Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1928 — Page 1

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final month of CAMPAIGN OPENS TODAY Candidates And Speakers Readv To Start High Pressure Campaigning PASTERN VOTE IS MUCH SOUGHT Carl D. Gloat (United Pi'-ss Staff C rrespondtent) Wash ington, Oct. PresI ential campaign turned today into |>< final grilling month. Presidential and vice President! candidates ami their first line speak C.I have airanged for high pressure campaigning, centering mainly in the east and along the so-called borderland between north and s nth. Winning of the east with its slxeah|e cleclorial votes now is one of the major aims of Herbert Hoover and Cov. Smith. B th have attentive eyes on Kentucky. Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Virginia and the farm belt as well. Smith To Enter South Smith is prepaiing for a swing - nthward from New York, going into Tennessee to consult Democratic adets and thence into Louisville, Kv., for another speech in his increasingly long list Hoover has speeches listed for October 15 and 22 at Bost n and New Yotk with some windup campaigning emoute to California, climaxed with an election eve speech from Ids heme in Palo Alta, California., where he votes Nov. 6. Senator Robinson is still campaign Ing in the southwest and Senator Curtis gradually is working eastward The Republicans announced today they have prepared an ambiti us speaking itinerary for Senator Borah in the east and as far south as North Carolina, while former Gov. Charles Evans Hughes, of New Yotk has been ingaged to aid the Hoover campaign in the east, chiefly in New York. Upon these two men the Republicans pin much hope, for both ate noted orators Precedm." Smith into Kentucky is the Republican assistant attorney general Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. She is regarded by Republican leaders as an important drawing card in view of the controversy stirred by her recent appeal s to ministers to fight Smith on the prohibition issue. it Is anticipated that the* last month will find a revival of the prohibition issue. , c MANY WITNESS NIR CIRCUS HERE Aviators Provide Thrills For Large Crowd Here Sunday Afternoon A large crowd witnessed the air cirrus held on the Herman Myers farm southwest of Decatur on the Winchester r id, Sunday afternoon. Nine air Planes participated in the event and during the afternoon, a number of People enjoyed rides over the city, he crowd was given several thrills Lieut. Clarence Cornish, who pilothis plane and performed several aerial stunts. <)n *‘ of the features cf the program "’as the formation flying and smoke s <reen bombs being dropped from the I'ones, giving the spectacle of a war “anmivers. The parachute drop by , eil( Rock was a thriller. He jumped ro| n Ids plane and, as the parachute 1' I, l ' * open immediately, the crowd " f, d on in wonder, fearing for the s ' \ of 'h* 1 aviator, but within a few I*'':, the parachute opened and he a ed safely. There were several othc|r.l>a,UleS 011 l ,rc Ktam and the <■>lß was a new treat for the many "ho witnessed it. R <*d Cross Relief Fund Reaches Total Os $740.09 tinn 'i *° ta ’ of *^ e e( * Cross relief 1 K ing raised by the Adams coun'hapter reached $740.09 today, Top ys report was: Mlm'm 8 ;’" nationß $704.49 • Mattha Conrad 2.00 Henrv'r>i^ rs ' Isrtie i Bender .. 5.00 ««nry Bloemker 2.00 Berth"' 1 n Mrs ' Geo ' Harding .. 2.00 Cash Unner 100 I M a' ® al,ey •••••■ 1-00 Mina . er 15 - 00 Tot '| MrS ' ° tlS Kreutztnan . 2.00 1 $740.09

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Mr. and Mrs. Matthias Kirsch, 421 North Second street, bride and'groom of fifty years ago, lem nesced the days of their courtship and marriage, Saturday, October 6, 1928, when they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Assisting in the celebration, were the best man and brides-maid of the bridal party, Mr. Peter Kirsch, of this city, and Mrs. Caroline Breamer,

