Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1928 — Page 3

I UOH TRIAL (JI FLOGGINGS INMLEIGH.N.C. •SKiX/S"' K ing Os Storekeeper By Henry 1/esesne iM<s Staff Correspondent llllplg h, N. <’• -Thirteen men went , ri .,l ln Wake superior court here I 011 1- of February 20. charged I "’.rhVhe sensational flogging In De, 1926 of Dolly *«>«•• country and Sam Green, his' Tnrdmgb' Solicitor Leon S. BrassAs , will head the prosecution. I ft::; A that due to the brev. ( v Of the special term of court, the J defendants will all bo tried nt once. Xh a procedure was to have been followed here recently when 16 men i to have fated trial on flogging L r .es. but gained acquittal when he grand jury refused to Indict them •Jcond time after a flaw was delected at the last minute in the first indictments against them. Call Special Term The special term of court was call- ( C1( b y Governor McLean mainly for 4 he trial of the flogging cases, and it was expected that they will take pre- ! .edence over everything else on the ! court dockt. Two defendants in the Jones-Green flogging case have been tried separately, and both gained speedy acquitI ials after the juries trying them had listened for the better part of a week ! to voluminous testimony and lengthy summations. Those acquitted were Leland Rogers and G. A. Belshe, county road camp supervisor. The men scheduled to go on trial this month are: Dr. J. R. Hester, prominent Knightdale physician; Clyde Weathers, a deputy sheriff. Lotharo Stell. Eddie Robertson. Wiley O'Neil. Jr.. John Hammerick, Rennie Weathers, Paul Hester. Paul Robertson, J. T. Ramsey, Leroy Hester, John Hester and Charlie Hester, Jr. 32 Flogging Cases With the disposal of these cases, the Wako county court docket will be virtually cleared of flogging cases, which at the beginning of the year totalled 32. Three men also stand indicted for the flogging of a farmer who was cleared of an immorality charge in court. The wholesale indictments for Hoggings that had occurred in Wake county over a period of four years virtually under the shadow of the North Carolina state capitol, resulted from a long investigation by the grand jury. Thus far, however, a conviction has never been obtained. NEWS FROM BERNE —byMiss Helen Burkhalter Lawrence L. Yager attended to business matters at Decatur, Friday. Elmer M. Lehman and Abraham Habegger . both clerks at the Berne Hardware store, attended the tractor school at Van Wert, Ohio, Friday. Mrs. Ed Gerber, living- in Wabash township held a quilting bee, Thursday Those present were Mrs. Sam Leichty Mrs. Emil Leichty, Mrs. Henry Leichty. Mrs. Simon Lehman, Mrs. Sarah Wyss, Mrs. Ida Sterner and Mrs. Clifford Steiner. Rev. J h. Arndt, Mrs. Mennc Wittwer, Ethel Taylor, Nora and Bessie Herrou attended the district meeting of the Portland circuit of the Evangelical church Thursday. Mrs. Henry Egley, formerly Miss Pal Shalley, of Fort Wayne, who is well known in Berne lies in a critical condition suffering from a stroke of Paralysis. t 'p 5 Gottachalk, who has been n hurt Wayne for over a week at the mue o, Earl K. Shalley, returned to ern e last Wednesday with her busdl'd T. A. Gottschalk, and his father, Andrew Gottschalk. Mr. Shalley's ‘Ulster, Miss Marcella, who was en- " at the Indiana University at ,lot ' n >‘ng ,o n. came home during the Hous illness of her father and will with ."A her CoUrse in Fort Wayne UniveSty “ branCh ° f Indialla Berne p” 1 ? 8 Snyder ’ manager of the ines, ,1" y Exchan Se Co., was a busat Decßtl,r - Fl ‘oay. iuess " A ll Musselman was a bus1P Roller at Chicago, Thursday with a . Gleer ’ of Portland, visited and Mm , ro ther ’ ln4aw and sister Mr. Mrs m ‘ aS M ° Ser here - B’riday. . Thtirsir. " y Kerr went t 0 Hl| ntertown from t. 6 reß »° nse a ell, utX e^ S ° n in ' laW ’ Glen "• Cro " - daughter B M thG r U<l,len illness of her J"’® 1 - Mrs. Crowell. Richard J ' E ' Vergler »»d son at Gridlev f ret,lrned to their home tew dav« I ' llols - after spending a 9t W th J he latter ' s mother, Sylvann . 3Ch 11Ving west of Hemo, at the Rar Augsl ’ ur ff er > meat cutter ’her. Jopl A m ? at niai ' k «t and his faGary Thi.r A a ßSbUrßer ’ return ed from t 0 buslne«? day " here they attended f Li" 1 ?? since Tueßday - Bank nt n Lehman teller at the ° r Berne, spent her holiday vaca-

tion nt Fort Wayne last Wednesday Her sister, Mrs. Henry Adler, of Decatur, accompanied her on her bust ness trip. Fred Rohter mid postmaster Menno Burkhalter returned Friday morning from Indianapolis whore they were guests nt the banquet given by the Columbia Club, in honor of the Watson for President campaign, last Thursday evening. Curl, Oswln, Nathan mid Gilbert Gerber Amos Basinger, mid Martin 1-ehmau, Sylvia Gerber, mid Elda Amstutz left Friday morning for their homes in Wayne county, Ohio, after a fe wdays’ stop-off in Berne from attending a young people’s conference held at Goshen hist Sunday. Herman Dro who has recovered, partly from his severe attack of pleurisy. which he contracted tn January, is suffering from a back-set and is laid up since Wednesday. Vilas Lehjpan, who has been visiting relatives and friendshere for a week, returned to his home at Orrville, Ohio. Thursday. Other young people fiom the same vicinity who have been visiting here since Tuesday and returned with him, are, Irvin Gerber, and the Misses Irone and Rose Sommer, Cota Hoffstetter, and Velma Amstutz. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sprunger spent Thursday at Fort Wayne with their son Clifton Sprunger and family, helping "Wifty" celebrate his birthday. Mrs. Henry Lalsure returned from Detroit, where she has been visiting for a few weeks at the home of her son Mr. and Mrs. Corliss Lalsure mid baby Robert. Miss Edna Braun left for Fort Wayne Friday noon, to visit at the home of het sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Ira D. Rohrer and family until Sunday. It a Baumgartner arrived here Friday night from Dola, Ohio to join Mrs Baumgartner and children, who have been visiting here the past week. They returned to their home at Dola Sunday. 'X-. Menno Eicher was a business caller at Fort Wayne, Friday. GIRL 17, WINS DAMAGE SUIT Columbus, Ind., Feb. 28 — (U.K) — An employer sued for damages by an injured employe cannot escape by showing that the employe knowingly gave an incorrect age at the time of beginning work. This was the ruling of Judge Julian Sharpnack of Bartholomew Circuit court in the case of Miss Hindi Johnson. 17, seeking $2,500 from the IndiSnapelis Pump and Tube Company through her father. Samuel Johnson, as next friend. The girl lost two fingers of her right hand due to an injury while in the company's employe. Company attorneys alleged the girl added a few years to her age to get a job. oUse"** Care During Robbery Monticello, Ind., Feb. 28 — (U.R) — The two banditd who held up the postoffice and general store operated by Mrs. Mary Grant at Thornope, north of Logansport, were careful although neither* of them appeared to he over 16 years old. Their disguise was perfect, consisting of oversize suits of clothes and shell-rimmed glasses. Not only were they disguised perfectly but in leaving they jerked the receiver off the hook so she could not telephone for aid. They escaped with about $lO taken from the store cash drawer but did not bother the money in the postoffice. An automobile was used as their means of escape. o . DEMAND STAND ON DRY ISSUE “Dry Piank Conference” Opens Session At Washington, D. C., Today Washington, Feb. 28—(U.R)—Chairman Deets Pickett of the “dry plank conference” which opened here today sounded the keynote of the gathering by declaring the friends of prohibition "demand positive declarations’’ on the dry issue in party platforms. Addressing the more than 400 representatives of 32 national temperance organizations, Pickett declared the drys “will strive to defeat office seekers who are either negative or "We call upon the American people to repudiate al Istate and national party platforms that deal only in glittering generalities with law enforcement. We will oppose and vote against candidates in all parties whose promise is fair and dry but whose official performance is wet.” o What They Read Fiction Is more popular In England than In any other country, with France a close second. Travel, biography, and political economy are becoming the favorite reading material of Americans.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928.

EDUCATOR GIVES ADDRESSES HERE If. M. Gard, of Knightstown, Speaks In Decatur Churches Sunday IF. M Gard, of Knightstown, authorized representative of u national organization, spoke briefly Sunday morning at the Methodist and United Brethren churches and in the evening nt tin* Evangelical church, of this city, relative to the activities of his organization. * - During thd last six years, he has travelled throughout this country, extensively, interviewing educators, doctors anjl jurists, for the express purpose, of obtaining facts and statistics relative to issues in question. He lias attended world gatherings held at Winona Lake, and other educational centers and has lectured in churnhes. schools and colleges of this state and others. During his remarks here Sunday, he referred to such national authorities, as Dr. .1. H. Kellogg, supt. of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Dr. Irving Fisher, of Yale College; Dr. Chas. E. Elliot, former president of Harvard University, and cithers. in part, he said: “A few years ago, the American people resolved to rid this country of tlie legalized rum industry. Different agencies were employed to solve that problem. One of the outstanding agencies, was teaching “scientific temperance in the public schools. By teaching the truth concerning the detrimental effects of alcohol on the human be dy, and the misappropriation of finance, to maintain its consumption; ve have as ihe result, national prohibiten. Our prohibition measure, is not yet 100 percent; but this country, is prospering better spiritually, morally, industrially and financially, without the rum industry.” He made mention of the fact that several of the states are conducting campaigns of education, relative t»> the detrimental effects of tobacco on the human body and the misappropriation of finance for its consumption. In concluding*ho said: “the method of education lias solved many problems, and will still be the major means of advancing and promoting the higher ideals of mankind.” I. U. Theatrical Review To Open Run March 12 Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 28—(INS) — Jordan River Review the annual theatrical review staged by students of Indiana University will open at the Harris Grand theatre here March 12, after which it will make a short tour. A feature of this year's production will be short and tall choruses of both men and women. The four groups are said to be carefully selected fibsize and dancing ability and an unusual effect is promised. Including the Chorus of co-eds are Charlotte Stier, of Fort Wayne; Virginia Lee, of Terre Haute; Leonore Welborn, of Princeton; Jean Miller, of Indianapolis; Jeanette Walsh, of East Chicago; Kathleen Holden, cf Fott Wayne; Eloise Welborn, of Princeton; Betty McKay, of Indianapolis; Dorothy Calderwood, of Indianapolis; Lois Grupe, of Huntington; Thecra Johnson, of Gary; Francis Craig, of Charlestown,.lll.,; Mary Allbright of Michigan City; Martha Cover of Evansville; Elpha Slayback, of LafavA te; Dorothy Miller; of Fort Wayne. Wilhemina Hendricks of Indianapolis; Jane Bird, es Indianapolis; Madeline White, of Chrisman; .Thelma Overton, of Kokomo; Virginia Thompson, of Kennseleai; Geneva Cooherell, of Pittsboro: Virginia Metz of Indianapolis and Helen Crawford of Fort Wayne. Among those eligible for the men's chorus are Earle Swain, of Muncie; Leo House, of Cambridge City; Braxton Jefferies, of Indianapolis; Denzel Pitman, of Sullivan; Frank Carter, of Arcadia; George Graves, of St(lem; .Marshall Ginther, of Michigan City; William Jenner, cf Marengo'; Vern Boxwell, of Marion; Charles Dant of Indianapolis; Stewart Ludlow, of LaPorte; Creed Fisher, of Indianapolis; and William Adams, Ralph Alsop and James Register, all of Bloomington. o———— Drinking Flowert Geraniums thrive If you feed them cold tea once in a while and hydrangeas, seein to like weak coffee. Pour onto the roots only.

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The eligibility dispute which led to cancellation of the Army-Navy football game has found a counterpart in England In connection with the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race which will be rowed on the Tliuiiu-h, March 31. Not that the two famous univeraItli's are indulging in anything us undignMled as u squabble over the eligibility of their respective oarsmi n. The fact is, rather, that they seem to have agrei'd upon one important point. For the first time In many years, there is not an Ameircan in either boat. Growth of opinion among university graduates and undergraduates in recent years has been steadily in opposition to tin* inclusion of mature oarsmen from the United States in the varsity shells of Oxford and Cambridge. Objections similar to those raised by the Navy against the Army’s "transfer" students in football have been voiced frankly in England, but in the past few years one or more Americans have rowed in the classic event on the Thames. As long ago as 1913, Anthony Hope, tlie novelist, wrote to the London Times proposing that newcomers to Oxford and Cambridge should not be allowed to take part in athletics if over the age of 24. Hope quoted “a friend from Cambridge" as saying: “We can beat Oxford, but we are not sure we can beat the British Empire and the United States.” In the following year, Oxford University passed a rule desigued to give British "public school” boys a better chance to show their athletics abilities in varsity competition, and to prevent them being crowded out by "transfer” students and Rhodes Scholars. A majority of American Rhodes scholars who enter Oxford are over the age of 24. Since the war, however, the feeling -against permitting Americans to usurp prominent places in varsity athletics has continued to grow. For one thing, it is felt in England that we Americans take our sports too seriously, make too much of a "business” of them. To an Englishman, this is unthinkable. The inclusion of Americans in the varsity boats has been deplored on the ground that our ideas of intensive and scientific training are too rigid to lie altogether sportsmanlike. And then there was the delicate question of what constituted a “gentleman"- since in England, beforevthe

I fw acts i si h-< kW? M Z >®L c • f Jf® \ <yUffyi■ \ **t ■3\ / I V aWw Jjft. TOM;' First Star—“ They tell me you’ll endorse any cigarette for a consideration . . .’* Second Star—“<S«rf, so long as the consideration isn’t that I give up my Chesterfields!’* /a l£y rrej u . THEY’RE MILD and yet THEY SATISFY • i»z». LIGGITT « MVtM TOBACCO CO

war. anyone who had worked with his hands for a living al any time was automatically barred from amateur competition. An American ice man In n varsity football suit woifld constitute a night mure to British sportsmen. Whether or not the exclusion of American oarsmen this year was deliberate, il has occurred, and many Englishmen tire well satisfied. There Is said Io lie little to choose this year liejween the crews of Oxford and Cambridge, judging by their workouts on the Isis and the Cam. Winter floods have retarded trainlug. and neither boat has shown outstandin* ability. The race will lie rowed March 31 over the customary four-mllo course from Putney to Mortlake. Star Guard Os Evansville College Quintet Killed Evansville, Ind., Feb. 28- (INS)—Tlie basketball game selicduled for tonight between Evansville College and Terre Haute State Normal was cancelled by coach Harmon today when word was received here that Frank Lang, 22. star guard on the Evansville College basketball team until a week ago. met a tr agic deatli "at Tucumcari, N. M.. while on his way to his sick father's bedside at Chandler, Ariz. Lang was shot in the knee by sheriff L J. Brisco who was after a bandit. Lank had refused to halt fearing that it was an attempt to hold him up as he was driving on a road near Tucumcari. The sheriff then fired on Lang according to advices received here. Although the wound itself was not I serious, blood poisoning set in and j Lang died in a hospital at Tucumcari l,)to yesterday. The body is being brought here for { burial. Lang withdrew from school last Tuesday, a week ago today, and was married to Miss Helen Bays of Chrisney. Last season, Gang was captain of the Evansville college football team. i he was one of the most papular stu- : dents in the school. 0 Oil Found In Well Drilled Near Anderson Anderson. Ind., Feb. 28—(INS)—Discovery of oil at a depth of 1000 feet in a uell driven near Summitville in Madison county eighteen miles north of here, today has caused a rush to drill more holes, a good flow was found and a new field may be located

HEAVY SNOWS AIO TO CROPS IndinmipollH Feb. 28 —(U.R) The recent heavy fall of snow wiih of untold value to the farmer and other raisers of outdoor plants and produce, according t i Harry Dietz, assistant state entomologist. "A sudden drop in temperature from a comparatively warm period to one of extreme cold Is very injurious to ali plants in the ground, unless they are protected by s ine form of insulation,” Dietz said. “Frezlng and thawing of Hie soil results in an upheaval that forces the toots to the surface, resulting in their drying out and dying. “The snow acts as an Insulator and prevents.the extreme cold from pene-

Notice I have purchased the Andrews Bros. Cigar Store on Madison street and invite all my old as well as my new customers to Beall on me there. In addition to the regular line of Cigars and Tobaccos I will carry a full line of Malts and supplies, including the famous I DOUBLE DUTCH Kintzies Cigar & Malt Store (Just West of Gas Office)

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trntlng deep Into the ground. It also inis n mitlcli, enabling tlie roots to supply Hie iiei'cssniy moisture for the slowly giowing plants, thereby preventing ‘Winter Kill'. "This latter is always prevalent as tor n dry, windy. Winter, and little or no snow.’’ Dietz continued. "it Is due to the too rapid evaporation of moisture from between the coils of tlie plants causing a complete dehydration. Tills moisture must be replaced gradually or the plants will die us certainly as though left to dry out nnatteniled. "Melting snow supplies this needed moisture in just about the proper proportions. It also developes a high humidity that Is extremely beneficial.” Dietz concluded by saying that while snow is not appreciated by the average city adult, the wise farmer is as jubilant over a heavy lull of snow lis a boy with a new sled, and for cause. —.— o ——- Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pay*