Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1928 — Page 1

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W STORM IS due to strike FLORIDA SOON •SWSSWr P Veer Another VV ay STORM APPROACHING FROM WEST INDIES Wert Palm Beach, Fla.. -August 10 I ,«> While the storm-stricken Florila cities counted their damage and X .wav the debris caused by the h|rr cane three days ago residents anXuslv watched today for signs of another disturbance reported- to be heading this way. ~ The new storm of considerable intensity and accompanied by gales, was reported moving northwest from the West Indies at the rate of 18 miles an hour. At that rate, it may not strike before tomorrow or the next day and hope was felt that it may veer in another direction. Jacksonville, Fla.. Aug. 10—(U.R) — ; The hurricane swept cities and vil- I lagbs of central Florida’s fruit belt I were threatened with new dangers of I flood today Throughout the entire area which | was swept Wednesday and Thursday I by a tropical hurricane rivers and j lakes were reported out of their | banks. Reports from Okeechobee City, 18 miles north of Uke Okeechobee, said that the streets were f iled with flood waters which threatened serious damage. Taylor’s creek, in the same region, was reported to have swollen from its normal width of 15 feet to a width in some places of one mile. Town Partly Under Water The bulk of the high water was being drained steadily today toward the Everglades to the south. Seminoles on the eastern fringe of the great swamp reported new high levels in water courses there. The town of St. Cloud on Lake .Tchopekaliga <in Osceola county was part under water. Lake Kissimmee was swollen. Roads from Fort Pierce on the east coast into the interior were impassable in some places. An unconfirmed report that four per ons had been killed west of Jupiter by the storm was the only report of loss of life. R. H. Hull, a citrus grower, brought the report to Pa m Beach. Fanners and merchants of the hurricane ravaged strip across the penusula have turned to take stock of losses. Damage to citrus groves believed the largest Item. Property damage, most severe on the east coast, may run into the millions. Communications are being re-estab-lished debris is being cleared aud railroads resuming normal service. The .eaboard airline reported 65 washouts i:n a 15 mile stretch between Ind anapolis and Sherman on the east coast. Battering seas elsewhere un<COVT|»< |,. (> <> NT EXCURSION TICKETS ON SALE Next W ednesday Is Date For Annual Excursion To Walbridge Park, Toledo Tickets for the annual Methodist Sunday school excursion to Walbridge ar ■ I'dedo, Ohio, which will be run 1 " le Nickel Plate railroad next 11 nesday, August 15, were placed on , at five local stores today. Tickmay be obtained at the J. and J Ktwery, John T. Myers and , ' C “ tking store. Graham and Waioffice, Enterprise Drug Store, or stnr eavei ' B and Fryback furniture It-n r Tl ’ e rouil<l ’ ,ri P tickets cost ! o ° r a,11,1t8 and 75 cents for chilyear S betWeen the agea of 5 and 12 at . S|leelal train will leave Decatur will stJw? Wednesda y morning and a ts ‘. rt hon ’e from Walbridge park <lard Ti’ <k that eve,,ing (Central Stanl,l’iffto| ln ' t>, | r ' le traiu wlll Btart ut Peterso , 'p, make Btops al Craigville Delnlmu m ea , Sant Willshire and All i -il’ additlon to Decatur. who arl’ dreU ~nder high sch °ol age (list Sum? !BniberS Ot the First Methotickets aCh ° ol wi » ,ep eive free they are nJ ‘ e Provided Sunday morn? Sun ‘ lay BChool ' l, ext tickets win h “ g ’, at w,llch ,imp the will be given out

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z Up In Years • g 'X C-;-’ -•- • • • <i.:' Mgfyt r M. .Tones (middle), 72-ycar old-aviator, is the oldest man in the world ; j t o have a pilot's license and fly a machine. He'eoently flew from the A'. I I iantic to the Pacif'c coast wit hanother pilot, making sizeable jumps every I I day. Mr. Jones is shown with two of his pilot friends. ■ ■ ' ' ' ... ■- . ■. - !■■■ ' ' - ■ • — I ■—j Consider Operation To Separate "Siamese Twins”

