Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1928 — Page 1

WEATHER Somewhat unsettled tonight and FHday Possibly local thunder .how'"' Cooler Friday in north portion.

DISASTER HALTS FLIGHT TO SWEDEN

I MJTOPSV PLANNED IJS NEXT STEP IN I BESES MYSTERY I Huntington County AuthI orities Seek Cause * Os I Death Os I’earl Ballard ■ Vi\\ KNOWN AS I ' -Ml( KEY” SOUGHT ■ unntingion. Huntington July 26Bn itNSi I’i'usii üb'i- ll.,ward Wiley indl- ■ t',l 1.-.lav that he would ask that an ■ , ull psv be held to determine the cause ■ of the death of Mrs. Pearl Ballard. 31. H f .Muskegon Michigan, whose body ■ with battered head was found in some M hushes nortJi of Roanoke. Ind., on July H Mr. and Mis. Fred Hall, of Detroit. M Michigan, late yesterday positively ■ identified 'he victim of the mystery ■ death as Mrs. Ballard, a sister of .Mrs. H Hall and the estranged wife of Gust ■ I I'ailatd. wealthy Muskeg, n restauraflBH tear. The Ballards owned more than ■ p'uO.OOO propelty according to the ■ Halls. ■ No Autopsy Held Yet H No autopsy has thus far been held MB 0B the dead woman’s body because ■ (' inner (I M Xie expressed his con- ■ tUtion that -lie died from a blow in MB face caused by a blunt instruBB laent. H The Halls told the authorities here HH that they hail discovered that Mrs. H Ballard had lived with a man known to ■ them only as ’Mickey" in a rooming H house cn Drexel avenue in Detroit. ■ On Sunday night. July 15. Mrs. Bal HI lard telephoned her. Mrs. Hall sg’d, ■ to tell her that she had decided to rehß tiiin to hei husband in Muskegon. The H| Hails learned that Mrs. Ballard left H Detroit that night with "Mickey" in H| a Buick sedan with the Michigan li- ■ cense 846-146. .. H Sheriff Carl Rudicel had in his p>s- ■ n t<wl;cy a snapshot taken of Mt*. H| Ballard at the Detroit rooming house. H The authorities here were confrontH ed today with the necessity of first H establishing beyond any doubt that if ■ murder had been committed and next M to ascertain if possible, whether such I a crime was committed within Hunt H iogton county. 0 Berne Young Man To Teach At Columbia City Berne, July 26.—(SpecialI—Newell Rice, Berne young man, has signed a contract to teach history in the junior high school at Columbia City and seive as assistant athletic coach in the senior high school. Mr. Rice was i graduated fioni Northwestern College, at Naperville, Illinois, last spring. Junior Band To Give Concert This Evening Tie following program will be given by the Junior Band at its weekly open ■tit concert on Liberty Way this evetistarting at 8 o’clock: March, •■Civic League” —Byer. Overture, Harmony Queen’’—Coate. 'sltz. "Love Eternal”—Brooks lonawanda” Indiana dance—Allert., intermezzo, "Fairy Land" Mackie ts.. „ Yorke Three Step— Byer March. "]j oster’s Club”—Byer iMle. ”B’tai Spangled Banner.” BERNE CONSIDERS WIDENING STREET (hamber Os Commerce Also behind Movement To Install Ornamental Lights mem"," 1 ' JU '. y a moveOrn " H den Main street and erect fare if"’ 8 , 1 ' lghtß alw ’ g ,he thoro «ghChamh? b , e «' Btarted by the Berne consist/” (ommerce - A committee HabeggJ e T. *' Got T tscbalk ’ C. T. Chris M ’ Ray ‘ J ' F - Lehman. Vila, Menno and to prenai , er ' has been a PP"mted Prepare plans for the project. 'liawn up'and 8 t,he ” la " S haVe been er of approved b -V the Charnbed to th. t e ’ they ' lll be present ’ "'at thev h W “ wlth a RepreX udopted •»' that body, “aaufacturin. 8 > ° f , Beveral concerns tended a « 80d,evard lamps atAmerce m" S ° f ‘ he Chai «her of mitted d itn M da> ’ evenln &> and submaterial a ‘ lu] rfl !u ri,l " fi the cost of the lamp 3 . d he “retaliation of the

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Vol. XXVI. No. 176.

