Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1928 — Page 1

i WEATHER I Mostly cloudy toII night and W«dn«. I day Probably snow- | t „ south and cenI tral part*- Not much I change in temperaI ture.

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COL MILLER IS I WITNESS AT OIL I INQUIRY TODAY I I For me f Alien Property CusI todian Denies Knowledge I Os “Slush Fund” ■ PROVES DISAPPOINTING I WITNESS TO PROBERS i Pv \V. K. Hutchinson, ■ l\S Staff Correspondent I I Washington, Apr. 17—Col. Thomas II \\ Miller, former alien property cusHtniiian. denied before the senate pubIliii lands committee today that he IB knew anything of the Continental IB Trading company's $3,080,000 Liberty ■B botiii •'slush fund.” 1 Miller, now under prison sentence I B for •onspiracy to defrand the governIBment in the American Metals case, |B proved a disappointing witness to the t| committee. He knew nothing of the || bonds said to have passed between I B Will H. Hays and Harry F. Sinclair. I I "Were you a dinner guest at the II White House with President Coolidge ! B in the late part of 1923?" .Miller was ■ asked. I “I have no recollection of it," he tepiied. | "Were you a luncheon guest at the j I White House with Joltn T. King and 1 | Attorney General Daugherty in 1923?” I "No, I never went to the White [ I House with either of those gentle- ■ men " T'tider questioning by Senator Nye I (R) of N’ortli Dakota, Miller denied I raising any funds for the Republican | I party in 1923 or 1924. He said he did j I not know that “Sinclair Liberty bonds i I were available” in 1923. [ O —■ ■■■'— c I Lloyd George Gives! | Dinner For Henry Ford London, April 17. — (IMS) — Henry I Ford was entertained at luncheon in I the house of coimraons restaurant toI day by former Premier David Lloyd I George. The guests included Lord I Reading; Sir Robert Hutchinson, chief I liberal whip in the house of comI mins; Sir John Simon and several I ather prominent liberals. After the I luncheon Ford inspected the parliaI went buildings. Eichhorn A Delegate Judge W. H. Elchhorn, of Bluffton I will be one of the fifteen delegates I from Indiana to the National ConferI ence of Social Work, to be held at Memphis, Tenn., May 2 to 9. Roop Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Afternoon Funeral services for the late Daniel B. Roop, of Pleasant Mills, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the M. E. Church In Pleasant Mills, the Rev. Mr. Burk officiating. Burial " ill be made in the Decatur Cemetery. SPECIAL RATES - EON RACE-GOERS G. E. Band Makes Arrangements With Railroad For Reduced Farces, May 30 The General Electric band, of this city, has completed arrangements with tj'e Pennsylvania railroad company, whereby special reduced rates will be granted to Decatur people who wish to go to Indianapolis, May 30, to attend the annual 500-mile automobile races. No guarantee is required in reSard to number of passengers. The special'rate will be $3.75 for the round trip. A special (ioach will be added to the regular passenger train leaving Decatur at 12:45 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, May 30 and arriving at Indianapolis at 6:35 o’clock in the tnorning. The special coach will be attached to the train leaving Indianapolis at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday night and arriving In Decatur at 2:02 o'clock l hursday morning. The special fare tickets will be good only in the special coach. If necessary, two special coaches will be added to the train to take care cf the passengers from here. Persons wishing to take advantage r,f the special reduced rates are asked n °Ufy some member of the G. E. band, which has been engaged to furmusic at the race, or call the f*- 10. office, before Tuesday evening. May 29.

