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PROHIBITION is ESTABLISHED as j MAIOR ISSUE tjSSSSOtf Test For Prohibition \I\XY comment ON U’CEPTAN(’K SPEECH ighte ,l ]f)2S by International News service StHifonl rniversitv. Calif-, j n (INS' Herbert Hoover. SAim-lE.Snulh.wel! For the first lime since its .„ lt .phon eight vears ago. prohibition today became a major issue in :l presidential election with Herbert Hoover, the ReSan nomine*'. definitely committed to the outlawry of intoxicating llqtiors. Tlie issue will be joined ten days hence when Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee, dedares himself for liberalization of .die Volstead act. Pledged To Enforcement Hoover today stood on record as opposed to repeal of the eighteenth amendment, as pledged to efficient enforcement of the Volstead act. as opposed to nullification of the eighteenth amendment through liberaliz- I ilion of the Volstead act and as pledged to the correction of all aTtuses of the prohibition statutes. In drafting this stand on prohibition for his acceptance speech. International News Service learned on the I highest authority. Hoover believed he | was ‘burning all his bridges behind I him” so far as prohibition is concern- | ed. The Republican nominee believed he had definitely committed himlelf to the dry side of the prohibition question. That at least, was his purpose, according to unimpeachable authority. The nominee, however, did not and doesnot desire to battle out the campaign on the prohibition issue. He |<>ks upon prohibition as a “great moral experiment." as he was publicly stated, and feels it should be decided on a non-partisan -basis and not as a part of any political campaign. The Republican nominee does not look upon the Volstead act as “perfect." He feels there should be an impartial investigation of prohibition. its problems and abuses, methrods of enforcement and means of correcting abuses. When the “facts” are learned, he is ready to have a : »ew enforcement act placed on the ■ gtatute books which will carry out. the purpose of the eighteenth amendMt—namely, the prohibition of the sic. manufacture or transportation of intoxicating liquors. .iso vers position can he sutntnarl»d in these words: "If the Vols,fa“ act is not warxable, we should lave an investigation to learn how ,e can make it a success.” Hoover, in his speech Saturday, beleved he cleared up all misunderdandmg about his position on prohiitton. He was said to feel there is further discussion of the iro>rnMv El) QM ffIMA W. MAHAN EXPIRESSUNDdY Monmouth Woman Dies At Hospital, Following Stroke Os Paralysis a t Mr ,\- Rho< ! a Watts Mahan, 59, died n 7 n,in "’ Memnrt.i u '' at he Adams County been a , J?° Spltal ’ where she has Paralv,if al a nt followillg a stroke of i tee!,’ ' w, uch she experienced, last Mr 'and M M han WSS the daughter of bom “1 S’ Q m ’ Watts and was 7 Slw was united , SeptPmber n * 1868. Mahan 111 marria K e with Ace , ih '° precede d her in death Ohio t ;*T a *°‘ at Van Wert. years i an ' for the ,aßt - elevwhere slie las . res * < 'ed at Monmouth, | *he followed the seamstress hail, of m™. arC tWo sons * Fr ed Maot Wavre° Ut A and James Mahanlie Wilder „ One sißter ' Mrs. WinThere a ° r t Wayne ’ also Bur - Fu neral WPV le IVe gla ndchildren. “’clock Tuesdn C6S Will he held at 1 den « in S af l ernoon at ,hp resi. ,er ' p i on” U e th W ,he RPV “burcli offic'at- Hoagland Concord Me >»the£ g ; fillrlal will be ne Decatur cemetery.

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Don’t get ’em mixed up with cigar coupons! Remember, those new ’ dollar bills are somewhat smaller than the kind you have now. Here’s Director Atvi’n W. Hall ol the Bureau of Printing- and Engraving at Washington, D. C., holding the first sheet of bills off the press, and congratulating Benjamin F. Harris, veteran printer, who bad the honor of running off the “first edition."

