Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1928 — Page 1

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FODIE MEADOWS gets sentence AT CELINA, OHIO Man Held On Bank Robbery Charge Here Last Summer Sentenced Friday ADMITTED ROBBING ST. HENRY, OHIO, BANK Eddie Meadows, who was arrested at Hammond last summer and brought to this city to face a charge of robling the Linn Grove bank, and who was later taken to Lafayette, Ind., to face a charge of first degree murder in connection with the slaying of a police captain during a l>ank robbery, was sentenced at Celina. Ohio, Fi (lay. to serve from 10 to 25 years in the Ohio State penitentiary for lobbing the St. Henry. Ohio, bank. Meadows pleaded guilty when arraigned in court at Celina, yesterday, before Judge H. A. Miller. Meadows was taken to Celina re-c.-ntly, after authorities at Lafayette hnd failed in their efforts to connect him with the murder of Police Captain Charles Armand, of that city. When arraigned in xoiirt here on a charge of robbing the Linn Grove bank. Meadows pleaded not guilty. Bandit Gang Broken Up An indictment was returned against Meadows by the Mercer county grand jury at Celina last summer. With the sentencing of Meadows, cne of the boldest gangs of bank robbers that has worked in this part of the country in many years, was been broken up. Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth, of Decatur, deserves a large share of the credit for rounding up and convicting the gang. Four members of the gang have been sentenced, three in Ohio and one here. Charles Makley, of St. •Maiys, Ohio, was sentenced to serve from Hi to 20 years in the Indiana state prison when he pleaded guilty here to a charge of robbing the Linn Grove liank. Harry Smith, of St. Marys, was sentenced to serve 20 years in the Ohio prison when he pleaded guilty at Greenville, Ohio, to a charge of robbing the bank at Ansonia. Ohio. Eddie Axe, also of St. Marys, was sentenced at Celina last summer to serve 20 years in the Ohio prison, for robbing the bank at Chickasaw, Ohio. Meadow’s, Makley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheatley and Mrs. Edith Makley were arrested together at (C'OXTI.VIEU ON PAGE SIX) 0 William Fenters Dies At Home In New Corydon William Fenters, 82, former butcher and sawmill operator of New Corydon, died Tuesday evening, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Buckingham. Death was due to infirmities. Four daughters survive, Mrs. Della Reitenour, of Newcastle; Mrs. Ellis Butcher, of Pennville; Mrs. Henry Muth, of Geneva: and Mrs. Myrtle Bucking(am, of New Corydon. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the •'cw Corydon Lutheran Church. Burial *as made in the Riverside cemetery at Geneva. STATE TEACHERS END CONVENTION Superintendent Os Bloomington Schools Heads State Organization Indianapolis, Oct. 20.— (U.R) -.Thousnds of Indiana school teachers, gathlH llere for their annual convention, e P are d to leave for their homes toa L as their meeting drew to a close. -asi night's activities of the convention were featured by an address > G Bromley Oxnarn, new president Depauw University. Dr. Oxnam PtophesJed world pe’ace as a reality. Educational forces of the country,” '* said, "can create an attitude on nd affairs which eventually will ng controversies between nations batUe e fleW n ” erenCe ta, ” e inßtead ° f the N Tirey, superintendent of nreou hgton schools, has been elected \i r , K an d °'her officers include: dent. °' d ' e Bro’wn, Peru, vice-presi-and M &nt * PO' Etnmons, Mishawaka, enm i. & Kl^er > Monticello, executive tlve ". leenien at large. The execuI>n o i. eom,nltteemen succeeded Donald Columbus and Miss Verna Hoke, Gary

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GILLIOM STILL AFTER SHUMAKER Attorney General Begins Battle To Force Dry Leader To Serve Term Indianapolis, Oct. 20.—(U.R)—Attorney General of Indiana Arthur L. Gilliom has begun a battle to force E. S. Shumaker to serve the 60-day jail sentence from which he was pardoned by Governor Ed Jackson yesterday. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, was sentenced for contempt of the Indiana supreme court and it was in this court that Gilliom renewed his fight to place the dry leader in The attorney general filed a motion “By the state of Indiana” for an order which would direct execution of judgment despite a "pretended pardon by the governor.” Gilliom contended that Jackson had no power to issue the pardon. "The pardon,” he said, “is wholly void and of no effect because of complete want of power in said governor to pardon Shumaker.’’ Shumaker received his sentence for publication in the Indiana report of the American Issue, Anti-Saloon League publication, alleged contemptous statements toward the supreme court. Gilliom. in his supreme court petition, asked that the court. "Issue a committment directing the sheriff to take Shumaker into custody and deliver him to the superintendent of the Indiana state farm to serve his sentence.” Governor Jackson has refused to comment concerning Shumaker's pardon. * Dr. Shumaker too declined to comment. He was busy receiving congratulations by wire and telephone upon his release from prison. Drops Criminal Charge South Bend. Ind., Oct. 20. —<U.R)— Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today dropped his criminal case aganst Rev. Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana anti-saloon league superintendent, charging violation of the corrupt practices act. The action, brought here last spring, accused the dry leader of unjustly blacklisting Gilliom, then a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination, as "a wet of record. Gilliom explained today that he dismissed the case because it would be futile to prosecute Shumaker "for in the event, of a conviction Gov. Ed Jackson would pardon him." The attorney general filed the contempt of court proceedings against ShumaJltter in donnection with >the latter’s attack on state Supreme Court members as “wets.” Shumaker was sentenced to GO days in jail, but as he reached the Indiana prison farm at Putnamville, yesterday, to begin his sentence, Gov. Jackson wired a pardon. In his motion today, Gilliom pointed out that the pardon in the contempt case was granted without solicitations by Shumaker. o —‘— I Boy Accidentally Shot In Abdomen While Hunting Indianapolis, Oct. 20.—(U.R)—Ernest Deane, 16, was suffering from critical wounds today as the result of an accident which occurred while he was hunting with Chester Inllow, 14. Police said Inllow told them his gun was discharged Accidentally while he carried it across his shoulder, the muzzle pointing backward. Ihe charge struck Deane in the abdomen.

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Dunkirk Woman Dies Os Burns Friday Night Hartford City, Oct. 20.—Mrs. Samuel J. Foster, Jl, of near Dunkirk, died in the Blackford county hospital here Friday night of burns received early Friday morning when her house was destroyed by fire. Her son, Benjamin Foster, 47, was badly burned in attempting to save liis mother from the burning structure. Mr. Foster is under a physician’s care at the hospital. Mrs. Foster made an attempt to save part of her household goods by re-entering her home when the building was engulfed in flames. She was rescued by her son just before part of the roof caved in. Edmond Stevenson, who discovered the fire, assisted in pulling Mrs. Foster to safety. Mrs. Foster and her son were asleep in the house when the fire broke out. She discovered the fire and called her son before all lines of their escape were cut off by the 'Ttre. > . HOOVF.RNAMED IN “WHISPERING" Candidate’s Aides Strive To Halt Stories Being Broadcast By Thomas L. Stokes, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 20. — (U.R) — Herbert Hoover’s campaign aides, including Postmaster General New, are striving to halt two new "whispering" stories giving additional evidence that this presidential campaign is developing much bitterness in its closing days. George Akerson, Hoover’s secretary, has denounced as “unqualifiedly false” a new "whisper’’ that Hoover visited and danced with Mary Booze, negro national committeewoman from Mississippi at Mound Bayou, Miss., while on flood relief work last spring. Postmaster General New has suspended, pending further investigation, the postmaster and assistant postmaster at Lansford, Pa., because allegedly they had assisted in sending out, without proper postal marks, circulars attacking Hoover. The denial of the Booze story was contained in a telegram, prepared with Hoover's advice, sent to Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, who Akerson said, on the basis of southern press reports, had repeated the story in a recent speech in Memphis. “There is not the slightest foundation for it,” Akerson wired Bilbo. “It is the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign. "No more untruthful and ignoble assertion was ever uttered by a public man in the United States than that attributed to you.” Robert White, 73, Dies At Mendon, Ohio, Thursday Robert White, aged 73 years, father of the late Henry White of Preble, and grandfather of Robert and Niles White, died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Lillian White, in Mendon, 0., Thursday afternoon, at 6 o’clock. Mr. White had made his home in Mendon for the past 18 years. Surviving are four children, Mrs. Hattie Dodge, of Lima, Ohio; Clark White, cf Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. J. H. Ballinger, of Montezuma, Ohio; and Frank White, of Oklahoma. Funeral services will be held at the Mendon M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, with burial being made at Elmgrove cemetery, at St. Marys, Ohio.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 20, 1928.

