Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1927 — Page 1

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IRS. REMUS IS lEPICTED AS A FAITHLESS WIFE >otleg King:” Tries To iow His Wife Planned To Deoort Him LLIAM MUELLER IS STAR WITNESS Bv.uinxim, Cincinnali, Nov. 29.— H,. mis Imogeno Remus today m-picted as a faithless wife who m i caretaker in her husband’s that she had arranged to de(icorge Remus, son of a German a sentence for infractions of % drv laws. Ht',ilium Mueller was the witness by Remus in defending a of first degree murder. The Km i- multimillioaire shot and killwife on Oct. C as she was on |K. wav to testify against him in court. niucilcr said Mrs. Remus came to in that “dream palace” on Price ■l and told hint: Remus is not coining back, "..iiig tn have him i><> «■<! K maimed. lie’.- going hack lie came, with his little bundle ” K udier Mueller had told of seeing ; :.U I. Dodge Jr., former prohlfjt i agent at the Remus home three ps. Once he hid bbhind one of nus’ motor cars to avoid being u i,y the caretaker. Another time pulled down a window shade to truet Mueller’s vision. The third e he drove away with Mrs. Remus, ml meanwhile the mansion had a striped of its luxurious fittings, a gas range and a table remainIcfore such evidence emdd be inuced a lengthy legal argument held between Charles P. Taft 11, Charles H. Elston, co-counsel for est maintained the evidence was pertinent unless it were shown ad been communicated to Remus, ige defense is that of temporary nity. The court previously had ■a him permission to show what lit have impaired his mind. Ite prosecutor added that the only stion that could be asked was tat lid you tell Remus?" y Says Stepfather Phased Him From Home For Eating Too Much alianapolis, Nov. 29. — (UP) —Beao he ate too much food, he was h:- ! away from home by his step»ther, a 14-year-old boy told police fit Headquarters shortly after midKtlit Monday. He said he rode here ■,n iuteruiban. Until tiny duck i rui ity of his story police s--iil Br boy to the detention home. JOREIGN NATIONS | TO PAY 11. S. MUCH liyments On War Debts )ue On Dec. 15 To Total About $96,574,000 By Robert S, Thornburg (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Vaahington, Nov. 29 — Swelling cle Sant’s annual revenue, foreign ions on December 15, will pay into 1 Treasury approximately $96,574,bringing the total on the account war time debts for the year to $163,iMKooo. ■The vear will end with foreign gov afcnments owing the United States a- ;!&<» $11,7000,000,000, the bulk of hich has been funded. Some $287.U( )0 of this, however, has been it ten eff as “bad debts,” .including Hgioie than $270,000,000 owed by the HB Uss ian government, which has been Boimdlated by the soviets, and $16,Hp.ooo loaned to Armenia, a govern■“'’"t which has ceased to exist. the exception of France, Italy, and Yugoslavia all debtor will make payments next IK 0111 * 1, was said at the treasury toM*> France, whose debt pact is not yet Ratified, is paying $20,000,000 annual K Ureg t cn a $5400,000,000 debt, rein Juno or August, while the ■ter countries make their remittances Jonh. Interest payments in DeceniW' r amour *t to $70,013,000 while foreB" countries are reducing the princl■ol of their borrowings by over $26,500- ■° U -

