Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1927 — Page 1

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■OL.FORBES.OUT I IF PRISON, PLANS IFOR VINDICATION I Bonner Head Os U. S. VetI Berans’ Bureau, Promises I “Interesting Facts” \NTS to clear NAMES OF OTHERS By Irwin I. Femrite VP Staff Correspondent Federal Penitentiary, Leavenuth, Kaa„ Nov. 26—(UP)— omising some "new and inesting facts concerning peris responsible” for his im<onment. Col. Charles R. rhes, former head of the lited States Veterans’ bureau, ,s released from federal peniitiary here early this mornr. io was met at the gate of the prisliy a score of newspaper reporters I photographers. He smiled a eting and heaved a sigh of relief ■ R he shouted: "Hello, boys — you ■ K ;know how good it feels to be ■ “ ■ sHl'elies expressed the desire to ■ 'W ti'l'- ot" his own name, that of anB SB' notid prisoner. Dr. Frederick ■ >k. self-style.l discoverer of tile ■ 'I) Pole. and ihe name of the late I -ident Warren (1. Harding. ■ '§l "I m going to heave bombs among B ■>" I' (sons responsible for niy iniI ■r-ya.,.', regardless of wheie rh.-v B I don't want to besniir h char- ■ Bi'-o, ~f anyone but I will clear myB he said with a note of bitterI as he looked back toward the I which lias been hi sabode the B twenty months. Ihcutur (Jiri To (Jet B. S. Degree From I. U. Bloomington, Ind., Nev. 26 — Miss laty A. Burk, of Decatur, is one of 64 Indiana University students includ d in the fall list of graduates. This st has been approved by the faculty nd board of trustees of Indiana Uniersity and is made up of students who nrtfeipated in the June commencelent exercises but lacked a few hours f completing required work for their egrees. Most of these students attendil the 1927 summer session in order ) complete their studies. Miss Burk will receive the IJ. S. detee in Home Economics. The college of arts and science rank--1 first in number with 81 students reviving the A. B. degiee. The graduate hool came second with 38 students ampleting their werk for the masters eglee and six for the doctor of philo>phy degree. —— o )ccatur Has Three Students At Ohio State Columbus, 0., Nov. 26 —Seven eights f the states of the Union and nearly score of foreign lands are represent--1 in the cosmopolitan population of lore than 10,000 students this fall at hio State University. The enrollment i the largest in the history of the uniersitywhich opened its doors 55 years go. Although the nationalities of five mtinents are represented in the I I campus population, more than 90 per I ■ cent of the record-breaking total conies i ■ from Ohio ccmmunitles. Every county I ■in the state is again represented. [ Three students from Decatur, are t ■ enrolled at the university, They are | Glenn Parrish Beavers, Arts-Law. HarI old V. DeVor, Denistry, Lowell (’line ■ Smith, Medicine. [I GIRL BEHEADED I! IN AUTO WRECK I Three Other Members Os Party Injured When Train Hits Car At Hammond Hammond, Nov. 26.—-(INS)—A girl I was beheaded and three persons were I injured seriously at the New York I Central crossing here today when I the auto in which they were riding I was strucu by an engine. The dead girl was Miss Ida Blevins, I cf Miller, Indiana. The injured were, I W. J. Grinstaff, of Miller and Mr. and > Mrs. Macy Burnett, newlyweds, of I Gary. Indiana. AU three injured internally were i t av en to a hospital here. The car I I was dragged 100 feet.

