Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1927 — Page 1

« WEATHER L.nerally W ‘°- Lot. Not much in tsmparaK. e . frost probable.

lIRPLANE FALLS NEAR BERNE; 2 HURT

Mrs. Grayson Hops Off But Is Forced To Turn Back

I HEAVY LOAD OF I' FUEL PREVENTS I RISE OF PLANE I Blanc Takes Oft’ On Long | I Flight But Stays Close I To Water’s Surf ace ; rt\rt delayed I UNTIL TUESDAY I I old Orchard Beach. Me., Oct. t K|.—(lNS)—Mrs. Frances WilGrayson, forced to turn Kirk on her proposed non-stop to Copenhagen, Demark, Mhlliiu ten minutes after the I Hop-off here today, has abandonSo the idea of another take-off Ktil low tide at 11 o’clock toi morning. I BT! 1 " trans Atlantic airplane “The was down by the nose bei>f an unequalized gasoline supami pilot Wilmer Stultz was foretn discharge 265 gallons of the SSO supply when the plane, flylow to the water, failed to rise was dropping down in speed. Wind Prevents Second Start I ■ (Insulin.- tanks were being refueled anol her take-off within an hour Stultz announced it was inito get away in the present wind, and Mrs. Grayson that if the wind was from the or southeast sue would hop toas weather conditions over Atlantic were excellent. E The perfect landing of The Dawn a load of 5.500 pounds on the here was regarded as a remark- ■’- demonstration of aviation tlkill on part of Stultz, who was at the I The protecting arm of Prout’s neck Hat the further end of the beach here saved “The Dawn” from a Hforced landing on the water, shelterBug the airship from the wind. When Hl'' H l ’ awl hit-. Bl'llot Stultz found he could not "get ■her up because she was down by the ■nose" as he expressed -it. I immediately after "The Dawn” land■rd safely on the beach, mechanics ■ staittd the work of equalizing the ■ load and replenishing the supply of ■gasoline. Thirty gallons of gasolirfe ■ were removed from the gas tanks und■er the two motors and moved further ■ back in the plane to give more freight ■to the tail. Mts. Grayson, Stn’tsf and Navigator ■ Hrice Godsborough expressed keen I disappointment over their forced re- ■ turn. \ WILD JOYRIDE ENDS IN DEATH Two Men Terrorize Two Groups Os Women In Fort Wayne Sunday Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 17—One of two men who are accused of having terrorized two groups of women duriug a wild joyride was in the Grant county hospital at Marion today, sericusly injured and under arrest. His 'i'inpanion, John Shively, 21 of Marion, was killed in an automobile accident that terminated their escapade. Lawrence Mulllford, 30, is in the bosiptal and if he lives will be charged " tli highway robbery for an attack o;t two women in a Fprt Wdyne park. The women, Mrs. Mazie Kidwell, 28, ■'nd Mrs. Viola Newcomer, 29„ were ’•'tick over the head with a shotgun n,| d robbed of their purses and a intern when pey refused to get into J'" outomobik in 'wlii.-h Mtllliford and s liive]y had." eerie frem Marion to 1,111 Way, he. Mrs. Newcomer was I'nocked ’unconscious and was taken 1(1 St. Joseph’s hi spital for treatment, ' lls Kidwell was less seriously hurt. Repeat The Attack ; •\lullitord and Shively then drove t. i*‘ vil s hollow and repeated the attack, yoking Miss Bessie Falon I’l, a tCWIh FINIiSD OM FAGS: TWO)

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Vol. XXV. No. 245.

