Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1927 — Page 1

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INDIANAPOLIS STILL HAS TWO MAYORS

FATHER SEIMETZ I TO TAKE A REST I FROM HIS DUTIES W-istor Os Catholic Church W,i Take Leave Os Absence Due To 111 Health ■EV. HESSTON TO ■ BE ACTING PASTOR i:. v Father J. A. Seimetz. recHr of St. Mary’s Catholic church In tl R < ity since will take a leave 1 absence from his pastoral duties ■ sinning next Friday, ill health comHllimr him to take an extended rest. Hrv Seimetz relinquishes his duties fe pastor of the local congregation *■ the advice of his physicians, who Hidseil him to take at least a year’s K ■During his absence from this city, filler Seimetz will reside in the Hngali w near the St. Joseph's OrHin Home, north of Fort Wayne, iliich was erected recently by the ,t Rev. Bishop John F. Noll, D. D.. )i priests of the diocese. Rev. Hession Acting ’’aster Rev. Joseph A. Hesston, who has p,n assistant to Father Seimetz for built a year, has been named acting jstor cf St. Mary’s Catholic church.! ’e will be assisted by Rev. William ■ tilings, a member of the Precious lood order, who was ordained to the rieslhood in 1913. Rev. Seimetz ill resume his duties as pastor of le local congregation as soon as his ?alth permits. Sometime ago, physicians advised ie beloved pastor and untiring orker among his fiock, to seek reFf from his duties, believing that j year's absolute rest would benefit lis health very much. Desiring to tarry on his pastoral duties. Father ■ Seimetz finally consented to take the eave of absence and, having completnl a. 1 ! arrangements, as to securing in assistant here for Rev. Hession I mil deciding where he would go, lie tnled this morning that these plans j rere now completed and * that he rauld leave next FridayThe beloved pastor has not only labored in the spiritual welfare of his | ongregation, hut gave of his time and nergy in furthering the material good ' f the congregation. During his rector-! hip here, the new $300,000 school ( louse has been erected, a monument o the dreams, of the pastor, who, ihortiy after he came to Decatur, be-} :an to lay plans, for the new school building. The new Sister’s home on Monroe street has been purchased since he- came here and the property Improved under his direction Within the last two years. Father Seimetz has devoted much time during the spring and summer months to improving the St. J seph Catholic cemetery, west of Decatur, and he labored much in personally doing a great deal of the work. Father Seimetz was ordained to the priesthood June 21, 1901, and in 1908 "as named superintendent of the St. Vincent's Orphan Home at Lafayette. He carried out his work at that place (COVl'tM KI) OX I'AGE •)"<»; PLEASANT DALE REVIVAL GROWS Interest And Attendance In Services Increasing Each Evening 3 he evangelistic services in progress »t the Pleasant Dale Curch of the Brethren, southwest of Decatur, are increasing in interest and attendance each evening and powerful messages are being preached by the evangelist •he Rev. J. Edwin Jarboe, of Lincoln Nebraska. R e y. Jarboe is fearless in delivering the old gospel in its power to both saint and sinner. He is frank to say that God is the God of all and that Jesus Christ is man's only Savior. 1 he services each evening open at | 7 15 o’clock with a song service, led by Mrs. Jarboe. The preaching service begins at 7:30 o'clock. The public is eui'dially invited to attend any or all °f the services.

