Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1928 — Page 1

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Ink $lO fine I TO RECOVER HIS | CARO GAME LOSS I 1 And Gets It Back ■ three MEN FINED I 1,1 in MAYOR KRICK I Two confidence men and a deck of | fir( |< almost .James Sprague, of ■ tv ). j .st-iday afternoon. ■ ' m, the aid of Chief of Police I - "v ■ ;■ lincworth. Sprague detained the I X men and recovered all but about ■ ! „ ( ,f his money and then pain a ■ of sio and costs for gambling. I \ j Madison of Chicago, and J. 9 Kiur of Sturgis. Michigan, registered 9 .1 the Wee hotel in this city several 9 duvs »P’ : " bl b “ ,he i,npressiOn 9 that they were seeking an agent of 9 name sort in Decatur. They received 9 iaveral telephone calls and several 9 roans men of this city wti.t to their 9 loom a’ ho,el ;| l’P nrent, > for 9 interviews. ■ Get-Away Attempted ■ The hotel tnanagemr nt thought 9 nothing of the situation and knew 9 wthing of tlle attempted swindle 9 until the game was climaxed with an 9 attempted get away yesterday afterH noon * ■ In the meantime. King got in touch ■ with Janies Sprague and told him 9 that he had learned of him through 9 Mends in Bluffton. King said that. 9 some time ago. Madison had sold him 9 a car of whiskey and then had stolen 9 it from him and that he would like 9tn get the money back- He asked 9 Sprague to help him. and the two ■ agreed to play poker in an effort to ■ get back tne money which Madison 9 alleged to have stolen from I King. - -■ - - I Check Out At Hotel B In the meantime, the two men regBtered at 'he hotel, checked out and ■old the hot 1 management that they | would like to use the room until stout J ooiock yesterday afternoon. They paid for their room and put their baggage in their automobile. The three men met about 11 o'clock yesterday morning and went to the room in the hotel where they began to play poker. As had been agreed. King lost ss(l and dropped out of the Mie and sat behir’’ Madison to “watch” him. Sprague had received SSO from King before going io the hotel with which to buy the first stack of chips and he also had about SSOO in cash with him. About noon Sprague 'was ant nt money and King went with Idin to the bank, where Sprague ’’’bed a certificate. Sprague Loses Nearly SI,OOO About 3 o'clock, after the men had wwindled about SI,OOO from Sprague, realized that the game was a mme-up and the game ended. The? n ’ en Hskfctl Sprague to go to Fort Jayne with them, but this he refits--0 do, stating that he wanted some ' °f a settlement or he would call iw police. *' ,e money and he tCMTVVI En ov PAGE ■ PERSONS ME CONVERTED Inspirational Revival SerVlce Held At United Brethpen Church Last Night prv| Olie "' lO atten ded the revival thureif 8 ! at <,le nited Brethren to lent .'; SI were in no hurry after th Berv ‘ eeß al) d many tarried Nine t ! serv lces were dismissed. re S n 0ll “° k s ,hpir stand f °r Christ in night ~, to u the appeal given last ' R. SmttsL ‘ he paßtor - th e Rev. Cecil “Todav <? a<l preache(l from the text, harden' A ye WiU hear His v °ice, The nap?- >OUr heart8 >” Heb. 3:7-8. “The vn°' 8 thought s centered around hearts /T h ° W tolks harde n their • dnd today.” f'ommimii* t 0 the SPrmon - the Holy number u' as observetl and a Itfrge of this I the con B r egation partook Rifled fTrn I ’/ Bacrament - losing n-> lr iast ni Kht in the am, r ° f tbe service. Services O'clock na° U ,1 et(l for ton ‘S ht at 7:30 sire to e t. 16 pastor and church deanv wt,. T VP ample opportunity for take the' aV ° n °t already done so to intereg?"? ,° r Chrlßt ' With the •endunce •' ° f ast night a large atls expected tonight.

