Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1928 — Page 1

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SLATER OF FORT WAYNE WOMAN IS SOUGHT BY POLICE Police Unable To Establish Motive For Deed; Diamond King On Finger BODY IS SCANTILY CLOTHED WHEN FOUND Fort Wayne, Oct. 9. — <U.R)— Authorities today searched for the slayer of Mrs. Marion Durbin, whose body was found in her luxurious apartment here. Police said the woman had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument, apparently a revolver. Police said they have been unable to establish a motive for the deed. According to reports she was a Sequent visitor to road houses, and had been seen at one several hours previous to her death. The body was discovered by a maid, clad in an under garment, in a pool of blood. A sheet had been placed about her head. Diamond Not Taken Robbery was at first expressed as the motive, but this was dispelled when a large diamond ring on the woman’s hand was found unmolested. However, police said, b.oody finger prints were found on the inside of purses found in the apartment. The robbel apparently went about his work liesurely, as evidence was found that he washed his hands, after committing the crime. He had cut the telephone lines to the apartment before the slaying, police said. Reports said the woman was living under the name of Mrs. Durbin, while her real name was Ruth Freeland. The maid said that Mrs. Durbin frequently kept large sums of money in her apartment. Van Wert Man Dies While Gathering Nuts Hillary Wills, 30, of Van Wert, Ohio, died suddenly Sunday afternoon, while gathering hickory nuts on the Rot Putman farm, east of Willshire Wills died a few minutes after he was strick en with a heart attack. Mr. Wills was a veteran of the World war, in Which he was gassed. For the last several weeks, he had been failing in health His wid w three daughters and a son survive. c Geneva Young Man Enrolls In International College Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 9. —H. Vaughn Shoemaker of Geneva enrolled in International college here last week for the fall term of school. — o WOMAN BURNS TU DEATH IN AUTO Husband Saves Two Children But Loses In Struggle To Save His Wife Van Wert, Ohio, Oct. 9. — Flames from gasoline after an automobile overturned near Van Wert Sunday Won a battle with Alfred Lloyd, of Leipsic, 0., for the life of his wife, •■oldie, 26 years of age. Lloyd had dragged their daughter Dorothy, 10, and son Wilson. 6, to safety. A relative who went to the scene of the accident soon after it occurred, said •hat Mr. Lloyd suffeted severe burns oil an arm and shoulder in trying to aave his wife. ■" 0H t of the hair was burned from otothy’s head. The boy was reported to have not been injured. Body Badly Burned Mrs. Lloyd's body was burned beyond recognition. •he accident occurred about one nn e east of the old Hoaglin Center a'ne, a short distance northeast of an Wpl t on highway number 17. The ear, a light coupe, was reported to ( ' ave B °ne into a ditch and turned ° n lop on accoun t of trouble '•' the steering device. t was reported that no one arrived n time to aid Mr. Lloyd in the struggle to save his family. Dr - E. H. Alspaugh of Willshire, ounty coroner, gave a verdict of acental death, after investigation.

