Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1928 — Page 1

WEATHER Cloudy tonight and pooibly • h 0 e n r *’ Cooler In sooth portion tonight. Sunday mostly cloudy and slightly colder in north portion.

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STUMP AND WARD HEARD BY LARGE CROWD AT BERNE U rß e Election of Democratic Ticket To Brin* Aid To Farmers republican FAILURE TO AID CAUSE SHOWN jk'i'iu*, lnd., October 27. (Special) At one ot the arval- j ,st political meetings held in j this town, Albert Stump, Deni-j ,KT.itic candidate lor l nited Statfs Senator, and Don \Vant. Democratic candidate tor congress from the Kijjhth concessional district, last night in tlic Herne Auditorium, compared farm conditions today with those of eight years ago and pointed out the utter tailure ol i the Republican administration to do anything for the redemption of agriculture. Both candidates made urgent appeal- for the election of the Democratic ticket as a means ot extendI ing aid to the farmers. Mr. Stump, in an impassioned appeal, asked the j question, "Do you think that it is | necessary to have warfare in order to set up a higher standard of liv- | ing?" Mr. Stump showed, by facts and figures, the healthy condition of I agriculture previous to 1920 and said that “the people should be able, I through their own government, to bring about a better condition and provide a market for the farmer without the necessity of warfare.” Farmer’s Wealth Decreases "in 1927.” said Mr. Stump, "the total wealth of the nation was increased ten million dollars and since the war the increase has been fifty billion dollars. Within this . same period of time, the wealth of the farmer lias decreased thirty btitfon dollars," The Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator, who is making a whirlwind finish of the campaign, making ten speeches yesterday, recalled conditons cf eight years ago and today. He said, "for 30 years Senator Watson and the other Republican speakers haye been repeating the slogan, a 'prosperous factory is the best market for the faint' Why not change that s n gan to ‘a prosperous farm is the best market for the factory.’ If the farmer is not prosperous he cannot buy the products of the factory. That is the trouble today. The farmer cannot buy.” Mr. Stump’s addess was confined to the issue in the campaign and, dwelling ori that question, he continued: A billion dollar drop in the value of Indiana farms in 1925 in comparison with the World War period spells the critical conditions of Hoosier agriculture. To further illustrate the inequality of economic conditions that faces the farmers of this state "no lias only to look into the facts for the 1925 valuation of farm land and bu'ldings. "Farm lands and buildings in Ind ana in 1910 were valued at $1,594.WO.ooo in the United states Rureau ' . <,Pnsuß on agriculture. By 1920 ''bli the World War and immediate ost-war prosperity the census value th ßUr u„. Waa $2,653,000,000. Then came f iillion dollar drop due to the unl;^nled economic situation, and in sh :;’ , he ce nsus valuation figure had tnri" $*>695,000,000 and estimates ay place the figure at a much lowamount. Now this situation illus- ' ~ What ,, haH h aPl>ened to farming " "VTlwnin OK I’ttiK TWOi CHLORINE GAS TRAPSSGORES Twenty-Five Persons Overcome When Gas Floods ' °urt House In Alabama TwSr am - A,a> ° ct 27 ~<u.r)— uy-tive persons were taken to ospitals for treatment here today '• tia tank of chlorine gas develop- „ , a dangerous leak in the county ■ r " eer s office and flooded its deadantes through Jefferson county court house. between fifty and sixty persons in e court house were trapped and had iI , e resc ued from windows by aerial , ' Prs ’ hastily thrown up by the fire I *' artment - Every available ambui_,lCe 1,1 Birmingham was pressed into service.