I Political Situation In i Chicago, Is Nearing Crisis

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Miss Kathryn Witwer has the qnique distinction of being the "adopted'* daughter of a whole city, for citizens cf Gary. Ind., took that step as the means for insuring the girl’s musical education. She made her debut last season with the Chicago Opera Com- | pany, but is here shown sailing for I Europe to undertake further study. ,

MATHEW SHOE EXPIRES TODAY I Father Os Ed Shoe, Os Decatur, Dies At Home Near Tocsin, Today Tocsin, July 26 —(Special)—Mathew Shoe. 72, died at his home north of Tocsin, at 10 o'clock this morning. I following an illness of a year's duration. Mr. Shoe was first stricken with influenza and later, complications developed. | > Mr. Shoe was born in Preble county, Ohio, June 2. 1856. He had resided Hear Tocsin in Wells county for the last 38 years. Mr. Shoe was] first married to Jane Anderson, ot Delaware Bend. Ohio, who preceded him in death. Three children wer>’ born to this union, one of whom, Ed Shoe, of Decatur, survives. Two daughters are deceased. Thirty-eight ! years ago, Mr. Shoe was married to Mary Heckley, of near Tocsin, who survives. Two children, Raymond and Lester Shoe, were Ixirn to this union and both survive, they residing at home. Two step-daughters. Mrs. Pearl Wilson, of near Ossian, and Mrs. Nettie Smith, of near Tocsin, also survive. Mr. Shoe was a member of . the United Brethren church at Hebron. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the house and 2:30 o’clock at the Tocsin U. B. church. Burial will be made at Tocs'n. 0 Kirkland Coach And Wife | Home From Western Tour Mr. and Mrs. William Bryan of Kirk land township, have returned from a motor trip to California. They visited many places of interest going and coming, including - Estes Park, Colo., and Yellowstone National Park. Thev also made a trip to Catalina Islands while in California. They were gone a little more than eight weeks. Mr. Biyan is coach of athletics and a teacher in the Kirkland high school. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will take up their residence in Peterson in the near future. o Forty Chickens Stolen From Farm Near Bluffton Bluffton, July 26 —Homer 15eVore. living southeast of Bluffton, reports a raid at his farm home by chicken thieves last Saturday night. The thieves secured about forty Buff Orphing ton chickens as their loot and made good their escape. An automobile is reported to have been seen parked along a highway, and it is supposed that it belonged to the thieves. It is reported, however, that no tangible clue has been developed as (o tlie i deutity of the thieves.

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Faction Headed By Mayor Thompson Crumbles; Officers Resign Chicago, July 26 -4U.R) The political situation in Chicago is approaching a crisis which, It is believed here, can be averted only by superhuman effort on the part of leaders in the city administration. . If a crash comes. Mayor William Hale Thompson will be discarded on the political ash heap. . The faction which cart led Mayor Thompson to victory over Wiljiam ’ Dever in 1928 has crumbled. The "America First" group which sounded I a battle cry against British propagan-1 dation has disintegrated. Their slogan has given away to ‘‘every man | i tor himself”. ’ ‘ 1 Police Commissioner Resigns The latest development in the deterioration of the Thompson group is the resignation of commissioner of Police Mechael Hughes. It has been rumored for some time that Hughes would resign. He has been confined to a hospital here after in operation for tonsilitis. Yesterday he forwarded his resignation. The first rift in the mayor's cabinet came with the resignation of Charles Fitzmorris, comptroller. Fitzmorris, with a fiery speech at the July session of the city council, refused to approve a subway appropriation. He declared that constant drain on the treasury left an appreciable deficit. Thon he handed in his resignation. The city apparently is in the thues of a political upheaval which observers believe will result in a General exodus of the chief tans who stood firmly behind the Mayor and his principles. A special crime jury is delving into charges of graft which probably will result in the naming of several persons prominent in political affairs and a host of tho lesser lights. The Chicago crime commission and the- Illinois association for criminal justice have been making reports <le- ! nouncing “political patronage In the underworld." They have placed at the door of the State's attorney's office a large portion of the blame for crime, being rampant in Chicago. It is declared that evidence linking politics with activities of Chicago’s gangland has been obtained whi< li will lead djrectly tc the door of the City Hall. Mayor Thompson is in seclusion at Green Bay, Wisconsin, suffering from diabetes and complications. He is practically glone, deserted by his former suppt rters and lighting his last fight (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ! SAYS SHUMAKER HAS BEEN “GOAT" Chairman Os Dry League’s Headquarters Committee Makes Statement Indianapolis, July. 26. — (U.R) — A statement alleging that E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, "has been made the goat" for criticism of the Indiana supreme court, was issued today by the Rev. C. H. Winters, chairman of the league's headquarters committee. The statement was endorsed by the committee. Winters said that Shumaker's appeal to the United States supreme court, in an effort to avoid a fine of $250 and a sentence of 60 days, for contempt, would be viewed as a “contoward maintaining constitutional privileges. The appeal to the supreme court will be based among other things on the right of free speech and. the constitutional provision declaring states shall not abridge the privileges of immunities of citizens. "What I have to say will differ from what hundreds of thousands of good citizens all over this state are thinking,” said the Rev. Winters as spokesman for the committee. Bombs Rock Sections Os Chicago This Morning Chicago. July 26- (INS) -Two dynamite bombs rpeked sections of Chicago today. One of the bombs was placed in a photographic establislipient and blew off the entire roof of the building. Window?. In adjoining buildings were 1 sha tered for blocks. Another bomb was thrown in the doorway of a barber shop. The interior of the building was wrecked. Police said “blackhanders" or "labor bombers" threw the bombs.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 26, 1928.