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Prince Os Wales Sticks On Horse And Wins A Race Tetbury, Eng.. Mar. 1 (INS) Hid i ing over a dangerously swampy course, the Prince of Wales today won 1 the point-to-point Beaufort hunt race of the Welsh guards. This was the I third polnt-to point race the prince > has won within a year. The Prince of Wales entered the contest as a colonel of the Welsh ; guards riding "De Conune." It was a hazardous undertaking as there were 3(1 obstacles in the 314 mile course includin gseveral stiff hedge Jumps and a turf topped stone fence. . 0 _ ASSESSING IS BEGUN TODAY Assessors And Appraisers Get Final Instructions From County Assessor The work of assessing personal j i property and appraising real estate in Adams county begins today. The township assessors and their deputies and real estate appraisers met this morning at the court house with County Assessor Jay (Tine and received their supplies and received their final instructions as to the assessing business. The assessors went over every item in the peronal property blanks with Mr. (Tine. Where it was possible u general average was made. As an example, the assessn: n nt on hogs was listed at six cents per pound. Poultry was listed at six. eight and ten dollars a dozen. Milch cows from S4O to $75. Horses from sloo to $175 Other live stock and cattle at the market price, less the delivery charge. Grain, hay and corn at the market price, less delivery charge or the pricy in mow' or barn, based «>n the market price. The Land Values The opinion was exiTessed that the average appraisement of farm lands and improvements in the county ' should be from S7O to $75 per acre. The opinion was expressed that immovements should average from sls to S2O an acre. This would be a decrease of from ten to twenty per cent over the present valuations. The Dog Tax The assessors talked over the dog tax. The owner of a dog must pay the tax to the assessor nt the time it is assessed. The township assessor then turns the tax money over to the township trustee. The dog tax this year is $2.50 for a spayed femlae; $2.50 for a male dog; $5 for an unspayed female, and $5 for each additional dog. Ir was. decided that ' if both the man adrt, wife were assessed for personal property or real estate tiiat is if either paid tax for either property and if they owned two dogs, the man could pay the single tax rate on one dog and the woman pay the single tax on the other, in th" case where a man’s son was taxed for poll tax or on the lax duplicate for- any other tax, he could pay the single tax for the one dog in case he and his father or mother harbored two dogs. However, if a taxpayer harbored two dogs and it no other member of the family living at the same place paid a personal property tax or a poll tax, the taxpayer would have to pay the $5 tax on the second dog. The special assessors who will make the real estate appraisement in this ciay also attended the meeting.! The opinion was expressed that the real estate assessments in this city would also be lowered this year. The assesore and their deputies who attended th meeting this morning were, Anton Thieme and Theodore Thieme, Union township; David Rice and VV ilty Rice, Root township; Ed Gallmeyer, Preble; Gus Schclickman, Kirkland; George Dellinger, Charles Estell, A. R. Bel', Lee Slults, Washington township and Decatur; Sidney Dague, Alfred Acker, St. Mairys; W. H. Laughrey, Blue Creek; Peter Habegger, John Lobsiger. Harley Habegger, Monroe township; J< hn Thomas, French township; Joseph K. Yoder, Hartford; J. C. Mann, James Love. Wabash; Frank O. Davis, Jefferson; Daniel N. Erwin, Fred V. Mills, real estate appraisers, Decatur. Steel Funeral To Be Held Friday Afternoon Funeral services for James A. Steel, well-known Kirkland township farmer, who died suddenly Wednesday. will be held at the residence at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, with the ' Rev. Ross W. Stoakes, pastor of the Decatur Methodist church officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. *

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HAYS DECLARES SINCLAIR AIDED 6.0. P, COMMITTEE Former Republican Chairman Says Oil Man Gave Committee $185,000 HELPED PAY OFF DEFICIT IN 1921 Washington, Mar. I.— (ins)— Will R. Hays, former chairman of the Republican national committee told the senate Teapot Dome committee today that . Harry F. Sinclair, indicted oil ■magnate, gave $185,000 in government bonds to aid in paying off the 1921 campaign deficit of the Republican party. $/0,000 A Personal Gift Hays said Sinclair made the advance on the assurance that all but I $75,000 would be re-paid to him. This $75,000 was considered a personal contribution. Hays denied any knowledge of the mysterious Continental Trading company. The investigation committee has traced serial numbers of some of the bonds and proved, according to Senator Walsh of Montana, that $75.000 of the Sinclair contribution wei'e in Continental bonds. Hays emphasized that he had never heard of the Continental company tin- : til the committee started its investigation therrtd’. "There was no connection between Sinclair’s gift and the oil leases he obtained," Hays said. • o - | Jury Obtained F or becond Trial Os Verne Martin Columbia City. Ind., March I.—(UP) The second trial of Verrif’ Martin, of Elkhart, for the alleged murder of Franklin Tucker, Warsaw cigar clerk who disappeared mysteriously on January 29, 1927, got under way today 1 when the opening statements were made by the state and by the defense. A jury was selected late yesterday. Twelve farmers were obtained as the jurors after a three day examination .of talesmen and after 75 men had been questioned. ‘At the first trial a jury was obtained in four days, the first trial ended in a hung jury. TWO ENROLL INC.M.T.C. John E. Cook And Bernard T. Hain First Decatur Youths To Enroll John E. Cook and Bernard T. Hain are the first Decatur young men to enroll in the annual Citizens’ Military Training Camps, it was announced today by Lt. Col. F. W. Glover, officer in charge of enrollment in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. Camps will he held at Camp Knox, Fort Thomas and Fort Harrison in June and July, the announcement stated. All boys and young men between the ages of 17 and 25 years are eligible to enroll in the training camps.

