Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER probably occasional ,now toniaht and Sunday, excent rain cha-’fllng to snow south portion. Colder tonitht. Much colder Sunday.

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BENEFITS ARE DERIVED FROM CHILD CLINICS Reports Os Work Over County Given At Child Health Board Meeting BOARD OF HEALTH SPEAKERS HERE The Adams County Child Health Tbard met at the Decatur public library yesterday afternoon in the interest of the children of Adains ci.iinty. Reports were heard from the township hairmen on the follow-up work of the children's clinic, held in various places of Adams county last spring. Reports showed that some real benefit has been derived from the clinic examinations. Parents have been informed of certain defects in their children that needed correction. Quite a number of these children have been immunized against diphtheria. upon the suggestion of the clinic examinations. Dr. Maude Arthur and Miss Bertha latkemeier, representatives of the Child Hygiene division of the State board of health, were present at the meeting and addressed the members of the local health board. Dr. Arthur st cssed especially the imm.inizati.xi of children against diphtheria. The state board recommends this as one of the very important steps toward protecting children from a dreadful, contagious, and most generally, fatal disease. Among the data that Dr. Arthur quoted, was an illustration of a school at Seymour, Indiana, where there was one hundred per cent immunization, with # the result that not a single case of diphtheria developed during the past thpeo yaars. The Huntington schools ire a'so making rapid progress aWSHf—♦he--fi»me line as w< 11 as other places in the state.

Meet With Local Physicians Dr. Arthur and Miss Lukemeier, together with several representatives from the local board, met with the Adams County Medical society at the Adams County Memorial hospital last night. The matter of immunization was presented to the county physicians who also emphasized the need of immunizing children against diphthetia. The society felt that it was only a matter of more education that was needed along this line to have parents see The need of this. A local physician stated that he had treated a case of diphtheria last year with the result that a large nutmber of other children had been immediately immunized against the disease. Immunization .-.n diphtheria, like vaccination for small pox. is an established fact. Plans were made last night whereby a larger progrt.cn of education should be put on relative to the immunizing of children. Children from the ages of one to twelve should be protected against the disease, it is pointed out. —— 0 Kat Bite, Nine Years Old, Causes Man’s Death Columbus, Ind., Dec. 10. —(UP) —Bitten by a" rat nine years ago. Lynn Workman. 52, farmer died yesterday. The wound had become reinfected at intt vain during the nine years. LINDY HONORED BV CONFESS Congressional Medal Os Honor Awarded To TransAtlantic Flier Washington, Dec. 10. —(INS) —Five ; minutes after Col. Charles A. IJndhergh had received tha acclaim of the house of representatives and the almost unprecedented floor priviledges thereof, that body unamiously J adopted a resolution awarding the trans-Atlantic flyer the congressional medal of honor. • Representative Cochran, Democrat of Missouri, advanced the resolution. Prior to action the bill. Speaker Longworth introduced Lindbergh to ( the house as "America’s most attrac- , five citizen.” - , Famous French Flier i Killed In Accident ; Paris. Dec. 10.—(UP)—The famous 1 French aviator Charles Pierre Corbu ' a hd his mechanic were killed today 1 ’•ear Le Bourget flying field when a Plane crashed on a trial flight, it was j 1 announced here. s

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I'ire Chief’s Residence (. atches Fire While He Is Fighting Big Blaze Warsaw, Ind., Dec. 10-uNH)— While Fire chief Char'., p. m*',, (ls h>u cm."? 'h irw,lns ,he 0( fom iti.s who wore fighting the the bn l o ' "'‘J*'* onc - fo '"'l> Os the business district of Mentone. 12 home ? oU,hwest " f Iwe. his own 1 home here caught on fire. , The Warsaw firemen all being at tho"u-' e ' h6l . P WJS sum,no “' l fi-'in I Winona Lake fire department whith made a record run here and s ive ( ] the Moon home. REED INDICTED FOR DYNAMITING Young Farmer Indicted For Dynamiting School And Injuring Sweetheart Ottawa, 111., Dee. lO.—(lNS)—Four indictments were returned here today by a special LaSalle county grand jury against Hiram Reed. 24-year-old fanner who confessed he dynamited the Pleasant Valley school for the purpose of s’aying his sweetheart, lola Bradford, school teacher. Miss Bradfora was injured seriously by the blast, which occurred when she lighted the fire in the school stove in which Reed has confessed he placed two sticks of dynamite. One indictment charges Reed with assault with intent to kill; another with damaging a building by explosives; a third, setting off explosives with intent to kill Miss Bradford, and setting off explosive to injure Grase •Johnson, 9-year-old pupil, who was at the threshold of the building when the bombing occurred. Bond of $5,000 on each indictment was fixed by Judge Frank H. Hayes. Hart Found Guilty Os Second Degree Murder