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I Father Infuses To Press Charges Against His Son Who Shot Him Logansport, Ir.d„ Nov, 29.—(INS)— I.e-,ter Martin, 19, was arrested at Wlnnamac, Ind., today charged with shooting his father, Leonard. 45, w'th a rifle. The Imllet lodged in the elder Martin’s hip, hut he refused to ■press charges against his son. The shooting was alleged to have been tlie result of a fandly quarrel. Police officials were undecided what charges to file, WOMAN HURT GY FALLING WINDOW Window At Pythian Home Blown In During Storm, Striking Mrs. S. E. Black Mrs. S. E. Black met with a painful accident, Monday evening, while attending Pythian Temple at the Pythian Home when she was cut by brt ken glass, during the wind storm. Mrs. Black was sitting on the south side of the lodge room when one of the windows, which open from the tep, was blown down, striking her over the head. Mrs. Ed Ahr and Mrs. Fred Linn were seated on either ode of Mrs. Black, and when the fame of the window hit their shoulders, it broke the force of the window’s fall and probably saved Mrs. Black from more serious injuries. Blood spurted freely from the cuts and Mrs. Black was hurried to a physician where it was found that she had suffered a three-inch cut on the right cheek which severed an artery and also a cut on the back. Mrs Linn and Mrs. Ahr sustained bruised shoulders. The windows at the hall are large and heavy and open and close from the top with a spring arrangement at the side similar to that on transoms. It is believed that the force of the storm caused the steel spring to bleak, allowing the window to fall with the force of it’s weigh combined with the force of the wind. Reports from the three women today, state that fhey are getting along nicely and suffering no further inconvenience from the accident. o Dr. Shumaker To Debate At Berne, December 10 Bet lie, Nov. 29 —(Special)—Dr. E. S. Shumaker and the Rev. H. W. Baldridge, superintendent and field secre tary, respectively, of the Indiana AntiSalcon League, will give their dramatic debate on the question, “Can the Law be Enforced", in the Cross Reformed church here Saturday night, December lit. The same debate was given hv Dr. Shumaker and Rev. Baldridge before a capacity crowd in the Kirkland community building, lyFollowing the debate the motion picture film, “Lest We Forget," will be shown. The program will be given here under the auspices of the Evangelical and Reformed churches. Monroe Man Fined On Charge Os Intoxication Ed Ilirshy, of Monroe pleaded guilty to a charge of public intoxication when arraigned in city court before Mayor George Krick last night. He was fined $1« and costs. Hirshy was arrested Sunday afternoon at Monroe, by the town marshal. 0 Cardinal Bonzano To Be Buried Tomorrow Rome, Nov. 29.—(UP)—The body of Cardinal Bonzano, dressed in full robes and covered with a mantle ot rich red and gold silk, was sealed in a casket today, ready for ceremonial burial tomorrow. On the head of the late apo3tolic delegate to Washington and papal legate at the Chicago Eucharistic congress, was placed his cardinal s mitre. The body was placed in a heavy lead coffin which was sealed with the cardinal’s arms. In the coffin was a biography and a eulogy. I lie coffin was placed in a walnut casket, adorned with the cardinal's coat of arms. Mother And Two Small Children Are Killed Camden, N. J., Nov. 29—(INS)—A mother and her two small children were Instantly killed when an express train struck and demolished an automobile at a crossing near lona, -a miles south of here, today. The dead: Mrs. W- Robert Brew, 35, her son, Robert, 6, and her daughter, Muriel, 5.

