fl 'lure looks much brighter than for several years.

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Bulb Elder (right) tintl olTiciu! Jardone (lel’l) tiro shown just before taking a flight in the “American Girl,” Miss Elder's plane, in a test for her pilot's license. She passed the teat and received her license, which permitted her and her co-pilot George Haldeman to start on their hazardous flight across-the Atlantic ocean from New York Io Paris, late Tuesday afternoon.

TO OPEN NEW i AUTO AGENCY I C. M. Harness To Handle Oakland And Pontiac Cars In This City i C, M. Harness, formerly of the Imperial Chevrolet sales of this city, has taken the local agency for the Oakland ami Pontiac cars and will open for business in the Kleen-Rite auto laundry room, IIS North Third street. Mr. Harness has disposed of his interest in the Imperial Chevrolet sales company and will also dispose of the auto laundry equipment, using the entire building for a display, room for his automobiles and is rend-, ering service to car owners. The new auto sales agency will be known as the Standard Motor ( Sales. Mr. Harness came to Decatur , from Winchester last March. purchas- ( ing the interest of Ray Moncrief, deceased. Mr. Harness expects to open for business about October 20, and a representative of the Oakland and Pontiac companies, who was in the city today, stated that the new cars would Ito received hero sometime next week. Beet Worker Says He Got Liquor In Decatur Portland. Oct. 12—Kenill Van Holmans, Belgian beet worker, arrested Sunday evening on South Meridian | street by Deputy Sheriff Ashley and Officer Jason Wood, on a charge of intoxication, pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge R. D. Wheat, in j the Jay circuit court Tuesday. He was fined $lO and costs, totalling about S4O, which he paid and was released. He said he bought his booze at Decatur. - Holermaus said he had taken out firs* papers for naturalization, when , asked if he was a citizen. — Rev. Giuliani Holds Audience Spell Bound The Rev. A. Giuliani of Milwaukee Wisconsin, an Itlain . missionary, spoke for one and one-half hours to a spell-bound audience at the First Evangelical church in this city last night. The audience filled the church to capa'ity. Rev. I'.iuliani told the story of his life in an inspiring and interesting manner. Following the service, highly complimentary comments on the address were heard. Tonight, Mrs. Ida Tribbett, of Sturgis, Michigan, noted woman evangelist, will begin a series.of evangelistic services at the Evangelical church. ■ The services will begin at 7:15 o clock each night.

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Post Card Mailed In Fort Wayne 16 Years Ago Finally Delivered Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 12 —(INS) — The old pony express and the stage coaches which once carried mail over the western prairies, could boast de | luxe service compared with the dell- ■ very of a post card which has just found its way to the patty to whom it was mailed sixteen years ago. Charles W. Crosvenor, of Clearwater Florida formerly of this city, received a soiled card, yellowed with age, that had been mailed to him November 21, 1911. The card was sent by Paul A. | Meyer, of Fort Wayne. The card had been returned to Fort Wayne and sent out again Sept. 20, 1927, by the Fort Wayne division of the Pennsylvania railroad, for whom Brosvenor once was foreman o ■ CITY OF CAR! 21 YEARS OLD TODAY Steel City Takes On New Civic Garments In Celebration Os Birthday I Gary, Ind., Oct. 12—(INS)— Gary, center of the nation's newest indus- | trial region, the Calumet district, cele--1 brated its 21st birthday today. I Like a youth “‘just of age" Gary ' took on new civic garments as its ' celebration of the day. They included: A new hotel, costing $2,000,000, and ' a $650,000 newspaper publishing plant which were formally opened today. I A $1,000,000 city hall and a $500,000 ■ World War memorial auditorium, for 1 which cornerstones were laid. James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation. E. J Buffington, president of the Illinois Steel company, and U. S. Senator Arthur R. Robinson headed a list of the dustrial and political leaders who took part in the celebrations. Though the day's events centered about the opening of the two structures and laying of cornerstones for the two others, the significance of | their erection as a part of Gary’s new 1 civic development was stressed. With a number of other major building projects, those four buildings mark the transition of Gary from a city of hastily constructed buildings into a city with buildings in keeping with its 110.000 population and its coterie t of nationally famed steel industries. ; A vacant chair at the hotel banquet ■ tonight was to honor the memory of Judge E. H. Gary, for whom the hostelry and the city were named. A statue of the great industrial lead- ■ er, who died a short time ago, is to be ■ placed in Gateway park, at the head . of which the new city hall and its twin t the county courts building, are to be erected.