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' “ Community Delighted The Decatur Lions club, which will sponsor the Evening Star Festival given by the Interstate Festival Company here Nov. 1.2, 3 and I 4. received the following telegram today from M. O. Hill, president of I the committee which sponsored the program in Hastings Michigan, this week: I “I'm glad to tell you that the Interstate Festival program as HastI Ings. Michigan, was a great success ami delighted the entire community and committee in charge. i Every program is a headliner. Do | not miss the Lucille Elmore Revue, hear (’apt. Gudtnundsen. Mother’s t Millions is unequalled and Dr. Powell and Mason Jubilees go over big. You have a treat in store." I TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Christian Church To Observe Anniversary Os Dedication Os Building The pastor and members of the Christian church are making plans to jobserve the third anniversary of the ! dedication of their now church build- , ing. On October 25. 1924, the lieauti- | ful new building was formally dedij rated as a place of worship. This i year, the congreagtion will observe October 30 as anniversary day. The day will open with the Bible school observing rally day. This service will be followed by a beautiful worship service, the music of which w’ill be in charge of Miss i Josephine Anderson. The morning sermon will follow the communion and will be delivered by Dr. G. V. Hoover, I executive sercetary of the Indiana I Christian Missionary Society. Dr. 1 Hoover is recognized as one of the 'most eloquent preachers in the state of Indiana. | Dr. A. A. Coil will occupy the pulpit at the evening service, which will be | the first service beginning a revival to continue for three weeks. Dr. Coil j is a-revelation to all those who appre- ' ciate a fine scholarly pulpit presence. The Christian church is expecting great good to come as the result of I the preaching of Dr. Coil. All of the ■ Christian people of Decatur and the ' surrounding community are cordially ' invited to join with the members of I the Christian church, both in the servI ices to be held on October 30 and in 1 the series of meetings to follow. o Ruth Elder Disappoints Paris; Discards Knickers Paris, Oct. 29. — Miss Ruth Elder , disappointed Paris crowds today by ; wearing a smart green frock under a fur coat. it was the first time since she took off from Roosevelt field, over two weeks ago, that Miss Elder had appeared in public without her plus fours and sweater. “I'm sick of breeches and tired of being called a tomboy,” she said. As have other trans-Atlantic flyers. Miss Elder and George Haldeman, her co-pilot in their flight attempt that ended in Midocean, made it their first duty today to place wreaths on the tomb of the unknown soldier. It has become evident that Miss Elder need not worry over the extensive clothes buying she had planned before her departure from New York. Trial Os Jack Johnson At Columbia City Delayed Columbia City. Ind.. Oct. 29.—(INS) —Trial of Jack Johnson, colored, exheavyweight boxing champion, on charges of liquor transportation, on which he forfeited $1,500 bond two years ago here, today had been postponed until Nov. 7. Johnson, arrested a short time ago after a boxing exhibition at North Manchester, was to have been tried yesterday. Johnson said today lie plans to put on a boxing exhibition here Nov. 7, when he returns for trial. | “I like Indiana, and particularly this city, where I have many friends,” Johnson declared.

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11 LIVES LOST AS LINER RAMS FISHIN G VESSEL —— I ... / S. S. President Wilson Rams Schooner Off Cape Cod In Dense Fog THREE MEMBERS OF CREW SAVED Boston, Oct. 29—(UP) — Nosing slowly -through a dense fog, the steamci; President Wilson, with 552 passengers aboard, rammed and sank ihe G'oueester fishing schooner 'Avalon” off Cape Cod early today with a possible loss of 11 lives. Only three members of the twomaster's crew were safe aboard the big steamship five hours after the crash, which occurred about five miles off Highland LightTwo bodies had been recovered. Nine Men Still Missing Radio dispatches to the United Press from the master of the President Wilson reported nine men still missing. The steamer’s captain radioed the following report to the United Press: “At 4:15 local time, off Cape Cod, -oYided with American fishing schooner ‘Avalon’ of which foundered in five minutes. “Three men safe, Elevin Fleet, Frank Hemeon, Nicholas Walsh. “Two bodies recovered and nine itill missing. “Apparently no damages to steamer. “Dense fog at time of collision. (Signed) “Master.” Officials of the William H. Jordan company of Glnnecwter, operators of he lost craft, previously had estimated that 16 or 17 men were aboard the "Avai'on.” Following receipt of the message from the steamer's captain, which place# the total number of the schooner's crew at 14, company officials explained that this probably was correct and that the “Avalon” had carried a smaller crew than usual when ft left Boston for the fishing grounds yesterday. — o FALL-SINCLAIR TRIAL IN RECESS Government’s Case Virtually Completed After Two Weeks Os Evidence Washington, Oct. 29 (UP) With the government’s conspiracy case against former secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall and Harry E. Sinclair virtually completed after two weeks of evidence, the trial resulting from the lease cf Teapot Dome naval reserve today was in recess until Monday. Prosecutor Owen Roberts plans to call Robert W. Sta|war|, chairman, Standard Oil company of Indiana, as the last witness on the continental trading company phase of the Indictment, seeking to show Sinclair passed $230,500 in Liberty Bends to Fall. o Indianapolis Radio Engineer Electrocuted Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 29.— (INS) — Five thousand volts of electricity, which was to have broadcast a program of market reports, brought instant death of William A. McCormick. 23, assistant director and radio engineer for WFBM, the Indianapolis Power and Light company station here. McCormick, in attempting to adjust a rectifier tube on the trans mitter, came in contact with a wire carrying 5,000 volts. The accident occurred about noon yesterday, but was not discovered until an attempt was made to broadcast a program last night, and the station at Pine and Daly streets failed to work. Everett Hinn, chief radio engineer at the station, found the body of McCormick. The noon market report, for which McCormick had been preparing, never was broadcast because of failure of the announcer to appear.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 29, 1927.

Gould’s Widow Wins

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Lttdy Dunsford. widow of George Gould, will receive $650,000 allowance from her late husband's estate, according to ti ruling of London vicechancellor.

MAN OVERCOME BY PITCH FUMES J. J. Feichter, Farmer Living Near Craigville, Narrowly Escapes Death J. J. Feichter, a farmer residing in Wells county, one and one-half tniles south and one mile east of Craigville. was overcome by fumes, Friday afternoon, while working in Feichter was engaged in pitching a the basement of his home- Mr. laige water tank, when he was overcome by the fumes from the pitch. Members of the family, above, becoming uneasy because of his long silemp, entered tfie basement and found him unconscious, and apparently lifeless. The accident happened about 4:30 o’clock. Mr. Feichter was carried onts’de and placed on blankets where physicians, who were called, worked with him for some time. A pullmotor was used as a last resort, and the unconsctoUj man finally rallied to this treatment. Mr. Feichter is aged approximately thirty-five years and is the father of several children. Reports this morning are to the effect that he appears o be getting along nicely. Storm Kills Score In Great Britain London, Oct. 29.— (UP) —Twenty persons were known to be dead and many seamen were missing at 3:50 p m. today following a violent rain anil windstorm which left its marks all over Great Britain and Ireland. Some of the deaths were among crews of small river slops, which were torn from their moorings and sunk in inland waters. A number of small cross-channel and coastwise freight ships are reported to be missing with their crews. Inland telegraph and telephone wires in many places were torn down and extensive damage was done to railways. Damage to land telegraph lines connecting with radio stations interrupted wireless communication with Australia and India. o Farmer Killed In Fall Fountain City, Ind., Oct. 29. — (INS) —Falling from a wagon on which he was loading hay, William Mitchell, 65, laborer on the farm of George Pitts, southwest of here, suffered a broken neck and died a short time later.