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Wet And Drys Pleas Addressed To G. O. P. Speaker In New York Asks Republican Wets To Support $3,000,000 Campaign Fund For National Referendum On Prohibition, While Sen. Borah, In New Haven, Plea ds For Strict Prohibition Enforcement. New York, Nov. 29.—(UP)- -Wll-I 30 as to satisfy the people who want liarn H. Stayton, chairman of the !to break the amendment,” the senaassoclation against the piohibitlon | tor said. "They wtll not he trntisiied amendment, asked financial support , with the added aroma. That would from 300 Republican “wets" last not satisfy President Butler and Sentight for a $3,000,000 campaign fund ator Wadsworth, for whom I have the to conduct a national referendum on ‘ profoundest respect." prohibition. j line said President Lincoln did not Stayton spoke at a private dinner approve of tne fugitive slave law, but sponsored by George IS. Wightman. enforced it because he believed this New York broker. Other speakers ; government could not endure without weie Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, law enforcement. president of Columbia University: o Former Senator James W. Wadsworth IAIII | Dill P All ***"* "'LL nIILt UN While the speeches were not made ■ » pub ic, ,t was understood two main LDI HJt V point l ; wore stressed. One was for a J ||xj J HIUH I national referendum to be held along the same general lines as the New York 1926 vote when citizens over- n T . . , r\ r> whelmingly voiced their opinion for LOUft iO Decide Oil (jOV. revision. The second was for the Jackson’s Motion to Quash Republican party a. the 1928 national j Indictment Soon convention o pattern its plank after | 'he 1860 one which proposed giving Indianapolis> Nov . _ (INg) ■ach state the fullest liberty in deal- Wilether Govo.no, Ed Jackson and his ng w.th its domestic attain. co-defendants wil he tried for allege. Borah Urges "Dry’ Plank attempte( | br i b er y will he ascertained New Ha'en. Conn, Nov. 29—(t P) at ~ Fl / day afternoon . senator William E. Borah, advocate .. . , ~ .. . , . t .Mi*- e * Special Judge Oscar 11. Montgomerv >f a strict prohibition enforcement ...... , . , . . . i it , ft oo r. it- ** sai(l that he would rule at that time on plank in the 1928 Republican nation- . , T , ... . , ... *. . _ the argument of Jacksons attorneys il platform, told an audience here . . .. .... „„ . , . . , . . . .. . 4l .. to quash the Indictments. This argulast night he believed the convention . . , . . ... i $ . . |. .. nient was based chiefly upon the stattioll „ ute of limitations, which his attorneys ‘"Control your delegates at the com- Invalidated the alleged crime ng convention, assert your ower and A*' 1 Ml " ’ a< s(in ’ '"'"'v*’ ‘"f von will win," he said. “You cannot fin ’ ? ounty ye P ul,lkan tell me that there are more men in " ,an ’ an ‘l Robert 1 Marsh ' ■'"■<’Xs.m’s this country who do not believe in ormer la J • ia , , ' ner ' are wi '!’ law enforcement than there are that l,av,n Jf °" e ™' l fo ' lner « overn <'r War(jo.. ren T. McCray SIO,OOO and intimity Senator Borah was bitter in his t '“ avkUou if lle wo,,l<i '> allle ‘heir denunciation of “nullification" of the fa ™' lte as Maril)n county prosecutor, prohibition laws through refusal of he state contends that an alleged politicians to enforce existing legis- conspuacy t 0 conceal the facts of the j ation crime invalidated the limitations law. “You can’t amend the Volstead act =?— —. Indianapolis Motorist Coolidge Will Not Try Faces Manslaughter C harge To Influence Selection Os , , ~~7 „ O. I . Convention City Albeit Troy, 19. of Indianapolis, was _ being held on involuntary manslaughWashington, Nov. 29. (INS) — ter charges here today as the result President. Coolidge will not attempt of the death of Harold Adam, 9, of to influence selection of the 1928 Richmon I, who was struck by Troy’s Republican convention citfy, it, was car as he descended from a school stated at the White Hou3e today. lots on tlie* National road near The city will be chosen here next Straughn. The boy was going to the week by the Republican national home of his grandparents. Coroner committee. Any city named by the V. T. Davis began an investigation, committee will he satisfactory to the William A. Shoemaker, of IndianapoPresident, the White House declared. Ms, wus riding with Troy. CHICAGO'S GANG And.non Is Dad WAR MOT mm 9V nil IxU I LIIULU son from 1910 to 1911 and former member of the Indiana legislature, was found dead in a (hair at his Three Bombs Explode And apar, ! n ? Mt .'