11 ‘Old Horner" Makes Plea For Old Home Week Club

Deplores Neglect of Citizens In Failing To Join Club Now (By An "Old Homer") Upon the surface it appears as if there is a lack of community response to the request of the Finance Committee of the Old Home Week celebration to become members of "Old Home Week Club" and to send in five dollars to either the banks or to the Daily Democrat office, where membership cards and buttons will be sent or given them. Talk to any citizen and he will insist that this apparent slowness is not because of lack of interest nor lack of enthusiasm for the event, but simply and solely neglect, carelessness and forgetfulness to drop into the hanks or Daily Democrat office and secure that membership. Any citizen will insist that the 1912 ceh-bration was the finest event ever pulled off in Decatur. Such community happiness and good will was never before evidenced nor has it

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 1, 1928.

No Traces Found. I) * L ■■ J All hope has now been abandoned ] for Hairy Brooks, pilot of the Ford I flying f.ivver, smallest aircraft in the , world. Brooks is believed to have been drowned off the coast of Florida No trace has been found of the tniss.ng p aue or airman. PAYROLLBANOifS STILL AT LARGE 1 Three Men Escape After Getting $1,900 Payroll At Indianapolis Indianapolis, March 1- (UP) —Practically all middle-western police today were called on to aid in the search for three bandits, who yesterday afternoon staged a payroll held-up in the center I of Indianapolis business district. The robbers escaped witli the $1,900 payroll of the Hetherington and Berner iron Works, iu charge of Robert H. Bryson, Jr., Local police said today they were without a clue as to the identity of the bandits. Bryson was accosted by the bandits as he stepped out of a bank, forcing him into the near seat of his automobile, the ro'bbers speeded away. Later Bryson was tossed out of tiie car near a railroad viaduft. he was not harmed — 0 Youth. Refusing Order To Halt, Is Shot To Death Indianapolis, Ind.. March 1—(INS) — Frank Woodman, 20, of Chicago died in the citv hosnital tonay from a bullet wound in his back inflicted late yesterday by detective Emnfett Englebright. The shooting took place in the downtown district when Woodman refused to halt after the Officer called on him to stdp. The youth was carrying a new vacuum cleaner when the detective spied him. It had been stolen, according to police, from a delivery truck of the L. S. Ayers department store. Woodman’s suspicious behavior attracted the attention cf the detective Englebright and his companion Jesse McCarty.

| been evidenced since, yet the effects of the good will expressed then is still felt and not a man, woman cr child who participated either as host or as guest but what treasures the memories of that beautiful week as one of the choice things of his life. Such a happening is indeed worth while. In this community we have never been able to boast much as to numbers, but we have been and are now proud of the quality of our citizenship and the advantages of our town. A fine communitj' spirit is of inestimable value to any town. We could do no better than to keep alive that spirit in our old home town and invite back for a few days or a week the thousands who have lived here and who have an affection and a love for us and who will count it a rare privilege to come back, pay their respects to their friends and relatives and to the old town. Such a move on our part will be admitted by every one of us to be a benefit in every possible way. CCONTINUEO ON PAGE TIIKEE)

ADAMS COUNTY GET 5537,132,31 IN GASOLINE TAX State Distributes Total Os $10,346,124.26 Collect, ed In Year HIGHWAY COMMISSION. COUNTY. CITIES SHARE Indianapolis. Mar. 1. — (INS) — The | treasuries of 92 counties and 5031 cities and towns in Indiana as well j as that of the state highway commis | slot! were fatti ned today by the I distribution of the annual receipts oi l the 3-cent gasoline tax. which amount I ed to $10,748,894.53, less $403,195.39 I adminstration costs. The checks to a 1 beneficiaries are in the mails. The period covered l»y the tax receipts was March 1. 1927, to March 1, 1928. Os the $10,340,124 26 available for distiibution, two-thirds or 438.89 went to the highway commis- ■ sion. The other thinUor $3,448,635.35 ' went io the counties, cities and | towns. Every person in Indiana paid a tot.tl gas line tax of almost 49 cents during the annual period covered by tiie tax receipts according to the statist 'cians. Adams county’s road mileage is i 712.21 miles. The amount equally I distributed was $14,056.93 and the amount on basis of road mileage was $23,075.08, making a total amount received for Adams county, $37,132.01. Decatur, on a population basis of