ASSESSOR MEETS WITH TAX BOARD • Adams County Assessor Goes Over County’s Assessments With Board • ————— County Assessor Jay Cline is nt Indianapolis today, attending a meeting of county assessors in this district, called by the state board of tax commissioners. The totals of the assessment of property In fhis county have been j sent to the state tax board and the j commissioners will review the assessI merits with Mr. Cline. The valuation of real estate, farm | lands, improvements and personal | property in this cotinty is a little more than $29,000,000. This valuation i does not include the state's assessment of railroads and utilities which is made by the state board. This assessment totals about $5,000,000. It was estimated by a representative of the state board of tax com missioners when he visited here recently, that the assessment on farm and real estate improvements was too low and that the state board was Ikiely to order an increase. Mr. Cline will not know what action the state board will take, but will learn whether the assessments do meet the board's approval. County assessors from every county in the state will be called before the state board this week, certain days lielng designated stir the different counties. —o Racing With Police Chief Proves Costly To Youth Wabash, Ind., July 26. —(INS)—Picking out Chief of Police Bolte as a racing antagonist proved expensive to Ray Beam, youth living near Lukens laike, when he pleaded guilty to speeding in < tty court here, awii was fined $5 and costs, amounting to sls. Young Beam, playing the boy friend to a young lady, and another couple I in a new “flivver," refused to let Chief | Bolte go around him. After three un- . successful efforts to pass Beam's car i the chief contented himself with remaining Itehind Beam until they reached Wabash, when he pulled around him and forced him to the curb, and informed him he was under arrest. Girl Stars As Her Baseball Team Wins In State Tournament ' - - Indianapolis, July 26 -(INS) —Pretty] 15-year-old Margaret Gisolo. playing ' second base for the Blanford. Indiana. ] Cubs, batted her team to a 17-3 victory over the St. Phillips team from Indianapolis in the first semi-final match of the American Legion state junior baseball tournament here today. Margaret slammed out four singles and was walked once. She played a brilliant game in the infield tagging out oMe man between first and second base. In the second semi-final game, the Emerson Yanks of Gary defeated the Mars Juniors, of Jeffersonville, 2-1. The Blanford Cubs and the Emerson Yanki* wifi fight it out at 4 o'clock this afternoon for the state championship. — o Hartford City Man Buys Adams County Oil Leases M. L. Anderson, of Hartford City, has purchased the Aspy oil leases in Adams county. He plans to operate the leases, it is said. Tunney-Heeney Fight To Be Broadcast By 50 Stations Tonight New York, July 26 -dJ.R)-Gra-ham McNamee's description of the Tunney-Heeney fight will be sent , to the far reaches of the world tonight over a coast-to-coast network of the National broadcasting company with more ihan 50 stations attached. Twenty stations will go on the air with WEAF at 9P.M.E. D. T.. 1 and the remainder will be connected at 10 P. M. E. D. T., when the main bout is scheduled. _ Short wave stations in Schenec"tady and Cincinnati will transmit the broadcast to Europe, South America. Australia, and. it is hoped New Zealand. The broadcast is sponsored by the Scripps-Howard newspapers.

