Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1927 — Page 1

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NEW TRIAL OF FALL, SINCLAIR ORDERED

| GOV JACKSON ' 11 STRIKES BLOW I ATSNOICTMENTS It jlolioiis l iled T<> Quash InI Idictinenls Against Gov- | I ernor And Two Others I Lotion for change II oi .11 dge expected ■ I lii(li;in;i|>olis. Nov. 2.— (INS) to quash indictments !■■. ■ si i.iiv. E<! Jackson, Gqprge ’V ' " uh. Marion county Repub- ■* chairman, and Robert I. &■!:. Jackson’s law partner £■■ n rmcr letral council for the ■ Hliis. '.o re filed in Marion county court today by Louis ■ H. Eubank, attorney for the de- ■ ■ I TJh- motions ask nullification of - attempted bribery an.l ■ aci y tn commit a felony re- ■ l in an indictment brought by ■ M.iricii county grand jury Sept. a’lering that the three men offer- ■ :■ Governor Warren McCray ■ 11111 legal immunity if he |B< 1 n.inic a favorite of the trio as county prosecutor. I Grounds Are Cited ■ ■ Tin- motions set fol th: B* ■ 1 Tiic facts state'd in ten indictdo not constitute a public of- ■ ■ ■ 2 That said indictment does not 1 ■ ■tab- tin offense with sufficient cer- ■ | I .bulge James A. Collins ordered IBlwhank to appear in court Friday He said, however, he didn’t ■ whether there would lie an-argu-011 ,he motlon a n<l added the I probably would determine bulge would rule on the motion. was taken as indicating the dowould file motion for change IBt judges. ■ I o ■Mrs. Ralph Wilkes Hurt In Automobile Accident [ I Word was received here today that | ■Mis Ralph Wilkes, of Kendallville, a J ■daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bow- | ■ers <! ’l'is c ity, was injured Monday I ■eftMiioon when the car in which she [ ■was liding overutrned on pie KendallI ■villc-Ronie City road. The automobile [■struck a protruding tongue of a road : ■scraper parked 'along the road. [ Mrs. Wilkes was brought to a phy- ■ sician's office at Kendallville where ■ her injuries were dressed. It is not ■ thought that Mrs. Wilkes was serious- ■ l.v injured. She was enrounte to Rome ■ City to visit her mother, Mrs. John ■Bowers, who is spending the week at ■ the Bowers cottage at Silvan Lake. [COUNTY TRUANT OFFICER RESIGNS I Nathan Nelson Turns Office Over To Mrs. Ella Peoples, Os Decatur Nathan Nelson. Adams ecunty attenI dance officer for the last few years, I tendered his resignation to Clifton E. I Striker, superintendent of the Adams I county schools, late Tuesday afterI noon effective at once. The resignation I was accepted. Mr. Nelson will be succeeded by Mrs Ella Peoples, of this city. Mrs. Peoples was elected by the county board of. education a few months ago, but the state attendance officer held that Mrs. Beoples did not have license to hold the office and ordered Mr. Nelson to continue in the office. Mrs. Peoples tiled a suit in the Adams circuit court to gain possession of the office, but the vase had not come up for trial. Mr. Ne'son decided to resign and an Agreement was reached between he a nd Mrs. Peoples, whereby he would receive pay from the time his last term , expired until yesterday. Mr Nelson has opened a law office in Geneva, his home town, and will engage in the Practice of law there.

