Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Showers probatle I tonight and WednesI day. Cool tomorrow I and in west tonight.

OFFICER SLAIN DURING BANK HOLDUP

Jury Tampering Is Alleged In Fall - Sinclair Trial • ————————— — - - i ~ ;

mistrial looms IN TRIAL OF OIL CONSPIRACY CASE One Juror Alleged To Have Intimated That He Would Receive An Auto DISTRICT ATTORNEY FILES FOUR AFFIDAVITS Washington, Nov. 1 (INS) With a federal grand jury investigating charges of jury tampering, Federal Judge Frederick L. Siddons this afternoon adjourned the FallSinclair conspiracy trial until tomorrow morning to render a decision. Washington, Nov. I.—(INS) Four sensational affidavits wire presented Io the court in (hi' Fail - Sinclair conspiracy trial today by I’. S. District Attorney Peyton Gorden, any otic of which was deemed sufficient to bring about a mistrial. Juror number 11. E. J. Kidwell, a Rather worker, it was sworn to in two affidavits, asserted in a soft I drink establishment that if he did not "come out of this case with an automobile as long as a block” he would be surprised. Hoped To Gain Acquittal He is quoted further as saying that while he did not hope to gain by a [conviction he did hope to gain by an acquittal verdict. A third affidavit sworn to by assistant district attorney Neil BurkinI shaw. asserted that the Burns detective agencv of New York, had from 114 to 15 operatives in Washington [ looking into every possible activity 'of each juror, their financial status, [ etc. Detective Reports Seized This affidavit was supplemented by detailed reports made by the operatives which were seized in a raid on the temporary headquarters here of the detective agency at Wardman iroarivritn ev ric.R tw<o 0 Knox County Farm Bureau Stages A Pageant Today Vincennes, Ind., Nov. I—(TTP)1 —(TTP) hundred men, women and children will take part in the Knox county farm Bureau pageant to he presented here today. Development of agriculture from pioneer days to the present lime will be depicted by the pageant which was written b.v Mrs. W. H. Shively of Sandborn. 10 ESTIMATES CORN YIELDS Montgomery County Man To Judge Five-Acre Contest Plots In This County M O. Pence, chairman of the fiveacre corn contest which is held in Indiana each year, has notified the county agent that W. J. Harpel, of Montgomery county, will arrive in this county Wednesday morning to begin checking the yields of contestants. Mr. Harpel is an experienced corn grower and and corn judge and has been in charge of the five-acre contest work in his county for the last three years. Eighteen men will finish in the contest in Adams county this year and the judging work will consume most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Men who will check up ai o as follows: Otto Hoile, Clyde Harden, F. E. Christen, Albert Ewell, Otto Bieberich, Peter B. Schwartz, Martin Sprunger, Amos Huser, C. J. Jones, red Blum, Carl E. Amstutz, Sam D. Nussbaum, David J. Schwartz, Simon M. Schwartz, Benj. Hazelin, Franklin C." Mazelin, Albert ■doser and Martin Habegger. All contestants are asked to have labor record's filled out ready for the judge iVhen he arrives.

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Rumors Os Revolution In Roumania Are Denied London. Nov. 1 (INS) Humors of a revolution in Roumania are “entirely devoid of foundation,'’ according to a i direct message from Bucharest publish i ed today in the Daily Mail. 1 The dispatch, dated Monday, added: “There have been no arrests of any ( ’leadeis of the opposition party and • Colonel Teobcrescu, former chief cf staff of the Roumanian army air forces, was at rested today in connection with tlte purchase of some airplanes. "The court martial trial of Manoiles- [ cu was completed today.” Earlier dispatches reaching London and Berlin had ascribed the arrest of Colonel Teodorescu to his participation in a movement to return former Prince Cut.ol to the throne now occupied by his six-.'ear-old son. King Michael. — ; 0 LEGION POST OPENS DRIVE Adams Post No. 43 Starts Membership Drive; Large Increase Sought A drive to get every ex-service man in Adams county to become an active member of the American Legion has ’ been started in this community Commander Paul Graham, of Adams , Post No. 43 announced today that t.e felt sure that his committee in charge of membership drive would secure practicably every ex ; service man as an active Legion memlier. He pointed out that all legislation in the state and nation favorable to ex-service m p n had been brought about by the Legionnaires and that every ex service men owed it to himself to become a member of that organization. The drive will continue until the first of ihe year and ft is hoped that by that time the local membership will have increased at least double of what it is now AU ex-service men who are not solicited to become Legion membc.’s are asked to secure further information at the Graham and Walters office in this city or inquire of any Legion member. —,—„ o Geneva Man Fined At Celina, Ohio, Sunday George Bobenmoyer, of Geneva, was fined SIOO and costs at Celina, Ohio, Sunday night, after pleading guilty to a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. He gave bond for the payment cf his fine and was released. Residents of Celina reported to the mayor's office Sunday afternoon that a drunken driver was endangering the lives of motorists on the St. MarysCelina highway. Tljey gave the town marshal the license number of the car and Bobenmoyer was located on one of the city streets. Mrs. Amanda Connor Dies At Wren, Ohio Mrs. Amanda Connor, an aged resident of Wren, Ohio, died at her home at 9 o’clock Saturday night. Her husband, who is 85 years old and is critically ill, survives. One grandson, Foy Connor, also survives. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Radical United Brethren church in Wren and burial was made In the ■ Woodland cemetery at Van Wert, Ohio, i o Carmody Car, Stolen Sunday, Is Recovered [ The Studabaker sedan owned by J. 1 H Carmody, of this city, which was 1 stolen in front of the St. Marys Cath- ■ olic church Sunday night, was recovered east of this city yesterday by 1 Chief of Police Sephus Meichf. The car was not damaged by the thieves Apparently the thieves had run out of gasoline and after attempting to buy some of neighbors where the car was stalled, and tailing, they made an • effort to run the car on kerosene, i This failing they abandoned the car and It was recovered by local police.

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I : Tax Paying Rush On At Treasurer’s Office : i The semi-annual tax paying rush is on at the county treasurer's office this week. Next Monday, Nov f 7, is the last day to pay the fall Installment without the 10 per cent'penalty being added. Much of the taxes remain to be paid and the next few days will be busy ones. The banks in the south part of the county and at Preble render special service to their depositors by getting the receipts and paying them in a bulk sum. The fall installment of taxes amounts to more than $400,000 o TWO GIRLS ARE KILLED IN CRASH Youthful Escorts Held Following Fatal Auto Accident Near Franklin Indianapolis, Nov. 1 (UP) Paul Jamison, 16, and Narce Loyns, 19, both of Indianapolis are being held without bond by police here today pending an investigation of the Johnson county coroner into an automobile accident near Franklin last night in which Dolly Justus, 16 and Alice Cunningham, 17, were killed and the boys injured. Their automobile struck a culvert north of Franklin when Lyons, who was driving, apparently became confused by the bright lights of an approaching car. Motorists driving behind the wrecked car said Lyons wap not driving at a high rate of speed, but drove in a straight line for the culvert. The young people were all in Halloween costume and were on their way to Jeffersonville. • Coroner C. L. Phipps of Whiteland immediately began taking testimony regarding the accident. Sheriff C. E. Bowen and Deputy Sheriff Carl Losey also began an investigation. o *•' Ministerial Association To Meet Wednesday Morning The Decatur Ministerial Association will meet for their regular monthly session tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 9:30 o’clock, in the Old Adams County Bank. All members are requested to be present. o Six Burn To Death Madrid, Nov. 1 (INS) six persons were dead and twenty were in hospitals seriously injured today following a fire which occurred in a factory in the village of Arcediano, province of Salamanca.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 1, 1927.

DUVALL BEFORE PROBERS AGAIN Ex-Mayor Os Indianapolis Testifies At Grand .Jury Investigation Again By William E. Hallberg (UP Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Nov. 1.- (UP) —While a lull placed Claude E. Negley in undisputed charge of city affairs as mayor pro tern, former Mayor John fj. Duvall went before the Marion county grand jury a second time today to continue hfs fight against the city council, which voted him out of office last Thursday. Duvall appeared before the grand , jury for more than an hour yesterday and was understood to have been I questioned regarding his charge that | indictments had been used to whip council members into line on ouster. The second summons to Duvall was believed to indicate that he was unable to finish his story in his first appearance and perhaps had to return to his home to obtain documents essential to his charge that indictments that had been vbted, but not reported coerced the council. i Meanwhile, a truce that gave signs of flaring into factional warfare at any moment permitted Negley to carry on the city’s affairs. Negley was protected by a court injunction until the city council can meet next Tuesday to elect a permanent mayor. Ira M. Holmes, against'whom the injunction was issued, had withdrawn his claim to the office, and the other aspirants were inactive. The truce was only temporary, for when the council has elected a permI anent successor, quo warranto proceedings to establish right to the office, brought by Joseph 1.,. Hogue, city controller in the Shank administration, will be pressed, he said. Studying the decision of Judge Joseph M. Milner who granted Negley an injunction*upholding his claim to ' the office, Indianapolis found it appeared to have had a woman mayor ■ for 15 minutes last Thursday. For ’ Judge Milner ruled that when Duvall ■ resigned, the city controller, Mrs. Du--1 vail, was mayor until her resignation ’ was tendered. o Stunt Flier Killed Dessau, Gernfany, Nov. I—(INS1 —(INS) — * Aviator Plauth, the cleverest “stunt ■ f yer” employed by the Junkers AirI plane Works, plunged to his death i from an altitude of 400 yards today f when his plane went into a tail spin from which he could not right it.