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ROAD FUND TAX LEVIES COMPUTED Proposed Levies Are Higher In Every Township Except Washington The proposed tax levies for the gravel road bond fund, payable in 1929, are higher in every township, except Washington township. as shown from the tax table prepared by County Auditor Martin Jaberg. In Washington township, the proposed rate is 40 cents on the hundred dollars, as compared with 43 cents this year. The decrease is due to the fact that no new roads were constructed in Washington township this year, the three hard surfaced roads being included in the tax levy last year. The-proposed rates for 1928. payable in 1929, together with the 1927 rates, payable, this year, follow: Unit 1927 levy 1928 levy Union 62 .68 Root 46 .48 Preble .53 .56 Kirkland 48 .56 Washington 43 .40 St. Marys .47 .50 Blue Creek 60 .72 Monroe .55 .60 French 51 .63 Hartford .. .51 .63 Wabash .53 .60 Jefferson 60 .70 The twelve townships will pay a total of $148,914.60 on road bonds and $28,917.74 in interest on the bonds. The increased rates are due to the loss in valuations in all the townships. the valuations showing a loss of about $3,000,000 in the entire county as compared with the total for a year ago. Geneva Man Fined On Charge Os Intoxication John Schell, of Geneva, who was convicted in Justice of the Peace court at Geneva last week, and bound over to the circuit court on a charge of violating the prohibition law, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of public intoxication when arraigned in court before Henry Dickerson, justice of the peace at Geneva, Saturday after, noon, and was fined $lO and coeti, amounting to $45. The fine and costs were paid by Schell's father-in-law. who resides in Fort Wayne. The. affidavit was filed against Schell by Mrs. Henry Morningstar, of Geneva. It is said that an agreement was reached whereby the charge of violating the prohibition law will be dismissed, and Schell will go to Fort Wayne and not return to Geneva. n Boy Dies of Poisoning Columbia City, Ind., August 13—(INS) —As the result of eating some meat Robert Markers. 4- was dead today and his younger brother Gordon 3. was seriously ill of ptomaine poisoning. The boys’ parents are Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Marker living north of Big Lake.

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Spencer, Ind.. August 15 —(INS) —For- J tified with Faith in God. loyal friends i and a gun which he said he knew how i i to use if necessary, Rev. Frank Dewey | McFadden, 29-year-old minister of the First Baptist church here today defied the anonymosu wiiter of a letter wrltI ten Friday, July 13, who ordered him ' to leave Spencer by nightfall August ! 13th.. The letter stated in part: "We are giving you exactly one month to move. August 13th will be your unlucky day if the sun sets on 1 you in Spencer. . . .” With a gtiin smile the Rev Mr. McFadden made his attitude plain today. "This is supposed to be the fatal day when I am to sing my farewell song. . 1 am going to sing a different sort of I song. Neither man nor Devil can make ; me lay down my bible and leave my , pastorate here. The minister said that all last night . two armed guards furnished by his . congregation guarded the parsonage. He stated, however, that no guards will be on duty during the day A big praise service will be held , at the church at 7:30 o’clock tonight—at the zero hour when the minister is supposed to be gone from Spencer. "A large number of ministers and laymen, friends of mine, from all over Indiana and from Kentucky are coming to hold a service at the church here tonight," Rev. Mr. McFadden [ said. “I will preach a praise sermon.” o JOHN J. AMSTUTZ CALLED BY DEATH I Prominent Adams County Farmer Dies At Home In Wabash Township i Berne. Ind., August 13 —(Special)— ' John J. Amstutz, 64, prominent farmer | of Wabash township. Adams county, I died at his home one and one-half miles southeast of here, at 1:15 o’clock Sat- > urday afternoon. August 11, 1928, from a lingering illness caused by a nervous ’ I breakdown. f The deceased was born March 27, i 1864 in Adams county. His widow, for- : merly Mary Rose Nussbaum, survives, t together with the following children; f Rev. Menno Amstutz, of Archbold. O. , Rev. Tillman Amstutz, a missionary to India who is home on a furlough; • Miss Elda Amstutz a missionary nowin India; Omen Amstutz, of Berne, and ’ Miss Martha Amstutz at home. One daughter, Lila died in infancy, two brothers and two sisters survive as folj lows: Peter L. Amstutz, of Berne; Jep- . hat Amstutz, of Zion City, Illinois; Mrs. Lena Hirschy, of Berne, Peter ’ Boegley, of Fort Wayne. One brother and two sisters, who preceded him in death, were Jacob Amstutz. Mrs. Sam Zuercher and Mrs. Ernst Ehrsam. ) Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the family I residence, and at 8:30 o’clock at the ( Missionary church in Berne. Burial in the M. R. E. Cemetery. The Rev. William Egle and the Rev. S. J. Grabill will officiate at the obsequies.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 13, 1928.

