Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1928 — Page 1

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latest ESTIMATE Jf DEATH TOLL IN ELBBIDAIS 2.200 \bout 1,700 of Dead Reported To Be Negroes; Many Persons Missing bodies ARE BEING BURNED OR BURIED West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 2|__O— A death estimate of 2200, of whom 1,700 are negroes, was reported early today to Howard Selby. West Palm Beach Red Cross chairman, by p P. Geiger, who had been sent into the Lake Okeechobee district to make a survey of the hurricane toll. Intelligence Headquarters at Red Cross central station here placed the death list at 2.000. This included 800 brought to West Palm Reach for burial, 500 disposed of io the Okeechobee flood area and 700 estimated still to be missing. May Total 2,500 Dr. E. B. Clawson, city health officer estimated the dead recovered so far at between 1,300 and 1.400 and a possibility that the undiscovered bodies will bring the total to 2,200 or 2.5 M. • By Gordon K. Shearer (U. I’. Staff Correspondent) West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 24 — (U.R>- Relief workers in the hurricane stricken area of Florida centered their efforts today at Pelican Bay, on Lake Okeechobee, where it is feared all the tfO residents of that small fishing and farming community had been drowned. Two hundred bodies were found Saturday and Sunday scattered along the pai daily‘inundated road leading into the village. It is feared that all the other residents met a like fate. 200 More Bodies Found With finding of the 200 bodies, which were creamated immediately because of their condition, National Red Cross Relief diiector A. L. Shafer raised the known death toll to 1.200 a figure he admitted was bound to go higher. • Pale yellow smoke rose from the lake shore towns of Belle Glade, Pahokee and Canal Point Sunday as bodies were burned as a sanitary measure. This method of disposal of the dead has become imperative as a safeguard tor the protection of the living. Sanitary conditions have improved in refugee camps where 15,000 homeless are being cared for. Only a few scattered outbreaks of influeifita and typhoid fever have been reported. Loss of property, exclusive of personal property, was estimated by a committee of 72 members at 120,300,000 in Palm Beach county. Union services were held in the le *' undamaged church structures yesterday, while prayer meetings and nnday school classes met in private homes. The Conners highway into the Paho,e*‘. district w aß opened over the weekn ami several hundred storm survi'°ls ’ still in that area were being evacuated byway of Okeechobee City, ansito remove danger of flood loss'fHture 011 Lake Okeechobee > '" fUßse,i at » Sunday confertin Pr* governor John W. Marner nr H, '! liOtt ’ Pl,ief drainage enginthe he . b ' a,e an<l representatives of ulned towns along the lake. .water? 8 Bllggeßte< * tllal hereafter less p retained in the shallow lake. five indicted AT INDIANAPOLIS E fr ard Traugott, Clothing Stor . e Proprietor, Charged VV ith Conspiracy S~24.- (U .R)- E d. was anil > ,’ y an ex P |OH, on August with beinc° iS " nder al ’rest charged inter-state ?, member of an alleged '"dieted i,v ' tomo,,lle the ft ring, was jury toda? the Ma, ‘ on county grand a* conspiracy ’ e ‘°" y ’ accordin « to the indicteating liquor" i t n ransportatiQn of intoxiP Mer?ck • P ir a vi rco ? r Vehic,e ’ diananolh P'ckles O’Roark, In'Vright ' ex P° lic eman. and Homer leader an<| e f ed St ‘ Lou!s ring T X h6rßl -

