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GOV. SMITH IS OPTIMISTIC AS election nears Enters Last Month Os Campaign With Victory Psychology Rampant PI ANS TO PLAY 1 FOR THE “BREAKS” Washington. Oct. 10.-OJ.R)-Gover-r Alfred E. Smith enters the Inst n th of his campaign for the presliency with his victory phychology rampant despite Wall street betting (ddJ against him. He has been def ated lor public office but once, a record similar to that of President t. lidge. and hence he radiates confidence ami good health. Seasoned political observers at this stage are hesitant in predicting the outcome of the presidential race th s year because of a number of fact rs which may swing it unexpectedly one way or the other. Points To Past Victories He says that the very last week of a campaign is the most important, and points to victories in New York state which he believes he won in the closing days, because his opponents, as he phrases it, “spilled the beans’’ He will play for the ‘breaks’ in this last phase of the campaign. Smith enters this final scrimmage in good physical condition. He was a bit tired when he returned to Albany from his western tour, but he has rested and played golf and is again relaxed and in fine spirits. Since the first western trip, he has been assessing its results. It was his last contact with that broad territory beyond the Mississippi. He thinks the trip made many votes f r him. People turned out in veritable droves to see and hear him. He dscussed the issues which are important in one section or another in the west and northwest —farm relief, waterpower, prohibition, inland waterways and immigration. Democrats have renewed confidence in that area because of his personal appearance and his speeches there. He went before them the "Al” Smith that New' York knows, talked in the language of the ordinary man, and the people seemed to like it. There was everywhere a neighborliness about the receptions, as if Smith had come over from the next county, rather than from hundreds of miles away. At Oklahoma City, he challenged the "whispering campaign’’ against him, embodying all sorts of reports al« ut his religion, his Tammany affiliations and his personal life. He found the religious issue and the Tammany issue" also raised against him in other parts of the west. Os all his western speehes, the Democratic candidate said he had received (CONTINUED ON PACjE TWO) O

RAZOR ATTACK STORY FRAMED Van Wert Woman Invents Hoax To Get Material For Movie Scenario Van Wert, Ohio, Oct. 10.—(U.PJ—A wave of fear by local, woman lest , r homes be entered by tramps with intent of violence today calmed 111 a humorous smile over efforts of a local authoress to “get original material for a picture play, or movie K 'enario and persons who had been PUM.ed by the report of an attack by a "dirty" brutal man on Mrs. William ttmerickhouse dropped the questons they had wondered about sevetal days and expressed interest in whether "the play will be shown in van Wert.’* I olice officers who had* been frank- •' puzzled by circumstances of the ,e Port that a man entered Mrs. Humenckhouse’s home last Thursday and u her with a razor sighed with relet at seeing an end to the investiKHtion. "it was a pretty knotty probe ®." Chief of Police W. E. Jackson this morning as he held a signed a ement by Mrs. Humerickhouse a there had been no attack as she , ported an d that the whole affair < uding two threatening notes, was f nvention for the purpose “to obh original material for a picture P f y . * hich lam writing.” Mrs. HumH house has had several’pieces of on Published and has written some Movie scenarios.

