Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1927 — Page 1

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GILLIUM CASE

SARDWARESTORE | AT WILLSHIRE IS GUTTED BY FIRE - Loss Estimated At $5,000 Caused At Rex Hardware Store Early Sunday JECATUR FIREMEN GIVE ASSISTANCE Willshire, Ohio. Nov. 28. - Special) The slock of the Rex l.ndware store was destroyed lV lire at about 5:30 o'clock iiiixlav morning, entailing a >ss to the owner, Samuel Stein, ji : mated at $5,000. Postmaster W. G Hoffer, who was m bls way to the pdstoffice, noticed i small blaze at the rear of the store m the second floor and sent in the ilarm. The Willshire volunteer fire jepartment answered the call, but he amount ofswater pumped from Jio river by the hand pump outfit fas of little service in putting out he blaze- and a call for the Decatur Jre truck was made. The Decatur truck arrived on the Irene about 15 minutes later and was ible to keep the blaze confined withn the brick wa'ls of the building, rhe building adjacent to the Rex lardware company is a frame structtre. It is unoccupied at present. Part of Stock Saved Mr. Stein stated that he had about fl 1.000 worth of stock in the store. Volunteers who aided him were able io move a few thousand dollars worth As g tods from the store. Mr. Stein stated that he carried about $7,000 worth of insurance on the stock and that he estimated his net loss at about $5,000. The building is owned by the Dellinger Bros, auto dealers here. The less to the building was not estimat?d. The second floor was burned out and fell to the basement. The walls st the building are standing and in all probability the owners of the luiilding will repair it. Mr. Stein opened his hardware store in the Foreman building, south of his present location, this morning, with the stock cf goods that was saved from the lire. o L. B. Brokaw Suffers Stroke Os Paralysis L. T. Brokaw, of this city, received a telephone call this morning stating that his son, L. B. "Bud" Brokaw, fornteily of this City suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home in Fort Wayne this morning. The stroke affected Mr. Brokaw’s entire left side and, while not unconscious, he was unable to talk. The elder Mr. Brokaw left for Fort Wayne at noon today, to be at the bedside of his son. The latter’s condition was said to he serious. o — Sebastian Kresge Gets Judgment For $610,398 New York, Nov. 28. —(INS) —A verdict in favor of Sebastian Kresge, 5 and 10 cent store magnate of Detroit, against W. E. Hutton & Co., brokers, for $640,398.71 was returned today. Kresge had brought action against the brokers to recover $685,000, which lie alleged the firm had loaned in Kresge stock to J. M. Byren & Co., defunct brokerage company, without Ms authority. o ■ TO DISPLAY NEW FORD DECEMBER 2 Focal Agents To Show New Car To Public Next Friday The full slory of the new Ford automobile, ’described by Henry Ford as being “superior in design and performance to any now avialable in the low Price, light car field,’’ will be told in Decatur, next Friday, December 2, according to announcement today by I*. L. Macklin, manager of the Adams County Auto company, Ford dealers, A public reception is to be held here simultaneously with similar gatherings at every Ford dealers in the Dnited States, thus constituting a part of the greatest automobile snow in the history of the industry. While no detailed descriptions have yet been given out by local dealers, thq Ford Motor Company, from its headquarters in Detroit, has announced (CONTINUED OX PACE TWO*

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I BEFORE TRAGEDY ENTERED DOOR Interesting photo is party group taken at George Remus' maision ■ \ | when all was serene in fan. y of / , • "King ot the Bootlegg..., s." Imogene, the wife he slew In Cincinnati, Is ! I > shown with her arm around Remus' iwv neck, while George Brown, her i ■ ™-1 j brother, is seated back of her, with -'■*«wiA « i ■ bls arm extended on Remus’ chair. SSgl ’ • Brown Is now an Important witness L IS ja against the wealthy liquor-runner. Cloteruailonal AUuatraivd Mawa> WIO- • I jggauaMaMMMs