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|C. T. Nelson, Fort Wayne Man, Killed At Capital Indianapolis, lnd., Oct. 27. —(U.R)— C. T. Nelson, of Fort Wayne, Insurance man, and his mother-in-law, Mis O. W. Gilbert, of Pittsburgh, Pa., were killed instantly here today when a train struck their automobile. Nelson’s wife was injured seriously. The party had motoied from Fprt Wayne this morning. FRUIT DRIVE IS A FINE SUCCESS Large Amount Os Fruit And Vegetables Donated To County Hospital As a resif’t of the fruit drive which was* conducted recently by the Civic Depat tment of the Woman’s (Tub, the-fruit shelves and vegetable bins at the Adams County Memorial hospital have been bountifully replenished for the coming winter. The fruit drive is an annual affair i with the Civic Department, and only those who have been patients at the hospital and the nurses in charge, realize what joy and pleasure the | people of Adams county bring each j year to those unfortunates who are forced through illness or injury to spend days and perhaps weeks as hospital patients. Miss Crist and the hospital board, together with the corps of nurses, have gratefully expressed their appreciation to both the women of Adams county and to Mrs. Oscar Lankenau, and her corps of workers from the Civic Department. The latter, in turn, are grateful to all who assisted in the donations. If anyone has been overlooked in the drive, their donations will always be acceptable at the hospital. Miss Crist will be glad to take care of any fruit or vegetables which might be brought to that institution. The donations of the late drive, as listed are: Honey—B cans strained, 5 combs Fruit —1,117 cans. Jelly—273 glasses Giapejuice—24 quarts Cabbage—2l heads Pumpkins—2l Carrots —1 hushel Catsup—s bottles Potatoes —3 bushels Beets —Vi bushel Pears —2% bushels Apples—7 hushel Vinegar—3 quarts Turnips—l peck. Onions—lH peck o Believe Teachers May Vote Where They Teach Following in the wake of an announcement made by the State Board of Election Commissioners, that college students must return to their respective homes to cast their vote in the coming election, the question has arisen among the ranks of local school teachers as to how that issue might affect them. Men of authority ahd knowledge of the political situation in this city, have stated that they are reasonably certain thut any teacher, may claim his or her residence in this city if he or she has lived in the state the required period of six months, in the township for 60 days and in the precinct for thirty days. The only deflection from this rule might be applied where a voter was married and had their family living elsewhere. A single person may claim residence, however, where they are residing at the time. Employes Os Railway Station Blamed For Wreck Bucharest, Rumania, Oct. 27. —(U.R) —All employes of the Recea Railway station were under arrest today in connection with the wreck of the fast S’mplon Orlente express which ran through an open switch and crashed into another train, killing 60 persons. Reports gathered from passengers established there were no employes at the station at the time of the wreck. Most of the bodies of victims were found in two splintered coaches of the local passenger train into which the express crashed. A mail and baggage car also were demolished and a sleeping coach was hurled from the track. ■ o Has Small Coast Line Australia has one mile of coast iine to each 833 square miles of land— the smallest proportion of coast shown by any of the continents.

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Ttiis p’eture shows a part of the huge crowd that cheered speech of Governor Alfred E. Smith (inset) ripping to shreds the charge of “socialism’’ made by Herbert Hoover in his Madison Square Garden talk. It was

SPECIAL SESSION IS PLAN OF G, 0, P. — Son. Borah, With Approval Os Hoover, Urges Session To Study Farm Problem Bv Thomas L. St ekes (United Ureas Staff Correspondent) Washington, Oot. 27 — (U.R) — Herbert Hoover and his advisers have decided to make a vigorous appeal for the farm vote, which they think may decide the election, in the final days of the campaign. This decision took the form today of a movement for a special session of Congress to take >«p farm relief legislation, sponsored by Senator Borah of Idaho with the approval of Hoover. After a cnference with Hoover, the Idaho Senator issued a statement urging a special session, unless some action is taken at the coming short session, which he said should pass measures: 1. Increasing tariff duties upon farm products. 2. Establishing a more satisfactory marketing system “so as to enable the farmers to market their products without the enormous expense which is now necessarily incurred.” 3. Setting up a federal farm board. “As 1 see It, we ought to have better protection for the farmer’s products, we ought to have a better marketing system and we ought to have a farm board with authority and with funds to cooperate in disposing of his surplus,” Borali said. “There is every reason for a special session and to my mind no sound reason against it.” PROBE CHARGE OF CORRUPTION Plans Made To Reopen Hearing At South Bend Next Monday Morning South Bend, Oct. 27— (U.R)— A decision by Superior Court Judge Orlo Dealil to postpone until after election a hearing on charges of alleged corruption in the Democratic party here was reversed by the court this morning. The investigation of reputed political graft and illegalities will be reopened Monday. Judge Deahl announced the reversal of postponement on the ground that republican leaders charged the action was a “frame-up,” to shield the Democrats. Judge Deahl and States Attorney Sam P. Schwartz are both Democrats. Subpoenaes were issued today for Oscar Foellinger, publisher of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, and Indiana manager for Herbert Hoover, and his political writer,. William Cross. Foellinger's paper carried the first charges of corruption which were reprinted in the South Bend Tribune. Student Aviator And His Instructor Killed Fremont, Nebraska, Oct. 27.' — (U.R) — Adolph Pavel, Fremont aviation instructor and John Sevile, a student of Walnut, lowa, were killed today when the airplane in which they were stunting, crashed on a highway near here.