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Wile Finds Hairpins In Husband’s Auto; Sues For Divorce Finding of hairpins in her husband's automobile, after he .had made a trip from Geneva to ort Wayne and back suposedly by himself, was one of the Incidents that led Mrs. Agnes Simon. , of Geneva, to file suit in the Adams circuit court for a divorce from her husband. Gordon Simon, Mrs. Slmo.| alleges, also, that her-husband struck and beat her with his fists, failed to I provide for her and was guilty of adultery. Mr. and Mrs. Simon were married September 23. 1924 and separated February 21. 1927. She says that her husband struck her and choked her when shfj spoke to him about the hairpins she found in his car. EVENING STAR FESTIVAL OPENS Large Audience Present For Opening Program Tuesday Night A large crowd attended the opening night cf the four-night entertainment being presented this week at the Decatur high school Auditorium under the auspices of the Decatur Lions Club. The Evening Star festival company presented the Lucille Elmore Revue as the opening night program, and thp large audience was very appreciat- ■ ive of the tine entertainment. The Revue was composed of a series of entertaining music and comedy numbers, including impersonations by Miss Elmore, who is a niece of the famous comdeian, Fred Stone. The Revue lasted u I«>ut an boor and a half and every numebr was well accepted and entertaining. Tonight, at 8:30 o’clock, Captain Sig. urd Gudmnndson, Arctic navigator ami internationally known explorer and lecturer, will deliver an interesting lecture, “Back From Siberia." Tonight’s program will be both entertaining and educational and all poisons will be interested in the subject. A few seats are available for each performance for persons not holding season tickets. Admission tonight will be 50 cents and persons not holding season tickets are asked to come early A full house is anticipated tonight and the two remaining nights of the festival. o Red Cross Makes New Appeal For Clothing A special appeal is being made by the Red Cross for old clothing to be sent to the Mississippi Flood sufferers. The clothing is very badly needed in those destitute districts and it is urged that everyone having old clothing of any sort, please leave it at the Fire Department as soon as possible. Proper response has not been made to this appeal and it is hoped that at the earliest possible time, the people will give it their consideration. T. P. A. Members Urged To Make Banquet Reservations John S. Peterson, secretary of Post X. of the T. P. A., today requested that all members of the post who expect to attend the annual post banquet, to be held at the Country Club next Monday evening, send their replies to him at once, so that he can make proper arrangements for the banquet. More than seventy members have already signified that they will attend the affair. The banquet will start at 6:30 i o'clock. » O Huge Liquor Shipment Taken At Crawfordsville Crawfordsville, Ind., Nov. 2. — (INS) —One hundred ninety gallons of alco- | hoi and three kegs of beer, one of the largest liquor shipments ever taken in this vicinity, were in possession of police here- today. The contraband , was taken from a truck driven by Morris D. Smith, who was placed und|er arrest. Smith was alleged to have admitted the liquor was destined for Louisville, Ky., from Danville, 111.

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Ungentle Bret Joke On T A ’ Crash Os Breaking Glass Al office Cause Scare; Sher Physician Is Injured In Wind Only Playing Wit I — — Its an ill wind that b'ows nobody i e<| around iji the town of Tocsin, a fi I wee small hours of this morning did ' and caused considerable excitement, fa ’ laughter, and the joke is on several re At 2 o’clock this morning, Sheriff ! Forester McClain, of Wells county, 1 . was called from his lied in Bluffton ,jam! told to burry to Tocsin, as an J attempt was being made to rob the town. The sheriff, being a dutiful off'cer of tho law in spite of his' fondness for sleep, hurriedly called | his faithful deputy. Arch Waugh, and 'he two oficers, heavily armed, de-, I parted for Toesin post-haste. Upon arriving at the quiet little I village, the officers found an excited [ I group of people gathered in front of the postoffice. The front window | ■■glass was shattered to pieces and Dr. C. L. Blue, prominent physician of the town, was bleeding profusely from a wound in his right hand. . Sheriff Is Called Orval Grim told the sheriff he was awakened by the crash of the window efass shortly before 2 o’clock and 'tint the crash was followed by a thumping sound, as though someone was at work inside the postoff'ce building. He called the telephone' operator and she called the sheriff | Dr Blue su’d he heard the same noise and. thinking a robbery was in nrogress, grabbed an old shot gun, l which had not. been used for several vears but which was loaded with buckshot, and fired it into the air. The barrel of the gun bursted and . the gun kicked back with great force, i gash three inches long being cut in the physician’s hand. The sheriff made an investigation. Here's what he learned: the wind b’ew down the large sign suspended in front of the postoffice, the sign struck the window glass and broke it. and the wind caused the sign, stf 1 suspended from one end, to swing back and forth, causing the thumping noise. Grins replaced frightened looks on the faces of those present, the sher- . CONTINUED OX ’’AGE TIII(EE) F.V. MILLS SELLS GROCERY STORE Veteran Decatur Grocer Sells Business To John Joseph And John Stults A business deal, involving one of Decatur’s oldest grocery stores, has been completed whereby John Stults and John Joseph, both of this city, become the owners of the F. V. Mills Grocery store on North Second street. The new owners began operation this morning. Mr. Stults has been connected with the grocery business for more than 15 years and during most of that time he has been employed at the Mills grocery. Mr. Joseph, until recently, was the senior partner of the Joseph and Lange Confectionery, which was sold to Vincent Boremann, a few months ago. He has been a resident of Decatur for more than 17 years, and a few weeks ago he received his final naturalization papers becoming a» American citizen and a legal resident of Decatur. The new firm will conduct the grocery under the same policy, it was stated today. The present counters will be replaced soon by new ones and several changes will be made in the interior of the building. The new firm will be known as the Home Grocery. Mr. Mills, who retired from the grocery business today has been the owner of the F. V. Mills Grocery forth? last 35 years and six years previously to that he was employed in local grocery stores. He stated today that he had not decided definitely what he would do in the future, but for a while he said he would take a vacation. Mr. i Mills stated that he had no intention ■ of leaving Decatur at present, having spent most o fhis life in this city.

