Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1928 — Page 1

— WTATHFR fair tonight and Thprsday. ext’P 1 prob Ably shower* m southwest part. Continued cool. Frost probable in north and central pant* tonight.

WEAVER CHANGES HIS PLEA TO GUILTY

Frank Lockhart Darina Auto Race Driver. Is Killed

MEETS DEATH IN ATTEMPT TO SET NEW SPEED MARK Car Turns Turtle While Speeding Over Beach Faster Than 200 Miles An Hour GAINED FAME IN INDIANAPOLIS RACE Daytona Beach, Fla., April 25 u.R) Frank Lockhart, one ol'. the premier racing drivers of America, was killed here today! when his Blackhawk racer] turned turtle while he was, attempting to set a new world's speed record. The accident occurred in font of the grandstand whie the stream-lined Black Htwk was speeding at an estimated 200 miles an hour. Spectators s;;id the automobile suddenly somersaulted, left the course and flopped to the beachTaken To Hospital Lockhart, bleedink and limp, was pulled from the wreckage and taken tn a hbspital. It was reported that a bystander who had edged up close also was injured. It was announced a short time later that he bad been killed. Wife Sees Accident The racer s wife was said to have witnessed the accident. Sc res of spectators who got up early to see Lockhart try to surpass the record made by Ray Keech last Sunday—2o7.ss miles per hour —narrowly escaped death as the- car crashed. One spectator said the Stutz Special i ante thundering up the beach. Suddenly ’sand sprayed out from its rear wheels as it swerved. Then it completely turned turtle in the air. Some said it rose as high as thirty feet above the beach, then fell on its side. Again it. bounced from the sand, ’his time throwing Ixrckhnrt clear of i the driver’s seat to his death. Examination of marks on the beach I showed the right rear tire apparently had blown out, sending the car in-1 to the swerve. I'i r a distance of 1,000 feet the ear slid sideways. Jxickhart apparently leu succeeded in straightening !tl it temporarily as the tracks for the Lexi 500 feet ran staight. Then came '" .’her swerve, ending when the car itrtled 20 feet into the air, landing nd rebounding again. • < evriWKl) ns ’•<<;»? fivri (j— Earl Crawford Stops In Decatur This Morning Ear) Crawford, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, stopped here a few hours today on his way to Fort Wayne. He addressed a meeting of the farm bureau at Geneva last evening and will speak at Yoder, tn Allen county tonight- While here, he called cn a number of Democratic workers. LIONS DINE AT COUNTY FARM Club Members Enjoy Delicious Dinner And Listen To Interesting Talks Members of the Lions Club wei treated to a pleasant surprise Tuesday evening when they’ gathered at the Christian church for their regular meeting. Dr Burt Mangold, president of the cnib and chairman of the program of the evening, was a few minutes late in arriving, but when he did arrive, he invited the Lions to climb into waiting automobiles and motor to the Adams County Infirmary, whore a delicious dinner had lieen prepared for them by Superintendent and Mrs. Harvey LaFounlaine. Following the dinner, the Lions listened to interesting talks by Mr. I a Fountain? and several of the inmates of the infirmary. The inmates were loud in their praise of Mr. LaFountaine for his kindness and efficiency in managing he institution. D. H. Wehmeyer, of the Schafer unpany, wa3 welcomed into the •ions Club iast uight as a new member.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XXVI. No. 99.

FLOYD BENNETT, FAMOUS AVIATOR, DIES OF PNEUMONIA

Lebanon C. Os (?.. Uses Newspaper Ad To Thank To Neighboring Firemen Lebanon. Ind., April 25 (U.PJ—Members of the Chamber of Commerce heie in a quarter page newspaper advertisement express thanks to Indianapolis and Frankfort firemen who aided the local department last Saturday in fighting the s7s.tmo Farmers Slate Bank lire. The advertisement reads in part: "T. tanks Frankfort; Thanks Indianapolis! Glad to see you? We ll say we were 1 ” 4 O CULVER HEAD TO VISIT DECATUR Gen. L. R. Gignilliat To Attend Legion Conference Here Next Sunday General L. R. Gignilliat has accepted the invitation to attend the Northern Ind' ina American Legion conference. to lie held here next Sunday General Gignilliat is superintendent of the Culver Military Academy, is a candidate for national c mmander of the Legion ami is one of the best known mili.aty men of the country . More than three hundred acceptances -have already heen received and a crowd of five or six hundred is expected. Delegations from ten counties in Ohio will join in the conference here. —<> Highway Worker Killed Greenfield. Ind . April 25—(U.R)— Alvin Wales. 50, state highway commission employe, met instant death at a crossing east of here Tuesday evening when a truck he was driving was struck by a T. H. 1. and E. Interurban ear-