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Cardinal Dies

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CARDINAL BONZANO (lBl«rn»Uonal lllualrsuo N«wa) John Cardinal Bonzano. former Apostolic delegate to Washington, D. C. died in Rome at 8 o'clock this m<.rning, following an operation performed in a hospital there. STARTS HIS 36 TH TEARASBANKER James Harkless, Cashier Os Old Adams County Bank, Is Congratulated James Harkless, cashier of the Old Adams County bank, of this city, today was receiving congratulations of his friends as he started his thirtysixth year in the banking business. Thirty-five years ago today, Mr. Harkless started his banking career in the First National hank in this city. Later, he went to Paulding, Ohio, for a few years and then returned to this city as cashier of the Peoples Loan and Trust company. Later, Mr. Harkless accepted the position as chashier of the Old Adams County bank, where he has since remained. Among the many congratulations, Mr. Harkless received a large bouquet of roses from the Maier Hide and Fur Company, of this city. 0 Ship’s Disappearance Puzzles Seafarers Mobile, Ala., —(UP)—Where is the schooner Clara M. Littlefield? Like a phantom ship the sturdy little craft owned by a Pensacola firm has disappeared in the Gulf of Mexico after leaving for the fishing grounds off the Campeche Banks. Coast Guard boats have failed to find a trace of the schooner. Radio has failed to connect with the craft. On Sept. 24 the Clara M. Littlefield left her home port. A month later there came word from the schconer, indirect The Glenpool, a steamship reported sighting the vessel 81) miles south of South Pass. Fuel had been exhausted for the motor and the food supply was diminished. 0 Judge Dearth Turns Down Plea For Grand Jury Probe Muncie, Nov. 26.—(UP)—The demand of Prosecutor Joseph H. Davis for a Delaware county grand jury investigation to clear him of graft ciiarges made by a roadhouse proprietor has been turned down by Judge Clarence R. Dearth. Judge Dearth said he would do rcthlng about the request until the federal investigation of conditions in Muncie has been concluded. Clayton F. Dudley, roadhouse owner, brought into Judge Dearth’s court, declared th:R Wilborn Caldwe’l, automobile dealer, told him he gave Davis money to living about dismissal of automobile theft charges. — —■—‘ Motorist Is Injured Indianapolis, Nov. 26. — (INS) Mrs. Mildred Edwards was critically injured in the downtown district here when the automobile in which she was riding crashed 16to a parked automobile. - French Plane Falls Casa Blanca, Morrocco Nov. 26'— (IKS) —Six persons Including Lieut. Majorio, the pilot, were killed when a French army plane crashed near Todja, today, while the occupants were i making a photographic survey of the district.

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JOHN CARDINAL ~ BONZANO DIES Prominent Catholic Churchman Dies This Morning In Rome Rome, Nov. 26.— (UP)—John Cardinal Bonzano, former apostolic delegate to Washington and the papel legate to the International Eucharistic congress in Chicago a year ago, died at 8 a. m. today. He was operated on a week ago for a tumorous growth in his stomach. The operation took 150 minutes and the 60-year-old “prince of the church” withstood the operation well. His condition, however, became worse yesterday and he died early today. His brother, two sisters, secretary Monsignor Pina, confessor Monsignor Beltrami, Monsignor Francis Spellman and Dr. John Spellman, the latter two from Boston, were at the bedside when Cardinal Bonzano was pronounc'-d dead. Even in his last words, Bonzano thought of America. "Tell my American friends I die happily reposing in the prayers of so many faithful in the United States.” he said. The last comforts of religion were administered to the Cardinal before he died. Special apostolic, benediction anil masses were said all morning in the private chapel of the clinic where the operation was performed. Numerous friends of the Cardinal's from the American colony here and prelates from the Vatican visited the body today. Cardinal Bonzano was one of the leading figures in the Roman Catholic church. From 1912 to 1920 he was papal delegate in Washington with the rank of archbishop. Then in 1926 he returned to America bringing the personal blessings of the pope on the Eucharistic congress iu Chicago. The cardinal was born in Castelleto Scazzoso sh mtrtbern Raly in 1867. He was the son of peasant parents. At the age of 23, the future cardinal started out as a missionary priest to a station in China. He was there seven years until his health became Impaired in 1897, when.be returned to Rome. In 1904 came the earthquake at Messina and he then showed his ability as manager of the papal relief expedition. The title of monsignor and bishop came rapidly. When in 1911 Cardinal Falconio gave up his position as papal delegate to Washington the young cleric of 44 years was made an archbishop and assigned to the American capital. While Archbishop Bonzano was in Washington, the World War complicated a none too easy position. As the struggle went on front year to year, President Wilson and Pope Benedict became the two outstanding peace figures. It was the duty of the papal legate in Washington to act as liaison between them. In 1920, he returned to Rome and two years later he became .a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals. In 1926, Cardinal Bonazona representend the pope at the Eucharistic congress in Chicago. COURf GRANTS THREE DIVORCES Three Women Win Decrees Os Separation From Husbands Here Today Three divorces were granted by Judge Jesse C. Sutton in the Adams circuit court today. The person winning the divorce was the wife, in each case. A divorce was granted to Effie C. J.’. Hart on her complaint against James W. Hart. Her maiden name of Effie C. M. McGill was restored, also. Helen Sprague won a divorce from James Sprague. The court granted a divorce to Ida M. Durbin on her complaint against Orva H. Durbin. Mrs. Durbin's maiden name of Ida M. Baumgartner was restored, also. 0 ( Spanish-American War Veterans In Convention Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 26—(UP) — Spanish-American war veterans and members of the women's auxiliary of the northern district are in convention here today, the session to continue through Sunday. Col. W. M. Louden of Bloomington, Is president.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 26, 1927.