.New Y ork > A,| S- I®- - (U.R) —On a wide bed in West Park hospital today Mary and Margaret Gibb, 17-year-old “Sianress Twins” awaited the report of a scientific observation which may result in an operation to free them from each other. Dr. Franci s P. Weston, the surgeon who has undertaken this unusual case, declined to confirm reports from the twins’ hometown. Holyojce, Mass., that they were seeking to be ent apart j so that one of them. Margaret, might marry. “I do not care to oomment extensively," Dr. Weston said. “It is a delicate matter and does not concern the public. The girls are joined together and it may be possible to separate them. That is all can say.” Born In This Country Mary and Margaret are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gibb who brought them here where they could lie observed and studied by Dr. Weston. They are said to be the only "Siamese twins" alive who were born in this country. They are joined together at the base of the spine, which in itself gives an indication of • the hazards they would undergo should they be separated by a sur- | geon’s knife. Thus far science has failed in all I attempts to separate such twins. Attempted when one of the twins is about to die of pneumonia, or some Old Home Week Signs Being Destroyed By Boys A number of boys have been taking Old Home Week signs, destroying them or fastening them to bicycles. Some have gene so far as to take them out ot automobiles. This must stop and the police have been asked to assist in putting an end to it. The signs are expensive and should not be wasted. Every boy is asked to aid in seeing that the cards and signs are used in such manner as to secure the greatest amount of publicity. Placing six or eight of them on a bicycle prevents that many cars from having them. Every lad wants the week to be a success and it is hoped they will think about that. o DUPONT TO AID SMITH CAMPAIGN Chairman of Board of General Motors To Take Active Part In Campaign By LAWRENCE SULLIVAN International News Service Staff Correspondence New York, Aug. 10. —Granted indefinite leave of absence as chairman of the Board of the General Motors corporation, Pierre S. Dupont, one of America's wealthiest men, prepared today for an active part in the campaign to send Governor Alfrecf E. Smith to the White House. ■ AJthough the reason formally stated in his resignation was that he did (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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other disease, the operation always has resulted in the death of both individuals. The Gibb twins received wide publid’ty about a year ago when of them developed a severe cold thus endangering the life of her sister. At that time it was aid that Mary and Margaret had the same blood system, that their emotions were parallel and that when both were hungry, food for one would destroy the other's appetite. Save the union at the base of the spine, however, they have separate and normal organs. Pysicians regard an operation to ' separate them as extremely danger- j ous in view of the fact that they have | a common circulatory system. The Even’ng Graphic printed a | copyrighted story today in which it I said that Mary and Margaret had been receiving the attention of boy j friends in Holyoke and that Margaret had fallen in love with one of the | boys, who wanted to marry her in I event she could be separated from Mary. The Gaphic asks whether Mary would fall in love with Margaret's boy friend in case the operation proved fatal to Margaret alone. PICK LOCATION FOR G. E. EXHIBIT Big Display Os Electrical Goods Promised For Old Home Week Mr. E. A. Barnes and Mr. Wilding, of the Fort Wayne plant of the General Electric Company, and E. W. Lankenau, ot the Decatur plant, met yesterday with M. J. Mylott, of the city electric plant, and H. J. Yager, of the concession committee for Old Home Week, and selected the location for the General Electric tent, in which they will give a complete exposition of electrical goods during the big week. September 10 to 15. The tent will be 20 x 40 feet and will be located at the corner of Second and Madison street, just off Second to the west. Opposite it , to the south, will be the reviewing and band stand and no other privilege will be sold there. j The company will bring a complete line of all their goods and will show the various modern uses of electricity It is expected that many new users of that kind of power wl’. oe convinced as a result of the show. Further publicity will be given from time to time. The sign board on the Smith-Chris-ten lot, just north of the Enterprise drug store, has been taken down. The lot will be filled in aud a tent erected there for the Purdue exhibit. All plans are going forward now and everything will be in readiness for the occasion. o— Ohio Youth Is Killed Lafayette Ind., August 10—<U.R) — Sammy Diller, 22, Bluffton, Ohio, was killed instantly when the auto he was driving left a road east of here and crashed into a telephone pole. He had been employed here.

