Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1928 — Page 1

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I AVIATOR reaches I NOBILE'S CAMP: I DROPS SUPPLIES I Vnundsen’s Plane Report* I c d Down In Polar Sea: I Sends Appeal For Help N EW RELIEF PARTY LEAVES WITH DOGSLED Rome. Hilly, June 20. - UNS) Major Miiddelvna has succeeded in peaching Gen. Nobile's < imp ell (lie ice off the north coast of Spitzbergen where he dropped supplies attached to a parachute ironi a seaplane, according to w rd received direct from Kings Bay. Although plan s have been searching the ice Hoes off the Spitsbergen coast Maddelena, according Io this message, was the first to local: (he refugee camp and assist them. Amundsen Calls For Aid London, June 20—(INS) -The French seaplane of Rene Guilbaud and i’;:pt. Roald Amundsen, which hopped off at Tromsoe, Norway, on Monday to search for the Nobile expedition, has pen forced down in the Polar sea and has wirelessed an urgent appeal for aid. according to a Central newdispatch from Berlin this afternoon. London. June 20—(U.R) —The silent i antic held in its icy grasp today the answer to a second aviation mystery that threatened to become of as poignant interest and gravity as that which surrounds the fate of the crew of the lost dirigible Italia. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole, left Troini :e, Norway at 8:10 p.m. Monday in the French Farman seajgpne Diluted bv Commandant Rene Guitbaufl. to fly to join in work of locating and reselling the latlia's crew. At midday, more than 40 hours after the plane's denatture on a flight of not more than Too miles at most, there had been . no < ncrete news of the plane. (Copyright 1928 by United Press) Aboard Steamship Braganza. Off Northeast Land, June 20- (U.R) With ICOXTINIEB OX I’M.it SIX) TWO HELD FOR ABDUCTING GIRL Young Indianapolis Girl Is Kidnaped And Attacked By Two Men Indianapolis. June 20. —(INS)— Lewis Goble, 22, an employee of the Indian apolis Street Railway company, was arrested by police here today on a charge of kidnaping and impersonal tag an officer in connection with the abduction of pretty 16-year-old Nora Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee, of 4115 East Twenty-first street Police also held Loren Blight. IS, under SI,OOO bond for questioning in connection with the ease. With choking soils. Miss Lee told officers how she was taken from her * escort at the point of a gun by two men last night when she was returning from a movie, how she was attacked under threats of death and how she was finally ejected from a moving automobile in front of her home at 3 o’clock this morning Her father, who had been advised of the abduction of his daughter, sat on the porch witli a gun. Without waiting for explanation, Lee opened fire on the automobile when lie saw his daughter ejected from it. 'I he bullets shattered the rear glass of the car, but did not strike the occupants Miss Lee and her chum. Miss Ethel Luke, 16, were being escorted home from a movie .by Charles Kapen. a young cilpple, when a large machine forced their car to the curb. The men got out and, displaying guns and representing themselves as policemen, told the girls they would have to accompany them to headquarters Miss Luke slapped one of the men in the face. The other then grabbed Miss L,?e and dragged her into the ear which sped off. The abducted girl managed to read the certificate of title which was in the car in which she was being catried off. When she got home she told Police the name she remembered seeing on the title. Detectives went to ; the address and located the owner of ; the car. He explained he had loaned the car to Goble.