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ezes Play 'ocsin Citizens nd Thumping Noise In Postill Makes Hurried Run And Firing Shot Gun Into Air; h Sign In Front Os Building good. Tile ungentle breezes that playfew miles west cf Decatur, during the some damage, ruined a lot of sleep but they produced a good cause tor esidents < f the town. CITY HOST TO ’ MUSIC CLUBS I District Convention Held Here Tuesday; Delightful Musical Numbers Given — The District Convention of Music Clubs, which was held in this city, 'Tuesday, with the Music Department of th? Woman's Club of this city acting as entertaining hostesses, was . well attended. The meeting was held lat the Zion Reformed ch' ch. Fourteen delegates were present, repre‘iiting the clubs from Newcastle, . Bluffton and Muncie. Mrs. Mary T Birge, <>4 Bloomington, fatale president of the Federation of Music Chibs, was also in attendance. I The meeting proved to be well | worth while and hold the real inspiration that a meeting of musical nature can give. Mrs. Bell Extends Greetings In the morning session, Mrs. Dan Tyndall led the musiic. Greetings to the visitors were then extended by Mrs. C. E. Bell, chairman of the Music Department of the local club, and by Mrs. John Tynda'l, president of the Woman’s Federated Club of this city. A very inspiring address was then given by Mrs. Birge, the state president. Miss Cecil Moser added much to the morning’s program with a group of vocal numbers She was accompanied by Mrs. Carrie Hau hold. At the noon hour, a luncheon was served in the church dining room by the Zion Reformed ladies, to more than fifty guests, club members and friends. Musical Numbers Given The musical numbers enjoyed in lite after.toon include.’ a group of V>ngs by Mrs. Mary C. Hammer, of Newcastle, accompanied by Mrs. Felix Mrs. Howard Cecil, of Muncie, accompanied by Mrs. Harry Chaddock, also sang a group of songs. Mrs. Florence Sprungor Starr, of . Bluffton, was present and by special request sang the three songs which site recent'y recorded for the Victor (CONTI"-’ Fl» ON PAGE ,«IX) REV. COIL IS WELL RECEIVED Powerful Sermons Are Being Proached At Christian Church Revival Revival services were resumed at lie Christian church last night with 1 n good audience in attendance. Mucli favorable comment is heard front Jliose who have been privileged to Jiear the Rev. A. A. Coil. 1 I Rev. Coil took as the subject of ’ Ji’s sermon. “Christ’s Call to the Church.” In his pungent, clear-cut style, he said in part. “The supreme ■ faculty of discipleship is to make ' kither disciples Who has told the i church to mark time when I Jhas given marching orders . There “ (are those in the church who hava i Christ and then do as they . please about Christ's program If - Jthe call of Christ means little to the - membership of the church it will . mean less to those outside.” He - closed his sermon with a stirring ap- . peal to the church to awake to its . supreme task—that of Christian . evangelism. , Tonight, Rev. Coil will preach on the subject, “Saved for Service.” An ( added feature of tonight’s services , will be the presence of Mr. and Mrs. (CONTENTED ON PAGE SIX)