Decatur Youth, Clerk In Hotel, Gives Up Room To i “Tourist”; Its Henry Ford

Wayne Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Phillips, of this city, anti a former clerk at the Rice hotel here, may be in line for some recognition from Henry Ford, the world’.-, richest man and otherwise known as an automobile manufacturer, according to a story printed in the Detroit Tinies on August 10. Young Phillips demonstrated that he was a real host and that.

no matter how he was inconvenienced. he was willing to serve his guests. Hut that’s getting away from tlte story, which follows: "Coldwater, Mich., August 9. — Wayne Phillips, day clerk in a local hotel, discovered today that the "tourist." for whose comfort he consented to sleep in a lobby chair, was Henry Ford. "Ford arrived here last night. No- : j body knew who he was and he didn't : tell. The hotel was full. “ Sorry, ‘ said Phillips. Then ‘wait a minute, you take my room, mister, and I can sleep in the big chair over there, it’ll be all right.’ Strolling about town Ford found seveial genuine antiques. He stopI ped to chat with the owners. "As Mr. Ford was about to leave, one of his engineering staff, who accompanied him, let the cat out of. the I bag. Phillips, the day clerk, found he had played the Good Samaritan to the world’s richest man.” Os course, Wayne was surprised when he learned that he gave up his room to Henry Ford. It was enough of a happening in his life to write i home about. In his letter he stated | that. Mr. Ford (then believed to be | | just an ordinary tourist), came down, I stairs the next morning and said, "I 1 see yon have a picture of Gov. Al Smith in your room. Are you for, him,” asked the auto king. "YouTe doggone right I’m for him," replied | the genial hotel clerk. Then Phillips reminded his guest "You failed to register last night" and Ford replied “O that’s right. I’m Henry Ford, of Detroit" and, no doubt, with that introduction young Phillips was about ■ ready to say. “So’s your old man,” but evidently didn’t and his guest then registered as Henry Ford VALUATIONS IN COUNTY LOWER Total Assessed Valuation Is $2,991,560 Less Than One Year Ago Adams county's net assessed valuation this year shows a loss of $2,991.560, the total being $32,911,210 as compared with $35,902,770 last year. The loss in valuations is accounted for in the assessments on real estate, farm lands and improvements. The assessment on personal property and the state's assessment of banks, railroads and utilities is higher than a year ago. but the loss on farm lands, real estate and improvements more than wipes out this gain and reduces the valuation nearly $3,000,000. The valuation on all real estate in i the county totals. $14,964,670. The valuation for improvements on real estate totals $6,900,480. The personal property is valued at $7,066,560. The state's assessments total $5,423,740. The mortgage exemptions total sl,444,240, leaving a net assessed valuiCONTINt’Kn ON PAftR TWO; O Decatur Boy Taken 11l At Boy Scout Camp Tommy Burk, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sim Burk of this city, was taken quite ill Saturday night, at Camp Kekionga, where he has been enjoying an outing with the Boy Scouts at the Boy Scout camp. On Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Burk and daughter Barbara, Miss Betty Frisinger, Mr. and Mrs. Avon Burk, daughter Eileen, and their guesls, Mary Jane and Junior Merryman. were enroute to Camp Kekionga taking with them a picnic dinner to enjoy, on the way, when the message came back to Decatur announcing Tommy's illness. Upon arriving at the camp, they were surprised to find him so ill and under a doctor’s care w r ho had pronounced his ailment appendicitis and objected to his being brought back to Decatur. He was made comfortable, however, with pillows in the back seat of the Burk car, and returned to his home here. Today, he seems somewhat improved and the attending physician believes the attack to have been inflammation of the bow-els or sort of an influenza. If the youthful Scout continues to improve, he will possibly be about in a few days.