Funeral Held For Foley Child Today Carol Catherine Koley. 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Foley, of Bellevue. Ohio. died last Friday i morning October 14. after a sige of ' complication of diseases. Carol t’ath--1 erine was born June 19, 1923. The body was sent here and the f funeral took place this afternoon at • 2:30 o’clock at, Preble, the home of Mt. and Mrs. Irvin Foley, the Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann officiating. She is sin lived by her parents and two sisters, Josephine Florence, age 11, and Mary Ellen Margaret, age 8. Burial was made In the Decatur cemetery. CRASH VICTIMS BURIED TODAY Decatur People View Bodies Os Relatives Killed At Indianapolis Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Merriman and 1 son, Junior, Mt. and Mis. A. J. Graber and daughter, Evaline and Heber ' Hunibarger motored to Indianapolis ‘ Sunday where they called at the | home of Mr. Merriman's cousin. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Merriman and Miss Opal ’ Merriman, who were among the 19 persons killed when an interurban car struck a truck trailer loaded with In1 dianapolis Grotto members, at the edge of Indianapolis, Friday night. Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Lee Merriman and Miss Opal Merriman, former Decatur residents, were held at Indianapolis today. The funeral services of eleven others of the dead were held today, also. The death toll was raised to 19 Sunday when Miss Margaret Pauley, 26, succumbed to her injuries. She was the eighth member of her family to lose hi r life in the crash. Mrs, Charles V. Wheeler, suffering from a fractured skull, remained today on the critical list at the City hospital. Coroner Keever said it would be several days before he would be able to make a_report on his investigation of the tragedy. He has scores of witnesses to examine. At the same time Daniel F. Mclntosh opened the Indiana public service I commission’s investigation into the disaster. The Union Traction company and police also were conducting separate Strobes. — n I. 0. R. M. Great Council To Convene On Tuesday Indianapolis Oct. 17 - (UP)— Approximately 800 delegates are expected to be in attendance when the Gt eat Council of Indiana. Improved Order of Redmen, meets here Tuesday and Wednesday in the gran dlodge auditorium cf the Knights of Pythias Building. II. Hobbs, great chief of tecords will have charge of entertainment ami the piogtam. Great Sachem Ottis Hotel’, Shelpbville and Great Senior Sagamore Albert Housman, Indianapolis, and other great chiefs of the great council will call the first meeting at 9 a. in. The feature of the convention will he the election at 2 p. tn. Tuesday. The five candidates in the field for Great Junior Signlore, the starting point in the advance to Great Sachem of Indiana ate Glen Pond. Clifford; Russell Evens, Spencer; q. L. Smith, South Bend and Eli G. Lee, Terre Haute. .—■■■■ - ■' o —— — Evangelical Rally Day A Big Success Rally Day at the Evangelical Sunday school Sunday was a great success. The attendance in the Sunday I school was 288 ami the offering total!: ed $650. This usual collection testified the great interest in the church. Chicago’s Population Placed At 3,741,910 Chicago. Oct~l7 (UP) Chicago’s population was placed at 3.741.910 by Frederick Rex, Municipal Librarian. 1 were on the outskirts of the city, Rex said.

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LEVINE RETURNS HOME: MISS ELDER STARTS FOR PARIS Activity Among Trans-At-lantic Fliers Continues At Various Points FRENCHMEN AT RIO DE JANEIRO By David I’. Sentner, HNS Staff Correspondent) New Volk, Oct. 17. — Charles A. Levine, the first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger, who made the flight to Germany with Clarence ' Chamberlin, returned home today on the liner Leviathan and was given a cordial, yet dignified, reception by the City of New York and an enthusiastic welcome by his friends and admirers. Tlte band played "The Star Spangled Banner” and Levine was warmly applauded as he was transferred from the liner to the city’s reception boat, the Mhcoin, which steamed up harbor to welcome officially the Don Quixote of aviation. Modest During Interview Levine was extremely modest ill ! talking to newspaper reporters who questioned him concerning his adventures. He minimized his part in the i achievement. ”1 intend to go into the trans-At-lantic air mail business within the next tew years,” Levine said. ”1 think a daily mail service to Europe ' is feasible.” He said it would be some years before passenger service across the Atlantic is established. For one thing, he ‘said, the rates would be prohibitive, for it would cost passengers from $2,500 to $3,000 each to make the trip. Ruth Leaves Horta Copyright 1927 by International News Service Horta, the Azores, Oct. 17. — (INS) —After being roundly Welcomed and entertained by the inhabitants of this port, Miss Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, rescued American transAtlantic fliers, today bid farewell to Horta and started for Paris byway I of Lisbon. They are expected to board the Portuguese mail ship, Lima, which w il take them to Lisbon, according to iiiivum i:» OX linn CITY OFFICIALS GO TO CAPITAL Confer With Fire Marshal Regarding Repair Os City Warehouse M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the city light plant, Councilman O. L. Vance and Fire Chief Jack Freidt went to Indianapolis this morning to confer witli G. H. See, chief elerk of the Indiana state fire marshal department. relatives to an order received by the city from the State Fire Marshal’ll office regarding the repair of the warehouse room back of the city hall and owned by the city. An unusual order was received Saturday by the city from the state fire marshal who threatened to tine the city $7,000 if certain repairs were not made within five days. The council has been considering improving the building, but so far no definite steps have Iteen taken. The room is used for storage purposes and housing supplies of the electric light and water departments. . -o Hartford City Man Is Killed By Truck Hartford City, Oct. 17.—(INS) — Earl Adams. 31, a foreman on the state road construction gang working out of this city was instantly killed at 11 o’clock this morning when he was run over by a heavy slate truck, Adams resided 8 miles south of this city. He is survived by the widow and two children.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 17, 1927.