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Prettiest Medel If 1® • Ik *■ * ifF- > IHk Jl a. Mlle. Terrainia Panchents, of Parij, recently voted the most beautiful model in all Fiance, tripped to the altar recently with Chalies Gerard, a writer on Le Matin. She will not renounce her professional career. I International Newsreel) PLAN TO EXPAND SCOOTING HERE Local Scout Committee Plans To Increase Number Os Scouts Here To 100 n — Int tided in the objectives of the local Boy Scout organization, for the year 1928-29, as adopted at a meeting of the local committee Monday evening, is the increasing of the number of troops in Decatur from four to five and the total number of Scouts in the city from 62, the present number, to 100. Reports given at the meeting last night showed that Scouting is in a healthy condition in Decatur and that this city is farther advanced in the Scout work than any other city in the Anthony Wayne Area Council, excluding the city of Fort Wayne. John I. Anguish, Scout executive for the Anthony Wayne area council, and C. R„ Danielson, field executive, attended the meeting of the local committee last night, which was he.d in the Industrial Association rooms. The meeting was well attended and the men showed much interest in their work of promoting scouting here. —o — ———— Jay Countv Officials Seek Bicycle Bandit Portland. Ind., Oct. 9—.'U.R)-Author-ities of Jay county and ethers of this section of Indiana today seatchcd for a bandit who rode away on a bicycle after a hold up. The pedaling robber escaped after cbtaining SSO in a hold up at a general store itv New Mt. Pleasant. He covered the owner and customers ot the store with a sawed off shot gun. As he left the store to mount the bicycle, he threatened a small boy who drew a toy pistol, but with a number of playmates was unawate of the holdup, police said. VESTAL VISITS ADAMS COUNIT Eighth District Congressman Speaks At Pleasant Mills Monday Night Congressman Albert 11. Vestal of Anderson, spoke at Pleasant Mills last night. The meeting was held in |he school house and Paul IL Graham, of Decatur, Republican county chairman, piesided as chairman and introduced Mr. Vestal. Several people from this city attended the meeting. Congressman Vestal spoke on the tariff, and immigration. Mr. Graham announced today that nouneetings were planned in Decatur, this week. Senator Arthur Robinson, will speak at Bluffton tonight, but due to a conflict ot dates he will not speak in this county, Mr. Graham stated.

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FARMER DIES 1 PICKING APPLES ; I Oliver Shoemaker Dies Sur- i denly At Home Near Geneva This Morning ■ Geneva, Oct, 9.— (Special)—Oliver Shoemaker, 46, well known farmer ( residing three miles west of Geneva, ( died suddenly while picking apples on his farm at in o'clock this mornNig. Mr. Shoemaker had been suffering from high blood pressure and it it thought that his death was due to a heart attack or a stroke of paralysis. He suffered a stroke of paralytis last fall. Mr. Shoemaker and his son, Donald, were picking apples this njorn Ing, the latter lieing up on a ladder. Mr. Shoemaker had just started to climb a ladder when he fell to the ground and was dead when his son reached him. Surviving Mr. Shoemaker are his widow’; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Shoemaker, of Geneva; three children, Donald, Lamar and Thurlo, all at home; one sister. Mrs. Harl • Hollingsworth, of Decatur, and four ■ brothers, OtLs Shoemaker, residing three miles southwest of Geneva, Cliff Shoemaker, cf west of Bryant, ' Alva Shoemaker, of near Linn Grove, and Harold Shoemaker, of Elida, O. Four brothers are deceased. o Clifton Striker Placed On Important Church Board Clifton E. Striker, superintendent of 1 the Adams county schools, was elected a member of the Board of Christian Education ot the Mid-West Synod of , the Reformed church, at a recent meeting of the Synod, at. Terre Haute. This board is one of the most important Irodies in the church. • o ■ ■ Bluffton Firm Buvs Store At Montpelier Bluffton, Oct. 9 —(U.R>— Announcement was made Monday of the purchase of the Pin man and Johnson de--1 part men t store at Montpelier by Barr and Company, headed by W. R. Barr, of Bluffton. Barr and company own four other stores, including the Leader store in this city. o FIGHT IS FEARED AT LEGION MEET Delegates Anticipate Bitter Fight Over Col. Mitchell’s Resolution San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 9. —(U.R) — Discussion among delegates to the national American Legion convention here today was rife over the bitter ■ fight expected tomorrow’ concerning adoption of a resolution which Col. William Mitchell has indicated he i will introduce. Col. Mitchell, deposed assistant ■ chief of the air service, is expected to introduce a resolution favoring • the creation of an aviation department independent of the army and ■ navy departments. Much opposition f to the resolution has been expressed. Although no session of the convention was held today one of the fea- > titres of the week’s program, a parade ■ of 60,000 veterans, was to be- held. “ Places for Gen. John J. Pershing, Field Marshal Lord Allenby and Major Georges Scapinl, blind French war hero, were reserved in the reviewing stand. General Pershing Speaks , The words of Gen. Tershinp, “We stand for maintenance of peace with honor,” delivered before the convention yesterday, contrasted with the war display given last night for the benefit cf the visitors. Al the resources of the military training posts about San Antonio were thrown into play to reproduce accurately an American attack on an f European village. Airplanes, artil- , lery, tanks, and all other available , war equipment were used to make the “■battle'' as spectacular as possible. I During yesterday’s sessions both i Gen. Pershing and Lord Allenby . praised the signing of the Kellogg I peace pact in Paris, and both spoke I of the necessity of further preparaI tion against future wars. Lord Allenby called the Kellogg • pact the greatest modern move toi ward peace and said that "if America and Great Britain stand together, nothing in the world can touch them"

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 9, 1928.