Eureka, Kan., Dee. 10.—(INS) —Ivan Hart, banker and World War veteran charged with the murder of his wife. 1 was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury here early today. According to testimony, Hart slaved his young wife when she told him she expected to become a mother. She begged Hart to kill her. Hart testified. Second deg.ee .murder is punishable 1 by a sentence of from ten to twenty years in the penitentiary. Judge A. ■ T. Ayres, in delivering his charge to ' the jury, declared that “suicidal assist" should lie classed as second ' degree murder or first degree man- 1 slaughter. He asked that no guilty verdict be returned if the jurors believed Hart to be insane. Psychiartrists yesterday had testified that they believed Mrs. Hart was insane and she had "communicated" insanity to Hart’s brain when she asked that she be killed. o Pythians And Eastern Stars Buy Health Bonds Five dollar health bonds have been purchased today by the Eastern Star and Knights of Pythias lodges. W. Guy • Brown, chairman of the annual Christmas Seal sale in Adams county, said I today. Other lodges and clubs are ex- I pected to vote to buy health bonds at J their next regular meeting. Murderer Claims He Shot In Self Defense , I San Jose, Cal., Dec. 10 (INS) . Two men wore shot to death here > early today by Frank Lanevi, who , to’d the police that he killed Nick t Constanza and Dan Ciesi at his home t when they demanded money. When . he told them he had only a small , amount. Constanza. lie asserted, pull- | ed a gun and began shooting. Lanevi . returned the fire and killed them both. , Employment Conditions In Chicago Worst In Years Chicago, Dec. 10 —(INS)—A bleak Yuletide was foreseen for many families here today, due to what authorities on the subject say is the worst > condition of unemployment in Chicago in years. t Charles J. Boyd general superinten- , dent of the Illinois free employment , bureau here. Anton J. Cermak, president. of the Cook county board and Edward C. Jones, financial secretary ot the United Charities, were agreedl that not since 1921 has it been so difficult ( to provide jobs for the unemployed. < During November the ratio cf ap- < plicants for jobs at the Illinois Bureau j i alone were 220 to 100. j ’

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CONGRESS ORENS ITS SEASON OF INVESTIGATIONS Reed Elections Investigation Committee Meets To Map Out Course MEXICAN SITUATION UP FOR AN INQUIRY Uy Carl D Groat, VP Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 10. (UP)—The investigation season lias opened in congreic. Forseeing that Senators Smith and Vare will seek a committee trial after having been barred from taking the senate oath, tile Reed (Mo.I, elections investigating committee was ailed to meet today to consider its further course. Senate In Recess The senate itself was in recess to Monday. Meantime, another serious investigation was shaping. The Reed (Pa.) special committee will open hearings Thursday to determine the source and truth of documents printed by the Washington Herald (a Hearst paper), pin porting to show President Calles of Mexico oidered payment of more than $1,000,000 to four I’. S. senators Capitol Hill viewed the expose as unfounded. but felt its dignity and integrity had been affronted. The house will take up today its general debate on the tax reduction m asure. The debate started yesterday afternoon after passage of the deficiency bill, containing a $940,000 appropriation for gun elevations. Washington. Dec. 10.—(UP)—The state department has no information about any alleged Mexican propaganda activities in -Uiis -country, it was said on Secretary of State Kellogg's behalf today. The statement was made in connection with the senate's investigation of articles appealing in the Washington Herflld alleging that Mexican officials sought to bribe four unnamed American senators. In stating that the department would cooperate, if it could do so. with the senate investigating committee. the department repeated the Kellogg statement of last month that this government has no knowledge whatever of the oiigin or authenticity of the specific alleged expose of Mexican anti-American activities described in the Washington Heralds document. HOOVER BACKERS CLAIM 300 VOTES Followers Say They Will Enter Convention With Strong Support Washington. Dec. 10. — (INSi The enthusiastic supporters of Herbert Hoover were voicing private claims today that he will go into the repub lican national convention at Kansas City next June with a minimum of 300 votes on the first ballot. It will take 545 to nominate, as there will be 1,089 delegates in the convention. They base their claims on public and private promises that have come to them since President Coolidge and Charles Evans Hughes have elimfn atetl themselves from the 1928 picture. The past week saw the republican national committee in Washington and from these political managers, the Hoover lieutenants clailm to have secured a cross-country view into republican thought that one prominent Hoover backer described as “very reassuring." —»o Three Children Burn To Death In Residence Moberly, Mo., Dec 10. (UP) Three .children of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Stevens were burned to deatli today when they were trapped in the upper story of the Stevens home, which had caught fire. Mrs. Stevens barely escaped from the blazing farmhouse, and Stevens was slightly burned in an attempt to rescue the children. Small Pox Thick At Elwood Elwood, Ind.. Dec. 10.-(UP)- Rapid spread of here is causing the city health authorities to consider declaring an epidemic exists. They may require all pupils in school to be vaccinated.