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First Relief mUUk % Photo shows Duke Schiller, Canadian air ace, who v.-as the first to pilot !a relief plane to the stranded birdmen on Grecuely Island. THREE FINED IN CITY COUNT Two Plead Guilty To Intoxication Charge; One Admits Assault Joseph Coleliin and William Reed of this city, were airaigned in Mayor’s court last night charged witli violation of the prohibition law in connection with their art-est Sunday morning by night officers, Bull Johnson and Berg Womack. Both men entered pleas of guilty. Colchin was fined $lO and costs sentenced to 30 "days on the state penal farm and Reed was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to. six months on the penal farm. Mayor Krlck suspended the sentences, pending good behavior of both. Clyde Leo Fugate was arraigned in Mayor's «court last night on an affidavit filed ay Harry Sheets charging assault and battery. Sheets alleged that he went to the Fugate home Sun day morning to collect for a newspaper and Fugate assaulted him. Fugate entered a plea of guilty to the charge and was fined $1 and costs which he paid.. Tocsin Girl Injured While Playing At School Tocsin, April 17, —(Special)—M ! ss Eveyln Wilson, neiee of Mrs. Amos Byrd, of near Tocsin, received a painful Injury lasi Thursday afternoon, while playing ball at the Tccsin school grounds. While running,, two other girls ran againsj her, throwing her down and she alighted on her right arm. An examination by a physician showed that no bones were fractured, but the ligaments werq torn. Charles Jewett Must Finish His Campaign Without Handshaking ■ Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 17.—(INS) — Talk about tough luck! Here's aHoosier politician who has to finish his gubernatorial campaign without handshaking. The unfortunate candidate is Charles W. Jewett of Indianapolis who wants the Republican nomination for governor. Jewett’s physician has ordered him to abandon all handshaking for the' rest of the campaign because of an infection in his right hand and the threat of blood poison. Meanwhile Chester A. Jewett, state campaign manager announced that 22,000 noosiers have signed Jewett-for-Governor club memberships. Jewett will open his campaign with a radio speech at South Bend tomorrow morning.

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YOUNG WOMAN !S INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Buelah Douglass, Os Decatur, Seriously Hurt In Crash Monday Night STRUCK BY AUTO NORTH OF DECATUR Miss Buelah Douglass, 20, daughter of (lus Douglass residing oast of Berne, met with a painful accident, Monday evening, when she was struck by a passing automobile and knocked from the running board of an automobile on which she was standing. The accident occurred north of Decatur on the Fort Wayne road. An automobile party, said to have comprised Pete Koenig, as driver, Buelah Douglass, Margaret Ftngland Hann, and a young man whose name was not learned, had run into the ditch along the road. Mr. and Mrs. F Spntnger, of Fort Wayne, came along and assisted in pulling their car from the ditch. Miss Douglass was standing on the running hoard of the car which was being pulled to the road, and, just as it reached a place where it was an obstruction in the road, a Chrysler car, driven by Oscar Yost, of Decatur, struck the girl, knocking her from the running board. Mr. Yost was enroute home from his emeployment in Foi t Wayne and failed to see the obstruction until it was t ,o late to avoid contact with it. Miss Douglass sustained a double fracture of the pelvis hone, had several of her front teeth l-.noeked out and Buffered cuts about tihe face. She is a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Miss Douglass had eniplMiJßiL.ah . maid in a private home in this city for the past six weeks. o Jury Chosen For Birger Sanity Trial Ilepton, 111., April 17—(INS)—Tile Jury to determine the sanity of Charles Birger was completed here shortly before noon today and the trial formally got under way. Heads Os 115 Chickens, Stolen From Farm. Are Left Behind By Thieves Lebanon, Ind., Apr. 17. •— (U.R) — Heads of 115 chickens stolen from he farm of Sol Sandlin, south of here, were left behind by the thieves. Eve v i vl on the place excepting setting hens, was stolen. GILLIOM SPEAKS IN HOME TOWN Attorney General Raps “Intolerants” In Address At Berne Monday Night Berne, April 17. —(Special)—Attor-ney-General Arthur L. Gllliom, former Adams county man. now Republican candidate for the United States senate, spoke to 500 people here last night and laid blurae for the unAmerican reputation that has been attached to the stnte of Indiana in the past few years on the group of intolerants, and their “ugliness and corruption that is making outside people hesitate before coming into Ind'ana to help deveiope Hooster commerce and industry." Mr. Oilliom made a non-political speech before a meeting of the Berne Chamber of Commerce ai a 6 o’clock banquet, in the town of his boyhood and home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gllliom. Following the banquet he addressed a large audience at the community auditorium. It was here and at Decatur that an effort was made several months aeo to bring about his indictment by the Adams county grand jury on a charge of liquor law violation. This was as a result of the procurement 'by Oilliom of a quantity of whiskey, prescribed by a physician, for his .sister, Miss Emma, who was at the ppint of death. “There are in Adams county, two or three intolerant puppets at the neads of secret and super-govern-ments who thought they could cripple my attacks on their idols by means of an indictment for a thing which Is (CONTINUED ON’ PASS TWO)