DAYLIGHT SAVING TALK IS REVIVED Signing Os Ordinance By Fort Wayne Mayor Revives Interest In Decatur What effect the signing of the daylight saving ordinance by Mayor William Geake, of Fotr Wayne, putting that city on daylight saving time, beginning Saturday April 28, at mid night, will have on the action of the Decatur city council on a similar petition, was being discussed today. Mayor Geake signed the daylight saving ordinance Tuesday afternoon, on the promise of the Fort Wayne council, which passed the ordinance a few weeks ago, that tile ordinance would be rescinded in case the voters voted against it at the primary election on Tuesday, May 8. The question will be put up to the voters at the primary and if a majority easts a vote in favor of the daylight saving time, the ordinance will stand. If a majority votes against the plan of daylight saving time, the council will rescind its action and repeal the ordinance. In the meantime, the city of Fort ' Wayne will operate on daylight saving time from midnight April 28 until Tuesday, May 8, at least. . When the petition, signed by 165 Individuals and business firms, was i filed with the Decatur council asking that daylight saving be established in this city to conform with Fort Wayne’s time, the council tabled the petition pending action in the Fort Wayne case. Several councilman expressed the opinion that the 165 petitions represented only a very small part of the city population and, unless more sentiment was shown for the daylight saving time, that they were opposed to it. The question will not be submitted to the voters ii: this city. Work ou printing the county ballots started today and no request was received from the mayor, council or any individual to place the question on the ballots. The election commissioners therefore did not consider the question, because no formal request had been received by them. The council will meet Tuesday, May i, and one councilman expressed the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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HOOVER FORCES i JUBILANT OVER TUESDAY’S VOTE Secretary Os Commerce 1 Scores Victories In Ohio ‘ And Massachusetts GOV. AL. SMITH ! VICTORIOUS, ALSO George R. Holmes, INS Staff Correspondent Washington, April 25. — Herbert Hoover’s forces were jubil- ( antly proclaiming in Washington today that: “Hoover cannot now be stopped.” The decisive victories scored by the cabinet candidate in the Ohio and Massachusetts primaries afforded tlie basis for their optimism and their confident claims to the nomination at Kansas City. The exact detnenslons of these victories in terms of delegates remain to lie disclosed by tabulations in rural districts where the Hoover opposition was strongest, but on the basis of present figures it seems certain that Hoover will have to have the 39 delegates from .Massachu >etts and probably 35 of Ohio's delegation of 51. Now Has 240 Delegates On that basis, Hoover has boosted liis delegate standing to date to approximately 240, with much favorable Hoover terriuua yet to be heard from a majority of the Kansas City convention necessary to nominate is 545. The same tables show his nearest rival, ex-Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, with 171. "Nothing can now stop the nomi- i nation of Herbert Hoover,’’ said exCongressman James W. Good, who has assumed active charge of headquarters here. "The Ohio and Massachusetts primaries have given the rank and tile of the Republicans the first real opportunity to express their choice. They have done so in no uncertain terms.” Hoover’s present delegate strength from those states that have acted, and in one way or another signified their choice for the Republican nomi'nation at Kansas City, follows: Georgia, 16; lowa, 2; Kentucky. 29; Louisiana, 12; Maine, 15; Michigan, 38; Minnesota, 4; Missouri, 6; New Hampshire, 12; North Carolina, 6; Oregon, 12 (only Hoover filed); Rhode Island, 12; Virginia, 15; Wisconsin, 4. Add to these the 39 from Massachusetts and indicated 35 front Ohio and the total is 253. States still to act and claimed positively for Hoover are Alabama, 15; California, 29; Colorado, 15; Connecticut, 17; Maryland, 19; Mississippi, 12: New Jersey, 31; Tennessee. 19; Texas, 26; Washington, 17. Total, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 Teacher’s Pension Rule . Adopted In Indianapolis Indianapolis. April 25 —(U.R) —Under provisions of a new rule adopted by the school board, all elementary teachers and prinicpals will be retired on a pension at 68 years ami high school teachers and principals will be retired at 70. Teachers retired will receive pensions of S7OO annually. Considerable opposition to the bill arose through in-ler-.cr.tie3. "f various groups who pleaded that several Dteaci.fers who have reached the retirement age be left In their positions.o — Aeronautic Diseases Are Discussed By Physicians A. very interesting session of the Adams County Medical Society was held last evening at the (Adams County Memorial Hospital when Dr. L. E. Somers read a paper nn Aeronautic Diseases, a discussion of diseases produces in airplane flying. It was a timely subject for, of course, with tying come new and unheard of ailments. The doctors agree they will have to post up tor this new line of diseases which will probably in. crease as flying becomes more popular and common. The next meeting of the society will be held May 8, when Dr. H. O. Jones will have the paper.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 25, 1928.