COAL STRIKE IN COLORADO NEARS A CLIMAX TODAY Developments Expected Soon To Show Whether Strike Is Success, Failure I. W. W. CONTINUE CLOSING EFFORTS Denver, Colo., Oct. 29. (UP) The 1. W. W. coal strike in Colorado, a walkout which has been gaining momentum for almost two weeks, moved toward a climax today. Developments were expected by officials to show whether the strike would be a complete success—or a complete failure. First hope of settlement came with the announcement that striking employees of the Columbine mine, in the heart of the trouble zone, were awarded a salary increase of fifty cents by the state industrial commission. This increase made the basicwage scale $6.77 per day. I. W. W. forces, 3,000 strong, however. gathered at Walsenburg and after demanding flatly $7.75 a day as a basic wage scale, declared they would invade the few remaining southern Colorado mines still in operation in an effort to close them. Leaders of the I. W. W. said they had called a meeting with operators for Monday at which they Y'otild make their wage demands. No large number of operators are expected to attend, however. o Prominent Banker Killed Libertyville. Hi.. Oct. 29.—(UP) — John J. Mitchel 1 , chairman of the board of directors of the Illinois Merchants Trust company, and his wife were killed in an automobile accident here today. They were enroute to Chicago from their estate at Lake Geneva, Wis., when the accident occurred. Mitchell was brought to Dr. Taylor's office here where he died shortly after the accident. 0 VANDALS WARNED BY LOCAL POLICE Officers Plan To Protect Property From Halloween Celebrants Local police officers today issued a warning that all persons caught destroying property in Halloween celegbrations would be arrested and proseed. Officers will not interfere with any clean celegrations, but stated today that all persons caught destroying property would lie arrested. Several pre-Halloween celebrations have caused considerable loss to property owners, and local officers stated today that the destruction of property would not be permitted. o Fined For Intoxication Joe Dolan, who was arrested Wednesday night, was arrigned in mayor's court last night where he entered a plea of guilty to public intoxication. He was fined $lO and costs, which he paid and also paid $35 for the damages done to a Ford coupe belonging to the Modern Garage. o Showers And Warm Weather Forecast Weather outlook for the period of Oct. 31, to Nov. 5, 1927. For the region of the Great lakes: Shower period at beginning and probably again near close of week; temperature mostly above normal; followed by colder toward close. o ArcVibishop Harty Dies Los Angeles, Oct. 29. — (UP) —Arclibishop Jeremiah .1. Harty, 74, of Omaha, died in the Stagnes rectory here today. The prelate had been in ill health for two years.

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“Leaping Lena” Makes Last Leap; Goes Down Sixty-Foot Embankment Indianapolis, hid., Oct. 29—(INS) — "Leaping Lena" made its last leap sixty feet down an almost vertical embankment, last night, accompanied all the way by its driver, James Cole, IS, negro, who miraculously escaped injury. The car plunged to the edge of the White River, at East Michigan street, turning over, it was believed, at least four times, when the wheels linked in a iar track. TO OFFER FINE ENTERTAINMENT Evening Star Festival To Present Fine Program Here Next Week Some excellent entertainment has been secured for local enjoyment at the Evening Star. Festival, to be hold in this city, Nov. 1,2, 3 and 4. at the high school auditorium. The estival will be given under the auspices of the Decatur Lions Club and tickets for the four nights are selling rapidly. Adult tickets are $2 and ■hildren’s tickets, sl. Any member of the ions Club will be glad to deliver the tickets. On the opening night is a bright and charming melange of musical •omedy. melody, and mimicry, featurng Lucille Elmore, diminutive Broadway Star from Fred Stone’s “Stepping Stones," assisted by her companyhe second night features a breathtaking story of a trip into the heart of Bolshevist Siberia by a powerful, 'wo-fisted sea captain and Arctic explorer who beat the Reds at their game—Capt. Slgurdur Gudmundson. The third night is the night of the big p’ay—"Motliioifs Millions.” It s a glorious three-act comedy about i stingy rich woman; about romantic vouth, and mirth-provoking family lifficulties —with a convincing record of metropolitan successes back of it. On the closing night—Joy NightEarnest Powell, a package of human inspirational dynamite, will speak, ’allowed by a never-to-be-forgotten hour of inimitable colored harmony, übilee hymns, plantation melodies, ind camp-meeting shouts by the 'nsons—ono of the finest negro jubilee companies before the public. Mrs. Grayson Waiting For Favorable Weather O'd Orchard. Me., Oct. 29— (UP)— Having returned here after conferring with Clarence W. Chamberlin in Boston Mrs. Frances Grayson awaits favorable weather to take off a fourth time on her projected flight to Copenhagen. The conference with Chamberlin. Mrs. Grayson said, had no direct relation to her proposed trans-Atlantic flight but concerned an entirely separate business matter. Although Mrs. Grayson and Chamberlin were quiet on the subject, it is believed they are considering an association in the qjanufacture of airplanes. The Sikorsky plane, The Dawn, went through another successful test flight yesterday. o Chicken Thieves At Work South Os Tocsin Bluffton, Oct. 29—Samuel Heckley, farmer, residing one mile south of Toesin, today reported the loss of over 100 fine pullets,, which were stolen from his coops and orchard roosting places some time last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Heckley had attended a church entertainment at Tocsin early in the evening and It is sppposed that the thieves stole the chickens at that time. Other neighbors were also away from home early in the evening. A checkup today showed that most cf the chickens stolen were White Leghorns. while the remainder were Brown Leghorns. Most of the chickens were pullets. Numerous chicken thefts have occurred in that neighborhood recently. Alva Potter and Mrs. Ed both reported losses of chickens.