miles east of Newfoundland. The plane in which MacDonald attempted the perilous hop is less than half the size of Coi. Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, but had a 100 horsepower motor and carried fuel sufficient to last 24 hours.

ECKENER STARTS TOUR VIA TRAIN Goes Over Part Os Route He Expects To Cover With Dirigible Washington, Oct. 20. —(U.R) — Dr. Hugo Eckener will depart by train today for a trip over part of the route he will cover next week when he visits the eastern half of the United States in liis dirigible- Graf Zeppelin. After a crowded day of sightseeing yesterday, Eckener had only one major engagement today—luncheon at the National Press Club. He will leave for Akron, 0., this afternoon with first Officer Lehman of the Zeppelin to visit the Goodyear Zeppelin plant. From Akron, he goes to Chicago. If weather and repairs permit, the Graf Zeppelin will start west from Lakehurst next Wednesday, stopping overnight at Scott Field, Belleville, 111. Thursday night the big ship is due back at Lakehurst and next Saturday, Eckener and his men expect to sail for Germany to complete the first round trip airplane crossing of the Atlantic for commercial purposes. Prussian Minister of the Interior Grezinski, who was a passenger on the flight from Germany, sailed yesterday from New’ York for home. During the inconveniences of the landing at Lakehurst, Grezinski hail suggested that the passengers boycott all entertainment while in the United States. O LEHRMAN BOY DIES FRIDAY Union Township Youth Dies Os Peritonitis At Memorial Hospital Here Lloyd Calvin Lherman, 11. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lehrman, residing eight and one half miles northeast of Decatur, died at 4:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, October 19, 1928, at the Adams County Memorial hosiptal, in this city. Death was due to peritonitis, which developed following an operation for appendicitis. The lad was taken to the hospital on Wednesday, where the operation was performed. Lloyd Lehrman was born February 21, 1917 in Union township, where he has always resided Surviving are the parents and the following brothers and sisters: John Lehrman, of Fort Wayne; Simon Lehrman, of Adams county; Mrs. Lillian Sehlerinmer of Fort Wayne; Harty Lehrman, of Tharp Washington; Delbert Lehrman, of Chicago; and Daniel, Paul, Mary and Joseph Lehrman at tlie parental home. Three children of the Lehrtnan family are deceased. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon, at 1:30 o’clock at the home and 2 o’clock at the East Liberty church, The Rev. Otice Uncapher, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be made in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Monroeville. o Funeral For Mrs. Smith To Be Held Here Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Etta Chronister Smith, of Bluffton, whose death occured Friday morning will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, at the home of her father, Samuel Chronister, 935 Mercer avenue, Decatur. Burial will be made in the Alpha cemetery, three miles north of Decatur.

M. F. WORTHMAN RE-ELECTED BY TEACHERS’BODY Superintendent Os Decatur Schools Retained As Secretary-Treasurer CONFERENCE AT FORT WAYNE ENDS M. F. Wort liman, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, was reelected secretary-treasurer of tlie Northeastern Indiana Teachers’ association, at the annual convention of the association in Fort Wayne, Friday. He has hfld the office for several years. Harry L. Veatch, instructor of physics in Central high school. Fort Wayne, was elected president of the association. He succeeds Elvin Eyster, of North Side high school. Fort Wayne. Ray Kuhns, of Pierceton, was elected vice-president, to succeed Clarence Green, of Auburn. Hughes Speaks The final session of the assembly of teachers was held at the Shrine auditorium yesterday afternoon at. 2 o’clock with Bishop Edwin Holton Hughes, president head of the Methodist church from the Chicago area, as the principal speaker. Bishop Hughes spoke on the subject of Christ as a teacher rather than a preacher. He did not base his talk on theology but pointed out the forceful methods of Jesus and the manner in which He was able to impress His messages upon the minds of His listeners and readers. “The New Testament refers to Jesus only three times as a preacher and 42 times as a teacher,” said Bishop Hughes. “His Sermon on the Mount might have better been known (CONTINUED ON' PAGE SIX) .ii 111 in. —'■ ■ ty~——— ■ FIRE DESTROYS COLTER SAWMILL Mill At Kendallville, Owned By Decatur Man And Brother, Burns Friday A sawmill in Kendalville, the property of Charles Colter of this city, and his brother, W. A. Colter, of Willshire, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last night with a loss estimated at $3,000. Firemen fought the blaze for four hours before it was brought under control. Lumber surrounding the mill, which is valued at thousands of dollars, was saved. The fire is believed to have originated in the boiler room. All the machinery was destroyed, together with the building, which was a one-story wooden structure, 40x80 feet. The mill had a force of 12 employees. A barrel of oil, stored near the boiler room, exploded shortly after the fire had been discovered. Frank Jordan is manager of the mill. The Messrs. Colters purrchased tho mill several months ago. o Tax-Paying Rush Is On At Treasurer’s Office The tax-paying rush has started at the county treasurer’s office, Ed A. Ashbaucher, county treasurer, stated today. This week has seen the collection of several thousand dollars In taxes. One day this week the receipts amounted to $20,(100. The last day to pay the fall Installment of taxes without the ten per cent penalty being added in Monday, November 5. oSeasonable Weather Is Forecast For Next Week Weather out look for period Oct. 22 to 29: Region of the Great Lakes — Not much precipitation first half of week, but general precipitation within later half. No marked departures from seasonable temperatures. o— Arrest Made In Probe Os Baltimore Bond Theft Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 20.—(U.R) — Michigan City police today placed under arrest Edward J. Sweeney, Chicago investment broker. The officers said they desired to question Sweeney concerning a large quantity of bonds allegedly stolen in Baltimore, Cleveland, 0., and Chicago. The amount of the bonds was $200,000.

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Pardoned by Jackson . fOxLZ J i wk 1/ •JK ( •7 Dr. E. S. Shumaker, scrappy superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, sentenced to serve sixty days at the state farm in Putnainvllle for contempt of the Indiana State Supreme Court. When informed upon his arrival at the farm that notice of Governor Ed Jackson’s clemency had preceded him by telephone the well-known dry said, very simply. “Is that so’’’ As required bv law. Dr. Shumaker was given a prison number, 37,789. WANTAIRPLANE MARKINGS HERE Postmaster Gets Letter Regarding Marking Os Roof In This City L. A. Graham, Decatur postmaster, is in receipt of a letter from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc., asking that an effort tie made to have roof markings made in Decatur for the guide of aviators. With the letter was a bulletin outlining the requirements, size and color of the markings. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh official advisor of the Guggenheim fund, makes the request that all cities mark a roof with the name of the town on it. The letter in part states, “Specifically, what is to be accomplished in your community is the painting of the name of your city on a roof according to the plan and specifications detailed in the enclosed bulletin. Adequate identification will be an important contribution to the safety, reliability and speed of air transportation and affords an opportunity for a distinct service on the part of some organization, such As the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce, the civic clubs, or of some individual in your community.” Certificates of appreciation signed by Col. Lindbergh and the President of the Guggenheim fund will be sent to the organization or individual who sees that the roof marking of the town is made. The bulletin suggests that “the roof selected should preferably be of tile, shingle, tin or other metal or of I slate. Where gravel top or asphalt roofs offer the best location, wooden letters may be elevated above the roof or the sign may be painted on a dull background formed of wood and raised on legs above the roof proper.” The bulletin further reads, “A simple b>ek letter in chrome yellow with a dull background, preferably black, should be used in all signs whether painted directly on the roof or not. White paint may be used instead of chome yellow. Besides the name of the town, the marking should include an arrow of sufficient size to be easily seen and pointing due North with the letter “N” under or over the arrow shaft.” Mr. Graham will be glad to give the letter and specifications to anyone interested in seeing that Decatur is given a. roof marking. There are plenty available places where such a marking could lie made. o — Uniondale Girl, Hit By Automobile, Dies of Injuries Ossian, Oct. 20.—Sarah Rice, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Rice of Uniondale, died here Friday night at a doctor’s office of a skull fracture after she was struck by an automobile at Uniondale. The child was running across the street with two other little children when the accident occurred. Site was struck by a car driven by Curtis Lesh of near Bluffton, as she darted from behind a gravel truck. Surviving are her parents, one sister, Eileen, and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Archibold of Uniondale and Mr. and Mrs. John Rice.

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THOUSANDS AT INDIANAPOLIS TO SEE CANDIDATE New York Governor Expected To Make Short Speech During Short Visit ENROUTE TO EAST FOR FINAL DRIVE Indianapolis, Oct. 20. — <U.R)— This city prepared today to welcome Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate, who was scheduled to arrive here this afternoon. It was expected that thousands would meet the New York governor at the station and join into the parade which Smith will lead to the Circle, the center of the city. Amplifiers already have been placed in the Circle and it was believed the governor would make a short speech although present plans were said not to call for that. Democratic leaders said they believed Smith would talk if asked to do so and that they intended to invite him to speak. Smith was scheduled to arrive here about 3 o'clock. Turns Toward East Chicago, Oct. 20. —(U.R) — Gov. Alfred E. Smith turned back toward his native east today to concentrate his final efforts in the big electoral states, with plenty of campaign material up his sleeve for the final drive. The democratic presidential nominee will wind up his national campaign just as he has wound up every state campaign, in a burst of activity. Seven Speeches Scheduled Seven speeches are expected to be made in the last two weks before election, probably in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Providence and Newark It has long been a political adage in New York that Smith won his gubernatorial battles in the last two weeks before election. His friends say he will try the same tactics hi this campaign and tliey foresee the development of some unexpected material which he believes will have a bearing on the national situation. The governor leaves at 10 a. m. for Indianapolis wheie he will stop for an hour or two for a parade and a visit to tlie bedside of Thomas Taggart, the Indiana democratic leader. From there he will set his course for Albany and two or three days of rest before he hops Into the final conflict. Pleased With Western Trip . Smith is satisfied with the impress'ion he lias left in tlie west, the receptions he received here, and especially with the speech he delivered in the downtown Chicago armory last night. The speech was built around the theme that “the record of the present administration is a guarantee of what | may be expected from tlie next,’’ the next being taken from the republican platform. Smith played upon this text to emphasize what tlie farmers, the war veterans, those interested in prohibition, and the conservationists of water (<?«NTl»‘*'*:i» ON IMGK TWO! TRAIN WRECKED AT INDIANAPOLIS Nearly A Score Os Passengers Shaken Up, But None Seriously Injured Indianapolis, Oct. 20. —(U.R) —Nearly a score of persons were shaken up and four were injured slightly in a train wreck on the outskirts of Indianapolis today. The wreck occured when an outbound Illinois Central passenger train sideswiped a freight engine. The rear coach on the train overturned, but its seventeen passengers received Injuries so slight they needed no medical attention. The accident was said to have been the result of mixed signals. o Edwin Koeneman Accepts Position With Railroad Fort Wayne. Oct. 20 —Edwin Koeneman of Decatur, a,graduate of the secretarial course of International college has aacepted a position with Nickel Plate railroad here,