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GOOD FELLOWS CLUB REPORT ’ l| I Previous Total $44.50 A Friend .25 t Psi lota Xi 10.00 Green Kettle 1.00 Bobbie Klepper 1.00 Alta Ruth Klepper 4 'I.OO Mary Margaret Klepper 1.00 Dolores Klepper 100 |. Donald K'.epper 1.00 j Wm. Klepper. Jr. 1.00 1 Carl Klepper 1.00 W. A. Klepper 1.00 Mrs. W. A. Klepper 1.00 Loose change .59 Total s<ls 34 Contribution boxes are located in I the following business houses: Green . Kettle, Murray Hotel. Old Adams County Bank. Postoffici anil Daily Democrat office. o Fire Causes Small Damage To Residence Fire which started from a defec- (' tive flue, caused a loss of approxi- - mately SSO. Friday afternoon, to the residence and furnishings of Mrs. . Svlva Stevens. 421 South First street f The fire started in the wall partition ) between the bed room ami dining □ rcom of the house. A pair of curtains was burned and th> woorwork of a . double door burned in addition to th" j damage to the wa'l. Firemen reI sponded to a call and extinguished the blaze in a short time by the use . of chemicals. o Comnanionate Marriage Condemned By “The Pilot" t Boston. Dec. to (UP) -Compan- - ionate marriage is condemned editorially in today's issue of the Pilot, official organ of the Catholic archdiocese of Boston. "The social dislocations caused by » the great war and its aftermath have been deterlmerital to the best interests of the family. The growth of the .. divorce evil .menaces its perpetuity as ’ as instiution, and the unreasoning ~ clamor for such abominations as com- ' panionate marriages threatens its very existence." t s ' ''p s/oU — [ R - A 7 8 Days to Christmas

