Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1927 — Page 1

weather Unsettled tonight mostly snow In east an d north, Cold wave. Temperature jero to f,ve below Sunday fair and colder.

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INI t Not UULU WAVE MOVING UPON INDIAN # ow Temperature Recoi For Present Season Ex pected To Be Smashed ICY WAVE COMING OUT OF NORTH WES

Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 31. I (INS) -The advance breezes (I Hie coldest weather of the wii ter ushered in the last day o 1927 today as an intense cob wave moved upon Indiana. Forty degrees below zero recorder tills morning throughout the regior, i.iu th of Wyoming gave promise t<w day that the present season's low irmpeiatiue records would be smash <d in Indiana and in the middlewest. The Icy wave will hold sway until .Monday night. Moving This Way This was the report today of gov iiinent meteorologist J H. Armington as he pointed to his weather map which showed the steady advance of the zero belt from the northwest toward the Hoosier state. At S A. M. i day it was 28 degrees above at Indianapolis, 18 above at Terre Haute S above at St. Louis. Mo., zero at Colombia, Me., 6 below zero at Kansas City, 18 below zero at Chyonne, Wyoming, 28 below zero in the Yellowstone Park and 40 below zero at Edmonton, Alberta. You ran see what’s rolling in towaid Indiana,'Armington said. “Ther • is no prospect of relief before Mon day night. 1 am expecting the lowest temperatures of the winter tonight and Sunday night." The zero belt this morning extended as far south as Northern Oklahoma and us fat east as Eastern Missouri. i Storm Sweeping Eastward _ Chicago, Dec. 31. - (INS)—Driving needle-like snow and zero weather gripped the entire middlewest today, the forerunner of the coldest wave of the season which is sweeping eastward and southward from the Can adian northwest and the snow-cover-vd slopes of the Rockies. Death, scores cf automobile accidents, extreme exposure, suffering, train and surface car tieups, lakes shipping imperiled, telegraph and t< h phone lines down and no relief in sight for several days was the picture from Northern Wisconsin to Texas and from Montana to Ohio. Massive drifts of snow piled to a height of twenty feet in some places made highways impassable. City streets resembled snowy country lanes with hundreds of hastily etnployed men shoveling frantically to keep abreast of the ever increasing white blanket. Eigljt * nenes of snow fell in Chicago. n Five Killed In Plane Crash Paris, Dec. 31—(INS)—Four passengers and the pilot were killed near Marignane today when a hydroplane, believed to be the property of the 1 Aero-Naval Transport! company, enroute from Le Bourget to Algiers via 1 Marseilles, crashed. Papers on th" t Pilot gave his name as “Enderllne." 1 —— BIBLE CLASSES 1 TO OPEN MONDAY ■

■Miss Freada E. Koeker To Conduct Classes In This City * The Bible classes which will be conducted b.v Miss FTeada E. Koeker, field secretary of the Bible Seminary of New York, will open at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, at the Baptist church. These classes are sponsored by all cf the Missionary Societies of the various churches of the city, and will be conducted each afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and each evening at 7:30 o'clock. All meetings will be held at the Baptist church, with the exception of the Monday night meeting. That will be a mass meeting and will be held at the Zion Reformed church. Miss Koeker will deliver a talk at that time ttsing as her subject, "The band of Christmas". That meeting will open at 7:30 o’clock and the public is cordially invited to attend. Miss Koeker conies to this city with very high recommendations and a treat is assured for all those who enter her classes, which are open to anyone in the city, both young and old.

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Henry Heller To Speak At Farmers’ Institute ('. D. Kunkel, chairman of the Root township Farmer’s Institute, announces that Henry B. Heller. Adams county attorney, has been secured to debver the mam address of the evening session of the institute, next Tuesday. The subject has not been announced but it is sure to b“ of Interest to everyone who attends. The meeting will begin at 7 o’clock i next Tuesday evening, .January in the Monmouth school building. The meeting will bring to a close the annual institute, two other sessions be- , ing planned for the dav —— o—

TRBANT OFFICER : NOT SELECTED < i ounty Board Os Education "Adjourns Today Without Making Choice No action was taken by the Adams unty board of education at the eeting held in this city this morn,.p in regard to the election of an p tendance officer for Adams county. lt ie board deemed it advisable Io ). it before holding the special elecI. «• f Three of the seven applicants were B en passing grades by Blanch Merstate attendance officer. The s >cial examination was held at the , ice of County Superintendent Clifi Striker last week. Those passing , examination were Mrs. George dies, of this city; Robert Meyers. Monroe, and Harold Reynolds, of , rtford townshin. 'he names of the three passing the i initiation wer« telegraphed to the ,ce of the county superintendent ursdiiy and a special delivery letbrought more details from Miss rry today, shortly before the meetof the board. Vfter the board met tills morning, adjournment was held and Mtes hy was called on the telephone, i stated that it was up to the counboard to make the selection for indance officer and the hoard de--d to wait at least for a few days il more details could be gathered b.he trustees. S Mav Be Raised From Sea Bed Today svincetown .Mass, Dec. 31 — (INS) TltJ-4 may be raised from the bottom Plovincetown harbor today and thoodies of forty men recovered fro the sunken submarine, which wasent to a watery grave when strr by the coast guard destroyer Paiingltere on Dee 17. Wk of digging a second tunnel under ie aubinersible has been completi and lines will be slung around It. tnnmnder Saunders. In charge of t diving operations, wirelessed to Anil al Andrews at the Boston navyardß that the submarine might be tsed by midnight tonight. The hugeiontoons are in readiness for liftinoperaiions. xCouaudei Saunders said the weather wiideai for diving and that every availle man had been sent down, those sted up were being sent down again leanwhile, the Buraau of Navagationrdered that all divers with exporter at depths of 100 feet or more he (referred at once to the mine layer ilcon, flagship of the Salvage fleet, »tn which the divers are ingTwolrick Masons Are 'Jectrocuted At W ork

Indiapolls, Dee. 31. — (INS) Coroner!, H. Cramer today opened his iuqst into the deaths ot Randall Sterne 47, and his son, Erank Stevens!#, Bedford, Indiana, stonemasons, .’ho were instantly killed when tin came in contact witli high tension res carrying 33,000 vote. The dible tragedy took place nearly lOfeet above the street level and in aln view of many pedestrians. 'le two men were working on the ne lautfdry and power plan of the Melodist hospital at Sixteen street andenate avenue. They were on a scaffd. —- 4-0 ——" Snow Strm Accompanies Exit 0 Old Year Today Old 101? roaring a LI 0“ leaving the ’orld forever in a storm. After a W ee of mild wea^ r ’^ t °” d bling an aftr Eat ter seaspD ’ inß dropped ' wave and indlatioil are that the first day of 1928 W1 hd cold

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-'NOISY WELCOME IS PLANNED FOR NEW YEAR HERE f < Watch Parties Planned For Tonight; Legal Observance On Monday SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS PLANNED Although no public celebrations of ; New Years has been planned in DeI catur for next Monday, the legal ho lida.v practically all business in the I city will be at a standstill. Since New Years falls on Sunday this year, 'he legal observance will be held on Monday. Merrymakers who venture outdoors tonight will find several inches of snow to greet them. Snow started falling early this morning and continued r throughout the day, with no indication of an eaily let-up late this afternoon. . The temperature bad failed several i degrees since yesterday and a further drop was forecast before tomorrow. , Watch Parties Planned Several watch parties have been planned for this evening and the new year is expected to receive its usual . noisy welcome. The Tri Kappa sorority will hold its annual New Years . eve dame in the Maconlc hall to- . night. All stores in the city will be closed ■ on Monday, it was announced today. . Confectionery steres, restaurants and cigar stores will be exceptions, and it is probable that those establishments will be close dtor at least part of the - day, There will be no rural of city deliveries of mail. The postoffice will ■ be closed al iday. The Daily Democrat will issue an edition at noon an dthe employees will enjoy a halfday vacation. Pistol ('artridge Dropped On Floor Explodes; Shot Hits Man Above His Knee Indianapolis, Dec. 31.— (UP) —While practicing with his Christmas gift, a new .22 calibre target pistol in the basement of his house. Stewart Springer, 21, dropped a cartridge on the floor yesterday. It exploded, the bullet striking him above the knee in the light leg. The wound is not serious. Four Students Killed By Snowslide While Skiing Tokyo. Dee. 31.—(INS)—Four students of Waseda University were killed today when, skiing at Harlnoki Pass, they were smotaereti By a snowslide. The students were spending their holidays at the pass, which in the Japan Alps. Three bodies have already been recovered. CHICAGO BANK HELD UP TODAY Bandits Hold Teller And Family Prisoners Until Time-Lock Releases Chicago, Dec. 31.—(INS)—Six bandits staged a daring daylight robbery of the Ravenswood National bank Here today, after holding the teller and his family prisoners in their home throughout tlie night until the timelock released the vault at 7:30 o'clock this morning, forced the teller to open the safe and then escaped with 180,000 in cash and negotiable securities. The teller, George Anderson, was accosted in front of his home by the bandit sextet who forced him into the living room. There they produced sawed off shotguns and held prisoner his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Algot Anderson. At 7:25 a. m. they spir ted Anderson to the bank and forced him to open the vault. The men escaped in an automobile. .._ —o Union Township Farmers Institute Next Thursday The annual Union Township farmer’s institute will be held In the Kohr school building, next Thursday January 5. The program for the institute may bo found on another page As the Dally Democrat tonight. There will be exhibits of farm products and a school exhibit in addition to the institute program. The public is invited to attend.

