Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1928 — Page 1

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MIERT LANSING. FAMOUS WARTIME STATESMAN, DIES Nation Mourns Passing Os President Wilson’s Secretary Os State NAME DESTINED TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY By Carl D. Groat, T’P Staff Correspondent | Washington, Oct. 31.— <U.P.) — The scrolls of dead among the world’s wartime statesmen bore today a new name, that of Robert Lansing. President Wilson’s secretary of stale died rather suddenly late yesterday of heart trouble which attacked him only on Oct. 5. Today men high in public life in this and other lands paid tribute to Lansing who directed much of the diplomatic destinies of this countiy in the days from 1915 to 1920 and sat with Clemenceau, i.ioyd George, Orlando, Henry White, Gen. Bliss and others in the peace I councils of Paris. Wins Place In History [ President Coolidge, sending condolences to Mrs. Lansing spoke of the famous international lawyer as one I who had done a work in war and peace that would “assure him a place I in history." Lansing's death brought memories I of his role in the long campaign of note writing to Germany that precedI ed the United States’ entry into the war on the side of the allies and brought to light hitherto unrevealed touches from the drama in which Wilson and Lansing played so big a role. The writer sat in Lansing’s office I the day he sent to Get many his first I sharp warning note. Germany had declared a “barred zone" around the British Isles and had advttmd thfs country against sending its ships into that area. It was, in the eyes of the American government, a piece of effrontery, for i American ships had the right to travel where they chose since we were neutral. Lansing was not talking for publication, but he told this writer then that his note was "the kindest thing we could do to Germany." Many times in the months after that, Lansing’s observation came sharply to mind. Germany disregarded this counsel, sent in "kindness," and finally in Nov. 1918, capitulated, thoroughly defeated. The outcome of the war might have been vastly different if Germany had harkened to the Lansing warning. Coupled with this hitherto unrevealed incident, there came to light today from one of the participants in the Kreat drama a new version of why Lansing and Wilson broke. During Wilson’s illness, Lansing virtually took over the reins of government, and the popular conception of their breach was that Wilson was incensed at Lansing’s summoning a cabinet meeting and calling before it Dr. Cary Grayson, the president’s Physician, to ascertain the exact state of the president's health without first iiiomrim ni park twoi WOMAN’S BURNS PUZZLE POLICE Three Theories Advanced For Solution Os Lake Bluff, 111., Mystery By Jack F. Hiertz (United Press Staff Correspondent) Lake Bluff, 111., Oct. 31—'U.R)'—Three possible solutions of the Lake Bluff tumace mystery were advanced by authorities today. L That Miss Elfrieda Knaak tried to force herself into the firebox of the village police station furnace as a test" of her love for a policeman. 2- That she was attacked by a man Who attempted to destroy the evidence of his crime by cremating her. "• That she was the victim of jealousy on the part of some rival for the °ve of policeman Charles W. Hitolicock. former movie and vaudeville aca»d village adonis. " hlle the 29-year-old school teacher ond book seller lay in Alice home hospital at Lake Forest, where she is befived to be dying, police found abtinrivs* eVt< * ence t 0 support all three thcoKnaak herself regained consc(CONTIF«i«;d ON PAGH TWO)