NEW COLD WAVE DUE TO REACH INDIANA TONIGHT ———— Mercury Scheduled To Drop To Near Zero Mark Again Before Morning STORMY CONDITIONS ACCOMPANY ING (OLD I Chicago, Dec. 10. (INS) A new cold wave was s.-heduled to descend upon the Gleat Lakes legion tonight, riding on brisk winds frcai tile northwest. The mercury which climbed gradually from the zero mark of the past f -w days again was due to slide within a few degrees of zero. The new cold wave, developing in Utah, has spread eastward as far as as lowa and was to envelope Illinois and Indiana by night, according to government so: ecasters. Snow and I unsettled conditions were to accompany the new frigid blast. Temper atures. however, will not be as severe as during the cold snap of two days ago. Many Vessels Missing Chicago, Dec. 10. (UP) —With a return to normal winter temperatures today from the sub zeto marks which crippled the middlewest the past few days, app.ehenslon today was felt over safety of a number of Great Lakes shipping vessels. At least 10 craft, plying between upper and lower lake ports were reported overdue. It was feared they ate docked in ice jams. Reports of damage done to smaller craft by the blizzard lan into thousands of dollars. , Scant hope was held out today for reset®) of the crew of the stei. ner Agawa. reported fast on Advance reef Twenty one tnen are aboard, it was said. I Repot ts today said the blizzard I which accompanied the subnormal weather was the worst suffered in this part of the country in several years. Forty deaths were ascribed to the cold, fires, and accidents caused by the storm Railroads were resuming service today and communication was being restored. Wls.onsin, Minnesota and Michigan were still snowbound but traffic had been opened up sufficiently to prevent acute suffering. Several days will lie required before normal traffic can be expected, it was reported. BANK BANDITS ADMIT GUILT Authorities Obtain Full Confession From Huntertown Bank Robbers Fort Wayne. Dec. in. (I P> Authorities have obtained lull confessions from Russell Clark. 30, Detroit and Charles Hov.ous, 2(’>, of Indianapolis, that tlie two men robltfd the Huntertown, Ind., bank of $1,300 Thursday The confessions corroborated those made to Brvun. ().. police, who captured the badits and turned them ‘ over to authorities today. C ark. who eluded capture Thursday night by escaping during a gun 1 battle in which Hovlous was captured was found by police near.y Hrozen to deatli in a barn near Bryan yestrr Hay. (’lark had $8u!» on his person. — —-’a Wild Bank Depositors To Get Nearly $2,000,000 Indianapolis. Doc. 10. (INS) More than 12.000 depositors of the defunct J. F. Wild and Co State bank will be paid nearly $2,000,000 as the ’ result, of a 40 peri lnt dividend pay- ■ m ‘tit which the receivers of the bank ' were ordered to pay, by Judge Mah--1 lon E. Basil, of probate court. The • bank closed its floors July 30. Q — . Must Serve Prison Term Elmer W. Frie. of Fort Wayne, must serve a sentence of from one to three 'ears in the state pris n for setting fire to 1 is home as a result of failing to pet feet his appeal from the sentence. Mr. File let the time for perfecting an appeal pass without tiling his bond. He has been taken to the prison. In his trial, File ottered the alibi that he was in Berne at the time of the rite an dseveral Berne residents were witnesses in the trial.

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J Undergoes Appendicitis Operation Tuesday; (Jives i Birtb To Twins (in Friday I By Inte; national News Service Columbia City, Dec. In Mis Wnd Winelireniier, residing in Smith f iwtiship, Whitley county, rave birth to twin babies at the Luthei.in hospital in Fort Wayne, Fiida'. Mrs Wlnebrenner undeiwent an operation tor appendicitis last Tuesday. The ease Is an unusual one in niedli.il annals. The mo'hei and bullies ale doing well. CITY DIRECTORY IS COMPLETED First Copy of Decatur's New Directory Is Received By Daily Democrat Tne first copy of the new city directory of Decatur lias been received here by the Daily Democrat, from Otto E. Luedders. of Coldwater. Mich publisher of the directoiy. The directory w 11 be ready for distribution here next Monday, according to word from Mr. Luedders. Tlie directory contains the name and address of every resident of Decatur, together with those who reside on the ruial routes out of the Decatur pistoffiit- In addition l«o the names mid addresses, the directory contains photographs of several buildings in the city; a history of the city; facts ami features about the city; tlie names of every postmaster who has served here and tlie date of his appointment; a list of the officers of every church, lodge, sorority, and social club; the names of tlie school teachers; tlie names of the town officers at Monroe. Berne and Geneva; names of tlie Decatur city oftic'als; tlie names of the township officials; the names of the county ifficers; the names of tlie county's representatives in the stale legislature and in Congress; a ela isffied directoiy of the various business concerns in the c'ty; advertisements »f many >f the local merchants and business concerns, and other useful information. There is a directory by alphabetical arrangemen' by streets. The di rectory is Isiund witli a stiff cardboard cover and contains 172 pages. —• () ■ Superintendent Os Gary Schools Defends Youths Gary, Ind Dee Hi UN'S) Mod. ,n youth attacked as “jazz mad" and "!r responsible” finds one of its strongest supporters in William A. Wirt, superintendent of the Gaiy public scho >ls. who deals witli the younger gener itfon most of his time. "The rank anil file of youth tods' is just as wholes tne as it was a century ago. “Wert says "I do not believe in ail the attacks and insinuations that have been made against our children " In support of his own position. Wer' quotes a United States government survey showing that youth is nre.'“ moral than it was a generation ago. The Gaiy educator has issued an invitati n to mothers and fathers to de mand more of thes school in training youngsters. “Tlie schools will do their best to respond to such a call fro mp.irents." Witt says. o Perry Roebuck Dies At Soldiers Home In Dayton