Conqueror Os North Pole Succumbs Quebec, Que., April 25.—(MS) —Floyd Bennett, internationally famous aviator and conqueror of the North Pole,, died at 10:53 this morning in the Jeffrey Hale hospital of pneumonia which he had contracted in the line of duty. Bennett was thirty-eight years old. He was born at lake George, N. Y., on October 25, 1890, and his present home was in Brooklyn, N. Y. Flew To North Po'e He was one of the most courageous aviators whose name has been writ- •' ' * ■■■ ■■ A ./WM .. . Floyd Bennett

ten indelibly in the annals of avl- { ation progress. IDs greatest achieve- a meat was when, as co-pilot for Com- | madder Richard E. Byrd, in 1926. he ■( flew to the North Pole—the first time c this epic teat had been accomplished. Bennett's death was hastened by , his fidelity to duty. He was 111 when , he left Detroit several days ago in , the Ford rescue plane which was ] bringing replacements for the trans- t Atlantic Bremen which was forced down on Greenly Island. He was fore- , ed to give up the flight when half way J and was taken to the hospital in Quebec. Drama and pathos surrounded last minute efforts to save Bennett's life. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, a comrade of the air, learning that a special serum was needed for ti'.re treatment of Bennett, sped in an airplane from Curtis Field, N. Y„ yesterday atfernoon with the serum, arriving in a raging snow storm at 6:30 last evening. Lindbergh flew as he never flew before, making the distance in record time. The serum, however, was not the kind necessary and his dramatic (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOI K) STADT PRINTING DALLOTS TODAY __ — Election Commissioners Start Preparations For Primary Election May 8 Adams county election conmis«ioners, John E. Nelson, Charles E. Holthouse and C. L. Walters, today started the task of printing the electton ballots for Adams county’s primary election, to he held May 8. The commissioners slatted todaj’ that, 1 8 600 Democratic and 5,900 Republican ballots would be printed. Sample ballots also will be printed for each party. The printing of ballots will take at least four days, it was estimated today, because of the many changes necessary in each of the 34 precincts of the county. The election inspectors of each precinct, who will be announced by County Clerk John Nelson next week, will call at the derk's office Saturday, May 5, to receive their election supplies. ' A complete list of election board appointments, made by each county ■ chairman, will be. published tn the ; Dally Democrat next week. The in- , spector of each precinct will be notified of his appointment and he in turn notifies the rest of his board.

DREMEN CREW PLANS TO LEAVE PLANE ON ISLAND Fliers Decide To Continue To New York In Plane Sent By Mayor WEATHER CONTINUES BAD IN FAR NORTH Point Amour-(via Long Point Blanc Sahlon, wireless to Fogo, wire Jess to Montreal, Canadian National telegraph to Murray Bay), April 25,—(INS) — "Sorry the start of the Bremen impossible on account of present ice conditions caused by changed weather. Taking into consideration that the public in New York is waiting, we have decided with a heavy heart to leave the Bremen here for some time and to start tomorrow with the machine so very kindly sent by the Mayor of New York.” Signed Von Huenefeld. Weather Sti'l Bad St. Agnes. Que., April 25.—(INS)—If the weather allows, the Bremen may depart today from Greenly Island, where it has bee nsiolated for eleven days. The trans-Atlantic plane has been repaired and moved to the ice from which it will hop Off, but a raging blizzard came up yesterday whiter made it impossible for Captain Koehl, Baron Von Huenefeld and Major Fitzmaurice to leave the island. The fliers attempted to take the plane up on a short test flight preparatory to flying here but were balked by a cold motor. While trying to get ’the plane into the air, the storm came up and preveute dfurther efforts. It is feared tliat warmer weather will cause the ice at Greenly to break up within a few days and for that reason the fliers are expected to allow nothing to stan din the way of their departure today.

