Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1928 — Page 1

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BREMEN FLIGHT IMPOSSIBLE FOR TEN MORE DAYS Cant. Koehl Declares Much Time Will Be Needed To Repair Plane FORD RELIEF PLANE. enroute NORTHWARD Greenly Island, byway of Murray Bay, Quebec, April 20. __iins>—The Bremen cannot resume its flight to New York for al least ten days, Capt. Herman Koehl, declared today. The German pilot who has been working with Baron Von Huenefeld to get the trans-Atlantic plane in living condition, said it would be at least a week from the time the necessary repair parts arrived before the Bremen would be ready to hop off for Mitchel Field. Ford Plane On Way Ford Airport, Dearborn. Mich., Apr. 20.. —(U.R) —A Ford tri-motored airplane, piloted by Floyd Bennett and Benit Balchen, pilots for Commander Richard E. Byrd, left here at 7:15 a. m. today to carry supplies to the crew of the stranded trans-Atlantic plane B emen at Greenly Island. The pilots hoped to make Murray Bay, Que., without a stop. There they will load on parts for the Brei men and equip their own plane with skis for a landing on the ice-covered island. By Leslie Roberts, INS Correspondent (Copyright, 1928, by INS) Greenly Island, April 20.—(8y airl plane to Seven Islands. Que., and Murray Bay and by land wire to New York.)- The Arctic stillwess-of this desolate ice-bound island was broken | today by the clang of hammer blows I and the rattle of tools where a little I group of workers, including Baron | Von Huenefeld and Capt. Herman Koehl, were dismantling the propeller and the broken landing gear of the famous trans-Atlantic plane Bremen. It is hoped that Major James E. Fitzmaurice, the third member of the famous sky skimming trio, will arrive tonight or tomorrow morning with replacement parts so that repairs can be made immediately. Baron Von Huenefeld wants to reach New York on Tuesday, if possible. More Details Learned Further details of the sensational and dramatic flight, given today by the German baron, reveal that the oil tank on the plane sprang a leak while the machine was roaring through the mist and clouds over the ocean. "While we were battling the wind and piercing the gigantic cloud banks trnvTivrgn <>v I’u.c t"<»: TO HOLD BIBLE CONTESTS SUNDAY Presbyterian Sunday School To Select Entries For Township Contests The Presbyterian Sunday school cf this city will hold its elimination contests Sunday morning, for representatives in the annual Township Bible Memory and Bible Story contests to he held at the United Brethren church hi this city, Sunday afternoon, April 29 at 2 o'clock. The elimination contests will be aeld in place of the regular Sunday school classes and a good attendance is desired. The contests will start at 9:30 o’clock, the regular hour of the Sunday school. Great Interest has been shewn atuotig the pupils of the Sunday school and spirited contests are predicted in each of the groups. In the Bible Memory group there are the following contestants: Ellis Squires, Richard Wagoner, Joe Bean, Pauline Alford, Betty Tricker, Martha Christen, Margaret Campbell, Catherine Engeler, Marjorie DeVoss, Miriam Haley, Ida Mae Steele, and Idora Lough. One repiisentatlve will be selected from this Ri'cuo to represent the Presbyterian Sunday school in the township contest. In the Bible Story contest, Martha Dshong, Betty Frisinger and Laura Alice Christen will be the contestants. I hose in charge emphasized the fact ’hat new subjects must be chosen by •*ll contestants this year.