Work was rceived today that I’erry Roebuck, former Adams county rest dent, died this morning at the Soldiers Homa in Dayton. Ohio The body will he returned to Decatur and will be taken to the Buckmaster tesidence. five and one half miles south of Decatur. No funeral arrange- ' ments have been innde o Historic Old Millstone Stolen From Man's Home Lafayette. Ind., Dec. 10 (INS) An ‘ old millstone which once served to grind grain for pioneers of this section of Indiana has been stolen from Robert Mounts, who lives southeast of Dayton on Wildcat creek The Millstone was taken from the creek only a few weeks ago by Mounts ( who placed it in his home as a curioti- ' sity. Numerous friends viewed it be- ' foie it was stolen. "There is no limit to what people ’ will steal." was Mount's comment — B Taxes Total $417,632 e Taxpayers of Wells county paid in e $417,632.26 during the fall taxpaying s period, according to the settlement shew* prepared by the county auditor.

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BEACH AND MRS. LILLIENDAHL GET SENTENCE TODAY Judge Declares Couple Convicted Os Manslaughter Are Murderers DEFENSE PLANS TO APPEAL LATER Mtivs Lnixling .1.. Dec. 10. (INS) ’’W I) v the jurv brought in that verdict of voluntary manslaughter. I do not know. Iliis criini'w.ts beyond question murder in the first det.'ree." Th s statement was made from tlie benili In supreme eouit here today by Justice Campbell, who presided >v<r tin 1 trial of Widia Beach and Mis. Margaret Lllliemiahl, convicted of voluntary n.ansluughter for killing th. woman's aged husband. Jtistic ■ Camplie'l then pronounced sentence of lo years at hard Jubor for the two defendants, tlie maximuni prison term under ilie law. Both Get Same Sentence Mays Landinir N. J., Detx 10 - - (I'l’l Mrs. M irgaret Lillienduhl today was sentenced to ten years in prist ii for her part in the slaying of her husband Dr William Lillienduhl Willis Beucli. her co-defendant. anti nl’.egetl paiamotir. was given a similar stnlence. Tht sentence represented the maximum Jail sentence which could be given, but no fine was imposed, al though the court cculd have fined tlie tlefentlants SI,OOO each. Justice Luther Campbell, before win in they w<re tried, passed tlie elite nee this morning, after the defense had ahaiitioiied its plan to ask i new tr.al based on new evidence; given notice that such steps might Is- taken later, md after attorneys lor the twe defendants had made brief pleas for light sent* nces. Beu-li took the sentence calmly but Mrs Lilliendahl, who wa.i led from the <■ urtrooiu Immediately after the s .nteiice was pronounced, was much affected The sheriff held her tightly and she soennd on the verge of coilapse. Neithei mada any statement. At the head of the stairway Heading Into tlie jail the widow stopped, shuddered and it seemed she would lie unable so go on. but she finally drew herselt tegether and descoifded int i the jail. Beach left the i-ourtroi in holding his head up, ami perhap., even defiantly. Immediately after the defendants had Inin taki'a from the courtroom, iwu indic'ments agajist Edison Hi <lgi -. Beach's lawyer, charging him with obstructing justice, were piashi d Th. indictments were an oulcrowth of Beach's disappearan. e while th' investigation of Dr LHliendahl's murder was in progress. — () Catches Snapping Turtle J. F. Yaney. a Kirkland lownshiji farmer, .aught an eight-pound snap ' ping turtle in an open ditch on De- ' |c«nib.-r “. he reported today, it Is I unusual for turtles to be found dur- | ing (he winter.

EIGHT CITIES GET SANITATION ORDER State Board Os Health Orders I nsanitary Conditions Corrected Indianapolis. Ind . Dec 10 (INS)* Officials of eight cities and towns of Lake and Laporte counties today received a formal order from the state board of health to take steps at once to correct insanitary conditions cans ed by pollution of Lake Michigan and it tributaries. Issuance of the order means that work must he planned Immediately on a program < stimated by Dr. William !■'. King, board secretary, to total from $10.l)0().()00 to $12.1)00,000. Officials of the following cities and towns on Lake Michigan, the Calumet river and other streams received the order: Gary. Hammond. Michigan City. East Chicago, Whiting. Hobart. Highland and Munster. The hoard ordered that th- municipalities must submit a formal report to the board as to plans and methods under consideration or being carried out on or before .lune 1, 11)28.

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