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Slagle Goes To Jail; Fails To Provide Bond * South Bend, Oct. 31—'U.K—Verne S. ’ Slagle, termer teller of the First Na- " tiona] hank at Fort Wayne, was arI raigned befcre Tha. M. Talcott, United States Commissioner here on charges II of embezzlement and committed to jail when he was unable to provide $25,000 bond. P Slagle confessed using $117,000 of the bank’s funds to finance a Fort Wayne Radio concern, of which he was an official, it was said. MRS. RIGGS TO MEET WOMEN , ' Prominent Democratic ( Woman To Hold Four Meetings In County Friday i Mis. James It. Riggs of Sullivan. r Ind., Democratic national committee. ’ woman from Indiana, will meet with ] the women at Geneva, Berne and Montoe Friday afternoon, meetings being arranged at all three places. ’ At 7:30 o’clock, in the court room 1 of the comt house here, Mrs. Riggs will address the women of Decatur and the voters of Adams county. The Geneva meeting will be held at ! 1:30 o’clock at the Hutton hall. Mrs. Clara Anderson, of Geneva, Democra- * tic candidate for county recorder, will ' preside at the meeting. At 3 o’clock, Mrs. Riggs will meet 1 with the women in Berne. The meet- ■ ing will be held in Democratic head- ■ quarters and Mrs. Thurman Gotti -chalk, vice-chairman of the county I Democratic central committee, will I preside. i From Berne, Mrs. Riggs will go to i Monroe, where she will meet the women of‘that place at 4:30 o'clock. The meeting will be held at the town hall. Mrs. Riggs is cne of the most able women speakeis in the state and the , big meeting in this city promises to be , one es great interest.-Previous to the ( meeting in the court room, a band concert will be given by the General Elec- ( trie band in front of the court house. The women of Adams county are invited to attend these meetings. Mrs. Riggs lias a message worth hearing and knowing Governor Alfred E. Smith Senator Joseph Robinson and the state candidates personally, _wiil give a true 1 picture of these wonderful leaders and ' discuss the Issues of the campaign in an interesting and inteligent manner. Two Cars Collide On Second Street At 6:15 o'clock last evening, a car driven by Clark Funk was struck by a car bearing a Michigan license and driven by a man giving his name as J. D. Parkwell, in the employe of the Schafer Company. No one was injured. Funk was going not th on Second street when the Michigan car failed to observe the stop sign on Madison street, it is said, suddenly darted in his path. The left front fender of Mr. Funk's automobile was mashed, one wheel was broken, one tire was torn open, and one headlight was bent out of place. However, he was able to drive it to a garage under its own power. The other car was damaged, one hub cap being broken and one fender scratched, Dan Zehr and Omer Peterson were occupants of the Funk car. Police authorities following the accident, stated that running the stop signs had become common and, hereafter, all persons violating this ordinance would be prosecuted. o Truck Driver Proves He’s Game; Covers His Route In Woman’s Garb Patrons of the Peoples restaurant became both suspicious and curious at noon today, when they perceived a man, dressed in woman's clothes, eating his noon meal there. Persons who had seen the man alight from the driver's seat of a big milk truck were all the more curious. The man was dressed in a black and white dress, blue and white hat . and black slippers and wore an artificial flower on one shoulder. His face was rouged and powdered in true 'Tapper style. When the man ordered his dinner in a deep man’s voice, suspicions of those who heard him were aroused all the more. Chief of Police Melchi was informed of the matter and, after the man had left the restaurant and returned to his truck, the officer accosted him. The man explained that he was driving a truck for a Richmond, Ind., creamery company and that fellow employes had, bantered him to cover his route dressed in the make-up which he had worn in a home talent play. He showed ’em hq was game.

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G. 0. P. ORATORS INVADING EAST Board Os Strategy Maps Out Plans To Combat Smith’s Whirlwind Finish By Thomas L. Stokes UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 31. — (U.R) — Herbert Hoover is participating with his republican board of strategy in mapping out plans to combat the predicted “whirlwind” finish of Governor Alfred E. Smith's eastern campaign. The republican candidate will devote attention in the next two dayd here, before his departure for the west at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, to the final details of campaign windup arrangements. The final republican campaign strategy in the east revolves pt incipally about a concerted attack by a far-flung line of campaign orators, headed by Senator Borah of Idaho and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, against the principal bulwark of Smith's eastern defense, prohibition mocUflcation. While Hoover remains out of the picture as far as mention of prohibition is concerned, these speakers: especially Borah and Hughes, will attack Smith on his own battleground on the issue that appears to have stirred up most interest in the east. They are telling the voters that Smith can do nothing about changing the law. Along the sides of this battle line, other republican leaders will emphasize the "prosperity” issue. Hoover is maintaining the course he adopted at the outset as to his personal campaign. He will not be drawn into any debate with Smith in (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO;

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| Bloomington Young Man Escapes From County Jail Columbus, Ind., Oct. 31 —(U.R> —Authorities today searched for Oscar H. Moore, 22, Bloomington, prisoner in the cunty jail who escaped by dashing past Sheriff Linza Allen while the latter was committing another prisoner to jail. Mcore was to have faced trial-hero for alleged cashing of another man’s check. Gets Three-Day Parole Indianapolis, Oct. 31. —(U.R) -Governor Ed Jackson has issued a Ihree-day parole to Edward McCoy, lite prisoner in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City to visit his brother, who is seriously ill. McCoy was sentenced for first degree murder at Muncie, May 27, 1927. SCHOOL BUS CATCHES FIRE Children Escape Injury As Fire Damages Bus At Geneva Tuesday Geneva, Oct. 31—(Special) Several children, enroute to school here in a motor driven school bus, escaped injury when the bus caught fire. Tuesday morning. The children alighted from the bus without creating a panic, after the flames were discovered by the driver, Tom Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan discovered the fire just as the bus reached the end of the brick pavement on Line street, While the children were alighting from the bus Mr. Sullivan succeeded in smthering out the flames, which were tinder the hood of the car by using old rags and dirt.