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Indianapolis Police To Be “Hardboiled" In Their Dealings With Bandits Indianapolis, April 20. - (Q.R) - Disturbed by a recent series of robberies I and holdups, the Indianapolis police department today .took unto itself the new slogan ot "hardboiled treatment for hardboiled bandits" and immediately proceeded to equip itself to back up that slogan. Bullet proof plate glass was ordered for five squad cars. Long range, large calibre shotguns were issued to the night patrol squads along with orders to use the buckshot in them. "If the bandits are going to be hardboiled,” Chief Claude M. Worley I said, “only hardboiled treatment will I stop them. If they can't respect the | law at least they can fear it." B. H. S. CARNIVAL PROVES SUCCESS Large Crowd Attends Opening Night Os Event; Closes This Evening The annual Decatur high school •arnival, which opened in the high school gymnasium. Thursday evening, for the benefit of the school annual, nroved a tremendous success. As one entered the gymnasium, it presented the appearance of a genune carnival ground except that the ordinary khaki tents were replaced by decorated booths ot ail colors of *he rainbow Confetti added to the ■arnival spirit, and with a fortune teller rapidly foitetling the £ut;ure, tallyhooers- calling? their various trades and shows, the den ot horrors, country store, bingo stand, etc., the affair furnished all the thrill of a real carnival at a greatly reduced cost. The carnival was well attended and a nice sum was realized therefrom for the promotion of school activities. Tonight will be the second night of the affair, the big event being the crowning of the Royal family. The contesting spirit Is running high among the different classes, as each class' puts forth a final effort to have their Royal family the feature of the crowning event.. Preceding the crowning, each riass will present a short stunt program, on which they have been hard at work for the past week. The Freshmen will present a Fashion Show: the Sophomores a Song and Dance stunt; the Juniors a Revue, and the Seniors a “Doll Show." Following this program, which will be held in the auditorium, a dance will be held in the gymnasium. Admission fee to the dance will be 35 cents per single person and 50 cents per couple. Music will be furnished by Don Farr and his orchestra. o Butler To Build Two New Dormitories Indianapolis, April 20. — (U.R)—Two new domitories, to cost approximately $400,000. will be built on the Butler University campus here as a result of action taken by the board of directors. One of the buildings will house men, and the other women. St. Louis’ Eighteenth Bomb Os Year Explodes St. Louis. Mo., April 20—(JNS)-St. Louis' eighteenth bomb explosion since January 1 went off here today, damaging the offices of the transfer teamsters and helpers union local No. 600. No one was injured. Officials of the union could give no reason why the bomb should have been set off. o City School Board Postpones Meeting The meeting ot the city school board, scheduled for last night, was postponed until next Thursday night. At that time, the matter of employing teachers for the city schools for the next school year will be taken up. Berne Undertaker Has An Automobile Accident Berne, April 20 — (Special) — Eli Beery, local undertaker, had a narrow escape from injury in an automobile accident west of this town last night. The Auburn automobile which he was driving struck loose gravel and ran into a bridge over a creek west of Berne. The car turned over into the water. Mr. Beery escaped uninjured, but the car was badly damaged.

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MONMOUTH H. S. GRADUATES 7 Annual Commencement Exercises Held Thursday Evening Commencement exercises were held by the Monmouth high school last night. Diplomas were awarded to seven young people. The commend*ment address was delivered by Mr. Edward O. Snethen, Indianapolis attorney. Members of the graduating class are: Otto Boerger, Luther Frank Brokaw, Richard Kitson Wagoner. Catherine Elizabeth Weidler, Ralph Eugene Wilder, Richard Johnson and Robert Rice, o Park To Be Dedicated To Memory Os Lew Shank Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 20—(INS)— Shank Memorial Park was the new name today of a 17 acres of land at 37th Street and Golden Hill Drive. The board of park commissioners decided to name the new park acreage for Lew Shank, late ex-mayor cf Indianapolis. The plot is south of the Woodstock Country Club near the Golden Hill home where Shank died on September 24. BERNE YOUNG MAN IS DEAD Herman Dro, 25, Dies This Morning Following Extended Illness Berne, April 20 —(Special)— Herman Dro, 25, son of Mr. and. Mrs. Emil Dro, ot Berne, died at the Dro home at. 8 o’clock this morning, following a long illness. Death was due to complications, following a siege of ta-pho'd fever starting last December 27. Herman Dro was born in Berne, October 2, 1902 find lived his entire 'ife here. For the last several years he had been employed by the Berne Witness Publishing Company. Surviving, besides the father and "anther, are the following brothers nd sisters: Ernest Dro, Irvin Dre, Pauline Dro, of Berne; Mrs. Richard Hall, Denver, Colorado; and Emil Dro, an evangelist. One brother, Sam Dro, was killed in a railroad accident May 27, of last year. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at the Berne Reformed church. Burial will be made at the M.R E. cemetery- The Rev, C. W. H. Sauerwein will have charge of the services.