Salesman For Bullet Proof Vests Thrills ( Newcastle Policemen | New Castle. Ind.. Nov. 26 (INS) Policemen In headquaiters here were startled and alm: st terrified to see a . num who had come in a few minutes before take out a heavy pistol, place the muzzle to bis chest and with a cynical smile, pull the trigger. Horror changed to astonishment ■| when the gun continued to roar and ■ the man never lost his smile. • “Seo," he said "It doesn't even I ■ hurt.' • While the officers were debating what to do with a num who cculd not p be injured by bullets, he explained he • was a salesman for Imllet proof vests. *1 deinonst.atlng the effectiveness of hip | product. | The vest the num wore had turned away the bullets as though they hnd been soft rubber, fired out of a toy pep gun. o LEWIS L. MASON GIES AT GENEVA ) Resident Os Geneva For Last Fifty Years Dies Friday Night Geneva, Nov. 26 —(Special) —Lewis ) L. Mason, 77, a resident of Geneva • for the last 50. years, died at his home here at 9 o’clock last night, following • an illness of several months duration. • The diiect cause cf the death was said ’ to be heardening of the arteries and enlargement of the heart. ' Mr. Mason was a house mover by ' trade and he worked at that profession until the last few months, when his 1 failing health would not permit him tc work. He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. Surviving are the wife. Mrs. Margaret Mason, and a daughter Mrs. F. N } Hale, of Fort Wayne. Several more distant relatives anji many friends alsc survive. Funeral services will be held Mont day morning at 10 o’clock from the ; home in Geneva. Burial will be made j in the cemetery near Geneva. 1 0 ! STATE RESTS : IN REMUS TRIAL i Alienists Report That De--1 fendant Was Sane At , Time Os Shooting , Cincinnati, Nov. 26. — (INS) — The , state at 11:23 this moring rested its , case against George Remus, “king of , bootleggers,” who is on trial for the , murder of his wife. Imogene. The , state had placed 33 witnesses on the stand. ] The state completed its case shortr ly after 3 alienists appointed by the court to study tile mental condition , of Remus filed their report which . stated the defendant! i,s> now: sane and was sane on the morning of October 6 lust when he shot and killed his wife. i Had the alienists reported that Remus is insane Vudge Chester R. Shook said he would have been foreI ed to ask Remus to withdraw from l the case as his own lawyer. Bass Are Fond Os s Gold Fish, Fishermen Learn At Petersburg Petersburg, Ind., Nov. 26. — (INS)— Dealers here iu goldfish laid in heavy s supplies for use of fishermen over the . Thanksgiving week-end. following the i discovery that bass in this district are very fond, of goldfish. The discovery was made by John s Hash, merchant of this city. Hash , decided to go fishing, but it was too cold to seine for minnows. Passing j a store window where goldfish were on display in glass bowls, he walked in and purchased ten of them, for bait. , Halt an hour later he returned with t eighteen pounds of bass, weighing from a pound and a half to three pounds each, one of the finest catches made near here. Goldfish bait is being adopted by many Petersburg fishermen. I Lineman Is Electrocuted Corunna, Ind., Nov. 26. —(INS) — 1 Dewey Kugler, 35, of Angola, Lineman f for the Indiana Service Corporation, i- was electrocuted when he came in i- contact with a high tension wire. . His body, badly charred, was cut down by a fellow worker.