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Daily Democrat To Issue Special ‘‘Old Home Week” Edition The Daily Democrat will put forth its effort to print a "Old Home Week" special edition containing the messages of Welcome from the local stores and industries to the scares of people "who come back home." , The printing of this special edition will take much honest, hard work and cooperation. Our advertisment soliciter has prepared copy and will make an effort to call on I every business firm and industry it; I' the city at an eary date to obtain I their order for advertisment. The “Old Home Week” edition | will be published Monday, September 10, the opening day of the big i week, and with your cooperation I we assure you it will prove as a ‘ lasting souvenir and memorial to ! ' the many visitors that come to this : 1 city. The edition wil contain many j pictures and stories of interest. H ( WATCH, GUN ANU PANTS STOLEN ; I; Thief Takes Property Ot Otto Hoffman, Night Man At Creamery Sometime last night while Otto Hoffman was on duty at the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., in this city, a sneak thief enteied the building from a rear entrance and stole his trousers, ) which ne had changed for overalls, a . gold watch, a .25 calibre revolver and a thermos bottle. Mi. Hoffman is the night man at the Cloverleaf Creameries and when he started to work he took off his trousers and put on overalls, hanging the trousers in the dressingroom. City police were notified aud an investigation was mad“, but no clue was obtained. Suspects were checked up, but today Chief of Police Seph Melehi stated that no definite clue had been obtained. _o ROTARIANS HEAR PURDUE SPEAKER Z. M. Smith Discusses Vocational Training In Public Schools Z. M. Smith, of the vocational educational department of Purdue univerity, delivered a short talk before ; members of the Decatur Rotary club , last evening on agricultural training in the public schools. Mr. Smith explained that Indiana had a law permitting the employment of a teacher to teach agriculture in the high schools, the state government paying part of the expenses. He said the boy coming from the farm was entitled to such training, since farming, lie stated, was one of the basic business enterprises of the nation. He stated that several cities in Indiana were taking advantage of the law and employing teachers and giving the boys from the rural communin’es an opportunity to take those subjects which he intended to follow. Mr. Smith stated, in the course of his talk, that “a farm can be made a paying business if the farmer knows his business.” Mr. Smith attended a meeting in the north part of the county late in the evening, being accompanied by County Agent Ferd Christen and Mayor George Krick. Major William John Purdue, of the Salvation Army, also gave a talk following the lluncheon, making an appeal for this organization and telling of its home service. —-. .• o Auburn Man Arrested At Indianapolis Today Indianapolis, August 10 — (U.R) — Herman Suthards, 26. Auburn Indiana., was arrested here today, charged with vagrancy. Suthards had been arrested some weeks ago on minor charges but was released on bond signed by a professional bondsman. Suthards was arrested Thursday night on charges of drunkeness and operating a vehicle while under the Influence ot liquor. o Boy Dies Os Rabies Indianapolis, August 10—(U.R) —The fourth fatality from rabies in Indianapolis in two years is dead here today. He is Bernice Dawson, negro, 14. who was bitten several days ago by a stray dog. j