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President Coolidge Receives Telegram From Bremen Crew Washington, Apr. 17. — (U.R) —President Coolidge today received the following telegram from the Bremen crew at Greenly Island, via Point Amour: “Deeply moved by your very kind message of congratulations. The Germau-Llsh crew of Oerman airplane Bremen hope to reach the great Republic of JT. R. A., very soon when they will personally express their appreciation of and thanks for your sympathetic interest in their work." The message was signed, "Koehl, Fitzmaurice, Huenefeld.” GIRL, 16. KILLS DRUNKEN FATHER Says She Attacked Parent With Hammer When He Threatened Family Buford, Ga, April 16—(INS) —Charleston Henry, 49, wealthy farmer, died today from a crushed skull, said to have been inflicted with a hammer by his sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara. According to statements, of (he girl and her mother, the father had coTue home in a drunken rage and threatened to wipe out the family. As he advanced on them, Clara seized a hammer anil struck him on the head, ’according to authorities. Earl Klink’s Trial To Be Held May 14 Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 17.—(INS) — There will be no explosion of political T.N.T. from the trial of Ear! Kiink, former lieutenant of I). C. Stephenson, until after the primary election. That was certain today because Special Judge Thomas A. Garvin has announced the trial date for May 14 when Kiink will defend himself from accusations that he prepared a false affidavit. Kiink is charged with having stated in the affidavit that William Rogers, former klan organizer, purported to repudiate a statement before the Senator James A. Reed slush fund committee at St. LouiT that United States Senator James E. Watson carried an imperial card of the Ku Klux Klan. Rogers denied having made the affidavit and Kltnk was charged with having prepared it. George W. Watson Dies At Home In Wells County George W. Watson, 72, a former resident of Adams county, died Monday at his home in Nottingham, Wells county Mr. Watson had been ill front a complication of diseases for several weeks and his death was expected. Mr. Watson resided near the Old Salem Evangelical church. Surviving are the widow, Sarah Gottsclialk Watson, one daughter, Mrs. "Edvin Miller; of near Bluffton; and two sons, Lawrence, of Dagrange, and Lewis Erba, of Philadelphia. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o’eoek at the Old Salem Evangelical church. Witness In Robbery Case Slain On Eve Os Trial St. Louis, Mo., April 17. —(INS) —The body of Odell Slattery, 18, negro, scheduled to testify here tomorrow against two ex-convicts in a payroll robbery case, was found dead today. A bullet hole above the left eye told mutely of the "ride" Slatter yhad taken. Illinois Delegates To Support Lowden, Smith Chicago. April 17. — (U.R) —lllinois’ Republican and Democratic delegates to the national convention will cast their presidential votes solidly for Frank O. Lowden and Got. Al Smith respectively, it was indicated today as reports came in from the county conventions held yesterday. The Republican state convention will be held In Springfield in a short time, at which time Lowden is expected to be endorsed as the favorite son candidate. Strong Smith sentiment among the Democrats was reported from every section of the state. '— -o — Catho'ic Church Burns Charleston, Ind., Apr. 17. — (U.R) — Fire believed to have started from sparks on the roof destroyed St. Michaels Catholic church building here.