LARGE CROWD I HEARS RABBI Rabbi Markowitz Delivers Lecture On “Mv Neighbor” At M. E. Church In spite of the rain and bad weather, a large audience greeted Rabbi Samuel H. Markowitz, Sunday night, in the Methodist Church. He spoke on the subject “My Neighbor.” Introducing the speaker, the pastor the Rev. R. W. Stoakes, said that he did not know how many protestant pulpits might be opened freely to a preacher of the Jewins faith, but that his (Mr Stoakes') was freely given and he was afforded a pleasure in introducing the speaker. Dr. Marowitz held his large audience in perfect atention for the fortyfive minutes he addressed them. i Dr. Markowitz cited the age old discussion as to "Who is my neighbor” stating that sacred writing shows that it was a question dating back as far as four thousands years B. C. He declared that would have to be answered correctly before peace on earth and good will toward men could come. He said the most beautiful and practical teaching on the subject as to whom we can claim as neighbor, was that of Jesus Christ whom the Christian world worshiped as God. This teaching came through the paralde of the good Samaritan. The Rabbi showed that it was the order of things designed by an all-wise Father and God that there should be a difference in created things, that these contrasts of life were to accept as one of His greatest blessings. That the monotony of a world with all things and being alike in it would drive the world to suicide. But, said the speaker, there is a fundamental likeness in all the human race that makes us brothers and sister and that likeness is the spirit within or the unperishable soul of man. This, said the speaker, is the tie that binds us together, one man to another, and makes us neighbors. Dr. Markowitz became eloqunet as he concluded, and said that if the (CONTENTED ON IMfiE T" o; 0 Season Os Advent Onens At St. Mary’s Church The season ot advent opened Sunday in the Catholic church. At the mo-ning masses at the St. Marys Catholic church in this city, sermons on the observance of advent were given by the Rev. Joseph Hession, acting pastor and the Rev. William Collins. The sea ton ot advent is observed in anticipation of the happy feast of Christmas. The season of advent also marks the beginning of the new church year. o Music Played By Son Arouse Woman From Coma Os 170 Hours Long Beach, Cal.. Nov. 28.—(INS) —The sound of music today was given credit for arousing Mrs. Ethel Baldwin from a state of coma which had lasted 170 hours. The woman relapsed Into unconsciousness after her husband died, and all efforts to revive her failed until music was employed. She gradually returned to consciousness as her son played a piano by her side. “1 seemed to be floating in a void, Mrs. Baldwin explained, “and it was not until my son began playing that I realized I was alive.”

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— J. Frank Mann Is Strong For 1928 Home-Coming Here "I wish to say that I hope the ‘hom-eoming proposition for 1928 will be carried out,” writes J. Frank Mann, former Decatur man, who is now a prominent attorney in Muncie. Mr. Mann says he wants to “meet all of the remaining old boys and girls—especially the girls.” Mr. Mann ads a postcript to his letter in which he says, “I thought Decatur was about the only remaining reallv sane spot on earth. I wonder if I am mistaken. I hope your grand jury ‘squelches” the whole Gilliom matter and that Decatur will still remain as the only really sane spot.” JULIA PARROTT GIVES ADDRESS Former Decatur Girl, Now Missionary To Burma, Speaks At Baptist Church Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reynolds of Bluffton, and their house guest, Miss Julia Parrott motored to this city Sunday evening. Miss Parrott is a foreign missionary from Burma and is enjoying her last furlough in this country. She gave the address of the evening at the Sunday evening services of the Baptist church. Miss Parrott is a former Adams County girl and was converted and pledged herself to Missionary work at the local Baptist church, forty years ago. She will return to her foreign post next May, and will soon be on the retired list of missionaries. She never to return to the United States. Following the services at the church, Mr .and Mrs. Reynolds, Miss Parrott and Miss Jessie Winues were guests at tea at the C. E. Bell Jrome. MRS. MARGARET BARKLEV DIES Former Decatur Resident Dies At Home Os Daughter In Fort Wayne Mrs. Margaret Phipps Barkley. 83. widow of Levi Barkley, and a former resident of Decatur, died Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Rose, 924 Packard avenue, Fort Wayne. Mrs. Barkley had been ill for four months. The deceased was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., and was the 'laughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Phipps. She came to Adams county with her parents when a young child and lived in Decatur until six years ago, when she moved to Fort Wayn*. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Surviving are two sons, William A. and Brenton L. Barkley; five daughters, Mrs. George Schroeder, Mrs. T. M. Reid, Mrs. Nellie Boyles. Mrs. A. E. Rose and Mrs. R. C. Parrish; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kohler, of Cromwell. Funeral' services will be held Wednesday afterncon at 1:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Rose, with the Rev. E. E. Detweiler, of Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 28, 1927.

