Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1928 — Page 1

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PARTY LEADERS IGNORE JACKSON CASE

ANOTHER COLO MVE SWEEPING DOWN ON STATE Near Zero Weather Predicted To Follow in Wake Os Snow Storm more deep SNOW DRIFTS PROBABLE Indianapolis Ft h- 23,— ( INS)— Old Man \\’inter will ninke tindemonstration in Indiana tonight. with snow and icy winds tl at ntav bring near zero wcallKT te the northern counli,s ano temperatures o! 10 alxtvc zero in the central parts, ■iccordini' to .1. 11. Armington, mveriiinent weather man. 'A late February cold wave was scheduled to enter the state from the northwest late today on the fluffy wings of a snow storm which, 'because of an expected high northwest wind, probably will again interrupt mral traffic with deep snow drifts, Armington said. Colder Tonight “The middle Missouri valley region inhered the full blast of the cold wave this morning and suffered a general temperature fall of about 36 ( •grees," Armington said, predicting snow and colder for this afternoon ind tonight. Armington .said that Friday probably would be fair and raid with some possibility of rising temperatures on Saturday. o William Berlin# Heads Egg And Poultry Ass'n. William Berling, of Bluffton, former Decatur resident, was re-elected president of the Indiana Egg and Poultry Association, by the board of directors at the dose of the convention; Wed nesday afternoon, at Indianapolis. Ray T. Ditzler, cf HUffmHBWT. was reelected vice president. Other officers chosen were: William Locks, cf Indianapolis, second vice-president, and E. Grant, of Indianapolis, sec-retary-treasurer. Directors, who were elected Wednesday, are: Mr. Berling. Mr. Ditzler, Mr. Locks, Harvey J. Zwicker, of Louisville; llonter Hole, Versailles., 0, M. 0. Dearman, Odon; M. A. Vrets Vincennes; R. R. Regan, Indianapolis; Fred Tiedman, Terre Haute; Frank ™yd, of Greensburg, and Carl Barefoot. Muncie. The convention met only in the forenoon Tuesday and Wednesday. Rotarians End District Meeting At West Baden West Raden, Ind.. Feb. 23(U.R)— Worth W. Pepple, of Michigan City, look charge of the affairs of the twelfth Indiana district of Rotarv International today. He is the new president. ■n a close race at the annual state conference of the district, he was f osen over the only other nominee, Leslie C. Sammons, of Shelby'llle ' by a vote of 68 to 67. The dis''let president is the only official elected at the conference. After two days of speeches and merrymaking, marked by the attend“ce of Arthur w. Sapp, of Huntingon. international president, the conetence ended with a banquet last night. DAY OF PRAYER PROGRAM READY Missionary Societies Unite In Observance Here Friday Afternoon • Breaking Down Barriers” is the h? s a prayer service which will ■4 * **' ' riday afternoon. February a V he Presl) y te rian church in this af'wno 0 g n nninß at 2:30 °’ clock in the P J h ‘ s , program for a "Whole Day of o yOy ’ hus beeu Prepared by the men O s women for Home Missions • i the Federation of Woman's Foreof th , ions o£ North America. , All ‘ Missionary societies of this city w ‘^ lting ln prom otlng this day of ed >n" P ' which will also be manifestth« « 6VSry othpr part of the world, at same hour. The churches will all have a part in churn| r °l ram antl the Presbyterian i?,'. 01 ' are afternoon. The public anv ? Iy invlted t 0 ““end all or y pa “ of this service.

