Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1928 — Page 1

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PRISONERS DIG THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM

HICKMAN HOLDS POISE IN CELL ASTfIALNEARS ■ssws,*?' Solitary Confinement PUZZLE SENT HIM PREDICTING FATE By Lewis S. Young International News Service w Angeles, Cal . Jan. 24.-A whim,i(al half mocking smile on his lips, WUliam l,i,k,nan ' Aidraper ami slayer of little Marlon ]. ai ker sat in his cell today and played with a cross -word pintle entitled ••■death on the gallows.” Within 24 hours he will go on trial tor the dreadful crime which has. > shocked the nation. The crossword puzzle was sent to The fox" hy an anonymous write, who Ugerently wished to tease Hickman. “Because of your predicament and hecause of the |>ossible unhappy fate which faces you. I have conceived a trossword puzzle, "death o nthe gall„ws. - which I have enclosed." the sMder wrote And Hhkman, witli a sneer, accepted the challenge and is attempting to solve the puzzle ■The world's first kidnaper" was the description given in the puzzle for the word to fit a horizontal row / di squares. “S'ang word for San Quentin," was » MKWhi’r. Others were: ■The lower of a rope." “A strong cord used frequently in j penitentaries." The "fox” himself says the puzzle L of "death on the gallows" Jails to ’ strike terror to his heart. But he would. llu'i.--Ukr Unrt. Whether he fears death on the gallows or not. he appears as tar from ranorse and feat in his daily demeanor as he did the first day ho entered the jail. fcekson Case To Start Tuesday, February 7 lutUaiiapolis. Jan. 24. — (UP) — Mews of not guilty to charges of tOMpitacy to commit, a felony in an attempt to bribe former Gov. Warren T McCray will be made before Special Judge Charles B. McCabe In Ntfon county criminal court Tuesday. Feb. 7, by Gov. Ed Jackson, Robert I. Marsh and George V. Coffin. The pleas will dispose of the formality necessary before Judge Mcrah grant motions for separate fog the three. The state then ™l elect to try Governor Jackson first and selection of a jury will.beein with two special venires availAbe. These preliminaries were disposed M late yesterday when the defense presented motions for separate triad: and Judge McCabe took them under •'nsenient. Formal entry of granl- £ , J 1 ** motl <>ns was deferred until ‘ letendants have pleaded because , °' er w l’ e tl'er the procedure uW be proper at this stage. merchants to CONSIDER PLAN Local Business Men To Cons<der Plan Os Sharing Profits With Customers ii/nn' 8 U ' being made by merchants will i* ( *7 wherel, y Decatur traders . f 8 ven u 2 l>er cent savings tach n * >aya,, * e at Christmas time lumi Bf>ek ' 011 eac h dollar spent with la . llls ' rhe plan was P*‘ e ’ Hubert n J !< T“ rd wlseh, "iPt and ue « R. Steele, of Cleveland. Mr. JJ haUPt 18 a former Decatur rest•hathe(>J >an ' w acee P te(1 > would mean desires win^ Ca,Ur merchant ’ who “ttenta'm Qllt deposit coupons, chaser ri n ** J be bank where the purPods are a hiH , bankin K- These cou- ’ n P ° B tßd at the ballk ln checks ar B PaSS b ° ok an< ' Hie savings chiw fthp 38 ml n worke(l in many and in Placet ’ n i l,dle ' v « 9 t and south 11 haß beentM *> A gen.,.,, y suc CeSßful. ’’C'chanu*' w “’„ 8 V ag ° f al! interested 'nCtria -'* held ton a t { v l,Ome J '. and * - ' St y local „ ' '' jt 0 clock. 88ked to a tens r^“ nt interes ted is attend the meeting

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GENEVA MAN IS ARRESTED Finley Kelly Faces Charge Os Driving Auto W hile Intoxicated Finley Kelly, of Geneva, was arrested this morning by Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth on a charge filed in the court cf Justice of the Peach A. Butcher, charging driving an automobile while Intoxicated. Kelly was take uto jail and will be arraigned some time’this afternoon cr tonight, it was learned. The ariest is the outgrowth of an automobile accident near Geneva last fall, at which 1 time Kelly was arrested and fined on a charge of public intoxication. q Berne Woman, Injured Jan. 5, Still Unconscious Berne, Jan. 24 —(Special) Miss Emma Fox, who was seriously injured on Januaiy sth, when she fell down the cellar steps at the Adolph Bauman home, near Monroe, is still unconscious. She is improving slowly and physicians have good hopes cf her recovery however, they are ojiite pnz zled about her state of mind. o DROP PREDICTED IN TEMPERATURE New Cold Wave Scheduled To Reach Middlewest Today Or Wednesday Chicago, Jan. 24.— (INS) — Northwest winds reaching a gale like intensity were sweeping eastward today from the slopes of the Rockies and were scheduled to bring the middle west a new cold wave with heavy snow fall. From a mild 3&s degrees above zero . at 9 A. M. today mercury was to register 10 degrees by tonight with , even colder weather tomorrow. Storm warnings were issued to shippers on the Great Lakes.

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Special Revival Senice At I United Brethren Church I Another one 'of the pre-revivai special services will be held at the I United Brethren church tonight. All i members of the church are expected |io be present at the service. which will be i most important one to all i who are anxious lor the revival. The i Rev. Mr. Hygema will l>e the speaker. I He has ju t returned from a special evangelistic campaign at Elkhart. Indiana. An invitation is extended to the general public to attend. DEMAND LARGE SUM FOR GIRL Letter Asking $40,000 In Hands Os Detroit Police Officers Detroit Jan. 24, —(INS)—A letter ' demanding $40,000 for the return of Frances St. John Smith, New York society girl and student at Smith college is in the hands of Detroit police and a search Is being made for its sejider. The letter was received by parents of the Smith college student who d‘sappeared from the dormatory at North Hamptcn Mass. Her father St. John Smith, wealthy New York retired broker announced today he stood ready to double the SIO,OOO reward if his daughter was restored to him. | Tips that Miss Smith lias been I I “seen" are still arriving from far and i wide, the latest being from Woods I Hole, where a girl resembling her was , reported to have been a guest at Buzzards Bay hoteT. o * Says Name “Howard” ' Once Was “Hog-Ward” Washington, Jan. 24— (UP)— Persons called “Howard" may or may not 1 take the explanation of the derivation i as given to the House by Rep. How- ■ ard. Dem., Neb. Howard said that formerly in Irei land people were designated as hog i wardens, dog wardens, pig wardens i chicken wardens, and so on. His ancestors, he explained, were hog wardens, which was shortend to hogward | and then someone dropped the "g”.

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Headway Made In Effort To Suppress Revolution Managua. Nicaragua, Jan. 24 (INS) —Definite headway now Is being made towa.Js suppression of the revolution led by Gen. Augustino Sandino. despite the wild and difficult country in which tpe.ations a;? being carried on. accoiding to U. S. Marine cfficetsi t.iday. Tie 1.000 Marines being sent up to the 'front to reinforce the men already on the I ne, will be used to run down scatteied Isinds of rebels. Couriers repott fAiat Sandino's main force is breaking up into small bands. A few rebels remain in the El Chip.:te district, where Sandino was recently reported wounded during an aet ial liombardment by Marines, but their numbers are insignificant. Brig. Gen. Frank It. McCoy, who was appointed by ITesident Coolidge to Supervise, the Nicaraguan National election in October, is conferring with representatives of tjie government. He held an informal interview with president Diaz yesterday. No pitched battles are tep rte.l. STRESSES HARM OF DISOBEDIENCE Baptist Minister Says To Obey Is Bettei* Than Sacrifice A splendid Monday evening audience gathered at the Baptist church ast night, beginning the second and last week of the evangelistic effort. A spirited song service of worship under* the leadership of Mr. Hinkin, with Mrs. He'd at the piano, prepared the worshipers for the message by the Rev. O. E. Miller. He used the subject, "To Obey is Better than Sacrifice.” The message was based on the disoliedience of King Saul when he was commanded to slay' completely the Amalekite nation. He kept track p«rt of the animals, the best and fairest. When the prophet Samuel asked about the expedition Saul excused himself that the people had kept the animals for sacrifice to God. The speaker said in part “Sacrifice is airight in its place, but can never be made an excuse for obedience. God’s will must be supreme, and the least disobedience toward His wtill is sin. The k-hole trouble with the wor.d in all its history is traced to rebellion against the will of God. "Hts will demands repentance, submission of our will to His. He wills that men shall honor and reverence His .Son as Saviour and Lord, ile wiKd that men shall confess the Son. 'if thuu shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Ijorrf, and shalt believe in thiner henrt that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto rightjeousness and with the mouth confession is made unto sglvatien’.” This evening, the subject will be “The price of a slave.” After the service this evening, the Sunday school teachers and workers will meet for a conference regarding further plans for the week. The members of the Christian church, together with their pastor, the Rev. Harry W. Thompson, will attend tonight’s meeting in a body. OUTUNESHORER CONTROL PLANS Secretary Jardine Makes It Clear That Department Will Nat Pay Farmers (By W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture) Washington, D. C., Jan. 24. —The United States department ct agriculture ha» submitted to congress a comprehensive program for corn borer control. This program recognizes the impossibility of the eradication of the borer and is based on the established policy of the department in co-operating with the states in any permanent and continuous effort toretard the spread of an injurious insect and prevent as far as possible its increase to the point of serious commercial damage. Following this policy, the department proposes in its corn borer control program to finance and to take full responsibility for (1) scouting to determine the further spread of the fyorer as a basis for quarantine measures, and (2) aal quarantine enforcement. both interstate and within the 'states, the latter, of course under delegated state authority. The acceptance by the department (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