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1 ~,lotl ^ d i ,c l 5 h anic of Plane > r| endship Ignored In London London. Jimp eq , ' ignored tn r (U.R)-C omplett ]y h • 01 M ' 88 Ha''- ' he t?r i " H1 hhi w f ' a "’ iv idl " ln, ‘“ a he ,he "' ’•-tna I h 1 1>(ll . k h0((4 J!o|h w y l ' he left alone Stu'l "■ A v V '"" is slep »’" aald We wont make unv ohms j t 01 " P ,! " ,h "P with mu- sleeping/' ’ , ’T' 0 ": 20 <U.R) Discarding I ' flying costume in favor of .Zm'n 1 Wo,ninK bl " onspieuous Miss Amelia Earhart ?'X V T" Atlanth/ I i appealed In public fodaj . , |s , e U smartly attired and de. idedly feminine ' American girl. ’' To Sail Soon L To newspapermen, Miss Earhart anj"° l| nced that she planned to sail for I. Vork within a week without, going to Paris. I Miss Earhart, so tired that she kept , eyes open only with difficulty. 4 had gone to bed early last night at j thp Hyde Park hotel. I When she appeared this morning, I flushed with excitement and complete- > ly rested, people who first saw her | yesterday could not recognize her ex- | > ept by her unruly mop of curly hair. | In her mail were tributes 4.0 her I femininity—one an offer of marriage I that she shyly admitted receiving. Instead ot her pullover sweater, khaki flying breeches and high boots, Miss Earhart wore a fluttering, printed summer dress, a pair of tiny French shoes and silk stockings. The dress was borrowed from Mrs. F. E. Guest and, it was remarked, was a little large for her in spots. No rouge or lipstick had she used and none needed. There was no mis- ■ taking the origin of the color in her cheeks To her attractiveness as she received newspapermen in her hotel suite was added the frank modesty that has made friends for her wherever she has been sin. e her arrival in England. Because of her charming attributes, she seemed a new kind of ambassador of the air to the English people. DATE SET FOR M.E. EXCURSION August 15 Is Date For Annual Excursion To Walbridge Park, Toledo Wednesday, August 15, has been selected as the date for the annual excursion of the Methodist. Sunday school, of this city, to’ Walbridge Park. Toledo. Ohio, this year. As usual, the excursion will be run over I the Clover Leaf district of the Nickel ' Plate railroad, and reduced rates will I be granted. The special train will start at Bluffton again this year and stops will be made at Craigville, Peterson, Decatur. Pleasant Mills and Willshire, Ohio, to pick up passengers. The excursion to Walbridge park has been an annual event of the local Sunday school for several years and each year, approximately 1,000 persons enjoyed the outing. The train leave: here early in the morning and returns on the evening of the same day. The general public is invited to join tlio excursion. Co-Workers’ Picnic Postponed Indefinitely On account cf rain and wet grounds the picnic of the Co-Workers class. of the .lethodist Sunday school, which was to be held this evening, has been postponed indefinitely. The entire (■hutch has to participate in the atfaif. The mid-week services of the church will be held in the church building at 7:31) o'clock tonight. Veteran Clerk In Federal Building Kills Himself Indianapolis, tod~June 20- (INS'\lvah S Rhoades. 56. a clerk at. tne federal building here for 25 years, shot and killed himself with a .22 caliber rifle at his home here during despon-dency-over ill health. He'left a note which read, "Dear ones: forgive me this deed, mom and Gertrude. Hrgtve me for not keeping the promise, he sttain was too great sot me. lhank all those who so kindly have given advice and help. Goodby and God bless you, —Dad."

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PAVING OF TWO ALLEYS ORDERED BY CITY COUNCIL -July 3 Is Date Set For Receiving Bids On Miller Alleys MORE ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS IN SERVICE Bids for backing the Miller alley between the Miller Bakery and Zw»ek | and Myers store on North Second street, west to Third street and from Monroe street between the Niblick lots and the Bowers building, north to the Miller alley, will be received by the city council on July 3. No obpections ■ 1 temonstrances were filed against the proposed improvement last night and the final resolution ordering the improvement was adopted by the council. Acknowledgement from the Chicago and Erie railroad and the Nickel Plate tail: aid that they had received notice to place the flashei signal lights at the Winchester, Line, Tenth and Thirteenth street crossings were filed with the council. A petition from property owners asking that a street light lie placed on Winchester street somewhere between the Nickel Pldte railroad and the grant street was filed and referred to the electric light committee. M. J. Mylott. superintendent cf the electlie light department, reported that the 44 ornamental light posts had been placed in service on West Adams street. The street and sewer committee reported having entered into contract with Macklin and 4ehi for the improvement of Nuttman avenue.,, The ordinance governing the placing and removal of gasoline curb pumps in tlie city was read by City Attorney J. Fred Fruchte and the removal of the pumps in front of the Macy service station on North Second street was discussed by the council and referred to a committee. The finance committee read the bills which were allowed, and the session adjourned. 0 Youth Held In Denver For Indianapolis Murder Denver, June 211—(INS) Call Skeen, 20 year old "butcher boy" of Indianapolis, Indiana said today he would waive extradition and return to the Hoosier capital where he is said to be wanted in connection with the death there last week of Mrs Pearl Jarhoe a waitress. Skeen admitted to police, they said, that girl jumped from his automobile while they were "joy riding after having a few drinks". He claims he did not know the girl had been fatally hurt until he read It in a newspaper several days later. o Thea Rasche Forced To Postpone Flight Again New York, June 20 —(lNS)—Curtiss Field's runway was a stretch ot' mud tiday, making it out of the question for Thea Rasche, tlie flying German Fraulein. to take off for Old Orchard, Me., on the first lap of her projected transatlantic flight. She desired to be the first of Iter sex to handle the controls of a plane that conquers the ocean, now that Amerila Earhart has won the honor of being the first woman to cross as a passenger. Five Miners Killed In Blast In West Virginia Laurel J’oint, W. Va.. June 20—(U.R) — Five miners were killed and seven others injured in an explosion in the Laurel Point mine of the National Coal company today, according to officials of the company. Tlie explosion occurred in‘the shaft of the mine when 22 coal cutters were at work. Ten men escaped without injury. The seven injured men were taken to a Morgantown hospital. The extent of their injuries was not learned. — — —o Unidentified Man Killed Battle Creek, Mich., June 20 —<U.R) —An unidentified man believed to be from South Bend, Ind., was killed today by a Grand Trunk passenger train. Names found in a note book on the body included Samuel Williams, 212 North Birdsell, and William Foster, 504 Chapin, South Bend. The victim was of medium build and apparently about 35 years old.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 20, 1928.