Mrs. Coolidge’s Nephew Is 111 In California g San Francisco, April 25— (INS)— Je- s rome A Goodhue, prominent shipping s man of Baltimore and a nephew of ' Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, is tn a San 1 Francisco hospital, suffering from | £ acute nephritis, it was learned today t c Ruling Is Made In Tocsin Bank Case i Bluffton. April 25—(INS)— Judge Ha- , milten Tuesday .sustained a demurrer ; filed by the Old Adams County Bank of Decatur as receiver of the Bank of Tocsii. to a petition filed by tlie Tocsin Farmer’s Elevator in the Tocsin ] bank receivership case. Tlie elevator company petitioned tliat the receiver be authorized to accept the credit claims presented by the company in cancellation of indebtedness owed the bank by the elevator company. The effect of the sustaining of the demurer is to disallow the petition of the elevator company. o— Craigville Telephone Lines Being Repaired A long distance line has been repaired to the Craigville telephone office according to the .statement made today and several of the rural lines extending north out of Craigvilia have been repaired ft was stated that several weeks will be needed to get tlie remaining rural lines in operation hut Nt:pair work is progressing rapidly. Their lines were badly damaged by the sleet storm a few weeks ago, Incuring a great expense to rebuild the lines. —o Program Arranged For Sunday School Convention The program committee in charge ol the annual Washington township Sunday school convention has com- ■ pleted a fine program for the conveni tlon which will be held Sunday after- . noon at 2 o’clock at the United Bre- ■ thren church in this city. The public i is cordially invited to attend the meeting and a large crowd is anticipated.

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Golf Ball Goes Through Auto Windshield; Hits Motorist In The Eye South Bend. Ind.. April 25 —(U.R) — Chalies E- Anderson. Elkhart, suffered a badly battered eye here when a golf ball driven from the links near where he was driving his car went through t>'ie windshield. Thoyias Hiveline, university of Ni tre Dame student said lie drove the ball. GOSPEL WORKERS TO APPEAR HERE Evangelists And Singers From Fort Wayne To Hold Services In Decatur Starting tonight, regular services will be held in the Yoeman hall, in this city every Wednesday and Saturday nights by Evangelist D. Fisher and his full gospel preachers and signers from tile Free Workers' Mission, of Fort Wayne- The seflvices will open at 7:45 and the public is invited to attend. The Free Workers' Mission is an interdenominational organization. James H. Uhrick, a former Mornoe boy, is one of the evangelists witli the Mission. He is known by many Ada'nts county people W. It. Kizer is a musician who signs the gospel songs in a powerful manner. One of the pieces of work done hv the Free Workers' Mission during the past winter was the conducting cf a free soup house in Fort Wayne for the unemployed and needy people of the city. » CAST FOR JUNIOR PLAY ANNOUNCED “The Mummy And The Mumps” Is Title 01 Annual Class Play

The cast for tlie annual class play given by the Junior:’, of Decatur high school, to be presented in the high school auditorium Thursday and Friday evenings of this week, was announced today by Miss Verueal VV iialen, class guardian, who is directing the play. The title of the production is “The Mummy and the Mumps." a three-act comedy written by Larry E. Johnson. The action of the play takes place in the combination office and reception room at Fenella, a girls school in a small town near Boston. The time is tlie present. Cyrus Calile is business manager for the play, and Stanley Green is the stage manager. Miss Dorothy Haley will servq as pianist during tlie evening. Miss Florence Anderson will sing a group of songs as follows:

