Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1928 — Page 1

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fa SHUMAKER I SHOPS FIGHT TO If HOF SENTENCE ■superintendent Os Anti- ■ Saloon League Withdraws I Plea For New Trial Bready TO GO ■ AT ANY TIME” K Indiarapolis. Ind., Oct. 18—(U.R> H _The Rev. E. S. Shumaker will leave for the Indiana state farm I at Pitnamville Friday morning to ■ begin serving his 63-day sentence ■ for contempt of the Indiana Sup- ■ leme Court. II Indianapolis, Oft. 18.—(U.R) Hhe Rev. Edward S. Shumaker, ■superintendent of the Indiana Knti-Saloon League, today ■dropped Ids legal tight to ■escape his sentence to the IndiEiiki stale farm for contempt of ■coiirl. H Apparently reconciled to spending ■«0 days on the farm, Shumaker filed ■wiih the supreme court a motion to Kithdraw his plea for a new trial on K motion for a rehearing of the con■tempt charge against him. 1 ■ The motion which Shumaker asked ■be withdrawn was filed in antifica■tion of proceedings in the U. S. su■preme court. ?| “The respondent (Shumaker) does ■not intend t take such proceedings ■in said cause and in justice and fairness to this honorable court hereby ■withdraws said motion for a new trial ■on said motion for a rehearing,” it ■said. Must Go Soon a With the filing of today’s action ■Shumaker must go to the farm to ■ begin his sentence as soon as coni- ■ miitmenl papers are issued by the ■court. I Shumaker said he was “ready to Igo at any time,” the sheriff should ■ serve the committment papers. I "I would, however, like to have ■ time to call Mrs. Shumaker, who ■ would like to go down with me,” he ■ said. I Shumaker's surrender to the suI preme court today was understood to I have come after a decigion of the I Indiana Anti-Saloon League trustees I advising him to drop his appeal. The I trustees previously had been supportI ing him in his plan to appeal to the I federal court, it was said. • Settlement Os Indiana Mine Strike Predicted Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 18.—(U.R)— Settlement today of the Indiana coal | mi, ‘ing situation of a $6.10 basic wage scale with a 91 cent rate for I tonnage workers was predicted by I outside observers. It was generally rumored that the subcommittee was completing final J details of the agreement to be signed ater by the representatives of the >«H scale committees. Neither operatois nor miners would confirm the rumor but they seemed >o sidestep denial. One Killed In Beer War thicago, Oct. 18.— (U.R) — One man was dead today and another critically wounded in a flareup of the dreaded war lor control of the south side beer MISSIONARY TO SPEAK SUNDAY J. J. Kingham, Os Mat*ras ’ India, To Speak At Methodist Church Here J J - Klngham, of Madras, India, w'd speak at the First Methodist j ar C| 1 ln this city next Sunday morng I’l' Kinkham, as a young man. as sent to India by the First Methochu' < i' UrC ' 1 ° f P ' ort Wayne, as that uertr t rotssionary. He has contintil h < 6 llonore<l with promotion tin- ? 8 now district superintendent of large Madras district. lous'h Kinkllan ’ 18 now enjoying a fur- "* 1118 ho,ne country. He has . several days at the First Methochurch 'h« h P ° rt Wayne ' which tenm.i ■ been cel ebrating its cena slan t < Klnkham is scheduled for district nerancyover the Fort Wayne moinin’ a JV' < WIU appear here Sunday sonant ”** 18 a man °f Pleasing perviril V ai 'd '‘is quiet manner, yet erful lIHBBa 8 p makes his services powai ‘d inspirational.