City Firemen Answer Alarm At Noon Today I The fire department was called at about 12:30 o'clock this afternoon, to put out a fire l>ack of the Roop grocery on West Adams street. A bonfite hail been started and the flames spread to several crates piled ( against a wood shed. The wood shed caught fire, also. . The firemen extinguished the Hames within a few minutes. The department was called, Monday evening, to Winchester street, • the alarm being given by a couple of i women who thought their automobile ( was on fire. Sunday morning, the department put out a blaze which started in one of the Mexican huts • neat the Holland-St. Louis Sugar sac- 1 tory. The flames were confined to 1 the <ne hut and the blaze was put 1 out before much damage was done. ' o EARL CHRISTEN HURT IN WRECK Decatur Young Man And Companions Injured In Auto Accident Monday Earl Christen, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Christen of this city, and Francis Corbett and George Andrews, of Fort Wayne, were injured in an automobile accident about noon Monday, while driving to South Bend The men left Fort Wayne Monday morning for South Bend, where Messrs. Christen and Corbett intended to resume their studies at Notre Dame university. Mr. Andrews was driving his car, intending to visit with relatives in South Bend. Reports received here last evening stated that Mr. Christen was the most seriously injured, one of his arms and wrists being injured. The other two members of the party received scratches and bruises, but, as far as could be learned today, their injuries were not serious. Their car ran into a tree, repot ts stated. Mr. Christen is in the Epworth hospital at South Bend. 0 Army’s Largest Blimp Sails For San Antonio Belleville, I 1., Oct. 9. — (U.R) — The RS-1, the army's largest blimp, left Scott field here today for a nonstop flight to San Antonio, Tex,, where it will participate in maneuvers at the American Legion convention. ‘ Colonel John A. Paegelow, commandet at Scott field, said the ship wobld make a leisurely journey over the 900 mile course. It is expected to return Sunday. o- — Dirigible Los Angeles Starts Return Trip Fort Wot th, Tex., Oct. 9 -(U.R)-The Navy dirigible Los Angeles left for its home poi t, Lakehurst, N. J., at 9 A. M. today aftei an overnight stay at the mooring mast here. The route the dirigible will take back to its home station is as follows ' Denton, Tex., Ada, Okla., Tulsa, Okla., Erie Kansas, Poalo, Kans., Kansas 1 city, Burlington, lowa, Chicago, South 1 Bend, Ind., Toledo, Ohio, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Lakehurst. COMMUNION RAIL BEING INSTALLED New Communion Rail And Marble Steps Donated To Catholic Church A new communion rail and marble steps leading to the railing are being placed in St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city. The railing is made of Rigalico, a composition representing marble. It is ot brown color. The steps are of pure white marble. The steps were donated by J. G. Nib.ick, of this city, while the donor of the railing did not wish to have his name made known. The old wooden railing, with marble top and the steps, was removed this morning and the work of erecting the new fixtures started today. It is expected that the railing and steps will be installed by Sunday. Due to the fact that the workmen go to work at 7 o’clock in the morning, there will not be a children’s mass at 7:30 o’clock for the balance of the week.