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! Auto Catches Fire At Butler Garage Today While working on an automobile belonging to Arthur Hyland, at the B tiler garage, Clyde Butler sustained burns'to his hands and the car was badly damaged when it caught fire at ' about 12:30 o’clock this afternoon. Mr. Butler was cleaning the distributor with gasoline, when it ignited and, within a few seconds, the flames spread over the car. The fire department was called, but the men at the garage succeeded’ in putting out the blaze before it spread to the building. GROOM AIRSHIP FOR SEA FLIGHT Graf Zeppelin Expected To Take Great Circle Route Across Atlantic Lakehurst, N. J. Oct. 27 —<U.R>—Captain Ernst A. Lehman, an officer i f the Graft Zeppelin, said today the air liner probably would not take off on its return trip to Germany until sometime Tuesday. Lakehurst, N. J., Oct. 27. — (U.R) — The trans-Atlantic dirigible Graf Zeppelin was being groomed today for her eastward flight to Friederichshafen, Germany. Following the announcement by Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the airship, that the proposed mid-western flight of the Zeppelin was cancelled, j workmen busied themselves about the giant air liner to have her in readiness for a take-off Monday, it weather conditions permit. Dr. Eckener, Ernst A. Lehman, second in command, and other officers of the ship were in New York at a hotel where they planned to stay until Sunday noon. Hans von Schiller, navigating officer, was left in command of the dirigible as ranking officer on board, here. Von Schiller said the return air voyage to Germany would he made byway of the great circle course. If the airship cruises with the anticipated favorable tail-wind pushing her she should reach Ihe home hangar 50 or 60 hours after leaving here, Von • Schiller said. i “With a favorable wind, we can i made nearly 90 miles an hour for mosl of the way,” Von Schiller added, i “We hope of course that we will not ■ have any such bad luck as we had I coming over. i "The next trip to America probably will be made a month or so after we land in Germany. We have to be back in Berlin for the aeronautic rei ception planned there. We had been ' asked to be there by today.” Card of Thanks We wish it were possib'e for us ’ to thank each one or you personally [ for the wonderful fruit drive you had for your hospital, but as that is impossible to do wc will take this way of expressing our thanks and appreciation to you, one and all. We think there are a few who realize how much this fruit drive means to your hospital, but it means a great . deal toward the comfort and good 1 will of the patients and to the finance of the hospital. One and all of you • are very welcome to csome to our sup- ■ ply room and see the wonderful supt ply you have given us. Thanking you i once more, '♦ Board of Hospital Trustees, K. C. Christ, R.N., Supt.