‘T,'""' ; 'V " _ . r . . lieved he had been dead since last One Man Assassinated Friday When doctors say he must have Within Last Few Hours suffered a stroke of apoplexy. One son, Frohman Foster of Los Chicago. Nov. 29j—(INS)—Exp'.o- Angeles, Calif, survives. don of three bombs within twelve o—hours, the assassination of a man Salvage Valuable Tree who apparently had been “taken for Columbus, Ind, Nov. 29. (UP)—A i ride,’’ and the evacuation from the tree floating down White river near battle scene of “Scarfaee Al" Capone Walesboro, salvaged by Charles Havind his chief lieutenants, today be- ron, a fisherman, p.oveil to be a (rallied reports that Chicago's vicious not of the Curley fibre variety and gang war itad ended in a truce. was sold for $36.». The identity of the victim of the _ , °~~ “death ride” is unknown. A j LPL V V TLIIC The body was found on a roadside HL LL UL V UIL f L near Bensenville early today. A i ”"" t ni, ’ rce " ~,• was misthfatfii He was well dressed and consider- BSFIW itl’V a I•S™ # o I tmlf able money was found on his person. The three bomb explosions occurred several hours apart during the ]J o yd (). Hill Says Stale night and ear.y morning. All were n • i, j aimed at alleged gambling resorts xiISOU V*«irdcn 1 Unibhlfl and soft drink parlors. Stephenson Unjustly The places wrecked wore said to he alllgned with the Cnpene-Lombar- Indianapolis, Nov. 29. — (INS) — do faction. Charges that state prison officials on Meanwhile, ivdlce learned “Scar} Nov. IS granted I). C. Stephenson, face Al" and his closest followers, Indiana's most notorious life termer, have left the city, spokesmen for the the privilege to pass paper to his gangsters saying they had gone to counsel and then punish him with the north woods “to hunt and for a solitary confinement on a bread and much needed rest.” water diet for “smuggling" stateFolice believe the Aiello brothers, meats out of prison were hurled at arch rivals of the Capoue-Lombardo Warden Walter Daly, of the Michigan faction, were making it “too hot” for City penitentiary by Lloyd O. Hill, the erstwhile vice lord. They say Stephenson's attorney, here today. Capone realized that he was practi- "I believe Warden Daly deliberateeally dethroned and that his own life ly tried to trap Stephenson into was in danger. some imaginary infaction so as to Police believe he will stay In hid- punish him when Stephenson’s good ing until things cool off, and then conduct failed to give him an oppor- , come back to attempt to retrieve his tunity for disciplinary action,” Hill lost prestige. charged.

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RESPONSIBILITY OF CONGRESS TO REST WITH G.O.P. Democrats To Permit Republicans To Organize Without Opposition CONGRESS TO MEET MONDAY By William K. Hutchinson INS Staff Correspondent Washington, Nov. 29. — Although holding a paper majority of a single vote in the new senate, the Republi•ans appeared certain today of organizing the seventieth congress when it onvenes next Monday. The process will be an easy one in he house, where the Republicans hold a substantial majority, but In the (enute, they ran accomplish it only with Democratic votes. The organ izatton of either house or senate carles with it committee chairmanships the naming of parliamentary officials, considerable patronage and a larget representation on committees. It also includes responsibility for legislation Democrats Spurn Responsibility The republicans will he aided in gaining nominal control of the sen ate by democratic leaders who do no! wish to assume responsibility for legislation in a host!) congress on ihe eve of a presidential election. Th* Democrats prefer to have the Repub Means remain In titular control, inas much as,neither party will he able to enact legislation without assistant front the other. The Republican insurgents, who bolted the party four years ago to elect ii Democratic chairman of the powerful interstate commerce com mlttee, apparently planned no such fight this year. Insurgents appeared ready to go along with the regular Republicans in organizing the senate, as many ot their own members now hold high committee assignments under tlie republican leadership. Tlie Republican.; will iht et next F. iday morning to settle 'committee assignments. “I haven’t heard anything about a bolt," observed Senator Norris (Rl of Neb., insurgent leader. “I heard though Wiat the Democrats don't want to organize the senate and if that's true. 1 give them credit for having a little sense." The announced plan of Democratic leaders to bar Senators-elect William S. Vare, of Penn., and Flank L. Smith, of 111., both republicans, at the door of the senate probably will have no effect on the republican organization irovrivi ku ox cac.m two:

COMMUNITY CLUB TO STAGE PLAYS r Two Plays To Be Presented At Aber School Building December 1 "Squaring It with tile Boas’’ and "Our Awful Au»t” me the plays to be presented by u community dub at the Aber school house on Thursday evening December 1. The school house is located four miles northeast of Decatur. The doors will be opened at 7 o'clock and the program will start at 7:45 o'clock. A small admission fee will be charged at the door to help pay the expenses. This, is the third program to be presented by this club and it will be well worth the time and money to see this one. The play "Squaring ll with the Boss" I was written by J. c. McMullen and | published by the Baker Company, of Boston. The play deals with a young married man who has been given a raise in bis salary because he told his ‘ boss that he and his wife had a Imliy •and he could not keep up the expenses. The fun begins when they learn that the boss is coining to dinner and they have no baby to show him. To make matters worse, two maiden aunts who are angry with each other, come tp visit them. The play is one big laugh from start to finish. “Our Awful Aunt", is the story of how a young bank clerk is saved from prison and disgrace by his supposedly awful aunt. There are two acts In the i play and the comedy is furnished by Pete the colored servant, who doesn's "want the praise heaped upon him too . steep as he is liable to blush and i that would spoil his complexion". Wali lace and Dave are the two scheming [ villians who get the keys from the . bank clerk but they are caught by our | awful aunt and Pete before they can escape.

To Test Right Os Cities To Compete With Private Firms In Gasoline Business Washington, Nov. 29. —(IT) An attempt by Standard Oil to prevent cities from competing with private •nferprises lit the gasoline business will l>e debated before the U. S. mtpreme court late today or tomorrow. Attorneys for the Nebraska Standard company will contend that private companies operating for profit might he driven out of business by filling stations operated "at cost" by municipalll '< s. The company lias appealed from n Nebraska supreme court decision upholding Lincoln. Ncb„ in Its establishment and maintenance of filling stations. KIRKLAND PUPILS TO GIVE OPERETTA “Patricia” To Be Presented In Community Buildini; Wednesday Night "Patricia" is the title of an oper>tta in ti'iee acts to be presented In lie Kirkland community building. Wednesday evening, November 30. iiy the pupils of the Kirkland high a hool. The admission prices will lie twenty-five and thirty-five cents. I'lie program will start at 7:45 j'dock. The story of (he operetta centers iround Reginald Mon'gomery and his friends, who have planned a pic 'lie. with his mother .in chaperone. Reginald wishes to play a joke on i hunch of s .obs, so he takes his mother's cook to the picnic, disguis'd as a titled lady. Reginald’s friends make much ado over Patricia. Rypsy fortune tellers enliven the group. Upon Mrs. Montgomery's arrival, they learn that they have been entertained by a cook. In the -oncusion, the whole party reform mil a double wedding is held. Tlie cast for the operetta is as fcl'ows: Patricia (Miss Incognito). Elizabeth la>yse limmy Levitt Richard Arnold Margaret Winthrop (Jimmy's fiancee) Eileen Zimmerman Dick Franklin John Cover Fanny Warrington Ida, Borne Nancy Lee (Fanny's guest) . Margaret Arnold Bobby Neal, in love with Fanny Luther Arnold Percy Chesterton, the poet Samuel Schladenhauffen , Warren Miles .Dorphus Schlickmun ! Mrs. Montgomery, chaperon Helen Beery Reginald Montgomery, her son

Jesse Schlickman Cy Simpkins, just a mitice .... Virgil Bowman ’ Chiquita and itoxine, By pay fortune tellers Lucille Hcnschen and Dorcas Byerly Chorus: Joy Hvgema, Itae Del Andrews, Kathryn Zimmerman, Berneta Hoffmann, Lucille Beavers, Paujine Buckmaster, Clarence Keppert, Irwin Brecht and Walter Meyer. Muncie Board Os Works To Be Probed Mnncie, Ind., Nov. 29.— (UP) —Accused of irregularity in letting of contracts, the Mnncie board of public works today fades an investigation o’ Its conduct tiy a special committee of the city council. The probe was ordered at a session of the council Mon day night. Councilman Roy Pried ley started the movement which led to ordering the probe. He declares the board Is disregarding budget provisions and letting contracts despite valid remonstrances. —o Barkley Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Barkley, former Decatur resident who died Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter in Fort Wayne, will he held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the A. Iv Rose home in Fort Wayne. Burial will take place in the Decatur cemetery and the casket will he opened at the cemetery for friends to view the remains. Baby Born To Woman II! With Smallpox Bedford, Ind.. Nov. "9 —(INS)—The one-day-old son of IClmer Smith living west of this city, was in perfect health today, despite tlie fact that his mother was ill with Smallpox when lie was born yesterday. The child's grandmother and five brothers and sisters also are suffering front the disease.