“Sleepy Hollow Tune,’’ by Richard Kountz; “The Love Dream," by Clay Smith; and “In the Long Long Ago." by Geoffrey O'Hara Miss Violet Squier will play two saxaphone solos, entitled. Estilian Caprice," and “Laugh'n Sax." The play, "The Mummy and the Mumps," is said to lie a comedy that is guaranteed to entertain. The cast has been working diligently for the lust few weeks and a good production is assured. hollowing is the iast tin the play: Sir Hector Fish Robert Heller Francis Biscoe Chalmer Fisher William Laidiow, who helps as much as possible Herman Lankenau James Slammon Racker, who has three men's work to do, but doesn’t do it Elisha Little ‘ Perkins, tlie sheriff, who does his duty Richard Clem Tuggles, the deputy sheriff, who helps Perkins do his duty. Don Miller Anna Hampton, a western girl Mary Jane DeVor Maude Mullen, an eastern girl, Josephine Archbold 1 Dulcie Durable, an impulsive little girl Isabel Hower Sibyl Summers, always with the other girls Vivian Acker Agatha Laidiow, founder of most exclusive school In New Eng1 ON PAGE TWO)

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ACCUSED DANK PRESIDENT TURNS STATE'S WITNESS

Withdraws Plea Os Not Guilty And Tells Jury About Wholesale Forgeries STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST WALB GIVEN Fort Wavne, April 25 (MS) — Valentine 1). Weaver, broken and ill president Io the defunct First National bank ol Lagrange. this afternoon withdrew. his pleti of not g’lillv in federal court here, and pleaded guilty to charge of violating and conspiring to violate the national banking law. on which he and Clyde A. Wall), former Bepublican stale chairman, are on trial. Weaver then took the witness stand to tell the jury what-he knew of.the alleged wholesale forging of notes and of false entries on the records of the defunct Lagrange bank. Weaver’s Brother Testifies Tlie dramatic turn in the trial cam® this afternoon immediately after Silas I). Weaver, brother of the accused man, mounted the witness stand and testified that Wall) had asked him »o nflnence his brother to take the “fall." in tlie bank cases. "Federal Judge Thomas' W. Slick is a good friend of mine and I can get him to let Valentine off with a light sentence." Walb told Silas Weaver, according to the witness. Changes Plea To Guilty As Silas Weaves left the stand, T. A. Redmond, attorney for Valentine Weaver, arose and asked the court’s nermission to change the plea of his client. Valentine Wearer, looking sickly pale and feeble, then took the stand. Weaver had entered a plea of not guilty on Feb. 3. together with Walb. when the pair was arraigned in federal court here. Fort Wayne, April 25-(INS) -Clyde A Walb. former Republican chairman of Indiana, compelled Valentine 1). Weaver, f- inter president of the defunct First National Bank of Lagrange to forge notes by threatening to send him to the penitentiary if he refused according to testimony of Pearl Wills, 52-year-old woman abstractor, in the ttial cf Wall) and Weaver for violating the federal banking laws in federal court here today. The witness, however did not bring out what the "dub" was that Wall) war supposed to swing over WeaverThe witness pictured a tnelo-dra-matic meeting of Walb and Weaver before a window at the bank, -to which she said she was a witness. Tells About Conversation Walb appeared at the window carrying a hand full of notes made out, but not signed the witness said. Turning to Weaver. Walb said, according to the testimony, "here are the notes 1 want you to put those names on " "Weaver tinned white," the witness continued, ',l never saw anyone '.ook like that in all my life.” ’ "I can't do nt Clyde. I can't do it," hUVHMia) ON PAGE FIVE)

GENEVA WOMAN IS BURIED TODAY Funeral Services Held This Afternoon For Mrs. Maria Bricker, 78 Geneva. April 25 —(Special)—Funeral services were held this afternoon at Geneva for Mrs. Maria Bricker, 78, who died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. James Fenstermaker. in Geneva, Monday morning, following an extended illness. Mrs. Bricker fell in 1925 and broke her hip, and from this accident she never fully recovered. Maria IToy Bricker was born December 3, 1849. in Pennsylvania. She came to Geneva with her parents when still a voting lady, and resided practically her entire life in Adams county. She was married to Aaron Bricker, who preceded her in death in 1922. No relatives, other than the granddaughter. Mi a. Fenstermaker, survive. Funeral services weho held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the United Brethren church, of which Mrs. I Bricker was a member. Burial was I made at the Riverside cemetery.