PROBE RENEWED IN TEA POT DOME OIL CASE TODAY Government Makes Effort To Trace Fund Raised For Oil Deal PROBE COMMITTEE TO SUMMON WITNESSES Washington, Jan. 23 (INS) —The senate's famous Teapot dome investigation was reopened today, after a fonr-year recess, in an effort to trace a f3,Sou,i)m) fund raised in an oil deal consummated at the time the naval oil reserves were privately leased. Tlte fund represents the profits of the Continental Trading Co., of Canada, created by Harry F. Sinclair, and other western oil mien. It assumed significance when $230,500 was traced, in Liberty bonds, to the banking accounty of former secretary of the interior Albert 11. Fall. The new inquiry was undertaken to Irani whether other government officials "slutred in the profits.” Senator Thomas J. Walsh (d) of I Mont., resumed his role of "oil prosecutor” to handle the inquiry. He announced that M. T. Everhart, son-in-law of Fall, wool dbe the first witness. Everhart was shown to have deposited t.ie $230,500 in Liebrty bonds to Fall's credit in a western bank. Sinclair "himself was summoned to ’today's session as the second witness. There ware indications that both Everhart Sinclair would refuse to testify? Martin W. LMtleton, chief attorney for Sinclair in the Teapot Dome oil t.lals, characterized the new senate Inquiry as "outrageous persecu* tion" of his client. "WkHe-*H>woman is on trial in the courts of the land.” said Littleton, “it is outrageous to bring him before a senate committee, where no rules of law are observed, in an effort to get information, which wouldn't be gotten in acourt." o Evansville Mayor Sues His Wife For Divorce Evansville, lnd„ Jan. 24.—(UP) — Asesvting that his wife. Mrs. Anna Males, has refused to live with him for three months; Herbert Males, mayor of Evansville, has filed suit for divorce. The complaint CQBtains charges that Mas. Ma'es “quarrelezb nagged and fussed" at the 'mayor and finally refused to live with him. The mayor and his wife were married in 1895. o ASKS INVENTORY OF GOVERNMENT Resolution Calls For A Complete Check-up Os Government Holdings Washington, Jan. 24— (IN’S) —A public inventory of the stocik and bond holdings of the President of the United States, all cabinet officers, a'.l senators and representatives wl.uld be authorized under a joint resolution introduced in the Senate today bySenator Frazier of North Dakota. The Resolution*was aimed particularly at learning what Senators and representatives own stocks and bonds cf electric companies, crouped witli the so-called “woper trust" which a Democratic insurgent coalition is attempting to investigate. It would apply however to “all industrial, railroad, banking, shipping, mining, oil and all other corporations, firms and partnerships" owned within the last two years. The resolution would order those affected to file an inventory of his holdings with the Federal Trade commission before March 31, 1929. o Receives Fractured Skull Richmond, Va. Jan. 24 — (INS) — Nancy Davison, 16 year old qdopted daughter of Mr. ahd Mis. Stephen put ney, w«s found todey it) a semiconsfcipus condition, with her skull crushed, on a doorstep In the vicinity of her home. The police are without clues. She had been missing all night. The girl’s father |s» president of the Putney Shoe company, a large wholesale firm.