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J. Pierpont Morgan (above), lias been elected chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, succeeding the late Judge Elbert H. Gary. The election was officially announced after a meeting of the directors in New York city. (intel national News-eel >

AUTO LICENSE DEADLINE FEB. 1 Motorists Must Have New License Plates Before That Date February 1 is the deadline tor obtaining' 1928 automobile license 'dates, the Daily Democrat was informed today by the International News Service, following an inquiry at the office of Secretary of State Schortemeier. It was reported here today that all motorists must display the new license plates on their automobiles ty January 1 and there was a ru h it the local auto license bureau all day today. It would have been physically impossible for all motorsis to have obtained the new license plates before tomorrow. It is aid that the dealine will not be extended beyond February 1 and all motorists are requested to get their new licenses as soon as possible.. In Ohio, persons driving their automobiles without the new license plates after January 1 will be liable to arrest. o Remus May Be Released From Asylum In Few Mont Lima, O„ Dee. 31.—(INS)—Possibility that George Henins will be released from the state aslyum here after only a few months was voiced today by Dr. W. H. Vorbau. superintendent of the institution. Advised by International News Services yesterday that Remus had been ordered confineod to the asylum by Probate Judge William Lueders, of Cincinnati. Dr. Vorbau said that from three months to a year would he required for /bservation ot Remuse before e could possibly be dismissed as sane. Remus' attorney has appealed the probate court decision and is also attempting to obtain his clients release on a writ of habeas corpus, and it is not likely that Remus will be brought here for several days even if these efforts are unsuccessful. 0 Snowstorm Causes Train Wreck At Chicago Today Chicago, Dec. 31.—(UP I-Blinded by a driving snowstorm, the engineer of "The Hummer," crack passenger train on the Chicago and Alton railroad, today drove his locomotive into the rear end of “No. 78" on the same railroad, a fast mail train from St. Louis. According to first reports from the scene, three coaches of the mail train were demolished. The wreck occurred within the city limits and scores of ambulances and patrol wagons were hurried to the scene. Police had no estimate of the number of persons injured. Ditcher Suffocates Following A Cave-ln Richmond, Ind., Dec. 31. (INS) — O. E. Riggle. 43. was suffocated in a ditch at Centerville, six miles west ot here, while fellow workmen worked desperately to dig ihm out after the ditch had caved in on him Riggle was dead when his body was uncovered. He was the father oi four children who with the widow stir vlved him.