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Interest Is R» Trans - At Five Flights Either Under Way Or In Course Os Preparation (By International News Service) F.ve trans-Atlantic flights are actually under way today or are in course of preparation. Miss Rutli Elder and Pilot George W. Haldeman are somewhere out over the Atlantic today in the plane '•American Girl.” enroute from Roosevelt Field, N. Y.. where they hopped off yesterday at 5:04 p.m. for Paris. Dio Donne Costes and Joseph Le Brix, French a nnen, are at St. Louis Benega', Africa, on a trans-Atlantic flight Le Bourget, near Paris, to Buenos Ayres, via Pernambusco, Brazil. Miss Frances Grayson and Pilot Wilmer Stultz, who flew from Roosevelt Field, N. Y.. to Old Orchard, Maine, Monday on the first leg of a trans-Atlantic flight, are preparing to hop off for Paris. The German hydroplane D-1220, piloted by Horst Merz, hopped off ,at Warnemunde, Germany, this afternoon for Amsterdam, where Merz will decide whether to attempt a trans-Atlantic flight or make an aerial tour of Europe. Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, who got lost in fog over France after beginning a transAtlantic flight, are busy with preparations for another flight which may take them to Brazil. LEWIS GEHRIG DIES SUDDENLY Prominent Decatur Lumberman Stricken While Repairing House Roof Lewis Gehrig, prominent Decatur lumberman, dropped dead at 3 o’clock this afternoon while working on the roof of his home on North Eighth street, in this city. Mr. Gehrig was repairing the roof when he suffered a heart attack. He fell to the ground, and died before a physician arrived. It was not learned whether the attack killed Mr. Gehrig or whether the fall from the roof was fatal. He was about 56 years of age. Besides the widow, three children survive. They are Tillman and Albert Gehrig, of this city, and Mis. Fred Ahr, of east of Decatur. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Alleged Burglar Killed; Mother Seriously Wounded Greenfield, Ind., OdJ. 12—(UP)— Chafe Taylor, 31, of Wilkinson, Alleged burglar, was killed and his mother, Mrs. Emma Taylor, 57, was seriously wounded in a gun battle yesterday when Taylor tried to escape arrest by Sheriff L. E. Coons of Rush county. SOUTHERN STORM TAKES 5 LIVES Severe Storm Strikes \ illagc Os Dell, Arkansas, Early Today Blytheville, Ark., Oct. 12.—(INS)— Five dead and 18 injured was the toll ■ of life taken early today by a severe : storm which whipped through the vil- ’ lage of Dell, eight miles from here. > Early reports of ten to thirty dead i were based on estimates by undertak- ■ ers bringing the dead and injured over rainsoaked roads to the local hosiptal Very little damage was done in ; Blytheville. The storm struck this section of Arkansas shortly after midnight, but . seemed to center its fury on the little , village of Dell. About twenty houses I were either wrecked or partly dami aged by the storm. Fire broke out j but this was checked by the heavy rainfall.

evived In lantic Flying PLANS MADE FOR FOUR NIGHTS OF ENTERTAINMENT Lions Club Sponsor For Evening Star Festival Nov. 1,2, 3 And 4 OFFER VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT Under auspices of the Lion's Club an Evening Star Festival, four big evenings of entertainment, will be given at the Decatur high school Auditorium on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. November 1.2, 3 and 4, it was announced this morning by a represenative of the Interstate bureau of Chicago. Several months ago, a contract was signed here for this event by a number of citizens who have heretofore been interested in chautauquas in order to give such a week a trial and to compare it with the mid-summer events. Arrangements with the Lion's Club to take charge of the sale of tickets and to see that the afafir is a success were completed last evening. Season tickets for adults will be two dollars each, for high school children, SI.OO and for children in the grades fifty cents. The program will include an evening of entertainment 7>y Lucile Elmore, niece of the famous actor Fred Stone, and who starred in Stepping Stone; a whole program by the Mason Jubilee company, a ewlored quartette that excells; a play "Mothers Millions” by a cast of New York artists; a wonderful lecture by Captain Sigurdur K. Dudmundson. famous Arctic explorer, just back from Siberia. It should be a big week for those who enjoy high class music and lectures. Further plans will be announced through advertisements anu news stories and everybody is urged to support this week, making it a real star festival. o Coolidge Goes To Pitsburgh Washington, Oct. 12 —(UP)—President Coolidge will leave here tonight on a special train for Pittsburgh. Pa. to join in the celegtation there tomorrow of founders day at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. REED INDICATES HIS CANDIDACY Missouri Senator, In Speech Today, Indicates He Will Seek Presidency Sedalia. Mo., Oct. 12.—(UP)—Senator James A. Reed, endorsed by the Missouri Democratic central committee for the party's presidential nomination, today greeted 25,000 members of his party here with a speech accepted by the throng as an indication that he would enter the national campaign. The occasion was the quadrennial I state Democratic barbecue and a ' ypical Reed plea for individual rights and Jeffersonian democracy, combined with a ferocious attack on the Coolidge administration, stirred the crowd to high enthusiasm. The state central committee met last night and endorsed Reed for the presidency, but also urged him to file 1 again for the senate. He has indlcat- ! ed he will not run for re-election. "Times are ripe, rotten ripe, for a change in Washington,” Reed said I pleading for a united Democratic - party in the 1928 campaign. Secretary of the Treasury Mellor 1 he termed “the arch protector of the i moneyed interests;" Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior, ‘7 f bribest;” and Harry M. Daugherty t former attorney general, “a vile in 3 sect.” s Mellon, said Reed, “stands astridi ■ the government whilst the presiden t seduces Yellowstone trout with worm y or studies the psychological effect o not choosing to run.”