Anti-Saloon League Must Readjust Its Policies And Clean House To Retain Church Support, Says Paper

Chicago, Nov 28. (UP) The Ant policies, rem unce its dubious political nel of its leadership if It expects conti Christian Century, an undenomination cago, declared in an editorial today. Tlie magazine based Its attack on l lie league on the defeat of the | Marshall bill in Ohio, which provided ' (or a judiciary dependent for its income upon the fines assessed against I iry law offenders. The publication ; denounced the law as "intolerable” i mil said: "The decent voters of Ohio snowed t under That the league in its eeg»rness to impose large fines on local offenders against the dry laws could overlook this fundamental threat against our institutions is profound !y disturbing." The indorsement by the league of the candidacy of ETank L. Smith for the I’. S. senate was termed ‘scandalous.’’ “Developments in the past months make it clear that the time lias come when the churches, in loyalty to their own ethical Ideals, must demand a housecleaning within this organization which they conceived of as their own ‘militant arm' for fighting the liquor traffic," the Christian Century said. ,—o EYE-SHADE CATCHES FIRE Henry Hite. Prominent Decatur Man, Painfully Burned On Face Henry Hite, of this city, suffered a painful injury last evening when the green celluloid eye-shade which he was wearing, caught fire when he was lighting a cigar. The flames spread over Mr. Hite’s forehead and he suf. feted a bad burn on his face and forehead. Miss Madge Hite, Mr. Hite’s daughter, quickly extinguished the flames with her hand and, in doing so she received a slight burn on her arm. The attending physician stated today that he did not think Mr. Hite’s injury was sericus. BIG LIVESTOCK SHOW IS OPENED Secretary Os Agriculture Jardine Present At Chicago Exposition Chicago, Nov. 28. — (INS) —Secretary of Agri ulture William M. Jardine arrived in Chicago from Wash- ■ ington today to attend the Internat- . ional Live Stock Exposition. , Tonight’s feature at the stock yards amphitheatre will be the annual horse i show, in which there are more than 1,000 entries. X feature of the show will be a parade of 1,200 children, contestants in events sponsored by the National Boys' and Girl’s Club, who are attending the show as guests of the management. The children paraded this forenoon, I displaying floats and banners, with the marchers dressed to represeht the “favorite" farm products of their var l ions states. Judging of horses, sheep and hogs was begun at the exposition today with Percherons occttping the horse ring. o— — John Baker Enters Indianapolis Hospital ’ John Baker, Mercer Ave., went to 1 Indianapolis, Thursday where he entered the St. Vincent's hospital as a ’ medical patient, for treatment for ner- ( vous trouble. Mr. Baker has been quite r poorly tot several weeks past and has I behn confined to his bed for a major portion of the time. He has two daughters at the St. Vincent hospital, one a graduate nurse, and the other a nurse in training. It is uncertain as yet whether or not Mr. Baker will have to tin- . dergo a surgical operation t i correct his trouble.- ’ Board Os Guardians To Meet Tomorrow t The Board of Guardians will meet in the Public Library at 4 o’clock Tites- . t'l.y afternoon. Important business will , come before the board and all mem bers are urged to be present.