NEW CLUE IN HOOPENGARDNER CASE IS FALSE Report From Centerville, Michigan, Proves False When Investigated WHEREABOUTS ARE STILL A MYSTERY Word received late this afternoon frem relatives of John Hoopengardner, stated that the clue to Mr. Hoopengardner’s whereabouts, which came in a telephone call this morning, was a "false reportand that members of the family who made the trip to Centerville, Michigan, were returning without information. Belief that John Hoopengardner, who disappeared from Ids home in this city last Tuesday night, might sti'.l be alive was given consideration todav when Chief of Police Sephus Melchi received a telephone call from a man giving his name as ' Mr. Slobe" at Centerville. Michigan. The telephone conversation was to the effect that the speaker knew something of the whereabouts of Mr. Hopengardnt r and Mr. Slobe asked that some member of the Hoopengarilner famliy come to Centerville at ince and ask for him. Members of the family left this morning for Centerville in an effort to locate the missing man. A call to the Centerville Observer this afternoon failed to reveal any information. W. I. Ashley, of Centerville, said 'hat he know of no one living in or near Centerville by the name of Slobe, but that he would inquire of the town marshall It was learned today that Mr. Iloopeugardner had told a relative living m ar Ossfdn that he had planned to leave Decatur and look for work. Members of the family, liowever, stated that they were sure Mr Hoopengardner would not leave without telling them that he was going. o Court Appoints Three Trustees For Library Three trustees for the Decatur Public Library board were appointed today by Judge Jesse C Sutton, of the Adams circuit court. The board is composed of seven members, three appointed by the court, two by the city and two by the city school board. The three appointed today by Judge Sutton are: Hattie M. Lewton, for a perion of one year; Isabelle G. Sutton, for a period of two years; and Mary J. Niblick, for a period of three years. CLUB WINNERS PLANNING TRIP Boys and Girls From Adams County Arranging To Attend Club Roundup Plans are being made to take the 1-H Cluib winners of the various clubs in the county to the annual Boys and Girls’ Roundup at Purdue Univorslty from May 1 to 5. The winners of the clubs this year are Eldred Shltferly and Reuben L. Habegger. in the OneAcre Corn Clua; Noah Hahpgger, Ardon Mosser and Herman Griffiths in ‘he first, Second and third year calf clubs’, respectively. The winners In the cuif clubs are being sent through the courtesy of the Cloverleaf Creameries, cf Decatur, who have been financing the dairy calf clubs during the last four or five years. The winners in the corn club will be sent by the elevator companies of the county, who are cooperating in the corn club work. Those winning trips will visit the various places of interest on the campus, including the Purdue University farms. Numerous talks and demonslvatJons have been planned for those who attend. The Annual Roundup ts the climax -f the 4-H Club activities throughout the previous years, and is a wonderful education for those who are privileged to attend. There will be room for several additional hoys and girls this year and thene wishing to make the trip along with the club winners should get in touch with the county agent. However, anyone wishing to make the trip, excepting the winners, must pay their own expense*. The expense of the trip will be approximately sls each.

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Swedish Queen 11l — "~i -J#** > . , i • y .•'* '^ ** Queen Victoria of Sweetlen lies 111 in her villa at Rome, Italy. King Gust-ve and Prince Wiliam have left Stockholm to lie at her bedside. CHURCH PUNS “PARISH NIGHT” Unique Program Arranged By Methodists For Meeting Wednesday Evening In Sunday’s'annauncements fiom the pulpit, the pastor of the Methodist church announced the first “Parish Night" of the opening conference year. Thewhole evening is what the name Implies. Not only for the church, but for fiiends whom the church members may invite at their pleasure. The aim is to make frigidly contracts with those belonging to the church. There will be a supper served at the church at 6:30 o’clock, for which there will be a charge system on a graduation basis, the laiger the family the smaller the price per person. This makes It possible for whole families to attend at about the cost of eat ng at home. Immediately following tiie fellowship hour around the tables, there will be conducted the mid-week devotional service and Bible study. Ordinarily, there is a training class feature following the devotional the evening closing with forty-five minutes of games and social recreation. The training classes and the recreational periods will be dispensed with on this Wednesday night and the choir rehearsal and the official board meeting will be given especial attention. An urgent call s being made to both of these organiz. tious. Three Ossian Youths Have Auto Accident Three Ossian youths escaped injury Sunday afternoon when the Ford roadster in which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole and overturned into a ditch near Decatur. A tire blew out on one of the wheels causing the car to strike the ditch. The machine was driven by Lewis Lahrman, son of George Lahrman, and John Wilson and Earl Glass were riding with him when the accident occurred. The Lahrman lad received a scratched face while the other two lads escaped injury. The top and windshield of the car were torn off and it was said that six fence posts were broken when the machine crashed into the fence after hitting the telephone pole. o •

98-Year-Old Nimrod . Takes Out FishingLicense; Full Os Pep Logansport, Ind., /April 17 —(INS)— A hunting and fishing license has been Issued here to a 98-year old Nimrod. He is Thepdore Quillen, a civil war veteran, who will soon be preparing to celebrate his centennial birthday anniversary. Quillen still is full of vigor and pep. County Clerk Mrs. Lulu Byers was surprised \yhen Guilen told her he was 98 years old.