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Inherits $3,750,000 Jr* tOL Lady Byng, wife of hero of Vimy Ridge, who was bequeathed fortune of {3,750,000 in the will of Panderi Ralli, wealthy Greek merchant anil a relative of hers. The deceased was romantic figure in British society, haing been a friend of Edward VII and Lord Kitchener. MRS.MCPHERSON VISITS GAY PARIS California Evangelist Makes “Sin Tour” Os Gayest Streets In World • _ (Copyright 1928 by United Press) Paris, Sept. 24 <l>.R) Aimee Semple McPherson has deserted Paris for the more placid city of Geneva, but the Montmarte was still stunned today after her whirlwind “sin tour” of the gayest streets in the world. Up the hill that is the Montmartre went tlie California evangelist, shuddeting as she traveled a trail thick with champagne corks, scantily-clad girls and laughter. In some ways it was similar to the 2sin tour” that Mis McPherson made in New York, except that she found Paris far more wicked than the American metropolis and was “happy to be an American.” Accompanied by a United Press correspondent. she entered the “Dead Rat” cabaret where waiters rushed up with tubs of champaigne. only to halt with a perplexed expression on their faces as she waved for them to take the wine away. Gigolos, the dancing men of Paris, bowed low and asked her to foxtrot with them, but Mrs. McPherson begged the men to forsake their riotous living and embrace the greater pleasure of religion. They turned away. 0 Blackbirds Forecast Approach Os Winter Wabash, Ind.. Sept 24-(U.K)— Proof that winter is hovering over this region is given i>y motorists pansing over highway No. 18 north of here, who say they have seen thousands upon thousands of blackbirds flying above them, apparently headed for the South land for the winter. Scores of wild ducks also have been seen preparing tor their pilgrimage during the past few days according to reports. c Nine Young Ministers Ordained At Seymour Seymour, Ind., Sept. 24 —(U.R) —Niue young ministers were ordained at a session Sunday of the ninety-seventh annual meeting of the Indiana conference Methodist Episcopal church here. Those ordained were Eugene Clegg, Jeffersonville, Edwin A. Gillum, St. Paul; Arthur L. Howard. Patriot; Adriel E. Morris, Newburg; Hilbert J. Propheter, New Salisbury; John F. Redmon, Rising Sun; Voilie M Sliddarth, Austin, William F. Walters, Evansville. and Shields White, Boston, Mass. Bishop Edgar Blake of the Indianapolis Area conducted the ordination services. o Legion Post To Hold Meeting This Evening Adams Post No. 43, of the American Legion, will meet in the Legion Hall at 7:30 o'clock this evening. All members are urged to be present.

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SEVENTY KILLED IN THEATRE FIRE IN MADRID, SPAIN Panic Breaks Out Among 1,000 Persons In Theatre When First Starts SPANISH CAPITAL SHOCKED BY TRAGEDY Madrid, Spain, Sept. 24.—(U.R) —The fire in the Novedaves theatre finally was extinguished at 8 o’clock tonight, nearly 24 hours after it started. Seventy persons lost their lives in the panic which started among 1,000 persons in the theatre when the tire broke out back stage. About 230 others were injured, some of whom may die. The Spanish capital was shocked by the disaster, which resulted when a lantern, used in the last act of a comedy, set fire to a curtain. The fire rapidly spread through the ancient building. Spectators on the upper floors had little chance to escape, and the main stairway collapsed under the rush of fear-madd-ened people. Bodies still were being recovered from the ruins today. The casualty list included 57 dead and 242 injured. Many of the injured were expected to die. Among the bodies recovered were those of 26 men, 22 women and nine children. All night a crowd besieged the vicinity of the theater, weeping and pleading with police for information concerning the dead and injured. About 1,000 persons were inside the theater when the fire broke out in sight of all. A scream of terror Went up as the audience saw the flames creeping up around the heavy velvet hangings on the stage whore the last act of a comedy was in progress. The spectators rioted and at least 200 were Injured in the scramble for the exits. The greatest rush was from the crowded balcony, and as the panic stricken audience dashed for the doors the stairs collapsed, hurling many persons down on those on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o ADMITS PART IN INDIANA MURDER Chicago Man Admits Part In Slaying Os Lafayette Police Captain Chicago, Sept. 24. —(U.R) —Authorities announced today that Charles Stanley, of the Rosette hotel, a police character, had admitted implication in the slaying of Captain Charles Armand, of the Lafayette, Ind., police department. Stanley was one of the 300 persons seized in a series of vice and gambling raids last night on orders of commissioner of police Russell. Police said that Stanley admitted that lie was one of the gang that shot Armand to death when he interfered with them while they were robbing a Lafayette bank. Stanley also was said to have admitted participation in the murder of Maurice Younglove, a soft drink parlor watchman here. Eddie Meadows, arrested at Hammond, Jnd„ several months ag oand brought to Decatur to face a charge of robbing the bank at Linn Grove, is being held at Lafayette, Ind., on a charge4>f first degree murder in connection with Captain Armand’s death. Meadows, who pleaded not guilty to the Linn Grove robbery, was released by Sheriff Hollingsworth here to the Lafayette authorities. D. H. S. Juniors Elect Russel Jaberg President At a meeting of the Junior class ot' the Decatur high school, Miss Verneal Whalen, teacher of English and History, was chosen as the class quardian. The election of class officials was held with Russel Jaberg being elected president; Stanley Green, vice president; Catherine Fritzinger, secretary and Dorothy Christen, treasurer. Another meeting will be held in the near future to decide upon the class parties and class play.

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Thaw And Morris Not Discouraged; Plan To Enter Next Air Derby "W’v expect to be in the r»c< next year, if they have one,” said Col. Wi.liuni Thaw. II and Captain John P. Morris, of Pitlsl)iir<»h, trans-continental non-stop air race pilots, today, as they prepared to leave the Adams County Memorial hospital here Tuesday, after being conlined there for two weeks as a result of

injuries susta’ned when their huge monoplane crashed near Geneva during a forced landing in total darkness, on Sept. 13. Col. Thaw and Capt. Morris will be taken to Foil Wayne lit ambulances Tuesday afternoon, and will lie placed aboard a Pennsylvania train for Pittsburgh. Diawing rooms have been engaged on tlie train and the injured aviators will be placed on cots I aboard the train. Tlie train will leave i Fort Wayne al 9:15 o’clock tomorrow night. Upon their arrival in Pittsburgh. about 6:15 o'clock Wednesday 1 1 morning, the men will be met at the ' FARMER PROBABLY FATALLY BURNED John B. Mounsey, 79, Os Wells County, Expected To Die Os Burns Bluffton, Sept. 24.—(U.R)—John B. Mounsey, 79, well known farmer of Liberty township, Wells county, was probably fatally burned, on, the farm of his son, Ora Mounsey, about 10 a. m. today. He was burning' weeds along an open ditch and I in some manner his clothing caught fire. A neighbor, Curt Jamison, and his son. Ora. were working in a nearby field and heard Mr. Mounsey scream. They rushed to him but all of Mr. Mounsey’s clothing except his shoes, were burned off. Mr. Mounsey was i rushed to the Wells county hospital here. The physician says there are little hopes for Mr. Mounsey’s recovery. o December 2 Designated As Golden Rule Sunday Dr. Wm. Lowe Bryan, President of Indiana University, and Golden Rule Chairman for the State of Indiana announces Sunday, December 2nd as International Golden Rule Sunday. On that day in thousands of Indiana I •homes, Golden Rule dinners will be ■ partaken of and in the Church and Sunday School services, addresses and programs calling for the observance of the day will be in order. The President Calvin Coolidge, has i given his approval when he says, “1 hope the voluntary observance of this day may become increasingly prevalent in America and throughout the world.” On this appointed day, presidents, j kings anti premiers ;financiers and religious leaders; influential statesmen, educators and labor leaders throughout the world will sit at a common table, eat bread and salt, thinking of the hungry and sorrowing and will make a donation for their aid. What a wonderful advance in practical religion. 0 Gary Teacher Accused Os Floggging A Pupil Gary, Ind., Sept. 24.—(U.R) —Accused of floggging James Millington, Jr., 11, with a garden hose, E. A. Spalding, principal of tlie Emerson school here, was free on SSOO bond today. Tlie boy said lie was whipped for climbing a school fence. Black and blue marks were left by the beating, it was said. o Harry S. New To Address Eighth District Postmasters Anderson, Ind., Sept. 24. — (U.R) — Postmasters in the eighth district will hold their annual convention here Thursday. Speakers will include Postmaster General Harry S. New, Senators James E. Watson, and Arthur R. Robinson: Charles Welborn, .postal inspector, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Postmaster Robert Bryson, Indianapolis. -o To Meet At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 24 —(U.R) — Joint sessions of the county commissioners association of Indiana and state organizations of county engineers county highway superintendents and city street commissioners in anneal convention will open here Tuesday to continue three days.

