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CLEVELAND PRAISES SMITH’S ABILITY

SEMTOK NORRIS THROWS SUPPORT TO GOV. SMITH Republican Senator From Nebraska Unqualifiedly Endorses Smith PLANS TO (JIVE HIS REASONS OVER RADIO Portland. Oregon, Oct. 24. (UR) Senator George \\ . Norris, o i Nebraska, a Republican, unqualifiedly endorsed the candi1 (V of Gov. Allred E. Smith, Democratic presidential nominee in an interview* wjith the t nited Press here today. •Yes 1 am lor Smith, Sen. Norris said. “I favor his candidacy over that of Herbert Hoover. 1 guess that's about all there is to it. I'll speak over a indio hookup at Omaha, Saturday night, when I'll go into detail and explain my views. Vital Campaign Objective j New Yoik, Oct. 24—(U.K) —Democratic strategy achieved today one of its most vital campaign objectives--definite endorsement of Governor AlI (red E. Smith by Senator George I Norris of Nebraska. The Nebraska Republican leader will tell the nation over the radio I next Saturday night why he favors the Democratic ‘presidential nominee. I the Progressive League for Smith announced. > That simple announcement, made I by the league’s executive secretary, | 1 Frederick C. Howe through the Democratic national committee, is calculated by party chiefs to appeal to perhaps 5,000,000 voters, mostly in middle west states of political importance. Many voters, classed under various designations as “Progressives,” supported the late Senator Robert M. Lafollette for the presidency in 1924. If Norris, their unofficial spokesman, could swing them all to Smith, the latter’s election Nov. 6 would be practically assured. Smith would need, in addition to the agricultural states he could carry in such manner, only the usual "solid south" and New York state to put him over. Whether Norris has strength to influence so many voters so powerfully is, of course, open to debate. But the Democrats, including Smith, had such healthy respect for him that they bid all along for his backing. o Blood Stains And Hair Found In Auto At Seymour Seymour, Ind., Oct. 24—'U.R/—State Police today aided local authorities in effoit.- to account for blood stains and hair found on a steel punch which was in an auto towed to a garage here. A man who said he was R. W. Hawley, Louisville, Ky., asked that the car he towed in from a highway near Seyni nr. He said he had lost keys and •as unable to start the machine. « o S. E. BAND TO DIVE MINSTREL “Minstrel Flashes” Is Title Os Production To Be Given Nov. 20 And 21 Minstrel Flashes,” an up-to-the-minu,e minstrel show, will be presented on November 20 and 21, at the Decatur high school auditorium under ’he auspices of the General Electric company's band. Ihe production will be staged by ■eorge Clark, director for the John Kogers Producing company, of Fose'la, Ohio, producers of the Minstrel huckles, which was so successfully Presented by the General Electric hand last season. The new minstrel is said to comPetely out-class the minstrel of last aeason, and is made up of entirely new se'.tings, music and jokes. The mlnsll"l Part iq a court room scene. The ' < ' nv ’ c ta are black faces, the cops are • He face, and the Interlocutor takes ”>e role of the Chief of Police. The second part of the minstrel Is a showJ,, at scene bn the Mississippi river, 111 which sevetal musical and dance numbers are presented. he minstrel promises to be one of 1(1 leading attractions of the month n has aroused much enthusiasm the home talent circles of the

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Thomas Ryan, prohibition agent, who was shot in the back and gravely wounded by au unknown assailant in the crowded courtroom of United States Commissioner Edwin K. Walker at Chicago. Ryan had just risen to be sworn as a witness when a shot was fired.