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WATSON ENTERS STATE PRIMARY Senator Enters Name As Candidate For Nomination For President Indianapolis. Feb. 23. (INS)—James E. Watson, republican of Indiana today entered his name as a candidate for the presidency of the United States in the Indiana presidential reference primary to be held on May 8. The senator's name was formerly filed by James House, an assistant attorney general of Indiana,' who brought to the office of Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier, petitions with approximately 15.000 signatures representing each of the 92 Indiana counties. A letter signed by Senator Watson and address'd to Secretary of State Schortemeier also was deivlered by House to Schortemeier. Endorsement of Senator Watson’s candidacy was expected to be made by the Republican state committee at its meeting here this afternoon. Republican State Chairman E. Faye Kitselinan. announced that the meeting had been summoned for the purpose of endorsing the Watson candidacy. o Decatur Couple Return From Florida And Cuba Mr. and Mis. W. A. Klepper arrived this afternoon from a three weeks trip to points in Florida and Cuba. They enjoyed every moment and declare the south a great playground. 0 MEMBERS OF ; OLD HOME WEEK I . CLUB | e * # ♦ ♦ ♦ HAVE YOU JOINED? Following is the first list of members of the Old Home Week Club, being organized for the purpose of staging an Old Home Week celebration here next fall, Memberships are $5 each. A list of new members will be pub isihed in this column from time to time. Cal E. Peterson, H. P. Schmitt. Howard Wisehaupt. C. C. Rayl, Elizabeth Studebaker Morrison, E. A. Beavers, L. D. Adams, Raymond B. Kohne, Dr. W. E. Smith, W. J. Beane, John Zimmerman, Wilson Lee, C. E. Bed, Dick Heller, Joe Lose, L. H. Voglewede. John W. Tyndall, Edgar Mutschler, Albert Mutschler, A. J. Smith, Mathias Kirsch, Robert Helm, M. F. Worthman, Dr. J. S. Coverdale, C. D. Teeple, Dr. Roy Archbold, Herman J. Yager, Henry Thomas, Rev. Joseph Hession, Ira B. Fuhrman. C. C. Pumphrey, “A Friend,” John W. Bosse, Norbert R. Holthouse, W. A. Klepper, J. H. Heller, A. R. Ashbaucher, French Quinn, Forrest Elzey, Glen Cowan, F. M Schlrmeyer, David E. Smith, Mrs. David E. Smith, Freeh Hower, Obho Lobensteln.

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I I , Lockers In Exclusive £ , Chicago Club To Be j , Inspected Regularly 1 ’ ——————l Chicago, Feb. 23. (INS) Prohibition in Chicago reached a new stage of effectiveness today when the exclusive Hamilton Club announced that regular inspection of members lockers would be made, found in lockers will be confiscated and the members sifSpended. the club announcement said. The Hamilton club is one of the leading organizations of Chicago's wealthy men. LINK LINDBERGH WITH AIR FIRM Mysterious Trip To Detroit Reported To Be Relative To New Airway Detroit Feb. 23—(INS)—Col Lindbergh hopped off from Selfridge field in an army air plane for the Ford airport shortly before noon. Detroit, Feb. 23.—(INS)— Reports concerning organization of a new Chi-cago-New York airway via Detroit to be headed by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Major G. Lanphier were circulated today with the "mystery visit” to Detroit of Lindbergh. Flying with as much secrecy as possible, Lindbergh with four St. Louis capitalists arrived last night at Selfridge field where the party went into seclusion in Major Lanphier’s quarters. “My mission here is a purely private one and 1 do not wish to be interviewed.” Lindbergh told a reporter. Later Major Lanphier was asked if he and Lindbergh planned to organize the new airway as reported. “1 do not wish to say anything," Lanphier replied. “I will not deny or affirm the report." Recent public remarks of Major ' Lanphier, however, lend color to reports concerning the deal. Newspaper dispatches from Buffalo quoted Lanphier’s announcement of plans for a new Chicago-New York air line via Detroit, Buffalo and Ithaca, N. Y. Lanphier was quoted as saying the present Bellefontaine-Cleveland route is not as safe as the proposed new route which, though longer, would have 70 per cent better weather. o Daring Bank Robbery Staged At South Bend South Bend, Feb. 23—(INS)—Two nomasked bandits made a daring raid at noon today on the Fodor State bank, 417 South Chapin street in the Polish section of this city held up Cashier George Banyo, and escaped with about $4,000 in cash. The bandits fled in an automobile south toward Plymouth, Indiana, according to reports.