Haiti by ambulances mid they will lie removed to their homes. Like Decatur Hospitality "We certainly are grateful to the people of Decatur for their hospitality,” said Col. Thaw to a represents'lve of the Daily Democrat today. "The people of the community have been wonderful to us and the care given its by tlie physicians and nurses at tlie hospital has been excellent. We have tried all of the big hospitals in Pittsburgh, hut none of them have equalled this one for nurse and medical treatment and food. “We sure were fortunate that our accident occttred here instead of over the dessert out West." continued Col. Thaw. “We might have been lying on the dirt floor of a Mexican cowman’s hut instead of in this fine hospital. Want To Come Back “We're coining liack to Decatur sometimes" said Col Thaw, "hut the next time we hope to come for a friendly visit and not through necessity.” Tlie two injured fliers have improved rapidly during the last few days. It will probably be two or three weeks yet before they are aide to walk on crutches. Col Thaw is suffering from a dislocated hip and Capt. Morris frem a fracture of tlie pelvis bone and a dislocation of the collar | bone. ■’That was the greatest ship I ever saw", said Col Thaw today in discussing the big Lockheed-Vega monoplane in which he and ('apt. Morris were attempting to win the non-stqp race from New York to Los Angeles on September 13. “It was the fastest commercial plane in the world and we should have won the race. We had covered approximately one-third of the distance from New York to Los Angeles when we crashed and we had used just slightly more than one-fourth of our fuel supply. Our fuel consumption would have diminished considerably as we progressed westward." Praises Capt. Morris When asked how long he bad planned for the flight. Col. Thaw said lie <rONTI'=« I «!n ON' TWO) RELIEF FUND IS GROWING SLOWLY Donations Here For Hurricane Victims In South Total $114.06 Today Several more contributions to the local Red Cross fund forth erelief of the hurricane victims in Florida and Porto Rico were reported today, bringing the total up to $114.06 Since the quota for the Adams County chapter is $1,025, those in charge of the relief fund being raised here appeal to local citizens today to contribute to the fund at an early date. The donations reported today included : Previous donations 86.56 Henry Fuelling 2.00 Fred Mutschler 5.00 Dr. C. V. Connell 1.00 Mary Brodbeck 1.00 I. Bernstein ' 5.00 Adolph Kolter 5.00 Mrs. A. B. Winnes 1.00 Anna Yager 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Colter .... 1,00 Gaynell Graber 25 Ralph Burnett 1.00 Charlotte Reinking 1.00 Casli .25 Mary Wemlioff 2.00 Total 114.06 o Rush County Votes Dov/n Proposal To Build Hospital Rushville, Ind., Sept 24—(U.R)— The proposal for a new $150,000 country hospital here was crushed by a vote of nearly two to one when Rush county ■ voters went to the poles here to settle a dispute as to whether that amount in bonds for the erection of the hospital should be ordered. The vote was 4,063 against and 2,243 for. The same plan had been voted down by a smaller majority in 1919. Votes favoring tlie hospital came from the city of Rushville while every rural precinct but one voted against the plan.

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Outmaneuvered Gale J... — ’ L X. <v Captain J. A. Henrickson, of S. S. Mature, who successfully maneuver- ' ed his vessel through the tropical hurricane that laid waste to Porto , Rico and much of Florida. Bridge of his ship was carried away by giant seas. COUNTY W.C.LU. PLANS MEETING I Annual County Convention t Scheduled To Be Held At Berne Wednesday The annual convention of the Adams County Women’s Christian Temperance Union will be held at the Reformed church in Berne, nevt Wednesday, September 26. There will be sessions in the morning, at 10 o’clock, and in the afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Lunch will be served at the noon hour by the ladies of the Berne union. The program for the convention is as follows: Morning Session 10 O’clock Devotionals—Rev. (’. 11. Sitckatt, of Bet ne. Reading of minutes of previous convention. Roll call ot unions, to lie responded to liy each local president. Reports of county officers. Musice furnished by Berne ttnicn. Nonetide prayer. Session 1:30 P. M. Devotionals —Rev. C. W. H. Sauerwein of Bertie. Address—“ The Challenger" by the county chairman, Mrs. C. E. Hocker of Decatur. Music, to lie furnished by Kirkland township. Address —"How to use the Ballot Intelligently", by Mrs. B. J. Rice of Decatur, county treasurer. Closing prayer. Mrs. Cover of Kirkland township. ————o Concession Man And Wife Seriously Hurt Concession men stopping in Decatur last night on their way to tlie Bluffton free street fair, which opens Tuesday night, told of the serious injury which Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Weer, of South Bend, owners of the Ferris wheel and merry go-round which were in Decatur Od Home week, suffered in an automobile accident near Elkhart last week. Mr. and Mrs. Weer were here during Old Home week and were driving to their home at South Bend, when a big bus hit their car. They were seri olnsjyiuedr uES CVHM RF were seriously injured and were taken to the hospital at Elkhart. One of the men here last night said that it took 85 stitches to bind the wounds received by Mr. Weer. Decatur Rotarians To Go To Portland Tuesday Several of the Decatur Rotarians are planning to go to Portland, Tuesday, to attend a district meeting of Rotary Clubs. In the afternoon, a golf match will be held at the Portland Country Club, and at 6 o’clock a banquet will be held at the club nouse. H. P. Schmitt is chairman of the committee making arrangements to attend the meeting and the local Rotarians should notify him if they are going. Dicky Lose Breaks Arm In Fall Sunday Morning Dicky Lose, little son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Lose, had the misfortune to fall, while at play, Sunday morning, and fractured both bones of the left arm about the middle ot the forearm. The fracture was reduced and the little fellow is about as usual today.