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I’ ’ | Decatur Man Receives Letter Brought Across Atlantic By Zeppelin Godfried Nesswald, 519 Marshall street, today received a letter fiom a , giand nephew. Curt Herning, of Wurtzburg, Germany, that was brought across the Atlantic on the giant German dirigible, Giaf Zeppelin. The letter bore a special stamp, on which was printed a picture of the Zeppelin. On one end of the stamp was the word "Europe" on the othei end, "America". The stgmp cost two Marks* The young man has a hobby of collecting stamps ’ and he requested that Mr. Nesswald send the stamp hack to him. I Bert Hassell And Parker 1 Cramer Return To Chicago Chicago, Oct. 18. 'U.R; Bert J. Hassell and Parker Cramer, whose attempted flight to Sweden from Rockford. 111., ended in Greenland, arrived - here today, enroute back to Rockford , for a homecoming celebration. I The fliers were met at the Chicago union station l>y Mayor Burt Allen, of > Rockford and a number of Rockford - business men. I" The committee extended to the fliers congratulations of the city and 5 then escorted them to a special train 1 which will carry them back to Rock- ’ ford. i o , HALEY BOY DIES OF PERITONITIS —— Six-Year-Old Son Os Mr. i And Mrs. Nade Haley Dies At Hospital Today Virgil Harold Haley, aged 6 years, 1 died at the Adams County Memorial hosiptal, at 1 o’clock this morning, . Thursday, October 18, 1928, from peritonitis, which set in yesterday, follow > ing an operation for appendicitis a I week ago. Virgil Harold was the son of Nade ! and Golda Haley and was born August > 22, 1922, cue and one half miles east ! of Decatur. He is survived by his patents, two sisters, Betty Isabel and Hel- . en Maxine, at home; two half sisters , Mis. Gaynell Hart, of Decatur, and , Fern Secaur, at home; and two halfi brothers, Kenneth and Guy Secaur, , both at home. Virgil was a student in the first J grade at the South Waul school, hav- ’ ing entered with the opening of school last month. He was a pupil of Miss Eva Acker. The remains were removed from the I BiAck undertaking parlors to the home at 116 Keklonga street. Funeral ser- . vices will be held Saturday afternoon I at 1:30 o’clock at the home and 2:00 . o'clock at the Church cf God. Rev. D. r M. Lyons of Defiance, Ohio, a former . pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Decatur , cemetery. ' o . 1 Michael H. Luttman Dies At ‘ Home Near New’ Corydon 1 Geneva. Oct. 18— (Special)-Michael I Homer Luttman, 37. died of diptheria and acute typhoid lever, Sunday morning, at his home near New Corydon. He had been ill only one week. Mr. 1 Luttman was a son of George and Dora Macklin Luttman, and was born in 1 Wabash township, Jay county, July 15, 1891. On September 5, 1912, he was married to Mae Fennig. Surviving are the widow; four children, Idora, Beatrice, Maiy Jane and Junior; father; two brothels, Olin and Allen, of \\ abash township; and two sisters. Ada F Judy, of Bryant, and Lillie Fennig, of New Corydon. Baptists End Convention Seymour, Ind., Oct. 18. —(U.R) The . Indiana Baptist Association annual convention was to adjourn late this afternoon after election of officers. —o- —— More Contributions To t Red Cross Fund Received . Contributions continue to come in -for tile Red Cross fund for the relief t of hurricane victims in Florida and - Porto Rico. The total donated in Ad- • ams county, so far, is $833.07, which f is still nearly S2OO below the county's quota of $1,025. Word from the strick- - en area states that the condition there s is still bad and more money is needed. - The donations reported today are: 1 Previous total $Bl4 26 - Miss Edna Egley .... 100 r Mis. Walter Reppeit I- 60 > Zion Lutheran Missionary Society 5.00 r Mrs. Emma Thompson 25 - So Cha Rea 2 t Union Chapel S. S 5 'JO - Cash 106 Total $833.0/

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. Mrs. Genevieve Stubs, divorcee and beauty shop owner of South Bend, Ind., who disappeared from her home seven months ago after telling her sister she was goine to keep a tryst with Charles L. Reyher, a married man, and whose body has been found in a pile of lime near Elkhart, Ind. Mrs. Reyher admitted, “I hired a detective lor SSO to get that woman out of South Bend. I had to do that or lose my husband.” Both Reyher and his wife are being held by the police and a warrant has been issued for the detective, named by Mrs. Reyher as J. Harvey Smith.