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I I , Man, 58, Skips Rope b , 15,000 Times Without , . Stoo; Loses 15 Pounds , I I Evanston, 111., Feb. 23 —(INS)- Thirteen pounds lighter as th? result of skipping rope 15,000 times, Charles Levere, 58 year old, was hailed today as the new world's "skip rope” champion. Levere, in celebrating his fiftyeighth birthday yesterday, kept up a steady speed of ninety skips a minute for 3 hours, 29 minutes and 4 seconds, the feat was staked in the lobby of a fashionable Evanston hotel. MANY JOIN OLD HOME WEEK CLUB Forty - Five Memberships Secured So Far; Former Residents Join Forty-five memberships have been secured for the Decatur Old Home Week Club, now being organized in this city for the giving of an Old Home Week celebration sometime next fall Judge David E. Smith. Fort Wayne resident, sent a letter to T. J Dtttkin. today, enclosing a $lO check and asking that he and Mrs. Smith be enrolled in the club. Judge Smith stated that "just because we live in Fcrt Wayne we do not want to be left out of the Old Home Week Club. We are planning to spend the entire week with Decatur friends and will swap stories with the boys". The memberships were greatly appreciated by the committee and Judge and Mrs. Smith will bo made members of the local club. Howard Wisehaupt, of Cleveland, former Decatur resident, also joined the club. The fanner Decatur residents who still think of old Decatur as their home, have not been asked by letter to join the club, but many have signified a willingness to join. The membership -campaign will be carried on for sometime. It is hoped that 1,000 members can be enrolled in the club. The membership fee is $5 and if 1000 members are secured sufficient funds will be provided to pay the expense of staging the celebration. The list of present members in the Old Home Week Chib is published in another column in this paper. The names of the members will be published from time to time. Memberships | may be secured at any of the three banks or at the Daily Democrat office o Want Movie Censorship Wabash, Ind., Feb. 23 (U.R) A movement to have Indiana made the ninth state in the union which censors motion pictures, was started today byMiss Esther Speicher of Urbana,, county director of the motion picture department of the W. C. T. U. GREATNESS OF SALVATION CITED Speaker At U. B. Church Takes Lethargy Os Church Members Into Account “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?", was the text used by Rev. Wilson at the United Brethren church last night. The preacher spoke of the greatness of the salvation that was offered to man by God, and how it had proven sufficient to people of other days as well as the present. The greatness of the salvation was due to the fact that it saved from the Eternal death, those who would accept the same, Rev. Wilson said. He made it plain that there was no other way to God’s Heaven, than to adopt God's plan of getting there. The lethargy of church members was taken into account last night by the speaker. The greatest hindrance to the work of God is the inconsistence of folks who pretend to live for God, but refuse to give a positive evidence of the same, he said. Those who like to be called Christians will work witli folks for days, eat with them, do business with them, and even come to church with them and sit beside them in the services and will never even suggest to them the Christian life, the speaker declared. In the final word, Rev. Wilson made it plain that there was no way of escape if salvation was rejected. Mrs. Hebble and Mrs. Hill sang am appropriate duet at the services last ”ight entitled, “Is It Nothing To You?" Prayer services are being held each afternoon at 2 o'clock at the church. The services tonight at 7:30 o’clock.