SET DATE FOR D. H. S. OPERETTA November 9 Is Date Chosen For Production: Com mittees Are Named November 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of "The Ghost,” an operetta to be given by the members of the boys’ and girls' glee clubs and by the Junior music and dramatic club of Decatur high school. The operetta was composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman, and the libretto was written by Charles and Jaunita Roos. Miss Dessolee Chester, supervisor of music, will direct the operetta. The cast has been chosen, with the exception of the members of the choruses who have not all been definitely selected. The varans committees who will have charge of the production are: Business manager, Harry Dailey; stage manager, -Florence Anderson; first assistant, Edward Musser; second assistaiit, David Heller; advertising, Robert Heller, chairman, Forrest Zimmerman, Isabel Hower, Isabel Odle, Martha Moser,' and Evelyn Kelly; holtse managers, Charles Magley, George Roop, Fred Brown, Ivan Reynolds, and Chalmer Debolt; stagecraft and scenery design, Arthur Schamerloh, chairman, Sherman Kootty Cecil Schafer, Charles Magley, Maynard Butcher, Martha Moser and members* of the advanced art class, advisors, Mt. Ketchum and Miss Martin; lighting, Lewis Butcher, advisor, Mr. Nussbaum; propertv committee, Robert Passwater, chairman, Wayne Zerkle, Stanley Green, and Paul Fugate; costume committee, Mary Madeline Coverdale, chairman, Louise Haubold. Charlotte Elzey, and Mary Jane DeVor. CANDIDATES GET WARM WELCOME •_ Democratic Candidates For County Offices Introduced At Cleveland Meeting The Democratic candidates for county office received a warm and hearty welcome last night in the court room of the court house when they weie introduced by B. F. Roller, local attorney, who presided as chairman of the Cleveland meeting. The meeting was attended by many out-of-town visitors, including several from Bluffton, Portland, Willshire and Wren, Ohio, and from every town and township in Adams county. Mr. Roller, in introducing Mr. Cleveland, said, “It is my duty as well as my pleasure at this tlmejo (CONTUSED ON PAGE TWO!

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REPUBLICANS TO HOLD RALLY HERE SATURDAY NIGHT Vestal And Two State Candidates To Speak At Court House Here FERI) L. LITTERER TO BE CHAIRMAN Paul Graham, Republican county chairman, announced today that a Republican rally would be held In this city Saturday evening, October 27, in tlie court room of the court house. Speakers at the rally will be Hon. Albe.t H. Vestal, representative in ■ congress ftorn the Eighth congressional district, who is seeking re-election; Hon. James M. Ogden, Republican candidate for attorney genera), and Hon. Otto G. Fifleld, Republican candidate for secretary of state. Litterer To Preside Ferd L. Litterer, local attorney, will preside as chairman of the meeting and will introduce the speakers. Mr. Graham stated that arrangements were being made for a musical program previous to the meeting and that plans were being made to make the rally one of the outstanding meetings of its kind in the Eighth district. This is the first Republican meeting to be held in Decatur during the present campaign and details for the meeting were held up several days pending word from the state candidates that they would be able to come here. Mr. Vestal delivered an address at Pleasant Mills about two weeks tego, but the visits of Mr. Ogden, who lives at Indianapolis and Mr. Fitted, whose home is at Crown Point, will be the first they have made to this county in the interest of their election. A cordial invitation'" is extended to f », e voters W attend the meeting. — o —• School Building Burns Hammond, Ind., Oct. 24—(U.Rb-Fire destroyed the SIOO,OOO three-story Merrilville high school building early today. Lack cf water prevented two file companies from checking the conflagration which it was said was caused by defective electric light wiring. 0. C. H. S. HONOR ROLL COMPILED Eight Pupils Honored ;Work Started On Christmas Number Os The Tattler Frances Schultz, John Schmitt, Bernard Wemhoff, Leo Dowling, Florence Lengerich, Helen Hain, Patricia Holthouse and Mary Wertzberger are on the Honor Roll at high school, for the first six weeks. Work has been begun on the Christmas number of “The Tattler". Frances Schultz has been chosen Editor-In-Chief, with Agnes Baker and Bernard Wemhoff as assistants. Robert Rumschlag holds the position of business manager, with Arthur Miller and George Harris as assistants. Each class has its own reporter. The Seniors have elwsen Elsie Brunnegraff; the juniors, Lawrence Beckmeyer; the Sophomores, Flothilda Harris; the Freshmen, Frances Lengerich; the Commercials, Lawrence Kohne. Helen Lengerich, Fred Mylott, Richard Wertzberger, Mary Miller have been chosen circulation managers for their respective classes. Mary Virginia Hyland is school notes editor; Leo Dowling, athletics reporter; Rosemary Holthouse, society reporter; Patricia Teeple, alumni re-por-ter; Gerald Gage, editor of the jokes department and Margaret Eiting has charge of the exchange department. The business manager and his assis tants have planned to have a benefit movie at the Adams theatre on Novem her 3 and 4 to help defray the expenses of the Christmas issue of “The Tattler”. Robinson And Curtis To Invade Indiana Next Week Indianapolis, Oct. 24 —(U.R) — Vice Presidential candidates will be heard In Indiana next week. Senator Joseph Robinson, Al Smith’s running mate on the Democratic National ticket, will speak at Evansville next Wednesday night; at Logansport Thursday afternoon, Nov. 1, and at Fort Wayne Thursday night. Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice Presidential nominee, will make his third invasion of the state Monday, speaking at South Bend.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 24, 1928.

HIGHLIGHTS OF CLEVELAND SPEECH The foundation rock n which Governor Smith's amazing success stands is common decency, whether In private life or in public relationships. Mr. Hoover is conscientious and useful in routine statistical operations. By training and temperament he is interested in scientific, analytical problems. Mr. Hoover wants to be left alone, like a research chemist, -impatient, even irr.table at interruptions Mr. Hoover has no patience with the universal human afflictions of stupiditv, laziness and inertia Gov. Smith on the other hand, knows that they are a part of life and his amazing career is a recital of his triumphs over them. If I could pick up the inhabitants of this state ami place them in ' New' York and let them feel from the contacts, direct ami indirect what New York knows about Gov. Smith, the election would be settled tonight in his favor. That quality of carrying out promises in spite of opposition is one of Governor Smith's unique attractions to intelligent people. The further I investigate the record of Gov. Smith, the more amazed I am at his accomplishments, especially in view of the hostile legislature that he constantly faced. His services to education in New York have drawn the admiration and respect of all educators from Prof. Dewey of Columbia down to the lowest erode of grammar school teachers. It is admitted that if Gov. Smith were a Protestant, or like Lincoln, had no church at all, his record, so obviously superior to Mr. Hoover’s, and his incomparable, greater personal fitness for the presidency would make his election a matter of course. It is impossible for anyone to have a sincere belief in the American ideals of fairness and decency, as expressed in the Bill of Rights and still oppose Gov. Smith because of his religious faith. I naturally resent and deplore this religious issue. It belongs to the dark ages. The Republican National committee deliberately oganiz I the religious issue; they sent Mrs. Mabie Willebrandt to Ohio to make her disgraceful, but successful appeal of bigotry and hate. I refuse to admit that Government by stuffed shirts who can’t or won't talk English is satisfactory to the American people. Gov. Smith is denounced by fanatics as an enemy of law because lie has sense enough to know and courage enough to say that the U. S. can be made truly temperate only by modification of the law to fit the stubborn facts of life today. No man is stronger for temperance than Governor Smith. That’s what he wants when he says he wishes to modify the law which is now violated every day. Proenerite—where is it? Ask your Republican friends what they' mean by prosperity Ask yourself if you have been prosperous. Let the fanner ask himself if he has been prosperous.

Dr. Robinson Broadcasts But Mars Remains Silent

— Gets Telephatic Messages From Martin Maiden Say- J ing “Go To Bed” By Henry T. Russell ( United Press Staff Correspondent ) London, Oct. 24 —(U.R) —Dr. Mansfield Robinson may attempt to communicate with Mars again, but he had better not try it while his wife is around. Mrs. Robinson, interviewed in her home at Roydon today, after the failure of her husband’s attempt to establish radio communication with our sister planet, made it clear that “there will be no more of that foolishness in this house." Wife Has Enough Shortly after Conaruru, the six-foot Ma: tian maiden with whom Robinson was attempting to communicate, sent him a telephatic message advising him to go to bed, Mrs. Robinson also handed out some advice. “I don’t know anything about this (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) MARY WILLIAMS EXPIRES TODAY Heart Trouble And Infirmities Cause Death Os Decatur Woman, Age 80 Mrs. Mary E .Williams, 80, wife of John H. Williams, died at 11 o'clock this morning, Wednesday, October i 24, 1928, at her home at 114 South Eighth street, death being due to heart trouble and the infirmities of old age. Mrs Williams was born June 17, 1848, in Orangeville, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinkle, both deceased. On March 3, 1867, ( she united in marriage with John H. Williams, and together they celebrated first their 25th, then their soth and finally the 60th and 61st wed- | ding anniversaries. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have resided in Decatur for 40 years. Four children were born of this union, two of whom are deceased. , Mrs. Anna Malott, a daughter, resides in Decatur, and Mrs. S. B. Ramsey, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

CITY WATER HAS PECULIARTASTE Water Used In Fighting Fire In Coal Silo Drains Into City Well Did you notice a peculiar tuste to the city water today? Investigation of the cause resulted in the statement from Orval Harruff, superintendent of the water works department, that water used in fighting a fire in the coal silos at the city -lot in lite north part of the city, ran into one of the . wells near the silo anil was then pumped into the reservoir at the city , plant. Mr. Harruff stated that there was nothing dangerous in drinking the water. A fire from combusion started in one of the silos Monday night and the firemen tried to put out the blaze. Much water was poured on the coal and the water drained into one of the wells, contaminating the water. This water was pumped into the reservoir and In turn distributed throughout the city to consumers. ■ Citizens noticed the peculiar taste late last night and again today and the matter was reported to Mr. Harruff. Mr. Harruff said there was no way to drain the reservoir, except through the city mains and that they had flush- ■ ed several of them this morning. He stated that in his opinion the water 1 would get back to normal within a '. day or two. A sample was taken to Dr. J. M. Miller, secretary of the city board of health, who expressed the opinion, that he believed the water was satisfactory for drinking purposes and as a safeguard another sample was sent to the state board of health for analysis. i o Defendants Arraigned Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 24 — (U.R) -- r Thirteen defendants arrested in raids Tuesday in Fayette, Dearborn and 1 Franklin counties by Federal agents, • were given hearings today before John ’ W. Ket n, U. S. Commissioner. The de2 fendants were freed under bonds ranging from $2,000 to $3,500.

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START PRINTING L COUNTY BALLOTS Flection Commissioners Begin Task Os Printing 13,500 Ballots Here The pt inting cf the county ballots for the general election, Tuesday, November 6. started this morning in the Job printing department of the Daily Democrat office. A total of 13,500 baT lets will be printed, C 1,. Waiters, one of the election commissioners, stated. The number of ballots is provided for by law and, since there is no registration figures to go by this year, there is no way of telling exactly how many are needed. The law provides that one and one-half times as many ballots be printed as there were votes cast for secretary cf state at the last election. The candidates for congress-head the county ballot. The Republican ticket is in the first column, or on the left hand side, and the Democrat baflot on the tight hand side. Besides Mr. Walters, the ether two members of the election board who are supervising the pt inting of the ballots are C. E. Holthouse and Miss Bernice Nelson, deputy county clerk. Township ballots will also he printed, they contain the names of the candidates for township advisory boards. The county ballots are printed on white paper, the tewnship ballots on yellow and the sample ballots on brown kraft paper. The state and national ballots arrived at the county clerk’s office this afternoon, being sent by express from Indianapolis. o Detective Admits He Was Hired In Stu Its Case South Bend, Ind., Oct. 24— (U.R)— Harvey L. Smith, private detective, admitted in a statement to police today that he had been hired both by Charles L. Reyher and Mrs. Reyher to get Mrs. Genevieve Stults out of the city, but lie declared he had turned the actual job over to two strangers. GRAF ZEPPELIN READY FOR TOUR Start Os Flight To Middlewest Expected To Be Made Late Today Lakehurst, N. J., Oct. 24—(U.R)—Revised plans for the midwestern flight of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin were announced today by Dr. Hugo Ecke tier. He said the flight would begir 1 as “soon as conditions were favor able," and indicated the start might be made at any time late this after noon, when passengers have beet ordered to appear at the field. , Previous plans called for the dirig I ible to moor to one of the arm; masts for about 12 hours at Scot J Field, and then continue on to Mil waukee and Chicago. Dr. Eekener said that Chicago (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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HUNDREDS HEAR SON OF FORMER PRESIDENT SPEAK Richard F. Cleveland Pleads For Unqualified Support For Smith LAUDS CANDIDATE’S COMMON DECENCY “I am for Governor Smith because he has graduated from the most exacting training school for the Presidency; because he is first and last his own man; because he has reawkened our hope of common decency and good sense in national politics, and because he has a genius for translating human qualities into government that has never been surpassed in the history of the United States.” Thus spoke Mr. Richard F. Cleveland, of Baltimore, Md., son of the late President Grover Cleveland, in concluding his clear, concise and scholdry address last night before the largest audience ever assembled in the court room of the Adams county court house in this city. Every nook and corner of the large court room was filled and many were turned dway because they were unable to gain enhance. Several hundred extra chairs were also placed in the court room. B. F. Roller, local attorney, presided as chairman of the meeting and in--1 t reduced the speaker and the Democratic county candidates, who were called to the speaker’s table. Characterizes Hoover Mr. Cleveland summed up his opin--1 ion of the Republican nominee for ‘ president as follows: "I am opposed ■ to Mr. Hoover because his whoi« t-har-r acter is unsufted to the human contacts the presidency demands; be- , cause he accepts the support of the Anti-Saloon league and the Ku Klux I Kian and still poses as a champion . of liberal forces; because his party . for eight years has been a national disgrace; because he makes an irre- : sistible appeal to every stuffed-shirt in America and because his public ■ utterances are meaningless, fatuous, ambiguities.” Standing behind the judge's bench, near which hung a picture of Mr. Cleveland's illustrious father, President Cleveland, the speaker in the way of an able, solid and capable ' lawyer, presented his Interesting case ' before the "jury." The jury of several hundred people were interested. Many stood anil listened to this young student of politics, government and economics discuss tile issues of the campaign and everyone, even the most partisan of opposite political belief, 1 admits that he presented his case in 1 a convincing and splendid manner. Painting a word picture of contrast between Governor Smith and Mr. ( Hoover, the speaker said, in part: "The foundation rock on which Governor Smith’s amazing success CCOXTINI'KU <>V FA«K TIIHEF.t O MR.CLEVELAND • SPEAKS TO LIONS • Son Os Former President ’ Gives Interesting AfterDinner Speech "The personality and general caracteiiatics of the President of the United States in reflected in his adminls- | tration and throughout the country.” I declared Richard F. Cleveland. Baltimote attorney and a sen of the late President Grover Cleveland, in a short, talk at the weekly meeting of the De- - catur Lions Club, Tuesday evening. Mt. Cleveland's talk was non-partlsian. After citing several examples to prove his point, Mr. Cleveland pointed out the importance of selecting a man ’’ with the collect personality and char- '* a< teristlcs to fill the highest office of e the government. He compared various ’’ presidents of the past with orchestra ” leaders and their cabinets, under- ofr' fleers and the country in general as ’*■ the musicians and showed how some r ‘ administiatlona resembled a slow, II dreamy waltz tune; another, a classical selection; and still another, a jazz g ’ number. iy Douglas Haney was chairman of the ** program for last night meeting of the ’ Lions. Other guests cf the club, besides Mr. Cleveland, were the Rev. R. ’5 E. Vance, new pastor of the United Brethren church, and Freeh Hower.

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