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itl-Saloon League must readjust its commitments, and change the persontinned support of the churches, the nal religious weekly published in ChiGOVJACKSON'r MOTION TO QUASH IS ARGUED TODAY Attorneys Present Arguments On Motion To Quash Indictment ALLEGED ACT IS SEEN AS THREAT Indianapolis, Nov. 28. (INS) The alleged overt act by Governor Ed Jackson and his two co-delendiints, which brought about their indictment, was a threat Io former Governor Warren T. McCray to injure him and his approaching trial •n 1924 if he revealed that Tackson. Robert I. Marsh and George V. Coffin. the defendants, had approached him with an offer for appointment of Janies McDonald. as Marion county prosecutor. William IL Remy, prosecutor of Marion county charged today at the hearing before special Judge Oscar H. Montgomery on the defence mot’on to quash the indictment. Prosecutor Remy pointed out that the grand jury could not have indicted the governor on tlie bribery charge alone, because of tlie statute of limitation.) but that the alleged attempt at conij'ulmetr of the alleged offense, as represented by the alleged threat to McCray, formed the basis for prosecution of the governor. Referring to D. C. Stephenson, who •it that time was at the height of his power in Indiana, Prosecutor Remy said: "Linked with these defendants was a man who was commonly known to have said ‘I am the law in Indiana’--and he wasn't far wrong." Says Prosecution Was Late Indianapolis, Nov. 28.—(INS) —The prosecution was a week late in its bribery conspiracy allegation against Gov. Ed Jackson and iiis co-defend-ants, former supreme court justice Lewis Ewbank, attorney for the governor, argued today before Special I’idgf l Oscar IL Montgomery in his motion to have the indictment quashed. "The indictments charged the defendant with conspiring on Dec. 15. 192" to bribe former Governor War ren T. McCray to appoint Janies McDonald as Marion county prosecutor and judicial records showed that Wm. IL Remy was appointed prosecutor on Dec. 8, 1923, Ewbank asserted. Ewbank also charged that the first . indictment returned by the Marion county grand jury on September 9 alleged that tlie offense took place 1 December 8, 1923. STATE SCORES IN REMUS TRIAL Court’s Ruling Favorable To Prosecution; Workings Os Mind Described By Paul W. White (L'P Staff Correspondent) Court Room, Cincinnati, O„ Nov. 28 I (UP)—The workings of the mind o' George Remus before he shot .and killed his wife, Imogene, today wen i described to ihe jury that is trying - ihe former multi-millionaire bootleg - ger on a charge of murder. r The stat" won an important point when Judge Chester R. Shook ruler i that the defense first must preseni ? Independent evidence tending to prov. Remus' mentality was impaired be i- fore it set out to show what causer t the impairment. Thus testimony in support of tin deft use contention that Remus be ame insane because of the conduc of his wife and Franklin L. Dodge f former department ot' justice oper alive, was delayed and will be rule, t upon later after witnesses have givei i- their opinions of the defendant’s san 1 ity both before and after he was sen n to prison for infractions ot' ths natior al dry law.

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President John Lewis of United Mine Workers has ••.Hied upon President Coolidge and appealed to ' him to intervene in strike of 85,tM)0 soft coal miners in Pennsylvania.

TO GIVE HOME TALENT PLAY Salem Ladies Aid Society To Give Play In Connection With Bazaar Friday, December 2. at the McKim ■ sey school, south of Salem, the Salem • Ladies Aid Society will conduct a >azaar and supper. Many useful and ornamental articles have been prepared for the bazaar and will be sold - reasonable. The supper will delight ■ the appetite of all who come. In addition to the bazaar and sup t per. tlie ladies will present a ' home talent play entitled. “Donated by the t Ladies Aid.” The theme is, packing • i Missionary barrel. This play is full of spice and fun as well as a moral. > The cast of characters is as follows: i Mrs. Markhill, hostess Nettie Mercer ■ Eliz. Burns, a gossip Nancy Davison Ruth Evans, nervous young wife, s Frieda Hahnert , Ada Glover, pleasant and agreeable Esther Pease’ Anna Moore, a willing worker, Agnes Carver. > Bertha Collins, a young wife, i Mabel Tteple ; Isabel Branner, sarcastic person, Alta Burke . Mrs. Schultz, born manager, . ’ Addie Hahnert 1 May Stewart, young mother, s Lydia Meyer . Grace Davis, inquisitive person, Myrtle Tinkham . Mrs. Harper, minister's wife, Ora Patterson No admission will be charged for . the play. Supper will be served at r 6 o'clock. o <- r Prince Os Wales t Tumbles From His a Horse Again; Unhurt 9 e Melton, Mowbray, England. Nov. 28 I CPI The Prince of Wales war thrown from his horse today when the horse’s legs caught on a rail while the prince was fox hunting with the quorn hounds. Wales, unhurt, mounted another horse and resumed the hunt. Wales' horse caught its hind legs in tlie top rail of a fence, and the prince went head first into the mud. He lay so quietly for a moment that riders L near him feared lie was seriously injured—particularly remembering th. deatlt Saturday from fox hunting in juries of Lady Victoria Billock, only daughter of the Earl of Derby. But as his companions ran to help , him. Wales scrambled to his feet, spattered with mud. >f o d Elks To Hold Annual Memorial Service Dec. 4 g A' The annual memorial services lot departed members of the B. P. (). E. lt Decatur lodge number 993. will be t ] hel l Sunday afternoon. December 4. in this city. F. E. France, chairman 1 of the program committee, is now ’«■ arranging the program for the set'e- vice. In addition to the ritualistic <1 services, an address will be given by a prominent speaker. The servicer to will hd held at tlie Elks home ot e- North Second street and the public ct is invited. e, o —— , r . Fort Wayne Man Hangs Self Fort Wayne. Ind , Nov. 28. — (INS —lll health was blamed today forth. n . suicide of Ludwig Genthner, 68. loca nt employee of the General Electri n . company, who hanged himself at hl home here.