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POLICE CAPTURE GANG BARRICADED IH LODGING HOUSE Three Negroes And White Woman Defy Whole Police Department SOUTH END OF CITY IN TURMOIL Boston, Nov. 2«). — (INS) — Boston’s crowded south end was in a turmoil for five hours early today, as nearly a hundred uniformed policemen, hearing all kinds of firearms, battled with a party of men and women who barracaded themselves in a lodirintr house and defied the whole police department. Keeping the house covered with a rain of bullets, officers with tear bombs and a sledge hammer final)stormed the besieged place and three negroes and one white woman surrendered. One' Negro Wounded George Brooks. .71, negro, was wounded and Patrolman John Gorham ■ollapsed from fumes of police tear bombs. The house was riddled with bullets and other houses in tlie vicinity were struck. Poire had fired from all sides. The fire had been returned, first from the lower floor, next front the second and third floor. The battle started when neighbors complained shots had been heard in the house. Police were refused admittance and soon the livehour battle was underway. o Minneapolis Minister Accepts Post In Indiana ludjunapolis, Nov. 29. —(INS) —Rev. Frame Lee Roberts of Minneapolis, Minn., bis accepted ami will assume the pastotate of the Central Avenue M. E. church hete, succeeding Rev. Orien W. Fifer, who became superintendent of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal church. Announcement was received here following Roberts' resignation from the pastorate of the Wesley M. E. church in Minneapolis. — o Pest Ridding Contest Remington. Ind., Nov. 29. — (UP) — Medal vville is leading in the pestlidding contest here with 900 points Remington is in second place and Franeesvill" third. Approximately 300 persons have entered the war against rats, mice and sparrows. '—— ■ — o

Street Car Hits Auto Chicago. Nov. 3!* (INS) —One woman Is dead, another probably fatally hurt and seven other persons are seriously injured today as the result of a str< et car colliding with an automobile in which thirteen people, all related were riding. No one In tin- street car was injured. HOOSIER BOY IS NEW CORN KING Boy Living Near Logans* port Crowned Junior Corn King Os America Chicago, Nov. 29—HNS)— Virgil Joyce, Pi' ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Joyce of near Loganlport, Indiana today was crowned as new junior corn king of America at the international livestock exposition here. Young Joyce won I lie honor on ills exhibit of ten ears of sample Reids yellow dent. (’. K. Troyer of LaFountaln Indiana won the senior corn king crown with an exhibit of ten ears of Reids Yel--I;'w dent, lie was also the corn king of North America, in 1920. Cornerstone Os Scottish Kite Cathedral Is Laid Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 29 —(INS) — More than 30,000 Indiana Mason paraded through flag bedecked streets of Indianapolis tills afternoon in celebration cf the cornerstone laying of the new $3,500,000 Scottish Rite Cathed- . ral here, it was said to he the largest Masonic parade ever held in Indiana. > The corner stone laying ceremony was : feature of the 62nd , semi-annual coni vocation and leunion of the Scotlng r Kite valley of Indianapolis, s The manrouth parade which caused -a suspension of all traffic and busins | ess in down town Indianapolis formed at Vermont and Delaware st.

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