HICKMAN LOSES FINAL CHANCE Only Hope Os Escaping Gallows Now Rests With Clemency From Governor Washington, Oct. 9. (U.R) Wi liam Edward Hickman's last hope of escaping the gallows on Oct. 19 through a court appeal vanished today. His lawyer. Jerome Walsh, announced after a majority of five members of the IT. S. supreme court had refused the kidnaper-slayer an appeal from the California supreme court decision upholding his sentence that he had given up the court fight, and would return to California to seek clemency from Governor Young. o _ Students In Electricity Visit Decatur G. E. Plant Thirteen men who recently completed a training course in rural electrification at Schenectady New York, plant of the General Electric company, were shown through the Decut in G. E. plant this morning. The students, who came here from Fort Wayne in a bus, spent two hours in the local factory, return ing to Fort Wayne shortly after noon. The men are visiting the various factories throughout the country where electrical devices are manufactured o POLITICS ON THE AIR New York, Oct. 9.—(U.R)— Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Augustus Thomas. Willie Collier and Raymond Hitchcock will broadcast at 11 P.M. EST, tonight on behalf of Governor Smith’s candidacy. The theatrical notables will take part in the second Democratic rally of the actors, authors and artists elute for Smith. The same chain cf stations also will broadcast the speech of Governor John F. Fisher of Pennsylvania earlier in the evening. Gov. Fisher will address the Union League, Philadelphia.. at 6:30 P.M., EST. At 11:30 A.M. tomorrow, EST., former Gov. Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming will champion Smith in a radio talk to be broadcast over an NBC. chain stretching from New York to Omaha. o FRUIT DRIVE TO OPEN WEDNESDAY Civic Department Os Woman’s Club To Collect Fruit For Hospital The annual fruit drive for the Adams County Memorial hospital, which is sponsored by the Civic Department of the Woman's Club, will be held Weduesday and Thursday of this week, according to announcement made today by Mrs. Oscar Lankenau, chairman of the drive. AH women wjio are driving cars and assisting with the drive are requested to go first to the hospital to secure empty cans and, whereever a can of fruit is donated an empty can is to lx* left in it's place. Any women who cannot he home when the solicitors call, are requested to place their donations on the front porch in some available place. The can of fruit will be gathered up and an empty can left in it’s place. People residing in the rnrtjl districts of the county are requested to leave their donations at the Boston Store, corner of Second and Monroe streets, or take them to the Adams County Memorial hospital. The Civic Department is anxious to put this present drive over with just as great success as was experienced in the drive of last fall. Patients at the Adams County Memoral hospital, throughout the year, comment on the splendid food with which they are served, and this is made possible by the donations which are received over the entire county each year. o Officers Elected By Jay County Fair Association Portland, Oct. 9 —Fred C. Meeker was elected president of the Jay County Fair Association, Saturday. Other officers elected ate: Homer Teeter, secretary; J. Arthur Williams, treasurer; Milton Millett, first vice-pre-sident; Mike Ankrom, second vicepresident; Irvin Black, superintendent of grounds; and Dee Covalt, sup erintendent of races.

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Hits Three Homers F m 1 Ar ’ ? *' T - ' J B Babe Ruth MODEL AIRPLANE MEET IS PLANNED — Boys Aero Club Announces Plans For Exhibition Here On October 18 i Plans for a model airplane exhibi- " tion meet, to be staged by the Boys ! Aero Club of this city, on Niblick’s ' Field just east of the Monroe street river bridge, on Thursday. October , 18. were announced today. The meet . will get under way at 2 o’clock. The public is invited to attend and no I admission will be charged. The Boys Aero Club was organized recently under the direction of the Lions Club, for the purpose of creat- • ing and furthering interest in aero- , nautics among the boys of the city. , The club now has a membership of eight boys, all of whom are actively engaged in building model planes. The members of the club are Don Miller, David Heller, Paul Hancher, Bruce Wallace, Tom Voglewede, Marcellus Miller, Bob Kleinhenz and Dick Macklin. Work Toward Goal To become a member of the club, a boy must qualify as a cadet, that is, be able to build a tailless kite that will fly for ten minutes. After be- ' coming a cadet and joining the club, the hoys work their way up through a list of requirements until, to reach the highest rank, that of commander in chief, they must break an official world's record at an official contest. The different ranks and the requirements for each are: mechanic, make a model plane that will fly 15 seconds; pilot, make any type of plane that will fly for 20 seconds and rise off tlie ground; lieutenant, build any type of wisher plane that will fly for two minutes; captain, fly a commercial plane for 40 seconds and work out the theory ot the airplane heliciipter, orrithopher and the lighter than air craft; commander, design a model that will fly for 30 seconds, and equal an official world's record. Several Planes Built Don Miller has qualified as a mechanic and could probably qualify as a pilot or lieutenant. The boys have built several types ICONTIMED ON PAGE EIGHT) GIANT DIRIGIBLE REACT TO START German Zeppelin Is Fueled And Made Ready For i Trans-Atlantic Flight Friedrichshafen, Germany, Oct. 9. — (U.R)—The Graf Zeppelin, largest dirI igible ever built, was filled with fuel and gas today and awaited only favr orable weather before starting on a H flight to the United States. r Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer of the ship, was anxious to start tomorrow morning. Because of somewhat un- ,. favorable conditions over the Atlantic he awaited the late weather reports today l>efore deciding definitely >. whether to start in the morning or wait another day.