ONE-GENT BOOST I IN 1929 STATE TAX RATE SEEN Two-Cent Levy For Four State Schools Responsible For Increase CUT IN GENERAL FUND LEVY PLANNED Ind’anapolis. Ind . Aug. 10. — (INS) — | The two-vent state tax increase pro- 1 vlded for by the 127 Indiana general assembly, to raise an additional sl.000,000 fund annually for the next ten years for the four state schools, will lie included in the 1928 levy made next month State Auditor L. S. Bowman announced today. This will raise the present state tax rate from 2 to 25 cents on each valuation. However, Bowman, said, the general fund levy would be reduced one per cent, if possible, which would make the state tax rate 24 cents. First Installment Is $500,000 The first installment of the million dollar fund for the state schools will | amount to $500,000 and will be avail-1 I able on June 30. 1929. Bowman said. | Under the provisions of the new act, the million dollar fund will be divided as follows: Indiana and Purdue will each receive sewn twentieth of the total. Terre Haute and Muncie State Normal will each receive three-twentieths. The money will be distributed among i tlie schools twice yearly each June ' and each January. '— 0 — Earl Klinck Appeals Case To Supreme Court Indianapolis, August 10 —4U.R) —Earl Klinck, former aid to D. ('. Stephen-; son. today had on file with the Indiana supreme court, an appeal from the Marlon county criminal court Klinck was convicted of being an accessory before the tact attesting to a false affidavit. He was sentenced to one to three years in the Indiana state prison. o Motor Boat Operator Fined For Speeding — Angola. Ind., August 10—-(U.R) — Harold McKnight paid a fine of $lO in a Justice of the Peace court here as a result of a campaign by state of- | ficials to stop reckless operation of motor boats on Indiana lakes. MeKnight was operating a boat thirty-five miles an hour on Hamilton Lake, according to J. E. Reagin, state inspector who arrested him. o GOV. SMITH AT BRENNAN RITES Presidential Nominee Says Go o d bye To An Old Friend; Deeply Affected

By Copeland C. Burg (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.) Chicago. August 10 —(INS)— In a treeshaded church within sight of the green waters of Lake Michigan. Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, said goodbye today to an old friend. His head bowed and his eyes filled with tears, the Democratic nominee for President, attended funeral services for George E. Brennan, veteran Illinois Democratic leader, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church. With the widow, and her daughter, Mary, the executive knelt at solemn requiem high mass besides his political ally's bier, shrouded in a blanket of loses and lilies. It was the second funeral the Democratic candidate had attended far from the executive mansion at Albany since his nomination at Houston less than two months ago. The first was that of the 19-year-old son of John J. Raskob. Chairman of the Democratic national committee, who was killed in an automobile accident in Maryland. The governor, who arrived in Chicago at 10:30 o'clock this morning from New York, went directly from the station to the modest Brennan home, where he attended private services for the Illinois Democratic chief. From the home he was whisked under heavy guard to the church, a few blocks away. He planned to return immediately to the east, leaving Chicago at 1:40 o’clock this afternoon. The nominee from the moment of his arrival made it plain he came on a mission of sorrow and with a frown and shaking of his bowed head, time and again signaled to cheering crowds for silence.

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Farmers’ Advocate * iwE ■■ w m 1 I \ I \: ■ -Mi 1 - < ‘■’e ss. I ‘ S " -V ( ; ... y I I George N. Peek, advocate of the ( McCray-Haugen bill as he appeared recently at a conference with Governor Alfred E. Smith in New York < city. He is chairman of the commit- i tee of 22 of the North Central Argi- > cultural conference. — — — i GUV.JACKSON TO VISIT OECATUR: I ■ Congressman A. H. V estal Also Accepts Invitation To Old Home Week <1 Governor Ed Jackson and Albert t H. Vestal. U. S. congressman from the • eighth district, have signified their intention of attending the Old Home j ’ Week celebration, to be held here ; I September 10-15, inclusive. Both in- 11 “ tend to be here on Tuesday, Seiptem- : ber 11. which will be observed as ’ "Limberloet Day.” Their wives will accompany them here. 1 Letters received from Gov. Jackson and Mr. Vestal in response to the , invitations sent them are as follows . Secy Old’ Heme Week. . Decatur. Indiana. j , Dear Mr. Quinn: i | Upon the Governor's return from i h'.s vacation I have brought to his at- , tent ion your July 20th. in ( which you extend to him an invita- i, I don to attend the Limberlost Day ■, . on Tuesday, September 11th. ( , He has directed me to place this ( engagement on his calendar and to j • essure you that both he and Mrs. ( Jackson will make every effort to be , j present on this occasion. Assuring you of his very best wishI am. < Yours truly.