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AUTO ACCIDENTS CAUSE 12 DEATHS OVER WEEK-END One Murder Included In List Os Deaths; Another Murder Suspected FOUR MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY KILLED liulitinupolis, Sept. 21. ( U R ) Twenty-two persons are dead l<,.lay in Indiana, victims of violence over the week-end, Os the fatalities, twelve were due to automobile accidents. The 101 l incluoes one staying and another case where murder is suspected. Edgar G. Jones. 47, Crothersville, and three members ot his family were killed when an automobile he was driving was struck by a Pennsylvania train at a crossing near Jeffersonville. Others x dead are his wife. Mrs. Cora Jones, and two daughters. Velma, 11. and Gladys. 5. Two Killed Near Marion Albert Walton, 22, Marion, and his daughter, Coleen, 2, were qilled in an automobile collision five miles northwest of Marion. The unborn child of Mis. Walton was killed and she suffered injuries which may result in death. John Ward. 60. of Huntington. an Erie j-ailroad flagman, was killed in the railroad yards at Marion, Ohio, when tun over by a cut of cars. Eugene Pfeiffer, 23, Huntington, was killed in an auto race at New Bremen, Ohio, when the car he was driving overturned. Charles Bowers, Huntington. was killed when a taxicab driven by Bert Chapman, in which he was a passenger. was struck by a cut of Erie railtoad cars, and hurled into the Little -river. Lois Savin, 5, Fort Wayne, was killed when struck by an automobile in the street in front of her home. Ora Whitten, 67. was shot and instantly killed by his brother-in-law, William Nichols, 59. at Whitten’s home a mile west of Stilesville. The men are alleged to have quarreled about taking care of Tony Nichols, father of the slayer and of Chitten’s wife. Lester Manis, ot northwest of Elwood. was a prisoner in the county jail at Tipton while authorities investigated the death of his wife, Blanche. 35, who died after being found unconscious on a toad west of here. Man s asserts his wife was

fatally injured in jumping from an automobile in which she was rftling. Harry Scott was' instantly killed on a farm near Palestine when a limb of a tree he had cut down struck him as the tree fell. Jesse Becht, 55, is dead at Connersville, a suicide by poisoning. 11l health was believed the motive. Eugene Brooks, Detroit, who was injured in an automobile crash Wednesday at Indianapolis, (Tied yesterday. Four members of the family of Joseph Lubelski, South Bend, were killed by gas as they slept. Forrest Miller. 46, Terre Haute, committed suicide by swallowing poison. Relatives said they did not know of a motive. o Church 75 Years Old Noblesville, Ind., Sept 24 —(U.R) —The White Chapel Methodist church, eight miles south of here, celebrated the seventy-fifth aniversary of its founding Sunday. LIGHT FREEZE OCCURS HERE Mercury Falls Sharply Sunday Night; Small Damage To Crops Reported The mercury fell to its lowest mark this fall last night, when it dropped below the freezing mark. A heavy frost and a light freeze was reported this mrnoing. In several places, farmers reported damage to cucumbers and other late crops. It is believed that the damage will not be large however. The corn crop is believed to be far enough aIcng to be out of danger. The mercury fell as low as 26 degrees in some parts of Indiana early today. Cool weather is forecast for the next few days, with slightly warmer temperature near the close of the , week-