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PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT Women’s Missionary Circle To Present Program At Baptist Church This evening, at 7:30 o'clock the Woman's Misionary Circle of tne Baptist church will present a program full of interest, including a pageant, “The Way of Knowledge," to which the public is cordially invited. This is a part of the program the church is putting on this week as “loyalty week." Tomorrow evening, two groups will meet, the women at the church and the brotherhood at the home of Roy Johnson, 310 North Tenth street. Both groups have splendid programs. Sunday will be a climax to the week, when the families of the congregation will sit together in the morning hour for worship, and after the service will eat a pot-luck dinner together. The evening hour will be spent with the work of art* Watts picture, Sir Galahad. Friends of the church are cordially invited. Geneva Man Fined For Speeding At Berne Berne, Oct. 18.—(Special)—Harold Derrickson, of Geneva, was arrested here Tuesday evening by Marshal Amos Neuenschwander, on a charge 'of speeding. Derrickson pleaded guilty to the charge when arraigned In court before Squire Stengel, and ’ paid a tine of $1 and costs, amounting to $9.05. O Youth Fined For Using Wrong License Plates i Robert W. Witham, 17, of this city, • was fined $1 and costs by Mayor I George Krick in city court last night I after he entered a plea of giulty to a i charge of using wrong license plates I on his automobile. Witham was arresti ed yesterday evening by Sheriff Harl 1 Hollingsworth and Hal C. Ayers, state ’ motor policeman.

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Says He Is ‘‘Ready To Die Like A Man”; Hanging Set For Tomorrow By Gerald P. Overton, UP Staff Correspondent San Quentin State Prison, Calif., Oct. 18.—(U.R)—Alone* with his conscience in the old death cell of San Quentin prison. William Edward Hickman today watched with outward calm the passing of the few hours of life left to him. Shortly after 10 a. m. tomorrow Hickman will be led from the cell over the last short path of San Quentin's condemned and will mount the scaffold to forfeit his life in atonement for the murder of Marion Paiker. Final Farewells Said Hickman’s final farewells were said, and the only legal means that offered a remote possibility of delaying the hanging had been abandoned. gcoNTiNitKn ox aiiKi’.r.i CHICAGO KEEPS SMITH HUSTLING Candidate Unable To Get Expected Rest; Accorded Rousing Reception Chicago, Oct. 18. —(U.R) —Gov. Alfred E. Smith found the windy city bustling with politics today and the local Democratic leaders told him it was blowing his way. Having come here under the mistaken impression that he might rest for a day. only to find scores of plans for turbulent demonstrations, the Democratic nominee succeeded to the pleas of the leaders and gave himself up to two intensive days of ’ campaigning. Delegates besieged him at his hotel headquarters, rushed in witli plans for this or that parade, photographers of the,' mentropolitan I papers boomed flashlights in his ears, ( a hundred newspapermen assembled (CONTIF* l ®D ON PAGE TWO)

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EIGHT MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED BY DEMOCRATS Several School House Meetings Planned Besides Larger Gatherings — CLEVELAND, STUMP AND WARD SPEAKERS Eight Democratic political meetings are scheduled for next week in Adams tcunty, the first three meetings being scheduled for next Monday night. The biggest meeting of the week will be the Cleveland meeting next Tuesday night, in Decatur, when Hon. Richaid F. Cleveland, of Baltimore, Maryland, son of former president Grover Cleveland, will deliver an address here. People from all parts of the county are planning to hear Mr. Cleveland and details for the event are being completed. Don Ward To Speak Monday night, Don C. Ward, of Union City, Democratic cairflldate for congress from the eighth district, will speak at the Kohr school house, Union township; at the Fuelling school house in Root township, and the Freidheim school house, Preble township. He will make a 25 minutes talk at each place. Other speakers at th° three meetings will be Dore B. Erwin, H. B. Heller. John W. Tyndall and D. D. Coffee, of Decatur, and Thurman Gottschalk. Berne. On Wednesday night, October 24. Mr. Ward will speak at the Kinsey school in Blue Creek township; at the Jefferson high school in Jefferson township and at the school house in Linn Grove, fie will speak about 25 minutes at each place. Other speakers at tiles' 1 meetings will be Daniel N. Erwin, John T. Kelly and Senator George L. Sauuders of Bluffton, who will speak at Linn Grove. On Friday night, October 26, Albert Stump, Democratic candidate for United States senator, will speak at Berne. Mr. Waid, will also speak at the Berne meeting and judging from interest shown in Mr. Stump's visit to Adams county, the meeting will be one of the largest held in the county. The meeting will be