MARY MICHAELS 82, OF GENEVA, KILLED BY TRAIN — Aged Woman Meets Death While Walking On Track Saturday Afternoon EYESIGHT AND HEARING DEFECTIVE Geneva. Aug. 13.—(Special) ' —Mrs. Mary Michaels. 82, of i Geneva was killed instantly Saturday afternoon, when she : was struck by a southbound Pennsylvania passenger train, while she was walking north on the railroad tracks, about a mile north of here. Mrs. Michaels was dead when picked up by I i members of the train crew. Her chest and arms were crushed i and there was a deep cut on her head. i Mrs. Michaels, who resided here j with a grandson and his wife, had ; started to walk to Ceylon to purchase l\ome groceries, being in the habit of trading there. She met two granddaughters at the Bradford crossing , and stopped to talk with them for a few minutes. After talking for a I few minutes, Mrs. Michaels started on toward Ceylon, walking down the track and. several minutes later, she was killed by the train. Eyesight And Hearing Poor Mrs. Michaels was nearly deaf and her eyesight was reported to be poor. She was wearing a bonnet and it is thought that she failed to see or hear the train, which was approaching her from the front. The engineer of the locomotive failed to see the aged woman in time to stop his train before hitting her. Mrs. Michaels, who was known to most people of this community as "Grandma Nevil,” was born in Jefferson township, Adams county, in 1846. Her husband. William Michaels, I died severatl years ago. Surviving are one son, John Nevil, residing east of Geneva, and several grandchildren, all living in or near Geneva. Funeral services were to be held at two o’clock this afternoon at the Ceylon church, with burial in the Bunker Hill cemetery. o YOUTH INJURED IN AUTO WRECK John Kleinhans, Os Fort Wayne, Hurt Near Geneva; Car Burns Up Geneva, Aug. 13. — (Special) — John Kleinhans, 18, of Fort Wayne, was injured Saturday afternoon when the automobile he was driving crashed into a bridge a mile and a half east of Geneva. Kleinhans was - cut about his face and suffered burns i on his right leg when the wrecked car caught fire. The injured youth was taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital, at Decatur, where it was reported his condition was not serious. The automobile, which was a second hand car which he was driving through for a Fort Wayne firm, was destroyed by fire. Black mer’s Attorneys Deny He Is In Hiding Paris, August 13 —(U.R) —Henry M. Blackmer, American oil man sough.* by the United States Government is not in* hiding and will face the extradition proceedings pending against him assured of justice, his counsel said today. Blackmer's lawyer denied a story printed in the newspaper La Presse to the effect that Blackmer was in concealment. He said also he knew nothing of a purported attempt to kidnap Blackmer, described in the Sunday edition cf La Presse.

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Noted Actor Dioa » _ & ’I |||lß jjM ?BhhBIP Rex Cherryman. one of the hand--1 somest of the younger stars of the : stage, will be buried at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., after the body iis returned from Havre, France, where he fell a victim to septic I poisoning. MANY PLAN TO JOIN EXCURSION — Advance Ticket Sale Shows 1 Large Crowd Is Going To Toledo Wednesday The advance sale of tickets indi- I cates that there will be a crowd of more than 1.206 persons take part in the annual M E. Sunday school excursion to Walbridge park, Toledo. ().. i next Wednesday. Indications are that mere than 200 persons will board the I train at Delphos, O. and a like num- j bei at Bluffton, Ind. Much interest ' iias been manifest among the resi- j dents of Craigville. Peterson, Pleasant Mills and Willshire, O , and communities, also. The train will start : at Bluffton. It is planned to have all of the persons who go on the excursion to take a basket dinner, if they so desire, and to put all of the food together on a large table at the park and all eat together. The train will leave Decatur at 6 o’clock Wednesday morning. The round trip fare is $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children under 12 years of age. Following is a story concerning the excursion which appeared in a Toledo i n-.-.vs] aper Sunday - “A return of the ‘good old days.’ I lliben wesea t ; will be seen at Toledo's zoological I park. Walbridge park, Wednesday j when an old fashioned excursion train I pulls in back of the zoo at 9 a m. “This train of 21 coaches carrying I approximately 2,000 men, women and children from Decatur, Ind., and way points, is believed by Clare B. Tefft, transportation commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce. New York Central, Cloverleaf and other railroad | officials to be the last survivor of the i j once popular excursion train. “This excursion has been run ani nually for several years under the direction of the First M. E. Church of Decatur.” Gov. Smith Confers With Farm Leaders Albany. New York. August 13—(INS) —ln an effort to win the support of the farmers of the middlewest, Gov. Al Smith was conferring at the Executive Mansion today with ten farm leaders, including George M. Peek, of Moline, 111., chairman of the cxirn belt ■ committee of farm organizations. o y i Alleged Murderer Surrenders Indianapolis. August 13—(U.R) —Philip Smith, wanted in connection with the slaying of Terrence King, alleged ' rum runner, surrendered to Police to- ■ day. King was killed during a' quarrel in the Green Mill gardens here, police i said. Smith surrendered to Attorney ■ James E. Derry today, and the attorney called police.