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HALLOWEEN IS" CELEBRATED BY BIG CROWD HERE Streets Os City Are Jammed As Callithumpian Parade Is Staged PRIZES AWARDED TO MASQUERADERS A crowd estimated at 5.000 persons witnessed the second all-Adams county Callithumpian staked in this city last night in observance of the annual Halloween festivities. More than 150 masked people, men. women and children composed the big parade which started at 7:30 o'clock and lasted about an hour. Rain, which came later in the evening, tailed to mar the big festival. The parade had been completed, and the judges had made tjie awards before tlte heavy downpour began. Jesse Rice, general chairman and originator of the Callithumpian parade | in Adams county, stated that he was highly pleased with the big turnout f r the affair and he stated that he believed it would be made an annual ', occurrence. The Decatur Industrial association cooperated with Mr .Rice in awarding the prizes and meeting other incidental expense. G. E. Band Heads Parade The parade headed by the General Electric band, started promptly at 7:30 o'clock from the Mui ray hotel. It wound around through Second street I and then came back from for the judges to select the prize winners. It was a difficult job Ju selecting the winners i because there were more in the parade than anticipated. The entire length of Second street was made a light as day with the aid of hundreds red-fire candles and the thousands of persons who came ■ from all parts cf the county to aid in the celegration lined the street for H'ONTINI l-:i» ON PARK o TOLL OF SHIP DISASTER 296 Owners Os 111-fated Italian Steamer Issue Official 1 Statement i Rome, Nov. I.— (INS) —An official • statement today by the Navigazione : Generale Italians, owners of the ill- - fated steamer Principessa Mafalda, said 29G persons had lost their lives - when the vessel sank last week off t the coast of Bahia, Brazil. Together with the statement was s an indignant denial of reports circut lated here that first and second class > passengers had been given prefer- ' ence over those in the third class duri ing the rescue work. The company I termed the reports “communistic," . and declared that the deathlist com- - prised 4b per cent of the cabin passi engers as against only 35 per cent of r those in the steerage. Ten per cent of the crew lost their lives, the stater tnent said. . — —o — 1 ■' Chinese Soldiers Slain By British Sell-Fire < J Shanghai, Nov. 1 (INS) a number of Chinese soldiers were killed and 3 wounded by shelbfire from the British f Gunboat Cricket when that vessel re- ’ turned fire directed at her from the banks of the Yangtze river above Ki--1 Kiang, it was learned today. r □ Consider Buying Kinser i Estate For State Park Indianapolis, Nov. 1 (UP) A committee of 14 men conferred with Col. Rii£iaid A. lueiber today relative to the . purchase of the Kinser Estate for a .. state park. The site discussed ’f* a t, bout eight mile north of Indianapolis y near Carmel along state road 31 and n consists of some 800 acres of wooded land in the natural state.

Illiterate Porter Sets Fire To Hospital To Spite His Girl Friend Now York. Nov. 1 (INS) Ernest Rhodes, illiterate hospital porter who is alleged to have set fire to the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal hospital yesterday, creating panic among the 325 bed-riden patients had a love affair — and he fired the building to “spite his girl," according to fire commissioner Dorma n. In a statement today, Rhodes admitted, according to Dorman, that he had failed in ’his attempt t.> woo Stella Tidemann. a chor-woman at the hospital and that he fired the institution "just to show her." While the excitement of the fire was at its heighth, a baby was born and an appendicitis operation completed, but there was no loss of life. o FORTY HOURS TO CLOSE TONIGHT Several Priests To Take Part In Services At Catholic Church Here The solemn closing cf the Forty Hours Devotion will take place tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the St. Marys Catholic church. The services will consist of reciting the Litany, the closing sermon by the Jesuit Father. Rev. .1. B. Theis, S. J., who has been conducting the devotions, and procession with the Blessed Sacrament. Forty Hours opened Sunday morn i ing and the services have been j attended by hundreds of people. Be . --.des Hie morning masses and serv ices in the evening, private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament were ■nade by the congregation and this morning practically every member received Holy Communion. Today, the feast of All Saints was celebrat- , ed and masses were held at 5, 7:30 mil 9:45 o'clock. A number of out-of-town priests will participate in the services this evening. 0 Evening Star Festival To Start At 8 o’clock Because cf Forty Hour Devotion at the Catholic church the opening night progrant of the Evening Star festival will start at 8:30 instead of 8 o’clock tonight as previously announced. o— Sheriff Called To Monroe Last Midnight

Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth was called to Monroe about midnight last night when residents of that place thought i that a stolen car had been abandoned . there. The car driven by H. Ehrsani i had struck a ditch and the occupants . had decided to walk home and get the . car in the morning. The car, bearing a California licen- ’ se, was brought to this city where, the - owner recovered it this morning. o ; England Elects Members Os Borough Councils Today London, Nov. 1 (INS) With the socialists making a determined effort to , capture the machinery of local administration. England and Wales went to f the poll today to vote for members of I Borough councils. ti The councils of London and the Met- >- ropolitan area will not be affected for e new councillors here will not be chosI- en until next year. However, the results today affect a population of 18, 000,000 people. The new councillors will be responsible for $250,000,00(1 in local taxation. — —o —■ Boy Slayer Out on Bond Indianapolis, Nov. 1 (UP) Louis Bat e tlsta, 12, who shot and fatally injuret a his comrade Cail Crist, 10, while the i- two were hunting birds last Saturday s is out on bond today. The case wai d continued indefinitely pending com d pletion of an investigation by corone Charles H. Keever.

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! BLOODY PISTOL BATTLE FOUGHT 1 AT LAFAYETTE t ) z Police Captain Engages Six Bandits In Revolver Duel; Bandit Wounded BANK LOCATED IN CENTER OF THE CITY 1 Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 1. —INS. >| Police Captain Charles Ar- , Dian, 15, was shot to death at [the Tippecanoe Loan & Trust . I Company, a $2,000,000 institution. here today when single 1 handed he entered the bank and ' engaged six bandits in a revolver duel. Before he sank to death in the hank lobby riddled with bullets, the captain wounded one of the bandits. The bandits, believed to be head- ' ing for Chicago, escaped in a Hupmoi bile sedan which according to eyewitnesses bore the lowa license A--12275. j The bandits were unmasked and " n’l were said to have ranged in age from 25 to 30 years. Car Seen Near Wolcott Marshal Burt A. Dowell, of Wolcott ■ 7 received a telephone call just before '• noon today from a farmer living 7 s miles west of Wolcott, informing him I that a large Hupmobile sedan filled i with men had been seen driven at high speed along an unfrequented ’ road here. The farmer said the car n was going west. ’ The bandits daringly invaded the ' bank which is located across the I I street from police headquarters and witli flourishing guns ordered seven ewploves-and one customer to a rear r- . ' va nit. s Miss Margaret Cheney, 3d. secree tarv treasurer of the Trust company, g with quick presence of mind ran into Ihe vault at the first command and t ’ there pressed an alarm button Captain Alone in Office Captain Arman sat alone In his office at police headquarters not 150 feet away from the scene of the holdup. His two office mon were in pol ee court testifying at a trial. The captain hurried over to the . bank. As he entered the door he saw jlhe bandits at work inside. Drawing t I his gun the brave officer began sh'ootit'inp' An avalanche of lead swept over II the officer as the bandits emptied k their guns at him. One bullet hit the captain on the left, side of his nose and pierced his brain killing him instantly. He dropped dead about 25 feet away from the

door. The bandts dragged their wounded icovriM rn <>x pm;p. txvo» MID-WEST FARM LEADERS MEET Federal Recognition Os Farmer’s Economic Plight Is Demanded St. Louis, Mo., Nov. I—(UP1 —(UP) —Agricultural leaders from nearly a score of middlewestern and southern states met here today to demand federal recognition of the farmer’s economic plight. Wheat growers and cotton planters joined at the call of former governor George W. Donaghey of Arkansas in a virtually unanimous appeal for enactment of a measure embodying the general principles of the McNaryHaugen relief billSpeakers given places on a two-day program included: Gov. Adam McMullin. Nebraska. (Chairman, federal conference of governors. Dr. Frank G. Taylor, professor of -1 land economics. Northwestern Uni--1 versity, Evanston, 11lFormer Governor George W. Don- , laghey, Arkansas, president of the s Federal Bank and Trust Co., Little I Rock. r| Senator Arthur Capper, publisher ON PAGE THREE)

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