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RUTH HITS THREE HOMERS AS YANKS WIN FINAL, 7 TO 3 Gehrig And Durst Also Hit Home Runs As Cardinals Are Vanquished SHERDEL DRIVEN FROM THE MOUND New York 000 100 420—7 15 2 St. Louis 001 100 001—3 11 0 Batteries; (New York) Hoyt and Bengough, Collins; (St. Louis) Sherdel, Alexander and Smith. By Frank Getty Sportsman Park, St. Louis, Oct. 9. — <U.R) — The New York Yanks won their second successive world’s championship today, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 7 to 3, and cleaning up the 1928 world’s series in four straight games. The Yank victory was a repetition of last year’s triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates, who also lost in four games, but today’s game produced thrills which the 37.331 fans in Sportsman Park will never forget, for the Cards seemed to have the game won until the fatal seventh inning, when the blow fell. Babe Leads Attack Babe Ruth led the attack in that inn'ng, with his second home run cf the game. He made three of them altogeth er today, equalling his own world's re< 1.1 established here two years ago. The Babe's homer in the fatal inning started Willie Sherdel, who had pitched ably up until that time, on the road to disaster. Gehrig followed with a hemer and then the Cards went to p'eces, just as they had done in the previi us games. Starting Lineups: New York St. I .inis Paschal, cf. Orsatti, cf. Koenig, ss. High, 3b. Ruth. It'. Frisch, 2b. Gehrig, lb. Bottomley, lb. Meusel, rs. Hafey, If. Lazerri, 2b. Harper, rs. Dugan, 3b. Smith, c. Bengough, c. Maranville, ss. Hoyt, p. Sherdel, p. First Inning Yankees — Paschal raised a high foul to Earl Smith, for the first out Koenig singled to left on the first pitch. Ruth lined to Bottomley who stepped on first and then threw to Maranville to catch Koenig at second for a fast double play. No runs, one hit, no eirors. Cardinals — Orsatti called out on strikes. High hit a fluke double to left. Frisch struck out. Bottomley walked. Hafey out, Hoyt to Gehrig. (CtENTt.N VEII ON PAGE EIGHT! O POISON LIQUOR TAKES BIG TOLL Thirty-two Die In New York Citv Within 48 Hours; Many Others 111 New York. Oct'. 9.—(U.R) -Thirtytwo deaths within 48 hours from poisoned alcohol have brought a series of raids on numerous downtown sjieakeasies and an order from Mayor Walker for immediate arrest of the salesmen of these death potions. It is the greatest wave of poison alcohol deaths in the history of the nation's largest city. Only once was 1 the number of poison-alcohol deaths mounted higher during an entire year, and that was in 1920 when 38 pet sons died from a flood of holiday alcohol. Many Others Are 111 Many other persons are said to be suffering from having dtatik poisoned beverages—ln many instances wood alcohol —and the death list probably will increase, city authorities said. 1 "I insist that those responsible for ■ poison liquor, the distribution of 1 which amounts to homicide and which is more than a violation of e the Volstead act, must be apprehendv ed and 'prosecuted," Mayor Walker told his police heads. c Immediately 20 detectives went to s the lower east side and raided nine y of the estimated 1,000 speakeasies in r a mile-and-a-half area. Thirteen persons were arrested.

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