Recall Explained

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i The recall of Major-General Charles P. Suinnierall. Chief of Staff, is explained by the statement by President Coolidge that the general's presence was required at a conference on the army's budget.

FALL-SINCLAIR TRIAL STARTS Two Noted Men Go On Trial For Conspiracy At Washington Today Washington. Oct. 17— (UP) —The Fall-Sinclair Oil Conspiracy t;ial opened here today. Former Secretary of interior Fall, characterized in a United States supreme court decision last week as a "faithless public official went on inal with Harry F. Sinclair, oil maknate, on charges of seeking to defraud the govvernment in the Teapot Dome oil lease case. The government will tty to prove that Sinclair furnished in 1922 more than $200,000 in liberty Bonds to Fall and his relatives after the favorable lease had been ma'de him by Fall. ■ Two women were on the first panel of 26 prospective Jurors called today. Both the prosecution and defense announced they were ready when summoned to the bar by Justice Frederick L. Sjddons of the District of Columbia supreme court —and the famous Teapot dome 'case was formally started. Auto Strikes Telephone Pole; No One Is Injured An automobile struck a telephone pole on Monroe street near the Pennsylvania railroad track crossing late last night and was badly damaged. The name of the owner was not. learned |ind the car was taken to a garage today for repairs. No one was injured in the accident. o FURNISH TWO SCHOOLROOMS J. G. Niblick And Mother Make Donation To Catholic High School Two rooms at the Decatur Catholic high school have been furnished recently by Mrs. Christena Nildick and her son, Jesse G Niblick. One room has been equipped with a hospital cot and ail the required articles for a first aid room. Tim room will be used in case of a Sudden illness of any of the school’s pupils. The other room has been equipped for a waiting room and has chairs and a davenport The color scheme of the wafting room Is blue. Mr. Niblick and Mrs. Niblick presented the equipment for both rooms to the school. »