Police Station Raided; Much "Hair Tonic” Found

Raider Also Finds Supply Os “Rubbing Alcohol” And “Snake Bite Remedy” Chicago, July 26—(INS’; —A suggestion that, if any liquor violations are proven, Shakespeare avenue police station be padlocked by the government for one year, was made here today at a conference of prohibition enforcement officers. The police station was raided by prohibition agents George Golding and a squad of thirteen agents and a quantity of liquor found on | the premises confiscated. Chicago, July 26—(INS) Os course, it was only rubbing alcbhol, hair tonic, snake bite remedy and such but it was found in the Shakespeare Avenue police station and thereby hangs the tale. Mr. Hardboiled George Golding, who recently was a New York copper Intt who is a "do or die" prohibition agent in Chicago, said to his chief’ "Let’s raid the raiders." The chief said okay. So Golding got his warrants. First Jie went to the desk of rolice Captain Patrick J. Harding, in charge Os the station, and found two bottles. "Hair tonic,” said Harding laconically. “Peculiar Shoe Polish” Then in the locker of Operator Joe Cohen he found a bottle of peculiar shoe polish, so Cohen claimed it was. A detective bureau sleuth was afraid to claim his coat hanging upon : the wall because in its pockets Gold-. ing claimed he found some excellent “perfume" in a pint bottle. Golding then led 13 raiders into a I malt and hop store adjoining the i police station, confiscated 3.000 pints of home brew and wrecked a needling apparatus. In another malt and hop store a few doors from the station a quantity of moonshine whiskey was confiscated. As twMtnr'fOU' the police station he yelled: "All of you birds be at the prohibi-1 tion headquarters tomorrow.” — o John Baumgartner Reopens Jewelry Store At Portland Portland, July 26 —Through a very satisfactory adjustment with his creditors, John Baumgartner has again opened store located at tbi corner of Main and Meridian streets. In addition to a complete line of watches, clocks, and silverware, Mr. I Baumgartner carries a good line of leather work, art goods and novelties. LAWYERS DEBATE LIQUOR QUESTION Prohibition Is Leading Question Before American Bar Association Seattle, Wash., July 26. —(INS) —The question of prohibition still crackled and sizzled here today before the fifty-first annual convention of the American Bar Association. "The prohibition law must be obeyed or amended." That was the assertion made here today by Silas M. Strawn, of Chicago, president ,of the organization. A similar pronouncement has-been made by Jacob Mark Lashley, dent of the St. Louis Bar Association. “Violence has increased enormously in urban centers,” Strawn continued. "Most of it can be laid at the door of bootleggers and other rum law violators. "Widespread indifference to the prohibition law has created an alarming disregard for all laws, particularly among the young people. “Crime surveys in New York, Missouri and Illinois reveal a national peril. That peril is gnowing greater daily.” Orin Ijowell, president of the California district attorneys, presented a report before the convention prepared by Raymond Loley, professor of public laws at Columbia university. The New York savant supported the practice of accepting guilty pleas to lesser offenses than those charged. ——o — Pope Pius Suffering From Sprain Os Foot Rome. July 26—(INS)— Pope Pius XI is suffering from a sprain of the right foot and has suspended general audiences, it was learned at the Vatican this afternoon. The pontiff's condition in not serious and he is continuing private and semi-private audiences.