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Advertising Association To Meet This Evening The old members of the Decatur Ad vertising Association and any merchant who wishes to affiliate with a reorganization of the association will meet t night at 7:30 o’clock in the Decatur Industrial Association rooms above the J. and J. grocety. a movement is on f ot to revive the special sales days in Decatur and everyone who is interested in helping advance the trading area of Decatur is ask ed to be present tonight. Several plans are proposed and it h likely that the meeting will result in the oiganiz ing of a new association, having for its purpose the biinging of people to this city to do their trading. $2,150 DAMAGES AWARDED YOUTH Clarence Fryback Wins Sait Second Time In Adams Circuit Court A jury in the Adams circuit court 1 eturned a verdict at 1:45 o’clock this afternoon in the case of Clarence Fryback, Allen county youth vs. Hlrman and Virgie Morton, awarding $2,750 damages to the plaintiff for injuries alleged to have been sustained when struck the defendant’s automobile at Poe, Allen county, on July 6,1926. The Jurors began their delibeiations at 11:25 o’clock and took several minutes off for lunch before returning the verdict. Thit was the second time the case had been tried in the local court, a | verdict awarding the plaintiff $1,500 damages having been returned on Novvetnber 3, 1927. The defendants’ motion for a new trial was granted, however, and the case was brought to trial again. The case was venued here from Allen county. o-. Youth Kills Fiancee; Attempts His Own Life Kansas City. Mo., Oct. 10. (U.R) Glenn Jenkins, 20, brought the body of his fiancee, Marie Young, 21, to police headquarters today, and explained that he had stabbed her to death at her own request. Before entering police headquarters, Jenkins drank poison hut was not affected seriously. Later he leaped over a railing in the police station and fell to the door fifteen feet below. His skull was fractured and he was taken to a hospital, where is was said his condition is serious. "1 am ready to be hanged,’’ Jenkins told officers. He declared he had known the girl for a year and a half and that she frequently asked him to kill her. Why, he said, he did not know. o Auto And School Bus Collide; Children Hurt Dublin, Jnd., Oct. 10—(U.R)— Twentythree school children were slightly cut and bruised near here today when a school bus driven by Harry Henley overturned after being struck by an automobile driven by Di. C. E. Test, a veterinarian. Dr. Test’s 6-year-old son was riding with him was severely bruised. None of the twenty-three in the bus escaped injury. The most seriously hurt were Ruth and Alberta Huddleston, who sustained cuts on their arms. After the two machines struck, the bus overturned and hurled its youthful passengers into the road. Dr. Test said he was driving about 25 miles an hour. o — Coolidge Warns Against Lax Religious Convictions Washington, Oct. 10 — (U.R) — President Coolidge warned today that laxtions will forfeit the guarantees for tions will forfeit the guaranties for protection of life and liberty. The President addressed the general convention of the Etpiscopal church in session here today. Upon religion, the President said, rests “our right to be free, the support of our principles of justice, our obligations to each other in Domestic affairs and in our duty to humanity abroad, our confidence in each other and the fabric of our government itself. Q “No-Car” Rule Violated Champaign, 111., Oct. 10. —(U.R) — Two University of Illinois students were dropped from school for one semester for violating the "no-car’ rule, the council of administration announced today. They are B. C. Bacevich, Indiana Harbor, Ind., and Edward F. Thompson, Jr., Oak Park, 111.

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Buddies of the Western front are swapping reminiscenses, singing old songs and indulge in post-war gossip at the tenth annual convention of the American Legion, which is in session this week at San Antonio, Texas. The new' $2,000,000 war memorial auditorium at San

LOCAL FACTORY’S GROWTH RELATED President Os Dick BurdgLarson Corporation Speaks To Lions Club The gradual growth of one of Decatur's baby industries from thd time of its birth a few years ago until it has reached the overgrown baby stage and the time when expansion appears to be necessary, was described to the members of the Lions Club last night, by Dick Burdg, president and general manager of the Dick Burdg-Larson Corporation, manufacturers of electrical refrigeration machines. Mr. Burdg first told of his ear’.y experiences in the electrical refrigeration field and how he first started business for himself about five years ago. His first factory was in his back yard under a shade tree, and he used Ins barn as a warehouse. Later, Gustave Larson joined him in the business and the company was incorporated at $15,000 as the Dick BurdgLarson Corporation. A factory building was erected on Cleveland street and the business expanded somewhat. At first, only one or two castings were ordered at a time, but now the company receives 25 castings at a time, and turns out on an average of two complete machines per week. The factory is large enough to employ between ten and fourteen men. The machines manufactured by the local firm are used chiefly in hotels, apartment houses and meat markets. Mr. Burdg stated that his company is now working on a smaller model which they hope to place on the market in the near future and which will be suitable for confectionery stores, restaurants and small meat markets. The company has received inquiries concerning their product from four or five foreign countries, in addition to selling their product in many of the states. Mr. Burdg stated that the business of his company has grown so much iu recent years that it is planned to increase the capital stock to $50,000 in the near future. Whether or not the factory will remain in Decatur when it expands will depend large y on the amount of stock sold here, he said. Don Farr was in charge of the program at the Lions Club meeting last night. Mrs. Ross To Speak At Fort Wayne Saturday Indianapolis, Oct. 10. — (U.R) — Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, former governor of Wyoming, will contribute two radio speeches in Indiana tor Governor Smith’s candidacy, the Democratic state speakers' bureau announced today. Mrs. Ross will speak at Fort Wayne Saturday night and at Laporte Monday night. Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, will speak at Huntington Friday night and Peru Saturday night.