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CIVIC SECTION TO STAGE PLAY Comedy Entitled “Phillippa Gets There,” To Be Presented Next Month “Phillippa Gets There" is the title of the play selected by the Ciciv Department of the Woman’s (Tub, which will be presented for their benefit on November 14 at the high school Auditorium. A splendid local east has been obtained for the production and Mrs. James Blair has charge of the direction. Rehearsals ate already under way. “Phillippa Gets There” is a comedy and is bubbling over with human in- . terest and clever lines.. The committee of the Club supervising the play consists of Mis. Lee Walters, Mrs. B. Il . Farr and Mrs. Ben Devon , Dr. Glen Neptune will be seen in the role of Phillippa, in which he doubles as Philip Carter and his twin sister. Phillippa Carter. The cast is as follows: Philip Carter, sweetheart of Dora t Dr. Glen Neptune Phillippa Carter, chum of Dora. .... Dr. Glen Neptune Dora Brandon a young society girl Mrs. Bryce Thomas Ora Brandon, her father 1 Roy Mumma Lionel Brandon, her brother Don Farr Isabel Brandon, the kid sister Edwina/Schroil Mr. Byng, a gentleman crook 8 Herman Myers - Bernice Brownell, Byng's confederate Dorothy Walters Dola and Chrissis, friends of Dora Marcella Hower Marcella Kern a Helge, the Swedish maid Jeanette Clark Count Somte de Choufleur, a camoufalged crook Pat Hyland. ■I — o — “ French Quinn To Speak At South Bend Tomorrow " French Quinn of this city has been invited to address the state convention . of the Izaac Walton League at South it Bend, tomorrow afternoon, and has ace e cepted to opportunity to present the , at gument favoring the Llmberlost Trail ami the preservation of historical data for this section as well as the proj tection of the lakes and streams and J natural beauties. o n Democrats Os Huntington County Endorse Woollen ii, A Huntington, Ind., Oct. 12—(UP) — y, Huntington County Democrats at a raln- ly here last night endorsed Evans Wollen as a candidate for the Democratic le nomination for president. A Woolennt for President Club was organized, with ns Lee Griffith, business agent of the of j Huntington county farm bureau, as | chairman.

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NO REPORT FROM MISS ELDER AND HALDEMAN TODAY “American Girl’’ Is Unreported Since 10:30 o'clock Last Night PLANE FOLLOWING STEAMER LANES New York, Oct. 12 (INS) —— Three trans-Atlantic liners plying the steamer lane near the projected route ol the New York to Paris plane ‘■American Girl,” reported to the Independent . Wireless company today that no sign had been seen of the plane. The vessels were in (ouch with shore at noon, at which time thev were about 1,400 mile cast of New York, the position the plane should have reached al that timV if the proposed schedules were maintained. Believed In Storm Area New York. Oct. 12.—(INS)—Roaring through the clouds in a new attempt to bridge 3.000 miles of ocean by air, the monoplane “American G'rl.” carrying Miss Ruth Elder and ('apt. George Haldeman on a flight to Paris, is believed today to have entered (lie low pressure area of storms and fog more than 1,000 miles east of Newfoundland. This ocean hop is tlie longest sustained flight across the water ever attempted. The plane, unreported since it was sighted at 10:30 o’clock last night by the liner, American Banker, of tha American Merchant Marine, should have reached the half way mark across the ocean at 11 o'clock a. m. if the fliers have thus far successfully eluded the nemesis which has claimed the lives of so many transAtlantic aviators. The area of low pressure constitutes the most difficult part of the voyage in the opinion of mentrological exports. There are sudden winds which sweep the ocean into a fury, dense blankets of fog and continual squalls of rains and snow. if the American Girl passes safely through this area it is believed the flyers chances of success are excellent. Through this area and beyond are the lanes of the trans-Atlantic steamers and 225 vessels are strung out at intervals all the way across. New York, Oct. 12. — (UP) —Unsighted since 10:35 p. m. yesteusftiy when they passed the steamer American Banker, Ruth Elder anil George Haldeman were presumed to be flying eas'-northeast over the Atlantic, about 1,400 miles out of New York, at 7 a. m. today. Assuming the plane to be still in the air, it should have turned from its due .eastward s age and begun (COXTIM i:i> <>V IHC.R TWO) SERUM TO FIGHT PARALYSIS FOUND i Serum To Combat Infantile Paralysis Discovered; Value Demonstrated Indianapolis, Oct. 12. — (UP) —A serum to combat infantile paralysis has been discovered and tested in sufficient cases to demonstrate value Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical chemists, announced last night. The serum, produced in co-opera-tion with Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, chief of experimental biology for the Mayo foundation, is being produced in quantity, and 10,000 units have been sent to cities struck by the infantile paralysis epidemic. When the treatment is given as soon as a case is diagnosed as polioin- ’ yelitis, before paralysis sets in, paralysis may be entirely avoided, and it ' may be mitigated even when treat- ■ ment is not started until the case is i far advanced, it was said. b The serum was developed from s the horse, as were diphtheria and scarlet, fever serums.

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