P. H. WOLFARD. Secretary to the Governor Secy, Ohl Home Week in Decatur, Decatur. Indiana. My Dear Mr. Quinn T have your letter of August 3rd in which you. as Secretary of Old Home Week in Decatur, invite Mrs. Vestal and me to attend the celebration of I Umberlost Day September 11th. I de-| sine to thank you for this invitation and if at a'l possible we shall be glad to, attend this celebration. Gene Stratton-Porter, in my judg-; ment, was one of the most popular authors in Indiana. I* have in my li braray all <ff the hooks she ever wrote. 1 had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with her and visitproud to do anything I can to help ed in her home and I shall always be honor her name and her literary work. Sincerely yours. . A. H. VESTAL. SEVENTH UNION SERVICE SUNDAY Rev. Miller Is Speaker For Service To Be Held At Reformed Church The seventh union church worship service of the Protestant church, next Sunday night, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, with .the Rev. O. E. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church, delivering the message. These union services promote a community and cooperative spirit among the congregations. The members are invited and urged to attend. Special music will add to the inspiration of the services Sunday night and those who attend will profit accordingly.

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PROBABLE FATAL SHOOTING OF BOY HELD ACCIDENTAL Federal Dry Agents Raid Farm Near Hardinsburg, Ind., Getting Still WOUNDED YOUTH EXPECTED TO DIE New Albany, Aug. 10.—HNS)— The shooting of 16-year-old Clarence Smith, who is. near death in a local hospital, during a dry raid today., was an accidenC George Winkler, deputy prohibition administrator for Indiana, announced this afternoon, following an investigation of the accident. New Albany, Ind., Aug. 10.—(INS)— Clarence Smith, 16-year-old Kentuckian, was shot and probably fatally wounded and five other Kentuckians, two of them minors, were arrested by five federal dry agents,who raided the. farm of Mrs. Frances Lowtnan, 53, near Hardinsburg, Indiana. 26 miles northwest from here, today. The officers found a 150-gallon still, 13 barrels of mash and half a gallon of moonshine liquor, according to their report. Taken To Hospital The Smith youth received a load from a shotgun in his left arm, between the shoulder and elbow. The dry raiders rushed him to St. Edwards hospital here where it was found necessary to amputate the arm. Because of the shock and the great loss of life physicians feared the boy would die. The dry agents who made the raid at the requests ot’ a number of neighI bars and Mrs. Lowman, were warned that the winkled, pipe’ smoking old Kentucky woman had openly boasted that “the first federal agent that sets a foot on my farm will be killed.” The federal men's version of the shooting was not yet available here as the leader of the raid. Agent W. O. Holman, had not yet reached this city from the Lowman farm. Turner Devine, 16, one of the five prisoners, said he was in the same room with young Smith when the officers entered and told them to come out. Before young Smith could make a move according to Devine, a shot rang out and the Smith youth fell wounded. It was presumed here that the raiders, who had been warned that the Kentuckians were a desperate gang, believed the Smith boy made a move for a gun. The five arrested besides the wounded youth, were: Mrs. Frances of Louisville, Ky. James Smith. ’SO, formerly from j somewhere in Kentucky. Miss Eula Smith. 15, Smith’s daugh(Covtivi r n on p*«F. two; o WILL ATTEND SUPREME LODGE Dore B. Erwin, Os Decatur, To Attend K. Os P. Gathing In Milwaukee Mr. and Mis. Dore B. Erwin, of this city, will leave Saturday morning for a motor trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Mr. Erwin will attend the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, as Supreme representative from the state of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin will be accompanied by their daughter. Miss Betty Erwin, of this city, and Mrs. Ace McMillan, of Pleasant Mills, both of whom will visit relatives in Waupon, Wisconsin. The party will be gone from Decatur about two weeks. Mr. Erwin has received word that he has been appointed a member of the judiciary committee of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias. This is the mpst important committee in the lodge. Mr. Erwin is a past grand chancellor commander of the lodge in Indiana. , o Sixteen Decatur Men Attend Laymen’s Retreat Sixteen Decatur men are attending the annual Laymen's retreat at Notre Dame South Bend, this week. The retreat opened last night and will close l Sunday morning. About two thousand • men from all parts of the country at- ’ tend the retreat. The Decatur men 1 have been attending the special religious services for the past few years.

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