STORMS IN INDIANA

Hero of Hold-up » r ♦ I ! i F ’ i i' " f / ■ J i I / 1 l J I g i < Eight bandits robbed the Home , Trust Co. of Kansas City of roughly , $30,0110 in cash and currency, then were forced to flee before the on . slaught of J. E. Thrutchley (above). - one of the bank officials, who bom | , barded them with tear gas bombs. ( The robbers fled in a fast automobile after firing a fusillade upon their J pursuers. ] PLANS DRIVE FOR INDUSTRIAL ASS'N. . John R. Parrish To Collect . Dues And Enroll New Members In Association ( John R. Panish has been engaged by the Industrial Association to make a canvas of members of the association to collect the 1928 dues and to obtain new members. Mr. Parrish will begin the canvas next Monday morning and all members are urged to have their membership dues, five dollars, ready. Cal E. Peterson, president of the Association, said today that it was hoped that at least 100 members would be enrolled next week. That many members will be needed, he said, to maintain the rooms and to appropriately support the old Home Week celebration to be staged next September. ——o Registered Mail Stolen From Car At Toronto. Ont. Toronto, Ont., .Tune 20 —(U.R) —Registered mail worth from $150,000 to $200,000 was stolen by six men in a sensational express cat holdup at tlie Union Station here at midnight. H. MESSMAN IS CALLED Bf DEATH Former Preble Township Man Dies At Woodburn ' Tuesday Evening Herman Messman, 49, brother-in-law of Mrs. Wm. Zwick, of this city, died at his home in Woodburn, at 5 o’clock last evening, Tuesday. June 19, 1928, from a several years illness of tuber culosis of the spine. Herman Messman was the son ol Mr. and Mrs. Louis Messman. both deceased, and was born in Preble township. Adams county, on August 8, 1878. After growing to manhood, Mr. Messman united in marriage with Miss Lulu Wischmeyer, who survives him. Five children were born of this union, one daughter having preceded the father in death about five years ago. The surviving children, Arthur, Carl, Lawrence and Clara all reside at home. A foster brother Joseph Schorff, resides in Illinois. Most of the relatives of Mr. Messman preceded him in death. ' The deceased was a member of the Lutheran church in Woodburn, and prior to his illness had been an active citizen of his community. He served for years on the council at Woodburn. During his entire life, he has fallowed 1 the occupation ot' a mechanic, and has ■ resided, since his marriage, both in • Woodburn and Fort Wayne. , Funeral services will be held Friday ■ afternoon at 1 o'clock standard time i at the residence, and at 1:15 o’clock i at the Lutheran church in Woodburn. ■ Burial will bo made in the Concordia Lutheran cemetery at Fort Wayne.