(FILE PETITION FOR LIGHTS ON TENTH STREET Property Owners Also Want Street Paved North To Nuttinan Avenue COUNCIL ACTS ON DELINQUENT BILLS Property owners on Tenth street filed petitions with the city council last night asking that the street be improved witli ornamental lights from Adams street, north to Nuttnmn avenue. Two separate petitions were filed with the council and they were referred to Hie street and sewer committee and to tile electric light committee. Jesse It. Roop and a number of other property owners along the street signed the petitions. Tile city attorney was ordered to! take action in the matter cf collecting delinquent light ami water accounts coming to I lie city light and power plant. The following motion was made and carried: “Moved that the council stand unanimously behind the city attorney in tile matter of collecting the delinquent light and water bills". The city insists that the ’bills must be paid or suit will lie started and lijfats and water tinned off. No objections were filed against the assessments in the matter of the Weidler sewer improvement and upon motion the assessment roll was confirmed and the assessments turned over to the treasurer for collection. An appropriation for $866.75 for city street assessments and repairs and one for $575.52 for ialsir and material in improving the city parks were pass- • ed by the council. Bills were allowed by the finance com-mittee and the meeting adjourned Man’s Body Unidentified Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 2.— (INS) — Porter county authorities today were attempting to identify a man about thirty years old, found beside the’ road near Deep river, apparently a suicide. A scrap of paper bearing paraphrases of Shakespeare was found near the body. ANNOUNCE FARM INSTITUTE DATES Dates And Speakers For Farmers Institutes In Adams County Announced Programs for the annual township meetings of the Adams County Farmers’ Institutes were announced today by C. D. Kunkle, county cairman. The meeting will be held this winter in two groups, Mr. Kunkle announced. The opening meeting will be held at Monmouth, January 2. with C. I). Kunkle, county chairman, presiding Maurice S. Laftize of Liberty and Mrs. W. C Roberts of Heltonvllle, two good institute speakers have been secured for the first three meetings. They will both appear on the Monmouth program. The second meeting of group one will be held at Monroe- January 4, with the same speakers, Mr. Lafuze and Mrs. Roberts. \V. F. Rupert will be chairman. The third and final meeting of the group one will be held at Kohr’s school house in Union township Mr. Lafuze and Mrs. Roberts will lie the speakers and ('. I). Spuller will preside as chairman. The second group of meetings, Including four townships will open at Bobo, February 8, according to the announcement. J. R. Prigg of Middletown, and Mrs. L. T. Pierce of Knightstown, will be the speakers, and Otis Shifferly will preside at the meeting. The second meeting of group two will be held February 9, in Hartford township, with the same speakers. N. A. Pusey will act as chairman. The third meeting of group two will be held in Kirkland township. February 10, with the same speakers. Dan Sherry wil preside at the Kirkland meeting. The closing meeting will be (CONTINtED ON PAGE SIX)

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Marion Youth Paying Way Through College By Selling His Blood Marion, Ind., Nov. 2. —(UP) —Robert Custer .sou of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Custer of this city is working itis way through the University of Michigan by selling ids blood for transfusion operations. With three other students. Custer took tile blood test, and he was the only one found- satisfactory. __o Boy Dies Os Tetanus Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. 2. —(INS) — Tiie body of Merwin Muncie, 11, had been returned to his parents today, following death of the boy from tetanus which developed from a cut on tiie nose, ',’he cut wan received while young Minnie was playing hockey. Tetanus developed Friday and lie died in Riley hospital. HOME MISSION WORKERS MEET Annual Conference of M. E. Society Meets At Portland Thursday And Friday The ’ Forty-fourth annual meriting of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society North Indiana Conference, will lie held Thursday and Friday, November 3 and 4 at the Methodikt Episcopal church in Fortland. A large delegation of women from this city are expected to be present at the conference. The program for the .two-day meeting is as follows: Tuesday Afternoon —1:30 Holy Communion- Rev. F. F. Thornburg. D. D.. assisted by Rev. E. E. Trippeer and visiting ministers 2:30 Memorial Service .. Mrs- A. C. Hoover Vocal Solo Mrs. Da i Tyndall. Decatur Greeting Mrs. Fred Ramsey Response Mrs. Frank Mathews 2:55 National Radiograms Mrs. Stuart Rehrer 3:25 Flashlights from Department Secretaries. Evangelism Mrs. Fred Obendofer Life Service Miss Margaret Hand 3:30 Glimpses of our Kentucky Neighbors Rev. E. E- Franklin, Upland 4:00 Junior Hour, Mrs. V. G. Carter, Conference Junior Secre((ONTINI EI) ON PAGI-l SIX) — o Dim Lights On Traction Car Blamed For Crash Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2.—(INS) — I Dim lights on the interurban car which crashed into a truck trailer and killed twenty meml>ers of the Sahara Grotto barn dance party were blamed in part for the disaster, in a report approved by the Indiana service commission. i Several other contributing causes ■ were named in the report. Strict observance of rules of caution at grade crossings, and flagging i across tracks of large parties was recommended by the report. 27 Passengers Injured In Interurban Derailment 1 Gary, Ind.. Nov. 2.—(lNS)—Six of (lie twenty-seven passengers injured ' late Tuesday afternoon when a Gary railways street car ’was derailed as it ran through a switch still were in ’ hospitals here today. None is in a 1 seriout condition. 1 Max Kopinsky, operator of the ear, said he failed to slow down as he approached tiie switch, according to in1 vestigating police. J o— Beef Steers Sell At Record Price Today t Indianapolis. Nov. 2.—(INS)—Two carkads of beef steers today sold at. sl7 a hundred pounds on the Indianaipolis Livestock market, establishing the highest price paid since opening of the United States livestovk reI porting bureau here, and probably tiie highest price since the world war peak, according to J- L. Mozley, head of the reporting bureau. “Finished grades of cattle have I been steadily on the upward trend,” Mozley said. “Today's price estabII lished one of the highest marks :1 attained in normal times. e “There is nothing to indicate a | dedline from these prices.”