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Quits Calles Cabinet mg' ;J 3 I Openly accused with other leaders of the Mexican Ixrbor party of being one of the "intellectual authors” of General Alvaro Obregqn's assassination. Luis N. Morones, ministry of industry, has tendered his resignation to President Calles. He denied symi pat.hy with Obregon opposition. SHRINE BANDfF BE HERE SEPT. 13 Fort Wayne Shriners To Be Here On Fraternal Day Os Old Home Week Word has been received from | James Haberley, potentate of the Fort i Wayne Shrine, that he will bring the Shrine band, patrol and drum corps to Decatur for Fraternal Day. during Old Home Week. They will be here on the evening of Thursday, September 13, and will give their drills on the streets. The patrol and bands of this organization are always an attraction and they will join in the big event here. On this day. a number of drill teams and bands will assist in making the day one of the big ones of the week. A plat of the section downtown ! where concessions will be sold is | now’ being prepared and will be I ready, together with terms, in a ? few I days. Special rates will be given home people. The committee on the pageant is busy just now and will be able to report soon. It is planned to give an j historical pageant on Tuesday evening. as a free attraction. The general committee will meet, this evening at the city hall to continue plans and to hear reports of the committees. That it will be a real show’ and that the folks are coming home by the hundreds is assured. "If you can help make it bigger and better its your duty to this good old community and to those you love, to do it," ' the committee points out. o Tunney Makes Safe Flight To New York New York, N. Y. July 26—(INS)—After an overland flight, lasting a trifle more than two hours, Gene Tunney landed in the Hudson river this afternoon at 12:21 o’clock in the big Amphibian plane that carried him here from Speculator. N. Y„ for his World’s heavyweight championship fight with Tom Hoeney at the Yankee stadium tonight. o Bees Cause Excitement On Harrison Street Bees in the vicinity of the Roscoe Elzey home on Harrison street, are causing more or less worry to the neighbors these hot days, Policeman Elzey stated. The two Elzeys ha”e been stung by the bees and Mr. Elzey states the bees are keeping everyone busy trying to chase them away. o Suffers Paralytic Stroke W. N. Smitley, 65, a farmer residing six miles east of Berne, suffered a light stroke of paralysis last Friday. Mr. Smitley had been working in the hay field all forenoon and was stricken at noon. His condition was serious for nearly an hour, but he revived and is much better now.

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PLANE CRASHES FIVE MILES FROM STARTING POINT — i Crash Ends Attempt Os Rockford, 111., Men To Make Long Flight BOTH FLIERS ARE UNHURT IN ACCIDENT Rockford, 111., July 26. — (U.R) —The attempted flight of Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker D. Cramer to Greenland ended in disaster five miles north of here today when the Stinson-Detroit-er monoplane crashed in a cornfield. Their plane was wrecked, but neither flyer was injured. Another plane was dispatched from here and brought the two flyers back to the Rockford airport from which they had started a few minutes earlier. Hassell had planned to fly today to Mt. Evans, Greenland, refuel there and proceed to Stockholm with perhaps another stop at Rejkjavik, Iceland, in the event the Mt. Evans field was not long enough for the "Greater Rockford” to take off with sufficient fuel. But the difficulty be had foreseen as stretching ahead occurred even before the flight got under way and the plane was unable to gain altitude after leaving the airport here. Load Is Too Heavy Loaded with 400 gallons of gasoline, tlie plane wobbled in the air. It had taken off at 4:50 a. m. cst. and less than thirty minutes later, the ] flight came to an inglorious end in j the cornfield. Picking themselves up from the wreckage, Hassell and Cramer examined it. They -found that the fuselage of the plane and the wings were beyond repair. It was not known whether thn engine was injured. Bitterly disappointed, Hassell said he would not make any further effort for a flight to Sweden tills year. His plans had been financed by a committee of Rockford citizens who collected subscriptions from almost everyone in the city. Hassell and Cramer received weather reports late last night from Greenland. The reports said the weather was favorable “clear with westnorthwest winds,” and Hassell announced he would leave at dawn "for sure." The “Greater Rockford” was fueled with 400 gallons of gasoline, giving it a total weight of 5,300 pounds. This included all the equipment for the flight. Hassell said a low haze hung over the atea north of here and he was unable to pick out and avoid the low spots. He said there was no breeze and that his plane therefore had no aid in gaining altitude. “The plane was travelling slowly,” he said, “and the motor was functioning perfectly. But tlie heavy load of i gasoline kept us near the ground. The air was light and we could not mount. "We felt ourselves slipping, but we were too low to do anything about It. Suddenly we crashed. It was pure luck that kept us from being killed oi badly injured." Hassell said later he might try again to make a flight to Sweden, if I lie can get backing. He said he would make another attempt next year if possible. NOBILE PARTY REACHES NORWAY Harbor Workers Refuse To Handle Ropes Thrown From Citta De Mila London, July 26—(INS) —With its flag at half mast, the supply ship Citta Di Milano with Gen. Umberto Nobile and the survivors of the Italia disaster on board, arrived at Narvik, Norway, today, said a central news dispatch from that ciity. Tlie arrival, added the dispatch, was watched with sullen interest by the .harbor workers who refused to handle the ropes thrown from the ship to the docks. Q Wealthy Restaurant Man Shot Chicago, July 28 —(INS)—Walter P. Poweis, millionaire restaurant roan and fonner liquor dealer, was shot and setiously wounded today by occupants of an automobile as he entered the hotel in which he lives.

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