START PROBE OF PRISON RIOT Toll Os Folsom Prison Revolt In California Mounts To 12 Today Folsom Prison, Calif., Nov. 26. — (UP) —The death toll of the Folsom >rison 1 evolt was brought to 12 today vhen Frank Carlson, Ventura em •ezzler, died from Imllet wounds. Carlson was doing'a 10-year sentence. Folsom Prison, Calif., Nov. 26. — (UP)—Tlie state of California todav >egan the collection of evidence which t hopes will result in the hanging of he six convict leaders of the Folsotn prison strike which resulted in the leaths of eleven persons. Prosecutor Neil McAllister of Sacranento county announced that respondbillty for killing of two guards will furnish ample basis for first degree murder charges against the leaders if the rebellion. “We have a dear hanging case igainst these men," he declared. “In addition to killing the guards, these men were responsible for the death of nine convicts, shot in the attack on heir prison hospital stronghold. Under the California law, a convict ommitting an assault on another nonvict may be hanged." McAllister has questioned several of the convicts who witnessed the fighting between the prisoners and iiitliorities. One rompany of militia remained it the penitentiary. The six leaders lave been plased in solitary lonfinement. and have named Tony Brown, San Francisco, who was serving a 15-year term for robbery as the head of the group of conspirators. o — Monroe Man Catches Wolf In Trap He Set To Catch An Opossum Monroe. N’-tT. 26j— (Special)—Emil Christner a farmer residing two miles ofilli of Mor -' e. -et a trap Thursday night, hoping to cateh an opossum. He suspended a chicken from a support and placed the trap directly under the chicken. Yesterday morning when lie went to investigate the rap, he found what is believed to be i prairie wolf. Mr. Christner hit the mimal on the head with a club and hen took it captive. Police “Deadline” Is Laid Out In Indianapolis Indianapolis, Nov. 26. —(INS)—A rxfice "deadline," bounding a downtown shopping zone In which shoplifters, pickpockets ad known criminals will be arrested on sight, went into effect here today, until after the Christmas season. By order of Chief of Police Claude M. Worley, t lie district extended from Georgia to New York streets and from East to Missouri streets. Within thes? bounds special police and plain clothes details were to lie plac'd, to arrest .ill suspicious characters, for protection of yuletide shoppers. KOKOMO MAN IS CONVICTED Pool Room Owner Is Found Guilty Os Second Degree Murder Peru, Nov. 26. — (INS) — William Kiefer, 54. Kokomo pool room owner, was found guilty of second degree n.urd'T by a jury in circidt court hero today 'in connection with the shoot•ng at Kokomo, Jan 14, 1924, of Mrs. Catherine Russell, 46, Kokomo widow. Die jury recommended life imprisonment. The case went to the jury at 5 p. m Friday, and the verdict was read 'n court at 10 a. m. today. It was the second time Kiefer has been convicted of the shqotlng. Kiefer was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the shooting by a jury in Howard circuit court. He appealed the case to the Indiana supreme court and was rc The supreme court granted him a leased on $5,000 bond at that time new trail anil the case was venued to the Miami circuit court for retrial The retrial bega last Monday. Cir cult Judge Hurst order' d Kiefer lock ed in jail until the formal passing of sentence pending the filing of u motion for a new trial. Had Kiefer been content with the manslaughter verdict, he would have got off with a 2 to 21 year sentence

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Won’t Pay Alimony

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Grace W. Elliott of Los Angeles I may be the first woman in the United > States to lie jailed for failing to pay i alimony! Two weeks ago Mrs. Elliott found > herself in possession of a court order i to give her husband $l5O a month > for his support, but she didn’t "come f across.” • i She had sued her aged husband. William E. Elliott, for divorce. He t countered with a cross-complaint •barging that site had kicked him out of their home when he had grown old 1 and feeble and unable to work. • He added in his complaint that he I had handled his wife's original for tune of $50,000 as her business man I ager and. by shrewd manipulation i had managed to boost it up to $200,- . 000. Judge Thomas Gould, after hearing i the stoiy, then ordered Mrs. Elliott I to pay the $l5O a month. She hasn't done so, and no wfaces jail as the first female alimony defaulter. < International Newsreel I . AGED RESIDENT- ' OF BERNE DIES Mrs. Lauretta C. Coffin, Age 86, Dies Os Pneumonia Friday Night ‘ • Berne, Nov. 26 —(Special) Lauretta C. Coffin, 86, died at the home of her son, Otto Coffin, well-known Berne baiber, at 7:30 o'clock last night fol- , lowing a brief illness due to pneumonia. Mrs. Coffin had been ill since Mon t day. Mrs. Coffin was born in Union county, January 22. 1841. She was married to Menno Coffin in eally life. For [ many years, Mrs. Coffin lived at For- > est, Indiana She came to Berne to make her home with her son about twr > years ago, when Mr. Coffin opened a ! barbarshop here. I Surviving are three sons, Otto of . Berne, Harry, of Pilisboro, Indiana. I and Milton, of Iliykon. Ohio; one - daughter, Florence liarriel, of Kokomo. , two brothers, Anderson Gardner, of Brooklyn, N. ¥., anil Mack G finer, of Brown county; and one sister, Ellen Rucker, of Manitou. Colorado. Funeral services wil be held in the Methodist church at Forrest. Monday. Burial will be ma..<> in the St. Paul | cemetery, neat Forest. Workman Killed When j Gravel Pit Caves In Morristown, Ind.. Nov. 26 (INS) — Carl Jefferson. 35. of Bloomingburg. Ohio, was killed instantly and Ollie C< pple, 23. was critically hurt when . the side of a gravel pit in which they „ were working, north of here, caved e inThe machinery at Ihe top of the pit i slid down on the men, who were buried in the debris. Jefferson was i_ manager of the granite, sand and grave) c unpany, whfch owned the pit. >. — 0 II Yeggmen (Jet $33,000 From Arkansas Bank ( Bearden. Oik Nov. 26 (INS) Yegge men broke into the Farmer's aafl t Merchants bank here and escaped with e $33,000 in cash. Entrance to the building was gain|v ed by a window and the yeggmen lei- , surely opened the valut and tcok the 0 cash. I, /X posse was organized to search for r . the robbers. ( o—g Hunter Is Killed a Bedford. Ind.. Nov. 26. — (INS) — George Rush. 25, of Newbarry, was e killed instantly when his gun explode ed as lie attempted to dislodge a bird s. he had shot, from the tork of a tree.