MAN AND WOMAN ARE MURDERED AT GREENFIELD Bodies Os Man And StepDaughter Found In Ditch Along Highway WOMAN’S HUSBAND IS BEING SOUGHT Greenfield, Oct. 17.—(INS) — Their heads hacked to a pulp with blows of an army hatchet, the bodies of David Boyles, 65, and of his step-daughter, Mrs. Zenith Ewing, 32, both of Indianapolis, were found today in a deep t ditch a mile south and a mile west of Mt. Comfort, about five miles northwest of here. Sheriff Harry Comstock and Indianapolis police at once started a search for the woman’s husband. Willard Ewing, 42. who escaped from the state farm at Putnamville last WedI nesday. where he was sentenced Sept. 9, for six months on a bigamy charge. Wanted Marriage Annuled Boyles, Mrs. Ewing and Ewing left their home Saturday night in an auto, 1 presumably Lor Greenfield to discuss with Ewing's lawyers the annullmeut , of Ewing's marriage to the woman now dead. It was because of this j marriage that Ewing was sentenced for bigamy, according to Sheriff Comstock. who said that Ewing married Mary JJay, of McCordsville, about a I year ago and then got a divorce before wedding the dead woman. The gruesome find of the bodie« was made I by men hauling gravel along the road. Coroner C. M. Gibbs stated he would up his inquest into the double murder pending the outcome of the search. > — — o Child Near Tocsin Has Infantile Paralysis Another case of infantile paralysis i has Iteen diseoveted in Wells county, i Dorothy thiee-year-oltl daughi ter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Zattgg. resid- . ing two miles west of Tocsin, is suf- . feeing from the disease. Her left arm • and leg were paralyzed. The family . was quarantined last Friday. The child I appears to be yielding to treatment, > however, and today was aide to use , her left arm slightly. I - <> - MRS. WALSER GOES ON TRIAL Young Mother At Marion I Faces Charge Os Poisoning Her Cousin Marion Oct., 17—(INS)— Clasping her babe in her arms as it cried fretfully at the hundreds of strange persons jamming the court room, Mrs. Dorothea Walser, 17, went on trial today for the deatli of her 14-year-old cousin, Clifford Cox. alleged to have Iteen poisoned by her last June fjr his $l4O life insurance. The mother seemed spirited and brave as A. H. Graves, her attorney, and prosecuting attorney. Ed Hayes, 1 went through a prolonged session of I questioning the veniremen. Tlte defendant is the youngest ever tried on a murder charge here. f She and iter husband Arthur Walser who will go on trial later, are charged with giving a glass of Paris green to young Cox in order that they > could collect his insurance. ] o — C Big Four Train Kills Man s Shelbyville, Ind., Oct. 17. (INS) — i- Henry Coers, 61 of Waldron, was ins stantly killed today when his Ford 1 Coupe was struck by an Eastbound s Big Four passenger train on a Wald‘ron crossing. 1 o 3 Connersville Man Killed p Connersville, Ind., HNS) ■ Eugene Brown, 36, was killed here I when an East bound B and O. I'assene ger train hit his automobile at the Lincoln street crossing.

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Labor Unrest Grows Throughout Germany Berlin, Oct. 17— (UP) —Approximately laborers will be on strike in Germany before the end of the month, culminating widesprea.l , labor unrest, it was said today. In the first major wage conflict In Germany since 1924. 70,b0n lignite miners at Halle went on strike this morning. More than 60.000 textile workers in lhe Muenchen-Galdbach area last night were otdered to go on strike October following the failure of arbitration | over wages. -o- , PLANS COMPLETE FOR CONVENTION Adams County Sunday School Convention Opens ( Here Tuesday Night • ■' — I Arrangements have been completed . for tlie annual Adams county Sunday j school convention to be held in the , Zion Reformed church in this city. Tuesday evening and Wednesday. . Four sessions will be held and excell , ent programs have been arranged lot each. i There will be a banquet tor all Sunday school off cers, teachers, ministers. workers and friends at the j Methodist church Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock. Reservations for the banquet must be made with John E. Nelson not later than Tuesday evening. Tickets are selling at fifty cents each. Following is the complete program for the convention: Wednesday, 2 P. M. Song serv’ce by Leo Kitsch Devotlonals R pv - Smith, St. Paul Union Church Music Decatur Schools "Worship Program” Miss N. <’• Young Song Congregat'on Address Dr. M. A. HonlimAnnouncements Benediction. Wednesday, 7.30 P. M. Song Service . Led by W. F. Beery Devotlonals Rev.O.E.Miller. Decatur Report of .Nom nating Committee Talk. Miss Nellie C. Young Music Mennonite Malo Chorus, Berne Offering Special Music Mennonite Male Chorus Address Dr. M. A. Houline Benediction. Tuesday, 7:30 P. M. Orchestra Song Service ...Led by Rev. E. P. White. Bobo M E. Invocat on Rev. P.R.Schroeder. Berne Music Itermediate Male Chorus. Berne Address Miss Nellie C. Young, State Supl. Children’s Division Offering Music Intermediate Malo Chorus Berne Address —“Substitutes and Alib s” Rev. R. 11. Dettweiler, Fort Wayne Announcements Benediction. Wednesday, 6:30 A. M. Song Service Led by Leo Kirsch, / Decatur Devotlonals Mrs. J. R. Knipe. Geneva Mus.’e. Antioch Ladies’ Quartet Jf.'actical Teaching Demonstration Miss Nellie C. Young Music Decatur Schools. Led by Miss Dessolee Chester Address Dr. M. A. lionline. Pasadena, California Announcements. Benediction. vo 1 ■ Charlotte Ladd Pleads Guilty; Appeals Case Charlotte Ladd, of this city, today entered a plea of guilty to a charge of violating the prohibib’on law when her case came up for trial in city court before Attorney C. L. Walters, special judge, at 10 o’clock this morning. Judge Walters fined her SIOO and costs and sentenced her to serve 6 months in the state Industrial Home for Women. The defendant appealed the ease to the crcuit court. Her appeal bond was fixed at S4OO. which was provided and approved. o— Son Os Linn Grove Man Held Up And Robbed A. F. Baker, who resides near Linn Grove, received word today from his son, .William Baker, a filling station attendant at latfavette. that he was held up last Thursday night and robbed of S4O. The bandit treatened Baker with a gun and toook his money belt ■ away from him. The belt ctntuined S4O in change all of which was taken.