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Striking Miner, Age 88, Is Anxious To Return To Work; Is Getting To Fat Petersburg, Ind., Oct. 10. — (U.R) — John Aikens, 88, Civil war veteran, i hopes Indiana miners and operators j will soon reach a wage agreement so he can go back to work in Atlas mine No. 1. here. Aikens declares he is getting too fat and believes digging coal wi 1 take off weight. He is the oldest miner in the southern Indiana fields. SEEK HUSBAND OF SLAIN WOMAN Fort Wayne Police Also Search For Man Who Often Visited Woman’s Rooms Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 10. —(U.R) — Police today searched for a man who has made frequent visits to the apartment here of Mrs. Marion Durbin, whose scantily clothed body was found in a pool of b'ood in her apartment, apparently beaten to death with a blunt instrument. A search was also under way for the woman’s husband, police said. According to relatives, Mrs. Durbin was married two years ago, but they, have never learned her husband’s name. She had been living under the name of Durbin, while her right name is Ruth Freeland, relatives said. A business man who was with the dead woman until six o'clock on the date which she was killed, has been released. It was said she was killed several hours after he left the apartment. Police said, an investigation of her apartment yesterday revealed the names of a number of persons known to be connected with the underworld. This angle will be investigated they said. Although rings on the dead woman’s fingers were not taken, robbery ■was believed the motive of the slaying. O Farmers To Get Chance To Say “Hody” To Smith Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 10 —(U.R) —Indiana farmers will have an opportunity to greet Gov. Alfred E. Smith with "Howdy” and a handshake when the Democratic Presidential nominee visits Indianapolis Saturday afternoon October 20. Fann men and women of the state were invited by State Chairman R. Earl Peters today to attend a reception for the New York governor in a local hotel. Virgil Simmons, of Bluffton, chairman of the Democratic state speakers bureau, today assumed charge of the state wide aspects of Smith's visit. Tentative arrangements allot the nominee only three hours in Indianapolis.

Antonio, is shown above ’in an excellent ar view. Left, Major General Beaumont B. Buck, commander of the Third United States Division in the Meuse-Argonne, who was grand marshal of the Legion's parade; right, Edward E. Spafford, national commander, and below, a column of the Lanks shortly before sailing for France.