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| ( * Quick Actior, i K . Z* 2 'it. f 4 . k 1 /1W tywwiiwsaw * Judge Fred W. Brennan of Flint, Mich, (above), is the judge who sentenced Adolph Hotelling, confessed murderer of Dorothy Schneider, Io life imprisonment at hard labor. AUDIENCE TAKES PART IN SERVICE Inspirational Service Held In Methodist Revival Monday Night With an audience that was an inspiration to pastor and people, the Methodist Church launched its last week of revival meeting last night. The service was conducted as much by the audience as by the pastor. The first part of the service was taken up in a spirited song service. This was followed by a beautiful service of witnessing for Christ, in which about fifty people were on their feef' eager for the cfTTWCiP "to te 1 just what Christ had meant to their lives. This part of the service was followed by a deep devotional service, expressed in prayer. Mrs. Dan Tyndall sang in a manner that was preparatory for tile sermon by the pastor. The Rev. R. W. Stoakes spoke on the subject. "The Joy of Salvation” The pastor brought out the fact that so many times the preacher and teacher were guilty of telling only half truths about self-denial. That too often the taking up the cross was stressed while the fact that the sting of „sin removed, was overlooked. The speaker said tliat all the world was < ryjng out for peace of mind and he(irt and that here, there and yon dej- the peoples of the earth were crowding at the call of someone who claimed to be a peacemaker. But these are saying peace, peace, when there is no peace. There is one and one only to whom the world may go to find this peace and that fs Jesus Christ who said, “Peace I give unto you, peace I leave with you." Services were announced f%- every night this week for 7:30 o'clock. Corn Borer Bill Will Be Introduced In Congress Washington Jan. 24, — (INS) —Representative Purnell, republican of Indiana today told the house agriculture I committee that he will introduced bill for an aditional appropriation of $lO, 000,000 to fight the European corn lioi er. C. E. Wharton, of Kenton, Ohio, president of the national federated club led a delegation for Ohio and Michigan farmers before the committee to oppose federal efforts to combat the borer. ED GREEN TO SEEK RE-ELECTION County Recorder To Enter Primary On Democratic Ticket Next Mav Ed Green, recorder of Adams county today announced that he will again lie a candidate for the Democratic nomination for that office supject to the decision of the May primary. He is the first to announce for the office in this county. Mr. Green is now serving his fourth year as recorder and has a good record. He served two terms as sheriff some years ago and is one of the best known men of the county. Mr. Green has been a Democratic precinct worker tor many years and is i making his campaign for renoniination on an efficiency platform.

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BRICKS REMOVED FROM DETRIOT FEDERAL JAIL Twenty-one “Dope Addicts” Walk Out Ih Wholesale Prison Delivery SOME REGARDED AS DESPERATE PRISONERS Detroit, Jan. 21. (INS) Tvv cut v-onc l< Herat prisoners held lor trial in Hie Elmwood police station miller custody ol the Wavnc county slicrilT* office dug their way to fi’vetlon’ today. Using pieces of metal ripped from lite wash room fixtures, Hie prisoners worked t|uiellv culling away the heuvy brick wtill in the rear of the jail. A general alarm of the escapt; was sounded in this section of the state. Most of the priseners were accused i ither as dope peddlers or addicts, and some of them are considered to ( lie desperate men. Tlie prisoners coughed pitifully throughout the night to cover the noise as they scraped away the mortar and carefully removed each brick. Three deputy sheriffs were on duty 4ti feet away. When deputy sheriff Harold Lyons entered the main cell lock to awaken the men. and check up. he found rolled clothing and blankets under the lied covers in the 21 bunks. Four prisoners who refused to join in the break remained. The craving for dope is believed by authorities to have caused the break. o_ President Cosyrave Guest Os Mr. And Mrs. Coolidge Washington, Jan. 24.— - (INS) — A luncheon at the White House with President and Mrs. Coolidge was the high light of a busy day mapped out for William T. (’osgrave, president of the Irish Free State. Preceding the luncheon, Cosgrave arranged to go to Arlington cemetery to place a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier. Tonight he will be a dinner guest of Timothy Smiddy, Irish minister to Washington Cosgraye was up early this morning for a horsebac ride through the winding paths of Rock Creek park. He expressed great enthusiasm over liis visit to Amirica. o Grocery Robhcd By Masked Bandit In Gary Hold-up Gaiy, Ind., Jan. 24—(UP)- —Edwin J Smith, grocer, was robbed of $2,200 Monday night by a masked bandit at his store. The robber escaped in an automobile he had parked in the rear of the place. Os the loot, S7OO was in cash, and $1,500 in negotiable checks which had been cashed by Smith for American bridge company plant employes. PLANE BEGINS NON-STOP TRIP Harry Brooks Starts For v Miami In Light Ford 4 Two-Cylinder Plane Detroit, Jan. 24. — (INS) —Despite snow and cold, Harry Brooks, Ford test pilot hopped off today in a new "Flivver" plane for a 1,120 miles nonstop flight to Miami, Fla. The new "Flivver" plana is a monoplane with outside braces to lioth sides of the wings. "This plane will have considerable influence on the development oi aviation,” Henry Ford told Brooks as the pilot prepared to hop off. Brooks will try to break the record of a French flyer who covered a nonstop flight of -800 miles In a light plane. Brooks expects to average 80 miles an hour. His course is chartered over Columbus, 0., Asheville, N. C., Greenville, S. C., Augusta, Ga„ Jacksonville and Daytona, Fla. • O—■■ -■4* Paddy Driscoll To Wed Chicago, Jan. 24— (INS)— John Leo Driscoll, otherwise known as "Paddy" Driscoll, famous profesioual football player, is engaged to marry Miss Mary Loretta McCarthy, it was announced today.

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