SMITH SPEAKS IN NEWARK TONIGHT Candidate Is All Business As He Starts Final Drive Os Campaign By Paul R. Mallon (United Press Staff Correspondent) New Yotk. Oct. 31—UR)—Gov. Alfred E. Smith set cut today on the concluding drive of his Presidential campaign. He laid aside Ills brown derby j denied himself to callers and finished : the first of the final seties of campaign speeches. Tonight tlie speech will he delivered] in Newark, N. J. from the same plat-1 form where his Republican, opponent, I Herbert Hoover, spoke three weeks ago. A change appeared to have come over the Democratic nominee since his return from his Baltimore trip. There was grim seriousness in his mien, a disinclination to waste one of these final precious moments with cne of those familiar epigrams which characterize his intimate conversation. He was all business. His friends recognized the tenseness which they said has always absorbed the Governor’s activities in the closing moments of his gubernatorial cant paigns here. Smith is closing his national campaign according to the pteci.se custom of his gubernatorial races. On Friday night .lie will speak at the Brooklyn academy of music and Satti, day night at a final big rally in Madison Square Garden. Monday night he will leave his hotel heme and go down into Oliver street, on tlie east side, where he was born, to mingle with his old friends. The New Jersey speech tonight will be the only one not devoted to that "lucky program" he always has followed. It will deal with labor issues of the campaign, particularly the use of Injunctions in laboi disputes The jfrooklin speech will be devoted to the cause of the state democratic ticket and the Madison Sqnart''Ynceting will be a sinu ming up of -liis campaign. There is to he a brief radio talk from his hotel Monday night over a National radio network, hut it will be confined to evpressions of appreciation to his friends and the suggestion r-'i.t they vote early the next day. Mesh herder Brothers Submit Lowest Bld The Meshberger Stone Company of Linn Giove, was low bidder today for the grading of six miles of State road 3 miles north of Hartford City, whicli is expected to be graded for paving tbe coming year. Their bid was $14,220. A contract is expected to be awarded soon. 0 BLUFFTON PRIEST IS HEARD HERE Father Girardot Gives Sermon In Connection With Forty Hours Devotion Chcsing for his text, the scripture. “Take Ye and eat, for this is my Body" the Rev. Father Charles Girardot, of Bluffton, delivered the first of the evening sermons to be held at the.St Marys Catholic church in this city during the Forty Hours Devoticn, which service opened Tuesday morning. Father Girardot spoke on the "real presence cf the Divine Savior in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar”, and what it meant to those of Catholic belief. Through the institution of the Blessed Sacrament, when Jesus gave to His Apostles bread to eat and wine to drink, saying, ’Take ye and eat for this is My Body" and ‘take ye and drink for this is My Blood’. He transformed his body into bread and wine so that yen might partake of the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ", said Rev. Girardot. Rev. Girardot spoke of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and urged the faithful to partake of this sacrifice during the Forty [ Hout.’. Masses at the St. Marys Catholic . church were held this morning at 5, . 7:30 and 9 o'clock. Thursday morning, the feast of All Saints, masses will be celebrated at 5, 7:30 and 9:45 o’clock. The evening services will be held at 7:30 'clock. o Insane Patient Escapes Indianapolis, Oct. 31.—(U.R) —Police , today searched for Joseph Bevel, 28, inmate of the Cential Hospital for the insane here, who escaped from the Institution clad only in his night clothes.

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Association Os Medical Colleges Ends Convention I Indianapolis, Oct. 31- 'U.Rz-The annual convention of the association of Ameilcan medical colleges will be concluded here today. Dr. Burton D. Myers, dean of the Indiana University school of medicine, was elected president of the association for the ensuing year. Ninety-one delegates, representing seventy of America's leading universities, were In attendance at the convention. PLAN RECEPTION FOR REV. BEAN Decatur Methodists Arrange Reception For New District Superintendent The membership of the First Methodist church is cordially invited to join in a reception, to be held at the church tomorrow evening, for Dr. J. Thomas Bean, newly appointed superintendent of the Fort Wayne district. The reception will be held in conjunction with the third quarterly conference of the church, and will open with a pot-luck supper in the basement of the church at 6:30 o’clock. A short program will also be given during the supper hour. At 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Bean will conduct the quarterly conference, which is not for the official board of the church alone, but for the entire membership. Dr. Bean succeeds Dr. W. W. VViant, who resigned as district superintendent to accept the pastorate of an Indianapolis church. This is Dr. Bean's first appearance in this city and it is hoped that he may be greeted by a large delegation of the church members. o Nomination Os Officers Held By Decatur Lions Nominaticn of officers took place j at the regular weekly meeting of the Lions Club, last night. The elec ion will he held on Tuesday evening, ?<ovember 27. The Rev. Harry W. Thompson gave a brief but interesting talk last nignt on the subject of radiu, paying particular attention to the common troubles which develope in receiving sets and tlie servicing of sets. Plans for staging the annual Evening Star Festival here on November 13,14,15 and 16 were discussed at ’lie meeting last night, and season tick Us were distributed to each member of the club, to be sold before the ope: .ng night of the entertainment. —: o Evangelical Church Installs Radio Set The Evangelical church, on Winchester street, has installed a radio set, to be used in connection with the Prayer meeting tonight. Di. Daniel A. Poling edltcr-in-chief of the Christian Herald, and President of tlie World Society of Christian Endeavor, will speak form 7:30 to 8 o’clock over a nation-wide-hookup, in behalf of tbe candidacy of Herbert Hoover, because he feels that Prohibition in America is at stake in the President election. In his address he will set forth his reasons for entering the list on behalf of Hoover. Tropical Disturbance Reported Near Cuba Washington, Oct. 31.—(U.R) — A tropical disturbance between Swan Island and western Cuba was reported by the weather bureau today. Exact loca- . tion and intensity of the storm could i not be determined as vessels in northi western Caribbean have sent no re- • ports, the bureau said. I Caution was advised in the extreme ■ northwestern Caribbean. Yucatan t channel and western Cuban waters. Vessels weie requested tq send infor- . mation of unusual conditions. o O. M. Parrish Leases Burdg Barber Shop O. M. Parrish, of Fort Wayne, has leased tlie Al Burdg barber shop on , West Monroe street. H. S. Parrish, tor- . merly of Fort Wayne, has taken poses- > sion of the shop and, as soon as the Parrish Blethers dispose of their shop in Fort Wayne, both will operate the shop here —o Chickens Destroy Flowers 5 Residents in the northwest part of , the city have complained that neigh r bor's chickens are destroying flow i ers and shrubs. Owners nf the chick t ens are asked to keep their chickens penned up to avoid prosecution.

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AIRSHIP REACHES COAST AT DUSK: HEADS FDR PARIS Dirigible Expected To Fly Over Paris At Midnight Tonight j SPEED REDUCED TO 50 MILES PER HOUR Paris. France, Oct. 31. <U.R) The Graf Zeppelin crossed I the French coast at Rochelet, ‘ near Nantes, at 6:25 o’clock jn. nt. (1:25 p.ni. EST). She (flew over Nantes at 6:43 n.m., headed straight east toward the interior. The Zeppelin sent a wireless message shortly before 7 p. in., saying she might flv over LeBourget aviation field, outside Paris, at midnight. A violent storm in the Mediterranean had forced her to head directly west, it was understood. German wireless stations advised her of the storm. The Zeppelin was flying about 1,000 feet up when she passed over Nantes. The cabins were lighted in the growing darkness and watchers could see the crew waving lights. Speed Is Reduced The dirigible’s speed was estimated at less than 50 miles an hour. It was believed the Graf Zeppelin would follow the valley of the Loire up toward Paris. Leßourget will remain illuminated by flood lights all night long and two wiieless operators will remain on duty until the Zeppelin lands at Friedrichshafen. The Zeppelin dipped low as she reached the coast at Rochelet to establish her position, but Dr. Eckener pointed the dirigible's nose upwaid again as soon as he was certain of his course. The hum of the motors brought | fishermen tumbling from their cottages and crowds into the streets at the nearby coast resort of St. Brevin. The weather from Nantes toward Paris was excellent. Plan Reception For Stowaway Freidrichshafen, Germany. Oct. 31. —(U.R) —An American boy, embodying the spirit of adventure that is in the day dreams of every lad in the land, held a high place in the hearts of the German people, today —a people whose hearts were already bursting with thanksgiving and pride over the return of the Graf Zeppelin on her round trip to America. Clarence Terhune, 19, seemed certain to receive the warmest reception ever accorded a stowaway. The daring of the boy’s feat thrilled the Germans and gave them a good chuckle. The press poked sly fun at Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Zeppelin, and said that It was “a good joke" on him. Clarence, peeling potatoes and doing odd tasks to earn his keep alward the Graf was probably largely unaware of what was in store for him on his arrival. Fines for persons who enter Germany without a passport range from 20 to 10,000 marks. Chief of Police Quistenz, at Friedrichshafen, was In communication with American Consul Stuttgart and said the fine probably would be only (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o — DIO SURPLUS IS PREDICTED Government Financial Experts Forecast $100,000,000 Surplus In Treasury Washington, Oct. 31—(U.R>—Government financial experts predicted today the tieasury would accumulate a surplus of nearly $100,000,000 by the end of the 1928-29 fiscal year. ) That optimistic outlook was presented to the United Press by high oftl- , dais despite previous forecasts by bud- ! get director Lord that the fiscal year •. 1929 would see a deficit instead of a surplus. a Today the Treasury statement ahowp ed a paper deficit of $357,000,000 come paied with the surplus of $43,000,000 cne year ago. but the actual difference was only $162,392,000 as the treasury has taken advantage of the price of ,f federal securities and In four months has completed the year’s sinking fund i-. payments. t . The government anticipates heavier lt) tax returns from big corporations. than the past year, it was pointed out.

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