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DUNKIRK MAN IS STABBED TO DEATH SUNDAY Alleged Slayer Surrenders To Gas City Police; Pleas Self Defense AUTO ACCIDENTS TAKE BIG TOLL Indinnnpolis. Ind., Aug. l.‘U (IMS) Al least 12 persons met violent deaths and many were | injured in Indiana over the week-end. a survey of the state showed lodar. The casual tv list 10l lows: Muncie—Jay Creek, 44, of Dunkirk, formerly of Hartford City, stabbed to death with an ice pi7k during a quarrel early Sunday. Columbia City—Harry Bax, 24. of Fort Wayne, killed in an auto collision. Robert Marker, 4. dead of ptomaine poisoning. Decatur—Richard High. 11, fatally I hurt when thrown from a pony near I Decatur. Hammond —Walter Bubacz, 42, and i Tony Groevick, 48, killed by autos in two accidents in Calumet City region. Mrs. Mary Monroe, 58. killed by traction car. South Bend—Robert Emerick, 11, killed by a hit and run driver. Shelbyville—Sam E. Davis, 15, of Indianapolis, drowned in Flat Rock creek. Bloomington—Malcolm Danner. 25, ■ fatally hurt in explosion of dynamite lat the Monroe Crushed Stone com- ! pany plant. Indianapolis—Arthur Barnard, 54, I committed suicide by drinking poison. Geneva —Mrs. Mary Michaels, 82, I killed when hit by train, while walk- | iug on track. Alleged Slayer Surrenders Marion, Ind.. Aug. 13—(INS)— Harry i (Red) Garvin, alleged slayer of Jay I Creek, 44. of Dunkirk, former HartI ford City resident, following a quar- | rel near a Muncie roadhouse early Sunday, gave himself up to the Gas City police today. li> a statement to Frank Kiser, of I tlie Gas City police department, GarI vin said that Creek had made threats ! against him and that Creek struck ' the first blow, Garvin was taken back to Muncie. | He is married and lived at Gas City about eight years ago, but lately had been living at Muncie. Muncie, Ind.. August 13 —Jay Creek, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Interurban Hits Auto Near Kingsland, Today Mrs. Cora Thrasher, of Fort Wayne escaped with minor injuries when a southbound interurban ear struck her automobile . a Chevrolet sedan, at a crossing near Kingland, this morning. The car was badly damaged hut Mrs. Thrasher was only slightly bruised. ONE INJURED AT GRADE CROSSING Robert Chronister Suffers Minor Injuries When Train Demolishes Car Robert Chronister, young farmer residing four miles southwest of Decatur, escaped witli only minor injuries Sunday afternoon when a southbound Pennsylvania freight train struck and demolished his automobile at the Winchester street crossing, just south of the city. Chronister was taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital, where it was found that he had sustained two cracked ribs on his right side and two cuts on his face. Mr. Chronister was driving toward Decatur gnd was alone in his Buick touring car. He says that he failed to see or hear the train approaching the crossing. The locomotive struck the automobile squarely and carried it down the track about 500 feet, before the train was brought to a stop. i The wreckage was still on the track I and Chronister was pulled out of the - debris. Mr. Chronister's wife, a bride of a i few months, was fatally injured when ■ a Pennsylvania train struck the Frank Baker automobile in which she - was riding, at the Adams street crossing in this city, in January, 1925.

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