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SUPERIOR COURT IS NOT READY TO MAKE A DECISION Attorneys Wrangle Over Question of Who Is Rightful Mayor Os City CITY’S BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL Indianapolis, Oct. 29.— (INS) —After three hours of legal wrangling, the decision on who is mayor of Indianapolis was taken under advisement by superior court Judge Joseph Milner this afternoon until Monday. Seven attorneys, representing Ira H. Holmes, claimed tiiai John Duvall named him as mayor before he went to the political backwoods, while two lawyers argued for Claude E. Negley, city council president who was elected mayor by the council late Thursday. Business At Standstill Meanwhile practically all the city's business was at a standstill because no one knows who i« boss. Two rival sets of city officers have been named by the two active pretenders to the mayorality. Negley, by virtue of a temporary restraining order granted by Judge Milner yesterday, apparently was the mayor at least over the week-end until Judge Milner announces his decision on the motion of Louis B. Ewbanks, former state supreme court judge and head of Holmes' legal staff to dissolve the temporary order, Hogue Makes Proposal Indianapolis, lihl., Oct. 29. (UP) — A proposal to settle the furore now centering around the Indianapolis mayor's office came from an unexpected source today when one of the four claimants to the office advanced a lilan which would temporarily clear up the controversy. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller under the late Lew Shank, former mayor, was the author of the plan. Hogue, who contends the office is his because Mayor John L. Duvall, deposed a few days ago by the city council, never "legally became mayor because of corrupt practices in the election which gave him his office," would have al! four < laimants, now fighting for the office, step out and await a court decision which would give the city a legal mayor. o Penny Offerings To Aid Newsies Who Are Injured Portland, Ore., Oct. 29 — (UP) — Pennies, the same coins with which they deal so much furnish an avenue of mercy for Portland newsboys. Through penny offerings of Sunday schorls of the Episcopal church diocese “newsboy cot," endowment funds have been built up for tile Good Samaritan hospital so that any ill or injured newsboy may receive medical care without expense. o TRAIN STRIKES BUS; 3 KILLED Eight Others Injured Seriously In Collision At Calumet City, 111. Calumet City, 111 Oct. 29 (INS) Three persons were killed and eight injured seriously here today when the motor bus in which they were riding from Davenport lowa to Chicago was struck by a fast Pennsylavania railroad train. The crossing, unguarded, was obscured by a dense fog, police learned The locomotive struck the rear end of the bus and threw the vehicle against a concrete post. Twenty passengers, not ineluding the driver, were aboard the bus. The most seriously injured were ■ rushed to the hospital in Hammond and Gary.

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