iRUMOR OF LINDY BEING KILLED IN CRASH IS UNTRUE Unfounded Rumor Started Here Todav; Is Feted In Belize, Honduras MOTHER STILL AT ST. LOUIS An unfounded rumor was started in Decatur during the noon hour today that Col. diaries Lindbeigh had been killed in an airplane crash in Honduras today. Tiie Ixme Eagle" was bei Ing accorded a great reception in Belize, today, and was reported well ■ anil enjoying himself. His mother was i still delayed at St. Ixniis on her return flight from Mexico to Detroit, after spending Christinas with her son. Remains At Belize - Belize, British Honduras, Dec. 31— I INS) — Jubilant residents of this little part of Hie British empire tucked •sway in Central America today prepared to celebrate a double holiday Only a day away, as the clock goes, was Hie New Year—something to be ushered in witli fitting enthusiasm and in their midst was that personible ambassador of good will from he United States, Col Charles A. Lind bergli A young man to lie showered with honors befitting a distinguished guest who chose a loute never before . used by any ether visitor to these . parts. With all business suspended, offlI cials anil private subjects were ready , to crowd whatever time tlie young , aviator decides to spend here with receptions, parades and excursions to I places of interest. Although Col. Lindbergh was at . flist expected to hop off today for San , Salvador, across Central America, I it was indicated tlial he would probs bi ly defer Ills flight until Monday. Mother Delayed Again . St. Louis, Dec. 31— (INS) Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh goes places and loes things in a hurry—except when | rhe conies to St. Louis. The only hesl•ation on her southward flight from Detroit to Mexico City to spend Christ • mas witli her son was here when a broken gear on the huge ail steel airi plane in which she travels delayed her. After arriving in St. lands Thursday afternoon on the return trip, site was forced to spend yesterday here liecause of fog. ' Today a snowstorm threatened to delay tlie Detroit hop again. William B. Stout, designer of tlie plane iiopes Hie party can leave here this afternoon stopping perhaps at indianapo1 lis, but tlie wind, snowstorm and visibility will finally decide tlie starting time he sad. I I FORT WAYNE HAS DISASTROUS FIRE ; Grand Leader Department Store Burns; Loss Exi ceeds Half Million Fort Wayne. Ind., Dec. 31 (INS)— Fire gutted the Grand Leader department store here last night witli a loss estimated in excess of $500,00(1. The r Peoples Trust Co next door was da maged. 1 The firemen fought the stubborn r blaze for several hous before they r brought it under control. The Grand - Leader department store Is owned by j the Stillman Dry Goods Co., which B operates a chain of stores throughout . the country. s The blaze started about 9:15 o'clock a but it was midnight before firemen brought it iiuiier control. It was con y fined to the department store building 1 and the one to the south occupied by e the People's Trust compnay. The latter was damaged only slightly. e The loss on the stock was fully covered by insurance, but no authentic information convening the amount of insurance on the building could be secured. Officials said that an inves--1 tigation would be conducted before the cause of the tire would be known. Nathan Goldman, president of the a Stillman Dry Goods company said last it night the loss on the stock was bot- tween 250,000 and $300,000. r The buUding was owned by John K Stillman, vice-president of the com s pany and former resident of Fori >t Wayne, who now lives in New York r- The Grand Leader had occupied tht building for the last 13 years.

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Air Liner, Lost In Desert, Is Found London. Dec. 31 (INS) —After a liligent search by automobiles and lirplanes, the Bagdad to Cairo ulr liner which was lost In the desert. whs found today sixty miles from Rut ba. according in a central news lis|>atcli from Cairo. According to a wireless received veslerday from the pilot, tlie huge Urplam* was forced to descend when faced with heavy headwinds and a shortage of gasoline. The sou, occiipanls of the plane were apparently safe and unharmed »y their experience. WILLIAM HILL EXPIRES FORAY Decatur Attorney And Collector Dies At Home East Os This City John William Hill. 67, local attorney and collector, died at his home it Bellmont Park, east of Decatur, at 1:45 o'clock tlii.s morning, following in illness of several months. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Hill was born near Clarksburg, West Virginia, Marcn 23, 1860. He vas the son of J. C. and Mary Miller Hill. Mr. Hill came to Decatur when he was 9 years of age and since that line h' 1 lias spent most of his life n and near tills city. At the age of 23, Mr. Hill united witli tlie Pleasant Mills Baptist ■hurch. which church he has been a member ever since. On January 1, (903, Mr. Hill was married to Bessie E. Higgins, of Sandusky, Ohio, who lurvives. A brother and sister alsr •mrvive. besides many friends in Decatur and Adams county. Funeral services will held at the home east of this city. Monday afternoon. at 1:30 o'clock ami at 2 o'clock i, tiie Decatur Evange'lcal church The Rev. O. E Miller, pastor of the Decatur Baptist church, will have ■haige of tse services. Burial will take place in the Decatur cemetery. o—• Gov. Jackson Broadcasts New Year’s Message Today Indianapolis, Oec. 31. —(UP)-Gov. Ed Jackson, who will lie tried Fell. 7 on a charge of conspiring to bribe former Gov. Warren T. McCray, broadcast to every corner of tlie state today a New Year's message of defense and attack Tlie defense was for the work of his administration and Hie attack was on "studied misrepresentations of designing individuals and selfish newsnapers," which lie indicated brought ibout his indictment. It was the firs' Ime the governor had made any ref •rence to his troubles except to ex oress confidence that his trial would vindicate him of wrong. it was explained at Governor Jackson’s office that although the mess age was mailed to 300 odd newspapers in the state in envelopes carrying the return of the governor's office, it was not paid for by the state or by Gov. Jackson personally. Gov. Jackson boasted that "the state is entering 1928 free of all Indebtedness with the lowest tax levy It has enjoyed for many years, with a healthy general fund amply protected by a strong budget, and with adequate annual investments bringing

Its seveial institutions to the front rank of those In any slate.” The governor asserted that he had fulfilled hie election promises and •■lndiana today is enjoying an administration in complete accord with the wishes of a great majority of its 1 citizens as expressed in the last state election." — — o ■ 1 I Two Elevated Trains Collide In Chicago : Chicago, Dec. 31. — (INS) Two score passengers were severely shaken and one man was reported prob- ' ably fatally wounded here today when two elevated trains crashed in- * to each other. e One passenger, riding on the rear '■ platform of the train ahead, was ree ported crushed when the express train, coming up from the rear, e struck the other train. t As flames and sparks from the ► third rail began attacking the coaches passengers screamed and only prompt 7 work by elevated guards averted a >• panic. 1 Fire apparatus rushed to the scene and officials immediately thrust off ,e the power to avoid deaths by electrocution.

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' STATE CHAIRMAN ' OF REPUBLICANS FACES CHARGES 1 ———_ I 1 Clyde A. Walb Indicted On Charge Os Violating Federal Banking Law •SEN. WATSON BEFORE MARION ( OUNTY JURY Indiamipolis, Dec 31. — HNS) ?lyde A. Walb, 55, Republican state ihairman since July 19. 1923, was inlifted liy the federal grand jury here oduy on charges of violating the fed iral banking law. The charge against Walb grew out if the recent failure of the First National bank at Lagrange. Ind., of vhieh Wall) was vice-president. More han s76.Odd of forged paper was retorted to have been found in the hank. Valentine D. Weaver, former preaileut of the Lagrange bank, wm also indicted. Watson At Indianapolis Indianapolis, Dec. 31.-<I'F’I- t'. S. Senator James E Watson went lie 'ore the Marion county grand Jury oday on Ills own will as the last vitness in the investigation of poll! cal conuption which already lias remlted in Indictment of more than 12 lubtic officials Senator Watson responded to a elegraphed request to t'hlcago from Prosecutor William H. Remy and voluntarily came here early today to >e ready to appear Tlie senator went first to the Columbia Club for breakfast. Short y after 9 a in., lie went to the office if Special Prosecutor Knisley W. Johnson Then he proceeded tn the lourtliouse and waited outside the ;rand jury room White- be waited, be was askAd if ie was getting Republican pointed ‘lroned out." "Well, i did, yesterday, pretty well." he senator replied, ' hut I don't know ihont It today." "It s a pretty big ironing," he added He said he hoped to return to (.'hl?ago this afternoon and continue Political conferenci s until Tuesday vhen he will return to Washington After it has finished witli Watson, ’.he grand jury is expected to make ts leport, indicting several more persons. o - . — Rev. Albert Ogie, Prominent Baptist, Dies At Capital Indianapolis, Dec. 31 lUP) Rev Albert Ogle, superintendent of Misdons of the Indiana Baptist state convention for 20 years died yesterday. Itey. Ogle obtained his education at Franklin college and the Shurtltff heologlcal seminary. Among his many posts were pastorates at Seymour and Franklin. The funeral will be held Monday. HICKMAN'S FAST IS BEING PROBER 1

Authorities Seek To Establish “Career Os Crime" For Slayer Los Angeles. Dec. 31. —(VP) —The date of California today pressed Ils efforts to send William Edward Hickman to the gallows by attempting to sonect him with a series of unsolved crimes on the Pacific coast. While persistent reports were circulated that Hickmans attorney, Jerome Walsh, had decided upon an nsanity defense as the most likely escape from the death penalty, the district attorney’s office started u diligent search ot crimes which might be traced to Hickman, thus establishing a "career in crime" us an answer to the insanity plea. Hickman already has confessed kidnaping and killing 12 year old Marlon Parker—the crime whl<tfi brought about his apprehension—and has admitted participating with his . bandit pal. Melby Hunt, in the kll Ing ,1 ot Ivy Thoms In a drug store holdu* "Confession” Is False Detroit, Dec. 31—(INS) —A ‘ p|. session" by James Ellsworth, was taken into custody la# "fi when ho accosted an officer statement "I was with jjfe ■ take me In," is false, po’ ed today, iwfis

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