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SAYS DRY LEAGUE DID NOT REQUEST GRAND JURY PROBE Thinks Attorney General Should Be Treated Like Anyone Else, However SAYS CHARGE IS “WILD STATEMENT” lii<li;in;i|>oiis, Xov. 2(> (INS) Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana AntiScdoon League today denied •hat Ihe league had anything to Io with investigating the grand 'tiry probe at Decatur, Ind., of •he alleged liuuor law violation hv Attorney General Arthur 1.. Gillioni. of Indiana. “The league has taken absolutely io part in this Investigation." Dr Shumaker said. "It has been started >y the chizens of Berne and Decatur. "It Mr Gillioni. however, has vioated tlie law he should be treated 'ike any other person who violates 'he law." Dr. Shumaker added. Denies He Held Conference The dry leader also denied he had held a conference at Bluffton. Ind., one Sunday just before demand had been made for the grand jury probe of Gillioni with E. L. Ray. of Berne, !n l . known as a strong “dry.” “I attended a field day at Bluffton that day." Shumaker explained "After eating dinner at tbo hotel bt uoon. I ran into Mr Ray as I was 'eaving toe dining room. It was a Here coincidence. Naturally I di<i isk him about the Gillioni case at Decatur, since I had heard reports ilx ut it I just iinstened to his story. It was no prearranged meeting between me and Ray. I had not communicated with him prior to talK‘ng w ith him nor have 1 talked to him ilaiut the case since." STmniaker characterized Gillium’s charge that the dry league was back of the grand jury probe as i "wild itatenieiit." James Armitage Seeks Relief From Sentence Indianapolis, Nov. 26 —(INS) —Criminal court judge James A. Collins today had under lulvisemeut a plea of Janies E. Armitage fan relief from his sentence of 90 day|M' jail imposed following his conviction for attempted briebery of Claude Achey, a member of the second Marion county grand jury investigating political corruption. Pleading (has confinement woulil endanger tlie life of Armitage his attorney asked Judge Collins to suspend the jail sentence but announced that Armitage would pay the fine of SSOO and costs and would withdraw his appeal. Judge Collins said he would rule on the plea next Saturday when statements of physicians and a petition bearing 150 names would be considered. o '..1.Hamrick Is Denied Parole From Prison Michigan City, Ind.. Nov. 26 (INS) Jesse D. Hamrick, Indianapolis attorney, again was refused a parole from his two to fourteen year arson term in state prison, by action of the prison board sitting as a pardon board. Tiie petition for parole was considered w-ith a petition signed by eleven of the jurors who convicted Hamrick. that he not be paroled. A parole was recommended, however, for Luis Winn, who lias served 26 years of a life sentence. n— — LOCAL WOMAN'S SISTER KILLED Mrs. Walter Bluhm Receives W ord That Sister Is Killed In Michigan Mrs. Walter Bluhm, who resides on tlie Bellview farm a mile oast of this city, received- word yesterday that tier sister had goen killed in an accident Thanksgiving Day at Flint. Michigan. Details of the accident were not received and Mrs. Bluhm left here yesterday for the home of her parents in Michigan. Mrs. Bluhm’: sister had visited in this city and for some time she and Miss Ireta Erwin, of this city, had ■ lived together in Fort Wayne. She Iliad been married only a few months when the fatal accident occurred.

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