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SMITH INVADES PHILADELPHIA Candidate Scheduled To Speak At 7 o’clock Tonight; Speech On Radio By Paul R. Mallon, UP Staff Correspondent New York, Oct. 27. —(U.R) —Gov. Alfred E. Smith donned his brown derby today to carry his presidential campaign into the heart of Pennsylvania, a Htrnng republican state. Electoral votes have been counted there for fifty years and not a single democratic candidate has received one of them, but Smith's managers and local Pennsylvania leaders have told hint that this year lie has the chance to do what Democrats before always have, considered impossible. His special train will leave hero at 1:30 p. in. cst., arriving in Camden, N. J., across the Delaware river from Philadelphia at 3:50 p. m. Through Camden, across the new bridge, to his hotel in the city of the republican leader William S. Vare, the Democratic presidential nominee will parade at the head of a mator caravan. Democratic leaders of Camden and Philadelphia have warned him to expect another demonstration like the wild ones he received in Boston, Providence and Hartford. The governor spent this morning polishing up the speech he is to deliver over a National radio network [from Philadelphia tonight. Starting at 8 p. m. est.. It is said to be anothe; broadside against the personal campaign of his republican opponent Herbert Hoover and the leaders associated with Hoover. FORTY HOURS TO BEGIN THURSDAY Special Masses To Be Held Next Week At St. Mary’s Catholic Church The Forty Hours devotion will open at the St. Marys Catholic church in this city Tuesday morning, October 30. The mass will be held at 9 o’clock In the morning, the Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor, announced this morntliis morning. During the three days, special masses will be held each morning and in the evening the services will be held at 7:30 o’clock. The sermons will be delivered by the Rev. Father Charles Glrardot, of Bluffton. The solemn close of the Forty Hours will take place Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Thursday is a holy day of obligation, it being the feast of All Saints. The order of masses for this day will lie announced Sunday. The new communion tail and steps leading thereto have been installed, the work being completed this week Marble steps and railing have been placed in the church, they being the gifts of two members of the congregation. o— — — Famous Castaway In October, 1704, Alexander Selkirk was put ashore on the island of Juan Fernandez in the south Pacific, where he lived for over four years. Selkirk Is supposed to be the original of Defoe’s castaway, “Robinson Crusoe."

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I Cold Weather Forecast For First Os Next Week Weather outl.ok for the period of October 29 to Nov. 3: For the region of the Cieat LakPs — Temperatures mostly below noimul, first half of week prcbably rising within latter half; some local pieclpitation first days of week, probably a more general period within lattei half. FORT WAYNE MAN A9MITS SHORTAGE — L. S. Slagle, Teller In First National Bank Is Short $45,000 Fort Wayne, Oct. 27.— A shortage of $45,000 in the accounts of L. S. Slagle. 29, 4419 Indiana avenue, teller at the First .National bank, has been revealed by him in a confession to the officers ot the bank, it was announced by them last night. The amount is being verified by an audit,of his accounts. In his confession, Slagle said lie used the money to finance the Slagle Radio company, Inc., of which lie is president. I The shortage is fully covered by three insurance policies which the bank carried to protect itself against such losses. No charges have been filed against Slagle pending the arrival of the national bank examiner, who is expected to take charge of the ease today. The case was turned over to the insurance companies following the confession of Slagle, and the companies have made a preliminary check of his accounts. Handled Certificates Slagle who worked in the rertfioate of deposits department of the bank was able to embezzle the money . by making false entries upon his , books. The records show that the I defalcations had been going on for I almost a year, but he was so careful , in keeping his books that the sborti age was not easily detected. It was discovered by the auditors of the First National bank and when Slagle was brought before the offi- , ceis he admitted his defalcation and said lie had used $45,000 of the bank , funds. Slagle has a wife and a baby one montli old. He also has a widowed mother. He told officials of the bank that I he was anxious to make restitution as far as possible and has already , conveyed all his property to a trustee to lie used in making good his losses. Slagle was one of the most trusted , employes of the bank, the officers ' said last night. He was declared to . »e beyond suspicion and his confes- ’ sion of his shortage came as a surprise and a shock to his fellow-em- | ployes in the bank. o - Preacher-Marshal Fires Five Shots At College \ outh; Plans A Clean-up Edinburg, lnd., Oct. 27.—(U.R)—Der scribing himself as "a man that fears God, and God only,’’ W. C. Milburn, Edinburg's preacher-marshal, lias called upon all Us "good citizens” to aid him in giving “the old town one clenn- | ing.” The marshal's declaration and appeal were contained in a statement he issued following the latest episode in a heotie career as the town’s police i officer, firing of five shots at George , Myers, Franklin college freshman, as he drove his ear through Edinburg early Sunday. Bullets strhek a fend--1 er of the car but Myers was not hurt. In part Milburn’s statement folr lows: "The very ones that are fighting me i- are I lie men that have cut their own l throats, circulating petitions to have t a man of God discharged, and without e the first Inkling of a cause." ■6 O 4 Officers Search For t Gary Bank Bandits y 1 Gary, hid., Oct. 27—<U.R>—Authoris ties today searched so rsix bandits, one believed to be a woman, who held up s tlie Glen Park State bank here and es- !, cuped with SIO,OOO in cash and $32,000 k in negotiable securities, n According to police the bandits ese caped in two automobiles, one of them i- driven by a woman, who waited in front of the while her allies robbed it. Four employes and four eustomeriwtio were in the bank at the time, k were herded into a small cage and n foiced to lie flat on the floor, e Shortly aftei the bandits left the k hank authorities were notified and a i- search instituted. Two airplanes were pressed into service.

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GEORGE HAYMOND GIVEN SENTENGE OF 2-14 YEARS Tells Court He Used Money In “Paying Blackmail”; Taken To Prison DEFALCATIONS ARE PLACED AT $153,000 Munt’ie. lnd., Oct. 27. <U.R)— George 1,. Haymond, banker and former treasurer of the school city of Muncie, pleaded guilty to embezzlement here today and was sentenced to two to fourteen years in Michigan City prison. lie also was fined $”>00 and disfranchised for two years. Haymond told Judge Clarence \V. Dearth he laid spent approximately $1 KMHK) of money not his own in “paving blackmail to William E. Walker.” Dearth countered to this statement by asking Haymond if he would file a complaint against Walker. Haymond responded “YouTl have to see my lawyer.” Taken To Michigan City The former school treasurer previously had said he loaned Walker the money for oil investments. Walker was a former business man here and was said today to be enroute back to Muncie. Haymond, in custody of Sheriff McAuley, left immediately for Michigan City. The defalcations to which Haymond pleaded guilty were said to have occuied over a period of several years ami were expected to total in the neighborhood of $153,000, it was said. o Murder Trial To Open At Newcastle Monday Newcastle, lnd., Oot. 27 —<U.R)—Charles Beasley, Terre Haute, will go on trial in Henry Circuit Court here Monday charged with the first degree murder of Mrs. Myrtle Miller, of Muncie. The body of Mrs. Miller, with the head battered was found beside a road near here Sept. 1. Authorities declare robbery was the motive for the slaying, which occured during a ride in an automobile whose occupants besides Mrs. Miller and Beasley, were Mrs. Irene Moyer, and Homer Pattersin, both of Terre Haute. Patterson has not been located, but Mrs. Moyer was held in jail here as a witness against Beasley. o Gorgeous Bretons Men of Brittany, on Sundays and holidays, wear black bolero Jackets faced with blue and with flowers embroidered on the sleeves. Their waistcoats, gay with circular orange braiding, cost $8(1 and hell-shaped trousers with gold buttons cost twice ns much. Scarecrow Carries Gold Hearing a clinking sound us he passed a scarecrow whose overcoat was flapping In the winter wind, a farmer, near Trier, Germany, Investigated. In one of the pockets he found coins which tie was able t<> ensh In at Trier recently for nearly $250. FOOTBALL FANS IN TRAIN WRECK Special Train Carrying Wisconsin Students To Ann Arbor Is Wrecked Helmer, lnd., Oct. 27.—(U.R) —'Two train crew members were injured slightly and Bcores of University of Wisconsin students were shaken sevetely when a special train carrying . a delegation to the Michigan-Wlscon-i sin football game at Ann Arbor was - wrecked near here today. ) The wreck occurred when the special plowed into the rear end of a - freight train. Those injured were A. i B. Goshorn, of Montpelier. Ohio, and i A. McAlhaney, of Montpelier, ftrei- man and engineer of the passenger train. i- Two cars and the caboose’ of the i, freight train were derailed and burnd od, advices said. Wabash railroad officials ordered an ijnmergen.cy e engine to take the train on to Ann a Arbor, hut it was feared it would are rive too late for students to see the game.

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