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FAULTY LIGHTS CAUSE PLANE TO LOSE ITS COURSE Pilots Unable To Read Instruments During Latter Part Os Flight BREMEN MAY HOP OFF TOMORROW Quebec, April 17.-— (•NS) — A breakdown of Ihc lighting system on the Bremen and not the 'lkmse of the compass caused •he German trans-Atlantic plane Bremen to lose its course, ae■'>rding to details received this afternoon trom Clark City. When the lights failed, the pilots could not read the instruments and had to guess at their course. The Bremen sped at 120 miles an hour on parts of the journey over the ocean before running into a blinding snowstorm and a gale of headwinds. Plane Carried Off Course A powerful wind was blowing toward the north when the lighting system collapsed just as darkness fell Friday afternoon. Until that time, Capt. Koehl and Commandant Fitzmaurlce hail been alternating at the controls. When they finally got the lighting system patched up they found they had travelled 400 miles off their course and were flying at a dangerously low altitude. The beacon In the lighthouse apprised the men that the island over which they were flying was inhabited. As soon as they landed they went to the lighthouse whea-e the keeper fed thorn and gave them beds where they slept for hours alter writing messages that were carried to the Labrador coast radio station. Fitzmaurice Gets Instructions New York, April 17—(INS) —Major James Fitzmarlcp, commander of the Irish forces and co-hero of the Bremen s trans Atlantic flight, has been instructed by the Irish free state to postpone his arrival in New York and Washington until he can make the flight soutih with his German colleagues. The instructions were delivered to him at Natashquan, where he hopped from Greenely Island with Duke Schiller, by Tymoth.v A. Smiddy, Free State minister to the United States. Repairs Being Rushed Quebec, April 17 —(INS)— Captain He: maun Koehl and Baron Ehren”r!ed von Huenefeld will hop off from Greenely Island in the trans-Atlantic mr.cnlane Bremen tomorrow if they -re able to complete their repairs in up piano today. This at least was the hope of the German fliers who remained with heir plane on the ice bound island on which they ended their epochal flight, after their companion Commandant J. E. Fitzmaurice bad departed southward in “Duke” Schillir’s rescue plane. Montcalm Caugnt In Ice Flow Murray Bay, Quebec, April 17 —(INS) T be ice-breaker Montcalm, which tried to go to the relief of the crew of the Bremen on Greenely Island, reposted by wireless today that it had irnvmi Rn nu piom two; D. C. H. S. HONOR ROLL RELEASED Twenty-three Pupils Named In List For Six-Week Period Just Ended Twenty-three Catholic high school pupils are on the honor roll of that J school for the six-week period just closed it was announced by school officals today. To be placed on the ’ Catholic high school honor roll, a pupil must have a grade of 90 per cent or above In each subject.

Following is the list: Seniors: Fred Foos, Margaret Voglewede, John' Dowling and Severin Schurger. Juniors: Helen Lengrich, Francis Schultz, Margaret Kiting, Agnes linker, Patricia Teeple, Klsie Bonnegraff, Virginia Hyland, Delores Omlor. Sophomores: Hilda Heimann, Frances Wolpert; Lawrence Becfcineyer; Leo Schultz; John Schmitt, Edith Lengerlch, Mary Meyer, Hubert Gase. Freshmen: Leo Dowling; Ray Leonard, G. Lengerich, R. Wertzberger; , L. Malley, A. Kiick, Mary Kohne; i Mary; Mary Helen Lose; H. Spagler, i F. Harris, Tom Voglewede, Mary Gase, Monica Heimann.

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