TEACHERS WILL MEET SATURDAY Indiana University Instructor Will Speak At Teachers Institute Dr. Harold T. Davis, of Indiana University, will deliver a lecture on the subject, “Modern Notions cf Time and and Space,” during the forenoon session of the regular monthly teachers institute, to be held at Monroe next Saturday. The institute will open at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Following Davis’ address, the teachers will have their regular group work. The extension classes will meet during the afternoon. Persons, whether or not they are school teachers, who wish to enroll in the extension classes and receive college credit for their work, are invited to do so. It is not too late to enter the classes and receive full credit for the term’s work, Clifton Striker, county superintendent, said today. The following extension classes meet at each of the institutes which ate held cn the second Saturday of each month: "Measurements in Tests,” taught by Prof. Scarf, of Muncie Normal; “Teaching of Ideals," taught by Prof. Wagner, of Manchester College "Home Nut sing”, taught by Miss Finley, of Indiana University; “Psychology of High School subjects,” taught by Prof. Stanford, of Indiana University; and “Music and Art Appreciation," taught by Miss Crosby, of Muncie Normal. o Grass Fires Give City Firemen Workout The fire department was called at 1 o'clock this afternoon to extinguish a grass fire along the Pennsylvania tracks, east of the Krick-Tyndall Tile factory. Sparks from a train are thought to have started the fire. Another grass fire was burning along the Pennsylvania rafroad tracks south of Decatur, back of the Johnson and Trout farms. Considerable smoke arose from the fire and it was first thought that the woods near the tracks were on fire. Investigation proved that the flames were confined to the grass along the right-of-way. Due to tire drought in this section of the country, grass fires have been common, recently. Firemen will appreciate any help in putting out the flames before they spread. o Young Father Faces Life Term In Prison Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 10.—(U.R) — Robert Buchanan, 22, Bloomfield, who has a wife and two children, today faced a life term in the Indiana state prison. A jury in Monroe circuit court found Buchanan 'guilty of murdering Orville Wires, 25, at his home five miles north of here last Easter morning.

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George Dale To Testify In Grand Jury Inquiry Muncie, Ind., Oct. 10.—(U.R)—George R, Dale, editor of a weekly newspaper here, has been called as a witness before the Delaware county grand Jury, ordered into special session Friday for a probe of the liquor and gambling situation here. Recently Dale’s paper charged that a high city official violated the prohibition law when he had gone to a party in a local hotel. Attorney Thomas Miller's declaration that "there is more vice in Muncie” than there has been since I lived here caused circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth to call the grand jury.

DAIRYMEN HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION 1 1 Sol Mosser Elected Presi- 1 dent Os County Cow Testing Association j At a meeting held recently at Mon- i roe, the Adams County Cow Testing < Association reorganized for the fifth i consecutive year. The year begins t October 1 and continues for the fol- < lowing twelve months. Election of officers took place and the following men were chosen as officers for the - new year. President, Sol Mosser, of ■ Geneva; vice-president, Noah Rich, < Monroe; secretary, C. W. R. Schwartz, i Berne; secretary-4reasurer, P. D. 1 Schwartz, Berne. A board of directors was also named including the officers listed above and Jacob J. Schwartz, of Berne. G. A. Williams, of Purdue, who is in charge of the cow testing work all over the state, was present and talked over problems confronting the members. Mr. Williams emphasized the proper care and attention of the dry cow. The association decided to retain R. L. Price as tester for the coming year. Mr. Price has continuously tested for the association since its beginning four years ago and his reputation as a tester of merit is state-wide. Twenty-eight members have signed up for the work during the new year, including seven new , members who took the place of those , dropping out because of herd dispersion. The annual report made by Mr. Price will be out within a few days. Those joining the association this year are as follows: Beavers and Goldner, Otto D. Bieberich, Amos Z. Smith. Peter B. Lehman, E. H. K'ruetzman, Sol Mosser, David J. Mazelin, Peter I). Schwartz, Noah Rich, Dennis Striker, David F. Mazelin, C. W. R. Schwartz, Menno P. Steury, Dan P. Steury, Dan D. Schwartz, Dan Mazelin, Jacob J. Schwartz, John J. Schwartz, Thomas Durkin. Rudolph Steury, E. S. Christen, Mrs. Burton Niblick, E. O. Wass, E. E. Waltmire, Henry Yake, Dan H. Habegger. Henry P. Graber. n —