George Remus Wins Fight For Release From Asylum

PLATFORM IS CHIEF CONCERN OF SMITH MEN Supporters of Candidacy of New York Governor Not Worried About Nomination ANTLSMITH GROUPS SWING INTO ACTION Houston, June 20. (INS) The plat form which the Democrats will adopt here next week and present to the country for comparison witli that adopted by the Republicans at Kansas City last week is causing the supporters of Gov. Al Smith a gieat deal more worry than tlie nomination itsself. The nomination, they believe, is already certain They hold no such illusions, however, concerning the platform. The fight over the nomination, if any occurs, does not bother them. They are confident of a nomination within two or three ballots, but the fight over the platform piomises. even at this early date, to lie sharper and perhaps embarassing. The prohibition plank piomises to furnish the chief bone of contention. Anti-Smith Groups Active Houston, Texas, June 20. — (U.R) — The anti-Smith groups here are trying to line up an allied phalanx to contest the nomination of Gov. Alfred E. Smith like the Watson-Lowd en-Goff-Curtis allies fought tlie nomination of Herbert Hoover at Kansas City. Senator Waiter F. George, Georgia's native son candidate, was sought today to head the movement, and the forces of Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Evans Woollen of Indiana, and Representative Ayers of Kansas, were being asked to join the group. Face Many Difficulties There was no indication that the movement would be any more successful than the anti-Hoover allies were at Kansas City. The allies here face all the difficulties which beset the anti-Hoover allies, and then some. First and foremost, they have not yet been able to single out any one candidate into whom their interests can lie merged George is iimsidered by most inteiested in tlie matter as tlie moat available man to head tlie movement, but George can expect no support from Reed or Woollen forces to advance his candidacy for the nomination. The Hull forces do not seem to care for Reed, and the Reed forces have no desire to desert their candidate. No definite work will bo undertaken toward organizing the allies until George arriv.es late in the week. Hull arrived last night, but would not discuss his candidacy. He was the first of the candidates on the scene. George R. Van Namee, pre-conven-tion manager for Smith, was scheduled to mine in with a vanguard of his brown derby battalion from New York this afternoon. His advance men. who arrived yesterday, said Van

Namee expected to remain several days before opening headquarters. Strangely, none of the headquarters have been opened yet. although delegates are arriving on every train. A Reed-for-President publicity bureau has been opened in the hotel by Reed's manager, Erank J. Prince. o Mrs. Esta May Green Dies At Pleasant Mills Mrs. Esta May Green, 36, wife of C. O. Green, died of cancer of the liver, at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon, at her home in Pleasant Mills. She i had been ill since March 15. Mrs. Gieen was born in Jay county. Surviving are the husband and one son, Dwight, at home. Funeral services will be held at tile Pleasant Mills M. . E. church at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. witli burial in the Green Park cemetery, at Portland. The Rev. A. I"E. Burk, of Pleasant Mills, will ofi ficiate at the funeral services. i o , Explosion Kills 20 r . Mexico City. June 20—(U.R)—Fears • weie expressed today there would lie t added casualties from the explosion . that wrecked a public bath house last i night, killing 20 persons and injuring 49 others. »

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Ohio Supreme Court Orders Release Os Wife Slayer Columbus. 0., June 20. (U.R) The state supreme court today released released George Remus, who Killed his wife Imogene, at Cincinnati last year, from the state hospital for the criminally insane at Lima. Ohio. Remus was acquitted of the murder of his wife by the Hamilton county common pleas court when he entered a plea of insanity. He was committed to the Lima asylum following his acquittal. The Allen county court of appeals granted him a writ of habeas corpus and tlie supreme court stayed the release. pending a review on which came today's decision. Tlie issue upon which the decision was made was whether anyone other than the superintendent of the state hospital could older tlie release of a person who lias been adjudged insane by a court. Superintendent Fought Release Dr. Vorbaii, superintendent of the asylum, had described Remus as "psychopathic, dangerous, and a menace to society," and insisted he was not cured siifl'iciently to warrant his release. "One who is acquitted of murder on tlie sole ground of insanity and who lias been committed to the Lima State hospital for the insane is not deprived from thereafter seeking a writ of habeas corpus for the purpose of showing that lie is sane and therefore unlawfully restrained of his liberty,' - the decision held. Release of Remus from the asylum later today was promised by Dr. Vorbaii. Tlie hospital superintendent, would make no other statement than t hat he would carry out tlie court’s order. Thus, less than a year after he shot his wife to death in tlie belief tliat she had betrayed him. Remus has been acquitted of murder and held to be sane in separate proceedings. DR.LOSE SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB Decatur Physician Tells Os Recent Discoveries In Medical Profession Dr. Frank Lose, well-known Decatur physician gave an inteiesting and instructive addiess on the medical pro- ! session at the regular luncheon meeting of the Lions (’lull, yesterday evening. Dr. laise told of many i ecent discoveries in medicine, which have greatly lessened the danger of diseases which were considered almost incur ' able a few years ago. He dealt mostly with infectuous and contagious dis- ’ eases. Ralph Yager had charge of the ’ program tor the meeting. s An impromptu debate by four members of the club on the subject, “re- ' solved that a ilitary dictatorship is a • more desirable form of government ’ than a corrupt Republican type, "prov vided much entertainment for the club e o