LUCINDA GREEN j . DIES SUNDAY Aged Decatur Woman Dies Os Pneumonia, Following Fall Month Ago Mrs. Lucinda Green, aged 85 years, died at 7:28 o'clock Sunday evening. October 7, 1928, at the Adams County Memorial hospital, of pneumonia. Mrs. Green sustained a broken arm and severe bruises, four weeks ago, when she tel down a Hight of cellar steps, while calling on her daughter, Mrs. I aura Hilyard, 813 Mercer avenut, who has been ill for several ; weeks. She was taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital, a week later, and was believed to be improving nicely, when pneumonia set in on last Friday, causing her death Sunday evening. Mrs. Lucinda Green, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Gay, was born September 30, 1813. in Starke county, Ohio. February 26. 1874. she united in marriage with John Green, who preceded her in death on February 27, 1912. Thirty-five years ago, together with her husband and family, Mrs. Green came to Decatur from Fort Recovery. . Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Green have al- , ways resided with their daughter, Mrs. . Martin Gilson. Surviving are two daughters and [ one son, Mrs. Martin Gilson, 314 Mad--1 Ison street, Mrs. Laura Hilyard, 813 . Mercer avenue, and Bert Green, of i Los Angeles, California. She has two ■ step-children .also, whom she always loved as her own children. The stepchildren are Mrs. Amanda Teeple, of Cortland, New York, and Ed Green, ' 707 South Winchester street, Decatur. ' Eight grandchildren and fifteen great grand-chi llren also survive. Mrs. Greet* was one of eighteen 1 children. one\>rother, Benjamin Gay, ‘ of Sturgis, Michigan, being the only (Coctim ud ov r,v<;w'•■«<>» , : O—CANDIDATE FOR SENATE QUITS — Democrat Withdraws In Wisconsin After Endorsing Senator LaFollette ! Milwaukee, Wis„ Oct. 8. — (U.R) —M. J K. Reilly, announced in a letter re- ( ceived at Democratic headquarters ( here today that he would withdraw i his candidacy for the United States I senate on the Democratic ticket. The I letter stated Reilly believed Senator i Robert M. LaFo Jette, running for rei election on the Republican ticket, “is i as ranch in ravor of the legislative i program of Gov. Alfred E. Smith as i I am.”

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of Fort Wayne. Matthias A. Kirsch and Amanda i Langenhacher were united in mar- , I riage on October 6. 1878. at the home of the bride on Wall street. Fort Wayne. They were attended by F’eter Kirsch, brother of the groom, and Caroline Vodemattk. who is now Mrs. Caroline Breamer. The wedding was sideueniaed by Rev. Schaaf, the pastor of the St. John's Reformed church of Fort Wayne. Lived Here 40 Years Following the wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Kirsch took up their residence at Bellmont, Illinois. Forty years ago, they came to this city, and have since resided here. For the past twenty-five years, Mr. Kirsch has been actively engaged in the banking business, and is now president of the Peoples Ix>an and Trust company, of this city. Three children were born to this irnvTivt cn •>>' v«nt! t« <»; RACHEL B. DOAN EXPIRES SUNDAY Mother of Decatur Man Dies Os Heart Trouble At Hospital Here Mrs. Rachel B. Doan, 65, died at the Adams County Memorial hospital at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Death was due to heart trouble. Mrs. Doan was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Barker, and was born in Thorntown, Ind., July 2, 1863. Her husband, John F. Doan, preceded her in death. For the last five years, Mrs. Doan had been living with her son, J. M. Doan, 913 Russel street, Decatur, and with her daitUhter, Mrs. Russel Grames, of Oxford, Ind. She was a member of the Methodist church at Boswell, Ind. Surving. besides the son and daughter. are the following brothers: Charles L. Barker, of Hamilton, Ohib; Murray S. Parker, of Thornton: Perry M. Barker, of Thorntown; and Elbert J. Barker, of Thorntown. Her step-mother, Mrs. Cyrena Barker, of Thorntown, and