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PLANE STRIKES TREE AS PILOT TRIES TO LAND IL IL Emmons, Prominent Detroit Man, Seriously Hurt In The Crash VICTIMS BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL HERE Lieutenant .1. G. Hopkins, regular army aviator from Selfridge Field. Michigan, and Colonel Harold 11. Emmons, reserve army aviator officer of Detroit, Michigan, fell in lhe plane in which they were returning Io Detroit from French Lick, Indiana, al 5:15 o'clock last night in the rear yard of the Dennis Striker farm, about 10 miles southwest of this city. Both men were injured tint are expected Io recover. The plane, of De Haviland army construction, was completely demolished in the fall. Lieutenant Hopkins was at. the steerage and the two men had decided to land and weie searching for a landing field. The plane circled the field at the rear of the Strker home twice and v ;u< descending, with the motor shut off. when the right wing of the plane struck a tree in the field. The wing was torn off and the plane fell to the ground. Pilot Pinned Under Wreckage In the fall the other wing was torn off and the plane was a mass of ruin. Col. Emmons was able to crawl from the plane and several members of the Striker family, who witnessed the crash rusned to the scene and ded in releasing Lieut. Hopkins, who was pinned beneath the plane. Col. Emmons received a broken leg and a badly fractured nose in the fall. Lieut. Honkins received a broken bona in bis left hand and prolsably a broken arm. Both men received severe scratches and bruises. They were brought to the Adams County Memorial hospital in th s city. Col. Em- , bions underwent an operation. Injuries Not Believed Fatal X-Ray photographs were taken of both men atyl the attending physicians stared that the}’ believed neither was fatally injured. The extent of Colonel Emmons' injury has not. yet been learned, and one of the phy.t cians thated today that there is a possibility that he has a slight internal injury. Lieutenant Hopkins was confined to the hospital today, but bis injuries were not serous. He was rendered . covtixino ox pai'.i’. Tititr.t'.i MANY ATTEND MEN'S CUNGRESS More Thau 40 Decatur Men Pres e n t At Reformed Church Meet In Bluffton Tlte Men's Congress of the Reformed church in this section of the state, held at Bluffton ye/terday, was attended by large delegations from Fort Wayne. Berne, Vera ‘(’ruz, Magley, Culver. Goshen. Bluffton and Decatur. The meetings were held in the new Community building. Splendid addresses were delivered by Prof. L. C. liessert of Plymouth, Wisconsin; Dr. C. A. Lippincott, of South Bend: Rodney H. Brandon, of Booseheart, III.; and Lieut. Col. F. L. Hunt, of Clover Military Academy. Tlie singing of Christian hymns by the large concourse of churchmen was a thorough inspiration. The men’s choruses from Magley. Vera Cruz and from the Mennonite church, of Berne, added much to the inspirational features of the day. Next year's Congress will be held at Goshen. More than forty men and • young men from the local < huri h were 1 in attendance. 1 Officers elected yesterday were: ■ Major W. B Hand, of Culver, preslf dent; Clifton E. Striker, of Berne, I vice president; Dr. Nevin Bretz, of 1 Goshen, secretary; and Richard E. . 1 Hughs, of Bluffton, treasurer.

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