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NOTORIOUS CASE ENOS ABRUPTLY IN A MISTRIAL One Juror Taken Into Custody And Questioned By Federal Grand Jury DATE FOR NEW TRIAL UNDECIDED Washington, Nov. 2.—(INS) I’he six-year effort of the federal government to punish I iari y F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fad for an alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States of the Tea Pot Dome naval oil reserve ended today in a mistrial. With affidavits before the District of Columbia supreme court sustaining charges that tiie Jury had been shmlowed by private detectives and Dial one juror had expressed prejudice in Sinclair’s favor. Federal Judge Siddons brought the notorious .•use to an abrupt end and remanded the defendants for a new trial. Juror Is Arrested At the same time Edward J. Kidwell, the loose tongued member of the jury was taken into custody by a deputy marshal today. He was taken immediately before the federal grand jury. It was Kidwell’s loose tongue that brought the trial to a premature '•lose in one instance The other was the seizing in a raid on the Burns Detective agency headquarters of hour by hour reports on the oeilvi*’es of tie? twelve mea and women on the jury. Owen J. Roberts, government coun«el, announced later that he would ask the court to set a new trial for Fall and Sinclair for early in January. Roberts intended to confer with the court later in tho day about a definite date. No Charge Against Kidwell Washington, Nov. 2. —(INS) —Edward J. Kidwell, the “yes and no” juror in the Fall-Sinclair trial was closeted for more than an hour today with the federal grand jury in vestigating incidents leading up to (CON riN'i ni) OAI PAGE "'» ()» Balchen Probably Will Pilot Grayson Plane New York. Nov. 2. — (INS) —Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson announced today that B?rnt Ba’chen, former Norwegian naval lieutenant and a pilot for Commander Richard E. Byrd in tiie Arctic and on liis Atlantic flight, probably would be her pilot on another attempt this year to fly her Amphibian plane. “The Dawn” to Copenhagen this year. FORTY HOURS DEVOTION ENOS Several Out-of-Town Priests Take Part In Services Here Last Night Solemn and impressive services marked tiie closing of the Forty Hours devotion at the St. Marys Catholic, church last evening. The attendance at the closing services was the largest of any during the three days and several out-of-town priests participated in tiie services. The Forty Hours was one of the most successful ever held in the church. During the three days, more than 1,400 confessions were heard and between four and five Holy Communions were distributed . during the three days and this . morning. The Jesuit Father, Rev. J. S. Theis, I S. J., who delivered the sermons during the Forty Hours, commented on the tine attendance at the serv- . ices and expressed his appreciation. • Father Theis delivered the dosing . sermon last evening, his subject being 4 ‘Take thee and eat for this is my body.” He spoke on the sacrament x of Holy Communion and of the pres(CDNTINVED ON I’VGE. TIIUEE)

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