four grandchildren, Juanita and Delores Day, of Long Beach, California, and Gladys and Annabell Doan, of Decatur, also survive, i Funeta, services will be held at the home of Mrs. Grames, at Oxford, at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with the Rev. Zeno H. Doan, of Marion, off! 1 dating. Burial will be made in the cemetery at Boswell, Ind. o ■ Four Weeks Left For Paying Fall Taxes Four weeks from today will be the last day for taxpayers to pay the fall installment of taxes without the 10 per cent penalty being added. County Treasurer Ed Ashbaucher stated today that several taxpayers called last 1 week at his office and paid their taxes, but so, far, the rush has not started. Monday, November 5, is the last to pay the fall installment. *

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1 Legionnaires Open Tenth Annual Convention Today San Antonio, Tex., Oct. B.—(U.R) — While the Navy dirigible Los Angeles and scores of army airplanes circled overhead, Gen. John J. Pershing and 50,000 men who were fighting under his command in France ten years ago today, gathered tn municipal auditorium for the opening of the tenth national American Legion convention. ANNOUNCE DATES FOR INSTITUTES Series of Farmers’ Institutes In County Starts On February 7 Notification of the dates for Far- ; mers Institutes in Adams county has just been received by the county agent Ferd E. Christen. The dates are scheduled by W. Q. Fitch, of Put due University, State Leader cf Farmer's Institutes. Seven Institutes wil be held throughout the county and the speaker f r these meetings will be announced I within a few days. The time and place of each institute I is as follows: February 7, Monmouth. IC. H. Gage, Chairman; February 8. Monroe, W. T. Rupert chairman: Febtuary 9, Kohr School in Union township, C. D. Spuller chairman. February 12, Otis E. Shifferly chairman; February 13, Harfard township High School, A. F. Baker chairman; February 14; Kirkland township high school, Samuel Henchen chairman; Febiuary 15 and 16. Herne, Noah Rich chairman. Programs for the various institutes are now being arranged by the officers in each township. Corn and poultry shows, hon;e economics exhibits, horticultural shows ami the like will be held in connection with each institute. 0 Former Berne Man To Be Tried October 27 Bluffton, Oct. 8. —(U.R>—Gerson J. Weiss, former Berne resident, who has been held in jail here since ■ early in the spring on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense, will face trial October 27, in ' the Wells circuit court here. Weiss is charged with selling worthless stock in the Lutheran Laymen’s Association to the Hoosier Condensery, in Bluffton. I o Son Os Sam Wickey Dies Sunday Evening Berne, Ind. Oct. B—(Special)—David 1 S. Wickey, five-year-old son of Mr. ' and Mrs. Sam Wickey, residing two and one-half miles northeast of here died at 6 o'clock Sunday evening Oc--1 tober 7, 1928. Death was due to hypos- ' tatic pneumonia, which followed infan- ' tile paralysis with which the child has suffered since infancy. He has never , been able to walk since bit th. The , child was born May 11, 1923, in Ontario I Canada. Funeral services will be held , sometime Tuesday, witli burial at the Schwartz cemetery. VIOLENCE TAKES LIVES OF FIVE One Man Commits Suicide; Four Persons Die In I Automobile Accidents i By United Press Four persons are dead today in In- , diana, victims of violence over the week end. Josiah McKinney, 71, retired farmer Booneville, committed suicide by poisoning while despondent over illness. • Luther K. Jones, Kokomo, was killed in Greentown when the car which he s was driving crashed into an automo--1 bile driven by R. F. Keriy, Fort Wayne ) Jones died of a broken neck, hospital ’ attendants said. Two persons, believed to be Emma t Wentworth, Hillgrove, 0., and her • mother Mrs. Caroline Kister, Coalton, -0., were killed near Farmland when l their automobile crashed into an abutment of a bridge.