ADAMS COUNTY RANKS HIGHEST Adams County Hog Raisers Win Most Medals In Ton Litter Club P. T. Brown, State Leader of the Ton Litter Club, has just sent to the county agent’s office the ranking of the six highest counties in the state, as well as the ten highest men producing the heaviest litters in Indiana during the past year. As usual. Adams county ranks first with eighteen med,al winners including e'ght gold, six | silver and four bronze medals. However, Adams county is closely followed by Wells county, with fourteen medal winners. In the individual placings, Adams county ranks well, having three men within the first ten in the state. John E. Heimann is third in the entire state wth a litter that weighed 2,934 pounds. He was surpassed only by Chas. O. Fink, of Ripley county, und Earl Rudy of Wells County. Joseph P. Habegger was fourth in Indiana with a litter weighing 2,901, and Enoch P. Habegger was fifth with a litter weighing 2,779 pounds. Joseph P. Habegger also fed two other ton litters this year. Adams county can feel very proud of the record of these men, as well as all other men who were in the ton litter work. Tho have three men place thiid, fourth and fifth in the entire state besides leading the state in number of medals won is a record that has never been equalled by any county on their good shewing. How-ever, if Adams county is to maintain her position as leader of ton litter work in Indiana, it will be necessary to obtain more memberships in the club. So far. the response has been pslendid. but at least fifty more members are desired befcre March 1. which is the last day to enter. Since there are only seven more days to enroll, a special effort is being made to obtain the quota before that date. Member ships are fifty cents and can be mailed to or taken to the county agent’s office. J. I). Winteregg at the Bank of Berne or the Schmitt Meat Market at Decatur. WINS RECOGNITION AS PUBLIC NORSE Miss Helen Kinzle, Former Decatur Giri, Written Up By Ohio Paper The Columbus, Ohio, Evening Dispatch of Thursday, February 16, contained front page pictures of Miss Helen Kinzle and Miss Constance L. Hanna, both department supervisors of the public health nursing staff, together with a long newspaper story of their achievements in their work and the obstacles with which they must battle every day. Miss Helen Kinzle is a daughter of Mrs. Flora Kinzle, formerly of this city, but now residing at 215 East Patterson Ave., Columbus, Ohio. The story relates how these two nurses pound over the roads of Hocking valley in their rattlely-band flivver, averaging 50 miles per day. on their errands of mercy and investigation. The story reads: “A fifty mile average doesn't seem very high on paper, and over improved roads it isn’t a high average, but the roads down here —in dry weather deeply rutted, in wet weather hubdeep in clinging mud—make that 50 mile average about three times that much on account of the nerve strain. Not only that, but there is real peril on some of these trails, winding in and out, up and down the steep hills. A slide out of the road might mean a very possible serious injury. “They visit the homes of the needy and sick, and in order to keep up with their work, these girls must average about 20 visits a day. Into the shacks, they go—little shacks stuck about 'anyhow' on the hillsides —here an entire family, a baby 18 months old who has never walked on account of insufficient food —there a mother of nine who lies in her bed slowly dying of malnutrition and watching her brood starving around her. “And so it goes, home after home is visited, each with it's special problem and each with it’s need. Some days, one is able to visit many homes in ai community, and again oniy a few in more remote places, because of the difficulty in reaching them. It is often necessarv to leave the' car and walk the remaining distance.”

Hr The Valted I’rraa and International Newi Service

Tempting Sharks { 1 w JU* fc i • 2* j I I\ / 1 V k. Van Campen Kellner, big game hunter of New York, proposes to sail for tropical waters and there, armed with a knife, he intends Io dive in and find out if the sharks will bite him. More luck to you. Van. locrWlrF AS CAR HITS SEA Car Going Much Faster Than 200 Miles An Hour At Time Os Wreck Daytona Beach. Fla., Feb. 23.—(U.R) —American attempts to wrest the j motor car speed title from Great I Britain have ended for this year through the untimely accident that sent Frank Lockhart and his Stutz Elackhawk catapulating into the sea —and chief interest today centered In Captain Malcolm Campell's attempt to break his own record. Sunday Captain Campbell sent his big Napier Bluebird over the Ormond Daytona course at a speed of almost 207 miles an hour, to break the record of 11. O. D. Seagrave, also an Englishman. Today the British driver will again test the full power of his Napier in an attempt to attain an average speed of 210 miles an hour. Lockhart's beautifully constructed little Stutz racer today was a wreck while the 23-year-old driver was in a hospital recovering from painful injuries doctors said would not prove serious. Whirling along the course yesterday at a speed estimated well in excess of 200 miles an hour, Lockhart's machine suddenly plunged crazily sideways, overturned and finally stopped 100 feet out at sea. Lockhart was pinned in the machine. Helpers ran to the stricken drivers held him above the water and with a crow-bar removed him from the wercked machine. His hips had been crushed and he had other injuries but he was more worried about the condition of his car than he was about his own injuries. The young driver's wife was in the stand and fainted when she saw her husband's speed machine go zig zagging into the sea. Accounts of the accident varied, so swiftly did it occur. Some said the machine turned over five times before it finally came to rest in the breakers. Others said it turned over ; once. The first crazy swing of the car sent it directly towards a group of spectators lining the course. Then it switched and plunged out towards the w-ater. Whether Lockhart purposely turned the car from the spectators j was not known. Mechanics said they believed a "frozen” differential had caused the accident. The other American entry, the Triplex, entered by J. M. White of Philadelphia, has been ruled out by the A. A. A. because it has six wheels instead of four. White said he might make a try at an unofficial record today and was confident the machine would develop a speed of 225 miles an hour. Pythians To Confer Second Degree Tonight At the regular meeting of the ' Knights of Pythias lodge at 7:30 o’clock tonight, those who received the j first degree at the meeting last Thttrs- ; day night, will receive the second degree. All members of the degree team and initiates are urged to be at the meeting tonight.

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REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION ON PLEAS FOR RESIGNATION Republican State Committee Turns Deaf Ear To Editors’ Demands MEET TO ENDORSE WATSON’S CANDIDACY Ititlianapolis, Feb. 23. UNS) - The Republican state committee will take no action on the request ol Thomas 11. Adams. Vincennes editor, that the committee demand the resignation of Gov. Ed Jackson or impeach the governor, it was indicated as the committee met this afternoon. “The purpose of today's meeting wis to endorse the presidential candidacy of Senator James E. Watson." was Chairman Kisselman's only statement. Remmel Wants Action Fort Wayne. Ind., Feb. 23. (INS) — Arthur K Remmel, editor of tho Fort Wayne News-Sentinel today sent the following telegram to Faye Kitselman. Republican state < h lirtnan. v. ho is in Indianapolis for the meeting this afternoon of the Republican state committee. "In the interest of good government, the Republican state cornmit‘ee should demand Governor Jackson's resignation or insist on a special session of the legislature and give the governor an opportunity to | clear tits name of the serious charges . which up to this time have not been disproved." Indianapolis, Feb. 23.—(U.PJ—The Republican state committee, meeting today, to endorse Sen. James E. Watson for president, was confronted by a demand that it force Gov. Ed Jacksen out of office because of the activities levealed during his trial on a charge of concealing an attempted bribe "Get his resignation or impeach Imn. ’ Thomas L. Adams. Vincennes editor, commanded in an open-letter to E. Faye Kitselman, of Muncie. Republican stale cliairman, and members of the committee. Adams' candidacy for tho Republican nomination for governor is expected to be announced soon. Asking the committee “to do its part in cleaning up a deplorable political situation," Adams made four suggestions for action. They were: I—on1 —on Jackson to resign. 2 If he refuses, make every effort to convene a special session of the legislature to impeach him. 3— Oust George V. Coffin as Marion county chairman. 4— Strip county chairmen of arbitrary authority to remove precinct committeemen without hearing. Coffin, indicted with Jackson, has not been tried yet. Jackson was acquitted when the state failed to prove any positive act of concealment on his part. Reminding the committee that ft was convened to endorse Watson, Adams inquired: "What greater impetus could be given Watson’s candidacy than by declaring that Republicans of Indiana are opposed to bribery and corruption in every form? SULLIVAN BANK CLOSED TODAY Banking Commission Closes Bank Whose President Is Missing Indianapolis, Feb. 23. — (U.R) — The Citizens Trust and Savings bank of Sullivan, whose president, J. M. Lang, is missing, was closed by the state banking department today. According to banking department officials, no discrepancies have been discovered in the bank's accounts, but some Irregularity in the management of the safety deposit department was indicated. Thomas D. Barr, assistant state bank commissioner, and K. Z. Brownwell, bank examiner, are in charge of ths institution, and intend to ask for appointment of a receiver. I-ang, secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana, left February 2 to attend an Odd Fellows meeting in Indianapolis. He did not return.

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