o Local Banks To Be Closed All Day Friday Each of the three banks in Decatur will be closed all day Friday, Oct. 12, ' in observance of Discovery Day. Men Os Reformed Church To Gather At Goshen Goshen, Ind., Oct. 10. — (U.R) —The fourth annual Men’s congress of the Reformed church in the United States will be held here Sunday. Attendance of 700 is expected from twenty churches in the Fort Wayne classis, which Includes northeastern Indiana anil southern Michigan. o China Inaugurates New President Today Shanghai, Oct. 10.—(U.R)—General Chiang Kai-Shek was inaugurated president of China today. For the first time in 17 years of her history as a republic, China thus attained a unified central government. This was a national holiday. Chang was installed at Nanking, the Nationalist capital, with impressive ceremonies, amid general rejoicing. He was made chairman of the Nationalist government council, with the title of president. o—- ’ To Deport Indiana Prisoner Indianapolis, Oct 10 —(U.R) — Upon ' request of immigration authorities, Edward Malek, who is serving a five to twenty-one year term in Indiana State I prison, was paroled by Gov. Ed Jack- ‘ son Tuesday so that he may be deport- - ed to Poland. Malek was convicted in Allen County, August 1, 1927.

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START OF FLIGHT NOW SET FOR 8 A. M. TOMORROW Commander Decides to Start Trans-Atlantic Flight Thursday If Possible 7GO-FOOT AIR MONSTER READY Friedrichshafen, Germany, Oct. 10. — (U.R; — The Graf Zeppelin is ready to start for the United States at 8 a. m. tomorrow. Dr. Hugo Eckener, trusting in the stability of his 700-foot air monster and anxious to prove that she is more than a “fair weather” ship, decided late today to make the attempt if it is at all possible. Weather reports, which postponed yesterday's scheduled sailing, were more favorable. An adverse change over night might cause Eckener to reverse his decision, but he was determined to avoid doing so if he could. Strong Winds Threaten Friedrichshafen. Germany, Oct. 10. —(U.R)—A prospective foehn, or hot, strong wind from the Alps, threatened today to delay further the start of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin for the United States. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible, was optimistic, however, he said he would start as soon as possible—even today if weather reports from the Atlantic improved suddenly. .The area of depression at sea was moving eastward rapidly. The foehn was an unknown quantity. This birthplace of dirigibles is on the southern border, of Germany, on Lake Constance, which divides Germany from Switzerland Foehns sometimes threaten for days, then suddenly break loose within an hour or two, lasting for one or sometimes two days. If a foehn comes across Lake Constance, it would be impossible for the dirigible to rise, as the hot wind greatly augments the temperature, which, combined with low barometric pressure, would prevent the Graf Zeppelin from getting her heavy bulk off the ground. 0 — Illinois Takes Life Os Young Murderer Joliet, Ills., Oct. 10- <U.R) — Charles Chader, 21. was executed on the gallows at the Illinois state penitentiary two years ago in which Warden Fetter Klein was killed. The trap was sprung at 6:03 A. M. and Shader was pronounced dead a short time later. The execution was carried out in the yard of the VI ill County jail. Shader was the youngest of seven convicts who were sentenced to die for the murder of Klein. He was the fourth to die on the gallows for the clime.

W.F.M.S. HOLDS DISTRICT MEET Decatur Women Attend Convention Os Methodist Missionary Society The annual district convention of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church was held in Simpson church, Fort Wayne, Monday and Tuesday of this week. There were two missionaries home on furlough on the program, Miss Marie Adams, missionary to China, and Miss Mary Mann, who will soon return to Foochow, China. Dr. W. W. Wiant, district superintendent, conducted the communion services on Monday afternoon, at which time seventeen pastors of the district were present. On Tuesday, Dr. Wiant had a part in a playet which was educational and much enjoyed. He and his wife were presented with gifts from the W. F. M. S. as a token of love and appreciation for their untiring efforts during the past years. Regret was expressed that they are so soon to leave the district and take up their work in Indianapolis in a local j church. On Monday evening, a banquet was , enjoyed. At this banquet, Mrs. C. O. , Porter, the leader of Decatur Standard Bearers, a junior organization of the W. F. M. S., was toastmistress. Three 1 of the Decatur Standard Bearers resCCONTINL'KD ON PAUH TWO)

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