YANKEES HOLD 3-GAMELEAD St. Louis Players And Fans! Base Last Hope On Willie Sherdel St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8 (U.R) Riiin toiliiv forced postponnient (if the fourth world's series baseball ttaine between the C.artlinals and the Yankees. The game will be played here on the next available date, when tickets for the fourth game will he honored. Decision to postpone the game was announced by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. baseball high commissioner, after a personal inspection of the playng field at sportsman’s park. By Frank Getty (United Press Soprt Editor) St. Louis, Mo., Oct. B—A diminutive sandy-haired s uthpaw pitcher, Willie Shredel, of the St. Louis Cardinals, leads one cf those “folorn hope" | d.ives today, as tile National League champions fight to escape a "white washing” at the hands if the unfeeling New York Yankees. Upon Sherdel the last chance of the Cardinals to escape the disaster of defeat in four straight games, depends. The Yankees, riding the crest of a victorious wave, will have their pitching ace, Waite Hoyt, primed and ready for she day’s game. They have, moreever, the comfortable knowledge that they have beaten every pitcher Bill Mc Kec hnie has sent to the hill, and they claim that they are only just beginning to hit. With Hoyt opposing Sherdel once more and the* Cardinals disheartened Icy successive defeats, Icetting odds of 7 to 5 favoied the American League champions to repeat the triumph of four straight games which they scored over the Pittsburgh Pilates a year ago. Shredel has the heait of a lion, and held the Yanks to four hits in the first game at New Yotk. If he can stop the (CONTINUED ON I'CGE THREE) TAKE NO ACTION IN ROAD MATTER Commissioners Undecided About Agreeing To Procure Right-Of-Way No action was taken by the board of county commissioners today in the matter of signing the contract with the state highway commission, whereby the commissioners would agree to secure the right-of-way for the proposed new route of state road No. 27 between Bente and Geneva. The matter was continued this afternoon for future consideration. Ed M. Ray, of Berne, representing the Adams County Better Roads associatiqps, and William Heater, Geneva banker, were at the auditor’s office this morning, urging that the commissioners sign the contract. Last week, a tentative estimate of the cost of securing tlie right-of-way was secured and the estimate is higher than the money available for such purposes. A sum of $5,000 is inc tided in the budget for next year for the purchase of right-of-ways, but no specific case was mentioned at the time when the county council appropriated it. The state highway commission proposes to change the route of state load No. 27 south from Berne to Geneva and build a new bridge east of the present bridge which spans the Wabash river, south of Berne. If ■ the route is changed it would compel the county to take over the old state road and eventually build a new bridge where the old one is located. o Industrial Association Name Plates Are Here I William Linn, secretary of the In dustrial Association, stated today that i he received a new supply of the name ■ plates which members display in theii , places of business. Members of the i association who do not have one of tin • plates may procure one by seeing Mr Linn.

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Zep Passenger ! rJ ■****C2Lx ’ i: / ■ * Dr. Robert Remer, of Weehawken, N J . who has b. oked passage on t'ie super dirigible Graft Zeppelin on her fourthcoming flight across the Atlantic. (International Newsreel) KIDNAPING STORY CAUSES BIG STIG Two Wells County Girls, Reported Kidnaped, Only Ran Away From Home v Bluffton. Oct. 8 - (Special)—Excite- ,. ment reigned foi several hours Sunt day in the Libeity (’enter neighbor I hoed, when it was reported that rwol I young girls had been kidnapped Satt urday night, but. after hours of in-1 vestigation, Sheliff Forester McClain I ? learned that the girls had only run I away from home and told the kidnaps 4ng story to covet up their tracks. » Sheriff McClain was called to the f home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bays, two I miles east of Liberty Center, early Sunday meriting. Mr. and Mis. Bays I tcld the sheriff that their daughter, i Edna Bays. 17, had returnedhome ear- ., ly Sunday morning and told a story of het sister Maty Bays and her step-sis-ter Ruth Pace, 13. being kidnapped by two men and taken away in tin automobile. According to the story told by Edna the three gills were walking along I tlte r ad near the Bays home, SaturI day evening, when two men in an auI tontobile stopped ami invited them to take a t ide. She said the three girls were forced to get into the car and | 1 ride to Montpelier witli the two men. * She said the men forced the three girls to di ink liquor and. later, decided that they did not want her (Edna) with them longer, so brought I hc'r back and threw her out cf the ; car at a point about a mile from home, j Sunday afternoon, a married sister | of tlie Bays girls, leceived a telephone j call from Mary and Ruth, saying they were at Marion. Sheriff McClain and tlie gills' patents immediately went to Marion and found the girls. On the way home, tlie two girls told the same story as had been told by Ed- * na. They said that after Edna had 8 been thrown out cf the car, the two ‘ men took them towaid Marion and as--1 ter failing in an attempt to criminalB ly assault them, threw them out in a ■ corn field near Mat ion. When asked t by tlie sheliff if they could show him t where* tlie corn field was located, tlie girls said they could. Tlie sheriff im--1 mediately stopped ills car and turned i. it around, intending to locate the field, e After starting back toward Marion, << <> V'INCED ON I'AUE TtlltEE) t* o—— THREE CHILDREN : HURT IN WRECK e f Children of Gottfried Rauch ‘‘ Jr., Injured In Auto Accident Near Berne Berne, Ind., Oct. B.— (Special) — Three young people residing on Mon- “ roe route three, Hilda, Leah and Jehu Rauch, daughters and son, respective- '■ ly, of Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Rauch, 1 Jr., were injured in an automobile collislon at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday aftere noon. The accident occured on tlie e old state road between Monroe and r Berne, at a road intersection about ON PAGE THREE!