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City Appropriates $60,000 For Reception Os Heroic Aviators New York, April 20—(INS)—Several million persons — residents of this city and visitors—are expected to ♦ake part in tne gigantic ovation which will be given to the transAtlantic airmen of the Bremen whan they arrive from Greenly Island. It will be one of the biggest demonstrations of its kind ever seen here, rivaling the reception of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Capt. Koehl. Laron von Huenefeld and Major Fitzmaurice are expected on Tuesday, unless held up by bad weather. Already plans have been completed for the welcome and the city has appropriated $60,000 to defray the expenses of the municipality’s part, SIO,OOO more than was voted for the Lindbergh reception. There will lie a marine parade in the harbor and north river. The city steamer Macon, flagship of the welcoming fleet and veteran of many an official reception, will carry the airmen between lines of fireboats, police boats, snorting tgs and siren shrieking steamers. There will bea motley array of small craft. Eveiy boat will be loaded down with humanity excitedly giving vent to emotions pent up so many hours when the» flyers were “lost." To Parade Down Broadway When the boats and people have whistled and yelled themselves hoarse, the Macon will dock at pier A. And there will begin a triumphal march up Broadway from the battery to City Hall park. Tons of waste paper and ticker tape are being hoarded in the office buildings which (COXTIVI F.l> OX PAGE EIGHT? SEN. ROBINSON TO SPEAK HERE U. S. Senator to Deliver Address At American Legion Gathering April 29 Indianapolis, Ind., Apr. 20.—(INS) — United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson today announced that he would make the first formal address of his campaign to succeed himself at Greencastle, April 28 and that he will address*an American Legion gathering at Decatur, April 29. Senator Robinson tonight will speak at a banquet in his honor here and will return to Washington Sunday to participate in the senate action on the tax reduction bill. He has just returned from a trip of two days to Lake county where he-held a number ot political conferences.

FIVE KILLED, 12 HURT IN BLAST 11 Explosion Wrecks Film Building At Suburb Os Denver, Colorado Denver, Col, April 20—(INS) —Five persons, three women and two men, ■ were known to have been burned to death, a dozen other men and women 1 were probably fatally injured and the (i film building of the Alexander Indus--1 i tries' corporation was gutted in an 1 i explosion that rocked the plant in ' | Englewood, six miles south of Den- ’' ver, today. The bodies of the three women, as yet unidentified, were removed at 1 ' o’clock. Two men known to be dead were in the smouldering rains ot the : building. ' i All other employees were account--1 ied for. officials of the company said, ’ j twelve having been take to hospitals. A number of employees uninjured by the blast risked their lives in earning their trapped' fellow workers 1 from the film house. The cause of the blast is unknown. J. F. WILD BANK I OFFICERS INDICTED President And Three Other Officials Charged With Embezzlement Indianapolis, April 20— (INS)—The Marion county grand jury today indicted J. F. Wild president of the defunct i I J. F. Wild and Co bank which closed i | its doors on July 30 1927 and 3 other i officials of the bank on charges of embezzlement. Those indicted with Wild were C. . J Fisher and W. F. McNairy, vicepresidents and Otto P. Kern secretarytreasurer. The joint indictment naming the four men listed 14 counts. Judge James A. Collins of the' Mar- • ion county criminal court fixed the I bonds of the men at SI,OOO each. i The grind jury. accused the four : men ot accepting deposits from 14 deI pos'tors after it was known to the of- • ficials that the bank was insolvent. o John McCormack Is 111 I Van Counver B. C. April 20 —(INS) — > John McCormack, famous Irish tenor ! who ai rived here Thursday to give a • concert, was declared by physicians ! today to be so ill that he was ordered I to bed and scheduled performances Saturday night were cancelled.

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Birger’s Request To Be Buried In Catholic Cemetery Goes Unheeded St. Louis, Mo„ April 20,-((J.R)-Con-trary to his last request, the body of ('hurley Birger, southern Illinois gangster, who was hanged at Benton, 111., yesterday, reposed here today in the Jewish cemetery. Uliesed Shel Emeth. During the gang-lord's incarceration at Franklin county jail, he said he wished to be buried "in a Catholic cemetery; that's the last place the devil would look to find a Jew." he said. Birgers body was claimed by Mrs. E. Aarons. Portland, Ore., his first wife, and by Mrs. Ray Shamsky, his sister, St. Louis, who directed burial at Chesed Shel Emeth. Of ANNA VOLMER DIES IN TOLEDO — Former Decatur Resident Dies Early Today At Age Os 87 Years Mrs. Anna V:lmer, 87, of Toledo, Ohio, former Decatur resident and sister of Mrs. B. J. Terveer, of this city, died at 12:15 o’clock this morning at her home in Toledo, following an extended illness from Infirmities of age Mrs. Vclmer had been in poor health for more than a year. About a year ago, she fell and broke iier hip and shortly afterwards suffered a relapse | and death was expected at that time. She rallied from this sickness, but was never able to get out of bed. Mrs. Volmer and family lived -in this city | for about 30 years, moving to Tcledo | 15 years ago, where her daughter Mrs. Josephine Rodd is house manager of; the Hotel Secor asid where her son. Al Volmer, is a city alderman. Mrs. Volmer was born in Germany, January 12, 1841. With her husband and family’ she came to this county about 45 years ago and settled in De- 1 catur. where for 30 years they made The body will be brought to this city their home. Sunday evening and taken to the home by friends. Funeral services will be of her sister, where it may be viewed held Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Marys Catholic church in this city. Mrs. Volmer was a member of the St. Mary’s Sodality. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph Catholic cemetery. Besides her sister, she is survived | by three children, Mrs. Rodd, Mrs. Peter Mougey and Al Volmer, of Toledo. Three children have preceded her in death. • o Unwed Mother Faces Charge Os Murder Gary, Ind., April 20. — (U.R* —Miss Leona Smith, 17, today faced a murder charge in connection with the death | of her infant son, whom, according to police, she admitted choking to ■ death. I The murder charges were placed last night after Coroner A. A. Watts I had completed his investigation into i the death of the baby. Miss Smith, according to officers, admitted choking the infant to death and hiding its. body behind a bath tub in the home of iter sister, Mrs. Eva Wineland. On a warrant, signed by the girl's | mother, police sought a Merrillville, Ind., youth as the father of the baby. o Famous Belled Buzzard Os Southern Indiana Is Back From The Southland Bedford, Ind., April 20—(INS)—The famous belled buzzard of Southern Indiana has returned from Its winter sojourn In Dixieland. The huge black bird with a bell amend its neck was seen on the Frank Stannard farm near here. An effort to photograph the feathered visitor while he was on the ground failed. The buzzaid wearing the bell has been a periodic visitor in Southern Indiana annually for several years. Who hung the bell on the bird and where is not known It is presumed that somebody caught the buzza-d when it was fledgling and belled it. Child Injured When Knocked Down By Horse Norina Jean Tumbleson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tumbleson, residing north of‘Decatur, received a painful injuiy to her left ankle this morning when she was knocked down by a horse.

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ARGUMENTS ARE BEING GIVEN BY COUNSEL TODAY Prosecution Tells Jury Defense Is Filled With “Lies And Falsehoods” GOVERNMENT SCORES IMPORTANT VICTORY Washington, April 20.—(U.R)— Harry F. Sinclair’s defense of his “slimy trail” to the Teapot Dome lease is filled with “lies and falsehoods,” the Sinclair conspiracy jury was told today by Owen J. Roberts, government ; prosecutor. Roberts scathingly delivered his ! summation argument to the jury, referring to the cash and bonds —“rolls i that would choke a mule” —which pass from Sinclair to former Secretary of Interior Fall after Fall leased ""e' pot Dome to Sinclair on April 7, 1'922. The total amount received by "all was $304,000. Last Evidence Given The jury was given, as a final bit of evidence, the information offered by the government that Fall’s own story deposition regarding the lease and bond and cash payments had I been taken by the defense but was lot presented to the jury. The ruling permitting this evidence was a victory for the government on the last bit of evidence It offered in the case growing out ot the Teapot Dome naval reserve lease of 1922. Justice Bailey excluded, however, a government proffer of evidence that t Martin W. Littleton, Sinclair lawyer, said in the Fall-Sinclair trial of last fall lu effect that "evidence will show beyond a reasonable doubt that Sin- | clair never passed—or caused to be passed—a single bond to Fall.'' Fall's son-in-law,-' M. T. Everhart, has testified in this trial that he received $233,000 in Sinclair Liberty bonds for Fall. r Each side then presented its prayers for specific charges to the jury. This was done before the jury was brought in to hear closing arguments which will be followed by the Judge's charge late today or tomorrow. The judge admitted all 13 of the government's requests ami ten of the defendants’ 27. Then the jury was seated and the government offered it* evidence that the deposition was given by Fall, but not read by the defense. That amounted to formal publication of the document, hut because not offered in evidence, it was not privileged. o FIRE OCCURS AT WATT TODAY Residence Os Mrs. Effie McGill Destroyed; Store Building Is Damaged Fire believed to have been caused by a defective chimnev, destroyed the residence of Mrs. Effie McGill and damaged the Hitchcock general store at Watt, on the Indiana-Ohio state line, cast of this city, early this morning. The fire started in the McGill ; h~u.se Mrs. McGill discovered the I fire shortly after she had started a fi’e in the stove at 5 o'clock. She and her two daughters, Lena and . Lorna, lived in the house. A call was sent to Decatur for the city fire denartment and the firemen answered •he caT with one of the pumper , tracks. By the time the firemen reached the scene of the fire, the blaze had i almost completely enveloped the ! frame building and was spreading to the store building, nearby. The I firemen also experienced some diffiI ! culty in getting water with which to I f'irht the fire. Most of the household goods were removed from the residence and part of the stock was removed from the store. The store building and re- ? mainder of the stock were badly dam- ; aged by the fire, smoke and water, f The store Is owned by Hugh Hitch- !■ cock. a I The residence and store were both s Insured, although the insurance will n not completely cover the lo&s, it was said.

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