i 1,762. will get $2,302.95. Blackflnd county road l mileage, 258.29. Amount equally divided $14,056 93. Amount of basis of road inileI age $9,340.38. making total receive*! < by Blackford county, $23,397.31. Wells county total road mileage, 806 2. Amount, epually divided $14.56.93. Amount on basis of road niileage, $26,122.55. making total re- ' ceived by Wells county, $40,179.48. o Decatur People Attend Methodist Conference Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wicks, Mr. and i Mrs. C. L. Walters, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sprang, the Rev. Ross W. Stoakes and Mr. Little were in attendance Wednesday, at the District Conferi ence of the Methodist church, which | was held at Montpelier. Bishop Leete ■and Rev Swank were the principal | speakers at the conference. LIONS SUPPORT OLD HOME WEEK Club Votes Unanimously For Each Lion To Join Old Home Week Club The Lions Club, at its regular meeting, voted unanimously that each Lion became a member of the Old Home Week Club, being organized for the purpose of staging an Old Home Week celebration here this year. At the meeting, the Rev. Harry W. I Thompson gave a- talk on shoes, and Herman Myer, local shoe dealer, spoke on the ministry. James Cowan, manager of the Decatur Castings company gave an interesting talk on the foundry industry. o Dirigible Los Angeles Starts Home From Cuba Havana, Cuba, Mar. 1. —(INS)—The U. S. dirigible Los Angeles left her mooring in the gulf this morning. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl changed his plans to remain until tomorrow and will fly to Lakehurst, N. J. today. Reports were received that weather conditions had improved along the American Atlantic coast. Four Killed In Auto Wreck In West Virginia Williamson, W. Va., March 1 —(INS) —Four persons were killed and two others ate in a dying condition today as the result of an automobile accident four miles south of here. The car in which they were riding swerved off the road and dropped twenty-five feet over a stone wall on to the railroad tracks. The dead: Mrs. Alice Rakes. 51. and her 11-year old son, Bruce; John Fletcher, 48; and Mrs. Leona Johnson, 47. All were of Chat taroy, W. Va., except Fletcher, who lived in Naugacuck W. Va.

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March Comes In Like A Lamb; Temperature I Higher Than Average Marcli stole into Decatur and Adams courtly today in the garb of a lamb Skies were dear and the temperature moderate. A record of many years' standing was shuttered yesterday when the mercury rose to 39 degrees I It was the mildest leap year's day , since 1888, according to tee rds. Ohl ‘ Timers were predicting today that March would go out like a Hon. SANDINO MAKES 1 ANOTHER ATTACK, I Five U. S. Marines Killed In 1 Latest Sally Os Nicaraguan Rebel —_ Managua, Nicaragua. Mar. 1. —(INS) ] —Get Sandino. ■ This cry rang through the hills of > Nicaragua today as the United States marine forces redoubled their efforts ( to capture the guerilla leader whose i 1 latest sally against the "Devil Dogs" 1 resulted in the deatli of five nen ami the wounding of eight others Airplanes zoomed from the valleys to the mountain tops and flew low over the jungles while observers scoured the countryside with field glasses for clues to the whereabouts of the rebel band responsible for the latest American losses. Scouts penetrated deeply into tiie jungle over little-used trails in a wide search for General Sandino and his followers.

o Leader Os Italian Army In World War Is Dead Rome. March 1. —(U.R) King Victor Emanuel knelt and wept today be-1 ide the body of Marslial Armando Diaz, the man who led the Italian Wot Id War Army to a glorious victory. The body of the former commander-in-chief lay in state at the suburban villa which the nation had given him for his brilliant work. The King decided to accord Mar shal Diaz' memory the highest honor in his command—one not paid in recent years by a sovereign to one of his subjects. Diaz.. known as the "Duke of Victory" and whose brillant victory it. the battle of Vittorio Veneto was the turning point for Italian victory against Austrians, died last night, just a fortnight after the death of Earl Haig, Great Britain's War time Field Marshal. His death was sudden. He became ill Saturday, Grippe developing and later turning into bronchial pneumonia. —— Q- .. ■ - Boy Shot In Mouth By Air Rifle; Will Reco'vef Laport, Indiana., Match I—(INS)—1 —(INS)— At a Boy Scout meeting Harvey Mocre 14, found an '‘unloaded’’ air rifle, lu jest he told Gordon Lee, 13, to open bis mouth and he would shoot him. He did. Physicians had to operate on young Lee to remove the BB shot from the root of his tongue. He will recover. Kokomo W. C. T. U. To Ask Gov. Jackson To Resign Kokomo, Ind.. Mar. 1. — (INS) —Mrs. Clara Stubbs, recording secretary of the South Kokomo W. C. T. I’. announced here yesterday that her organization was preparing a resolution | demanding that Governor Ed Jackson resign from his officj*. "The W. C. T. U. is an organization believing in law enforcement and it feels it is a mark of shame on the state of Indiana to have an official at its helm who has been involved in disgrace," Mrs. Stubbs said. “The organization feels that the governor although freed by a court instructed verdict has been convicted in the minds of the people of Indiana and should get out of office immediately.” MEMBERS OF OLD HOME WEEK CLUB ♦ ♦ * * « * « HAVE YOU JOINED? I Dan W. Beery. George Wemhoff. Two old stand-bys for this community, boosters always. We need about nine hundred like them. Why do you wait? This is an easy way to boost Adams county and to make it a live place. Thats what we all want. Come on in, the waters fine.

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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE GIVEN TO GRAND JURY Submits Evidence To Show State Officials Collected Tribute From Banks OTHER GRAND JURY INVESTIGATIONS LOOM Kokomo, Ind., Mar. I.—<> NS *— Presentation of documentary evidence supporting his charges that high state officials past and present, collected tribute from Indiana banks for deposits of state funds was the final dramatic gesture today, before the Howard county grand jury, of I). C. Stephenson before he started back to his cell in the stale prison at Michigan City. Tiie documents which Stephenson sprang upon the jury today were said to incude contracts with officials, cancelled checks, telegrams and letters of the days when Stephenson was Grand Dragon of tiie Ku Klux Klan ami the political dictator of Indiana. The exhibits were said to have been removed from Stephenson's famous Iwo black boxes, before these were turned over to the Marion county authorities last summer. i’rosecut.or Homer R. Miller, intimated that, th" documentary evidence might lead to a series of grand jury probes over Indiana inasmuch as the Howard county grand jury could not act on all the evidence Solon J. Carter Seeks Sen. Robinson's Seat Indianapolis. Ind.. Marell 1. —(INS) — I Solon J. ('artei. Indianapolis Attorney has announced his candidacy for the Reptrblfcan nomination for United States Senator and will oppose senti- ; tor Arthur R. Robinson who Is running for re-election. Carter was said to be the youngest colonel ccmmanding a fighting unit on the ETench front during the World War. Carter was born at Bloomington, Ind. and went to school at Rosedale and Rockville. He attended Miami University at Oxford, O. He has served there years as judge of superior court No. 3 being appointed in 1919 to fill a vacancy. o Lindbergh In Boston To See Mother Honored Boston. March 1 -(INS) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrived here from Schenectady, N. Y.. at 1(1:53 A. M.. today. ’ Lindy ’ came to Boston to witness the presentation of the Golden Key of life membership of the National Education Association to his mother, Mis. Evangeline L. Lindbergh, school teacher of Detroit. EPWORTHLEAGUE TO STAGE PLAY “The Lady Os The Library” To Be Presented Here March 8 For some weeks, the Epworth League of the Methodist church has been at work on the play "The Lady of The Library." and expects to present it to the public on the night ct March 8, in lite Decatur high school auditorium. Tiie setting of the play is that of the average town that boasts a public library. The play is staged in the pub’.ie reception room of that institution, and introduces, throughout, the various kinds of patrons of the library. These chailactlers heljp to give the back ground for the very much loved "Lady of the Library." They range all the way from the judge of the court and the teacher ir. the school to the eccentric janitor of the library and the "old maid’’ sisters of the beautiful librarian. There is a laugh for every one iu the presentation of these characters, but at the same time there is running through the play a double love story which concerns Judge Oliver Whitcomb and the beautiful "Lady of the Library," and Burr Edgeworth a high school pupil and Miss Pearl Reyii' ds. the assistant librarian. There will be 15 people in the cast. The whole play is given familiar ‘ and natural setting and expresses • situations that could easily exist in the public’s “O'ld Home Town."

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