Aviator Pleads Guilty To Stealing An Airplane Indianapolis. Ind.. June 20. —(INS} A J. (Steve) Lacey. 24. Lomax 111 aviator, today faced a sentence of u year and a day in the federal reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, imposed on him by United States District Judge Itobert C Baltzell after he pleaded guilty to steeling an airplane at Rich mood, Indiana, in 1920 Lacey was sen fenced late yesterday when he decided to plead guilty to the charge to avoid a trial. Campaign 01 Utilities To Control Editorial Opinion In Missouri Is Disclosec Washington, June 20 —(INS)—A si year campaign to control editorla opinion of Missouri's newspaper through advertising subsidies was dit closed by J. P. Sheridan, secretary < the Missouri public utilities informi tion bureau, before the federal trad commission today. With obvious leluctance Sherida admitted, under shat p questionin ; that lie had established the polit . of alloting public utilities advertisii i to the state newspapers on the has of the extent to which they reflect! ; power trust views in editorial at news columns.

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LIGHTNING AND WIND TAKE TOLL; DAMAGE HEAVY Severe Electrical Storms Sweep Indiana Last Night And Today FOUR MEN KILLED BY SINGLE BOLT -lINSt Six persons were killed and a number of others were injured and thousands of dollars of property and crop damage was done by severe electrical storms which swept Indiana late yesterday, last night and which were continuing today. The property damage was most severe in Wayne ami Henry counties where buildings were blown down, ciops destroyed, treej uprooted and electric wires blown down. Four Killed At Bloomington Bloomington reported the heaviest loss of life, four men being killed by a lightning holt when they took refuge from tile storm tinder a tree on the Indiana University campus. The dead; Thomas Hacker, 52; his brother, Otto Hacker, 49; Kenneth Deckard, 36, and James Holt, 27. Tlie four men witli Harry Hobbs had been removing sod from the university waterworks northeast of Bloomington to the new athletic practice field. At Mays, in Rush county, a boy playing in a yard was killed by lightning. At tlie state reformatory at Pendleton, Fred Cook, 24, of Evansville, who was awaiting his parole papers to leave the reformatory, was fatally injuied when he was struck by a Hying piece of tfmlwr from a hnHding in which he and others had sought refuge. Mis. Horace Swindell, living twn miles south of Newcastle, wait seriously injured when tlie storm blew a chicken brooder on her as she was trying to save her chickens from tlie wind's fury. Her legs were badly crushed. Nine Killed in Southwest Kansas City, June 20. (U.R) — Renewed cyclonic disturbances in Oklahoma and Missouri raised to nine today the number ot persons killed by storms which have swept the south(CONTIMED ON PAGH AlX| D.V.B.S. CALLS OFF PBOGBAM i Committee Decides Not To Hold Commencement Due To Contagious Diseases Due lo tlie numerous eases of contagious and infectuous diseases pre valent in tlie city, tlie committee in , charge of tlie Daily Vacation Bible , School lias decided to call off the com mem ement of tlie school, scheduled to lie held Thursday night The attendance at the school during the last few days lias been Irregular, due to sickness, and it was deemed inadvis- ■ able to expose the children and their parents further by holding the graduation exercises. 1 There are several cases of smallu pox, chicken pox and whooping cough I in tlie city, and several persons have II sore arms, due to vaccinations. The f Daily Vacation Bible School will close I on Friday and the cei titicates will be 1 I distributed among the pupils at that j time. The school has enjoyed a high(l ly success*:! term this year and the ' attendance has been good. — —-O 1 - Rev. Howard Brumley To Conduct Service Here d The Rev. Howard Brumley will conduct the mid-week service at tlie Baptist church this evening, and bring a '* message. Rev. and Mrs. Brumley. .' s nee Grace Shroll, are visiting relalives and friends for a few days before returning to his churches in ()e Missouri. Rev. Brumley expects to finish his college and seminary work an then they are planning for foreign 1K missionary service, Mrs. Brumley he- <■/ ing a graduate nurse. These young ng people are from the local Baptist sis church ami are always warmly welled coined home. Their friends will enmd Joy the service this evening which beI gins at 7:30 o’clock.

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