held at Berne Auditorium. OPEN PORTION OF FORTWAYNE ROAD Five Miles Os New Pavement Open; Paving Work . Ended Until Spring The laying of concrete of Federal road No. 27, south of Fort Wayne to the Nine Mile house, will be completed today, William Kemmer, road inspector for the state highway commision, informed C. S. Schafer of this city today. The road has been improved from Fort Wayne south to the Nine Mile house, leaving a stretch of four miles from that point to the Adams county line which will not be improved until next spring. The highway will be opened as soon as the Thompson bridge is completed. Work has just started on this bridge and Mr. Kemmer stated that he believed it would be opened about December 1. An effort will be made to rush the construction work, it was stated. The road will be opened five miles south of Fort Wayne, connection being made to it by taking the east road north of Poe. This stretch of five miles of pavement will be opened at once, but the balance of the road cannot be opened until the Thompson bridge is constructed. o Northeastern Indiana Teachers Open Session Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 18. — (U.R) — The Northeastern Indiana Teachers Association convened here today for its annual session, with attendance of ! 2,500 forecast. The sessions will continue through Friday. o Man Sues City Os Muncie For $50,000 ' Muncie, Ind., Oct. 18. —(U.R)—Dam--1 ages of $50,000 were asked in a suit ’ against the city of Muncie filed hjy 1 Fred Wortz, fox farm owner. He al--1 leged pollution of White river through 1 dumping of city sewage has damaged his land and menaced livestock.

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| Dailey To Get Vote Os Man He Sent To Federal Penitentiary Terre Haute. Ind., Oct. 18. — “Mr. Dailey, do you remember me? This question was put to Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for governor, by a white-haired man as the governorship candidate left the Shrine temple here, where he made a political speech this week. “Yes, I remember your face," Mr. Dailey answered as the whitehaired man gripped his hand. ‘‘Well, I am one of them. I'm one of the men you sent to prison.” and the man still gripped Dailey's hand. Lifting ids hat, the man tilted his head. “This head of hair was black when I went to prison, and it is white now,” he said. “You put every one of these white hairs there. But you are a man and 1 am going to help put you in the governor's chair because I know you will do your duty, and we need that kind of a man there.” The man was one of the 100 or defendants who were sent to Federal Prison when Mr. Dailey prosecuted the election fraud conspiracy cases in Terre Haute while he was United States district attorney. S.S. CONVENTION TOOPENTUESDAY Dayton, Ohio, Man to Speak At County Convention In Berne Next Week Berne, Oct. 18.. — (Special) — Dr. Charles W. Brewbaker, of Dayton, Ohio, nationally known religious educator, will lie the principal speaker at the convention of the Adams County Sunday School Association, to be held in Berne next Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday, October 2-1 and 24. Several other speakers will appear on the program, which was announced today by E. E. Bierie, of Berne, president of the county organizaton. The opening session will be held in I the Reformed church Tuesday evening. The Wednesday morning and afternoon sessions will lie held in the Evangelical church, and the closing session, Wednesday evening, will be held in the First Mennonite church. The complete program for the convention is as follows: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Song Service, Directed by Henry Muth, Geneva. Devotionals, Rev. 11. Ferntheil. Decatur. Music, Young People’s Chorus, Berne. Address, Mr. Charles R. Lizenby. State Superintendent of Young People’s Department. Offering. Duet, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, Miss Dessolee Chester, Decatur. Address, Dr. C. W. Brewbaker. General Secretary, United Brethren Church, Dayton, Ohio. Closing Remarks. Benediction. Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. Devotionals, Rev. A. M. Clauser, Berne. Music, Berne High School, directed by Miss Wilma Dick. Young People's Conference, Addresses by Dr. Brewbaker and Mr. Lizenby. Music. Practical Teaching Demonstration, Miss Nellie C. Young, State Supt. of Children’s Division. Appointing of Nominating Committee. Announcements. Benediction. Wednesday, 2 p.m. Devotionals, Rev. S. L. Cover, Pleasant Dale, Brethren. Address, Miss iNellie C. Young. Address. Mr. Chas. R. Lizenby. Duet, Mrs. Harry Meshberger, Mrs. ; Frank Neusbaum. Linn Grove. Address, Dr. C. W. Brewbaker. ’ Open Conference. Announcements. Benediction. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Song Service, Directed by W. F. Beery, Decatur. 1 Devotionals, Rev. E. M. Foster, Monroe. Report of Nominating Committee Music, Mennonite Men's Chorus. ’ Address, Miss Nelle C. Young. Music, Mennonite Men's Chorus. i Address, Dr. C. W. Brewbaker. I Offering. Benediction.

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HOPE THAT TINY PLANE IS STILL IN AIR VANISHES No Word Received From Lone Airman On Flight Across North Atlantic MAY HAVE LANDED IN SECLUDED SPOT London, Oct. 18. — (U.R) Lieut. Commander H. C. MacDonald must be out of gasoline officials at Stag Lane airdrome said al 6 p.m. tonight. They hoped he had already landed til some out of the way spot, but had little belief that he was still in the air, they added. Commander MacDonald, a retired Royal Navy officer, left Harbor Grace, N. F., yesterday, to fly across the Atlantic in his tiny one-man DeHaviland Moth plane. As darkness fell, he had not been reported since leaving Newfoundland, more than 25 hours ago. Keep Flood Lights Burning Although gravely worried, British officials were reluctant to believe that MacDonald had met the fate of so many others who had attempted the perilous crossing. The commandant of Croydon airdrome ordered the flood lights to be j kept on until 9 p.m., indicating there still was some hope. With reckless daring, MacDonald 1 had started across the ocean alone in a light De Haviland Moth plane, with only 100 gallons of fuel. His margin of safety gradually neared the vanishing point this afternoon. Officials of the De Haviland Co., makers of the plane, told the United Press: “Commander MacDonald had 100 gallons of fuel alioard when he started. It is difficult to estimate how long he could remain in the air, liecause the speed of the wind is unknown. However, we can assume he is using four to four and one-half gallons of fuel an hour.’’ At a consumption of four gallons an hour, MacDonald would have a margin of 25 hours. Using four and one-half gallons, his margin would be cut to 22 hours. The 22 hours was up at 9:40 a.m. EST. While unfavorable weather prevailed in ills course approaching Ire land, west winds reported across the Atlantic may have enabled the flier to conserve his fuel. Visibility was good on the south coast of Ireland, but earlier it had been poor. Close watch was kept for MacDonald all along the Irish and English coast. Constant reports came to the United Press from all points. "No news of MacDonald." England was aroused to a high point of interest by the exploit of the young naval officer. While an experienced navigator, and a British submarine officer during the war, his flying experience was small. The public imagination was fired by his attempt to duplicate a feat accomplished only by Charles A. Lindbergh, and that in a larger and betterequipped plane. o ADVERTISERS NAMEOFFICERS William Linn Elected President; December 4 Is First “Gift Day” William Linn, local clothier, was elected president of the Decatur Advertising association, at a meeting of the ’ newly elected directors Wednesday evening. Other officers elected are A. R. Holthouse, secretary, and Herman H. Myers, treasurer. The officers ' of the Association agreed that the special bargain day events would be called "Gift Days.” This morning, the officers completed the rounds of the local retail merchants and 85 merchants have already joined the Advertising association. ■ This association has for its purpose the advertising of the Decatur retail trading center and the broadcasting of the merits of this city as a shopping and trading center. Advertising material will be placed in the windows and the public will know which stores are members of the association. The first Gift Day event will be held in Decatur on Tuesday. December 4, it was announced.