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PABT OF GILLIOM WHISKY GIVEN TO ANOTHER PATIENT Prosecutor Says Anti-Saloon League Members Pushed Investigation PROBE RESUMED BY GRAND JURY Two interesting developments came today in the investigation of the alleged violation of the Wright “bone dry" law here last summer by Arthur I- Gilliom, attorney genend of Inditnti. as the Adams county grand iui'v resumed its probe, tollowing a recess since last Wednes tlav. Dr. C. C. Rayl, who was the iltending physician at the time whisky, which‘Mr Gillium.says he obtained in Fort Wayne, was administered to ihe attorney general's sister. Miss Emma Gilliom. of Berne, who had undergone a serious operation at the hospital, revealed that a pution es the whisky was administered to another patient at the hosnltal, later. Prosecutor Mokes Statement Simultaneously. John T. Ke’ly. nrosecuting attorney, stated that he believed that the anti-saloon league had instigated tlie grand jury probe of the state attorney general's alleged liquor law vlo’atlon. "I do not mean to accuse Dr. E. S Shumaker. superintendent of the 4nti-Saloon League, with initiating Uis prolie, but I do say that the AntiSaloon League, as represented locally, wgs the prime mover in the investigation," Mr Kelly said. He also <aid that the grand jury itself was taking the lead in the investigation.” "If it had not b<>en for the AntiSaloon League there would not have been any investigation of Attorney General Gilliorn's alleged action," Mr. Kelly said. “However, therp has been no pressure on me by (he state Anti-Salcon League leaders for a nrobe. It his all come from the 'oca! League representatives nnd hose at Berne." During an interview with Indian•ipoLs newspaper men this morning. Dr. Rayl said that a portion of the whisky which it is alleged Mr. GilHom procured for his sister, was administered to Harry Johnson, a farmer residing near Pleasant Mills, who was suffering from typhoid fever. He (COSTIXI El* ox PA«E I'IVF,! o — - Marion County Grand Jury Resumes Probe Indlanapo'i.s. Nov. 28 —(l’P)—Retiming sessions today after a week’s vacat'on. the Marion county grand jury was prepared to continue' the nrobe into alleged political corrupgating group will lie to consider the ion in Indiana. One of the first acts of the investiproposal of former corporation counsel Alvan J Rucker that he assist the i Jury iu uncovering data relative to I illeged acceptance of $19.1)00 by i Governor Jackson from utilities during his 1024 campaign. Rucker wrote ■ i letter to jury foreman William J. ' Mooney offering his assistance. ! Mooney said the jury will consider . Rucker's suggestion and reply. 150 DEATHS DUE TO RAIN i> Thousands Rendered Homeless As Result Os IncessI ant Rain In Algeria Oran. Algeria. Nov. 28.—(UP) —At least 150 were dead, thousands homeless and property damage enormous as a result of 48 hours of rain, Govern nor General Maurie Violette wired ~ government officials here today folr lowing his inspection of the fertile relizana-flood-atricken valley. “Tlie death toll may mount higher," he wired. "Destruction in this unpren eedented flood is inestimable at this , ( time." "A whole quarter ot the two of Moataganem had been wrecked and the rest is under water." 1) The floods at Mostaganem were rele ported to have risen to six feet and al the water was ten feet high at Perreic gaux. At Monstaganem 100 persons Is were dead and at Tenes 41) more were dead, the report said.

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