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17C0NVICTS ARE BELIEVED TD HAVE PERISHED IN FIBE Three Others Missing Following Fire In Ohio Penitentiary Today PRISONERS CAUGHT ASLEEP IN BEDS ('.olmiibiis, 0., Oct. 8. (U.R) Although the check ol the twenty Ohio skite penitentiary prisoners missing in the lire that destroyed the dormitory of the I brick plant at Junction City i was still incomplete shortly before noon today. 17 men were believed to have perished and three were missing, according to prison officials. Tlie thiee missing might have escaped over the walls, officials said, although it was believed possible that they, too, were among tin* victims. Twenty Unaccounted For Junction City, ()., Oct. 8. —(U.R) ■ Twenty of the 288 Ohio State penitentiary prisoners trapped by fire in tlie dormitory of the Junction City brick plant were still missing at 9:30 a.m. Brick plant officials checked their records to determine the number burned to death or killed in the rush i to escape the flames. Os tlie 268 accounted for, eight were taken to the penitentiary hospital in Columbus. Some of the 20 were known to be dead —victims of the fire itself or trampled to death. The first outsider to discover the fire was I. N. Crafton, a guard. He called another guard and together they hurried to the basement of the i dormitory. The fire already was roaring inside. and as they opened the dormii tory door, flames 20 feet high shot out. William O Malley, 35, Cleveland automobile thief who is serving a six year sentence, said he smelled smoke shortly after 12:30 a.m. and rushed through the building, arousing the inmates. The prisoners stormed the* doors and windows, fighting madly to make their way out. Some were trampled to death in tlie crush of the terrified milling about the entrances and others were crushed beneath falling debris. Citizens of the vicinity, aroused by fire* whistles, stood guard over tlie pi isoners inside the stockade. HICKMAN AGAIN LOSES APPEAL Supreme Court Judge Refuses To Grant Appeal From Death Sentence Washing! n, Oct. 8— 'U.R) - William Edward Hickman, youthful kidnapper and murderei of Marion Parker 12-year old school girl, was denied today a United States supreme court appeal of his sentence to tlie gallows. He is scheduled to be hanged in Los Angeles Oct. 19. Justice George Sutherland, who has ju; isdiction over appeals from the Pacific coast, refused to grant an appeal from the California supteme court decision upholding the sentence. This appeal, if gianted, automatically would have stayed the execution pending argument of the case. Jerome Walsh, young Kansas City lawyer who represented Hickman, said after his conference witli the justice in chambers that he intended to take liis plea befoie other numbers of the court. o Forty Hours Devotion To Open October 30 The annual Forty Hours devotion will be held at the St. Marys Catholic church in this city on October 30. 31 and November 1. The Rev. Father Charles Girardot, of Bluffton will conduct the special services. The clos- ( ing services will be lield on Thursday evenig, which is All Saint’s day, observed as a holy day in the*Catholic ‘ church. o ' NOTICE I There will be a meeting of the Det catur Advertising Association in the _ Industrial Association rooms at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening.