Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1928 — Page 1

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KING GEORGE’S CONDITION IS NOT IMPROVED Official Bulletin Says King Spent Resless Night; Many Callers THRONGS OUTSIDE AWAIT THE NEWS Ix.ndon, Nov. 26,--(U.R)-Au official bulletin issued at 11 a. hi. today announced that King George had spent a restless night and that his fever had fluctuated. The bulletin said: "The king passed a restless night. There was variability in his fever and a spread of the pleurisy which must be expected at this stage of the illmess. "Signed. Stanley Hewett, "Dawson of Penn.” Braving the rain and strong winds which swept by the gates of Buckingham Palace, a crowd of approximately 1.000 persons awaited the latest news from the king’s suite. Guard mount was in progress as the bulletin was issued and the military ban dwas playing the customary selections. The bulletin conflicted with earlier reports which indicated the king was resting comfortably. The morning bulletin was posted on the railing in the front court of the palace, for the list time since the king became ill. The action was believed to be intended to forestall the stream of questions directed at the palace sentries by the crowd. Shortly after one p. m. the Duke of York, second son of the king, motored to the palace with the duchess from their Piccadilly residence. They had lunch with the queen and Princes Mary. The crowd stirred reatJeaaly and watched on tiptoe the stream of automobiles which began to arrive at the palace. Sir Stanley Hewett, surgeon and Apothecary to the king, and Lord Dawson of Penn, physician-in-ordinary to the king, left separately, shortly after 11 a. tn., after sepnding more than tw o hours in the palace. Sir William Joynson-Hicks. home secretary, and other prominent governmenht officials were among the early callers at the palace. The crowd included top-hatted sol4ety folk, business men. laborers, and many unemployed. o ——- Ryan Funeral Held New York, Nov. 26—(U.R)—Leaders of the financial world in which Thomas Fortune Ryan was an outstanding figure for some two score years, gathered today for his funeral at the 'Church of St. Jean Baptiste. Among the early arrivals were J. P. Morgan, Otto Kahn. Clarence V> • Mackey, J. W. Gerard and Frank Nedley. By 10 o’clock the church was filljed. Pews in the center aisle were roped off for members of the Ryan family and close friends. ALBERT MILLER DIESSUNDAY Monroe Township Resident Dies At The Home Os His Brother Near Monroe Albert Miller, 62, of Monroe township died at the home of his brother William Miller near Monroe Sundav afternoon at 2 o’clock. Death was said to have been due to a complication ot diseases. Mr. Miller was born in France in 1866. He was the son of Jacob and Mary Miller. When a young man he came with his parents to this country and has resided in Adams county for many years. Mr. Miller never married, and has resided for some time with his brother in Monroe township. The father and mother preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held nt the Winchester church Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will be made at the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne. The Rev. Mr. Scherry of Vera Cruz will have charge of the service®. o Guardian Board to Meet The Board of children's guardians will meet Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock at the library. AU members are urged to attend. Mrs. D. D. Heller.

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Here is a late portrait of Thomas Fortune Flyan, multi-billionaire financier and a Titan of Wall street in the 90's, who died at ills home in New York, aged 77. He had been ill only a few days. His wealth is estimated variously from $100,060,000 to $300,000,600.

COMMITTEES ACE APPOINTED American Legion Command* er-Elect Weicking Names Aides In Organization Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2t>—Appointment of state-wide committees to car ry on the program of The American Legion in Indiana in its effort to reach a membership of 35,000 before the Louisville, Ky.. National convention of the Legion next fall, were announced today by Fred A. Weicking, of Bluffton, Department Commander-elect of the* .Legion These permanent committees will take office on January 1 and serve throughout the coming year. Paid 1929 members at Headquarters today is three times that from the same date last year, Department Commander Weicking said. With Paul V. McNutt, of Bloomington, our national Commander and with the next national convention at Louisville there is no reason why we wll not reach the goal of 35,000 said Department Commander Weicking, The committee appointments follow: State Rehabilitation Chairman, L. V Houck, of Morristown. State Child Welfare Chairman. Tom McConnell, of Fowler. Sub-committe of Knightstown Home Charles Theders, of Connersville, chairman Horace Parker, Richmond; Dr. Joseph Allen, Greenfield; Arthur Lemmoo, Greensburg, and J. R. Tfacy Anderson. State Americanism Committee, Clay Philips, of Terre Haute, chairman; M. William Malczewski, Gary: Clarence Martin, Indianapolis; Horman Holtman, Evansville, and Oswald Ryan, Anderson. State Legislative Committee, Forest A. Harness, of Kokomo, chairman; John W. Scott, Gary; Carl Gray, Petersburg; Raymond Springer; Connersville; Harry Muller, Fort Wayne; Ora Davis, Terre Haute; Joseph Cripe, Kokomo; Elmer W. Sherwood. Bloomfield; Frank M. McHale, of Logansport, and Lloyd D. Claycomhe, Indianapolis. State Distinguished Guest Committee, E. Arthur Ball, Muncie, chairman; Perry Faulkner, Shelbyville, Paul V. McNutt Bloomington; C. A Jackson, Newcastle; Brig. Gen. L. R. Glgnilllat, Culver; C. B. McCullough,, Indianapo list; Phil Bash, Huntington; Dr. C R. Bird, Greensburg: Earnest Elder, Lawrenceburg, and Henry Walker, Evansville. State Finance Committee, Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, chairman; Robert F. Daggett, Indianapolis; Paul Haimbaugh, Muncie; B. K. Cash, Logansport, and Joseph Zimmerman, Evansville. State Louisville Convention (>m(CONTI* i,, Wt> <»W PAOR TWOI Grand Jury Convenes The members of the Adams county grand jury met this morning at nine o’clock in the jury room of the Adams circuit court. Prosecutor John T. Kelley convened the jury. The jury adjourned* about eleven o clock until Tuesday morning. They will go to the County Infirmary Tuesday, where they will be the guests of Supt. and Mrs. Harry La Fountaine at dinner. Leo Ehlnger, was drawn as a jurior in the place of Abe Bollenbacher. who was unable to serve on account of having changed his residence. It Is not known if any criminal investigations will be brought before the jury.

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“LOST" REPORT PROVES FALSE Col. Charles Lindbergh Safe After Report Is Circulated That He Is Lost San Antonio, Tex.. Nov. 26—(U.R) — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Kelley Field at 7:55 A. M. today for an unannounced destination. He had spent the night here and appear ed al the field early to inspect his plane. It was reported unofficially tliat Lie was enroute to Washington and that he w aid stop at St. Louis on the way. San Antonio, Tex. Nov. 26 (U.R) - Charles A. Lindbergh, reported missing yesteulay and feared a victim of an airplane crash, will take off from Kelly field today for an unannounced destination probably St. l.ouls. The trans-Atlantic flier dropped down out of the sky at Kelly field yesterday afternoon. The nation had been nervous about him all day yesterday following reports that an airplane had made a forced landing south of Brownsville. Tex. It was thought Lindbergh was the pilot as he had been reported flying over that section. Then the Colonel was repotted safe at Los Naranjos ranch near Tampico. Mexico, where he was hunting ducks with friends. From Brownsville, Maj Bernard Law led a squadron of three planes in search of the plane reported In trouble. Apparently the only basis for the reports was an announcement by an attendant at the Fort Brown meteorological station that he sighted a plane Saturday night which appeared to be seeking a landing place. The plane was lighted. It flew in a circle several miles from the station and then headed back for Mexico. The impression gained from the announcement was that the plane either had crashed fir made a forced landing Every facility was set to work to check the reports and learn wh“re Lindbergh was. He had been due, according to last announcements, to fly to Brownsville Saturday. Thousands of calls swamped correspondents cn the border, even the state department at Washington calling for news of Lindbergh. ANOTHER MERGER EFFORT MADE Van Sweringens Appeal To Inter-State Commerce Commission Again By Cecil Owen (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington. Nov. 26 —(U.R) —Another phase of the three year struggle of the Van Swerlngen brothers, Cleveland railroad owners, to obtain the government’s sanction for merger of railroads they control, will be aired today before the Interstate Commerce commission. The .hearing involves purchase of the Pere Marquette by the Chesopeake and Ohio, key line of the Van Swearingen properties. This purchase was authorized by the commission on May 18 last, but certain conditions were attached which have delayed consummation of the merger. One of the conditions was that the Pere Marquette stock, most ot which is owned by the Van Sweringens personally and railroads they own, must be bought for sllO a share. Another was that the C. and O. stock issued to finance the purchase must be offered at $l5O a share instead of at Par. Since then, the C. and O. lias filed with the commission an application to purchase Pere Marquette outstanding stock at $133 a share and to issue stock of their own at par of SIOO. It was contended that the Pere Marquette stock could not be bought for less than $133 While viewed as an important angle of the railway merger situation in the east, the C. and 0., Pere Marquette hearing today Involves only those two roads and does not bear directly on any of the larger mergers now under- - discussion. The Erie railroad which i the Van Swearingens sought to combine also with the C and O„ is not involved in the present proceedings. Merger of these two roads would create a 5,000 mile system extending from Newport News, Va., through Cln- . cinnatl to Chicago and into Canadla i via Detroit. Lines of the Peru Marque’- , te lie principally in Michigan, but ex- . tended 337 miles into Canada. From Its western terminus at Ludington, Mich., the Pere Marquette operates car ferries across Lake Michigan, thus providing a link with the northwest.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 26, 1928.

■ Friends Church Revival Starts Sunday At Monroe I The annual revival services of the F rat Friends church of Monroe will open next Sunday, December 2. The meetings will be held each night for an indefinite period. The Rev. Vernon Reiliey, pastor of ( the First Friends church will have charge of the services. The meetings are held eaoh year and the public is cordially invited to attend. ... -o— —• ANNUAL THANKS ■ SERVICE TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY I ( Protestant Churches Will Join In Union Service At ' First Presbyterian Church REV. R. W. SUN DERM AN 1 TO DELIVER SERMON J E The Union Thanksgiving services , of all Protestatn churches in Decatur i will be held Wednesday night at 7.30 o'clock at the Presbyterian church. A t fine program has been arranged and ' the public is urged to attend. The Thanksgiving services are given annually either on Thanksgiving ' day or the evening before. The cus- I tom has been in use in Decatur for ‘ several years. 1 The Rev. A. R. Fledderjoliann, pas- ‘ tor of the Zion Reformed church of ! this city will deliver the Thanksgiv- > Ing day sermon. Following is the program: Organ Prelude Mrs. Fred Smith ! Hymn Congregation ' Invocation Rev. O. E. Miller ’ Hymn Congregation 1 Scripture Rev. R. E. Vance I Anthem Presbyterian Choir Prayer of Thangsglving Rev. M. W. Sunderman Offertory Hymn Congregation 1 Sermon. Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann Duet ..Mrs. Cecil Moser and Paul Saurer Benediction Rev. R. W. Stoakei 1 Monroe to Have Services The annual Union 'thanksgiving service of the Protestant churches of Monroe will be held Thursday morning at 6 o’clock at the First Friends church of that town. The other i churches of that community will Join in the service. Another service, to which the public is Invited, will be held Thursday night at 7 o'clock. The program for both services is being completed. o Escaped Convict Returns To Home And Surrenders Muncie, Ind., Nov. 26 —-<U.R> — John Georgianna, 21. who escaped two years ago from the Indiana state farm the day after he became an inmate on a • junk conviction .has returned here aud ■ surrendered. He had been working at I Fort Wayne since he escaped. Jie said. "Whatever I get out of this, I’ll be i glad when it's over,” Georgianna de- • dared after surrendering. I simply got . tired of being afraid that I might > caught.” 1 o Search Continued For ; Missing Indianapolis Lady f Indianapolis, Nov. 26—(U.R>—Authorities ami relatives today continued • their search for Catherine Donnelly. 1 who disappeared from a hospital here ’ Thursday. Relatives of the woman said she sufr sered a nervous breakdown a year 1 ago. Police said they hail learned that a ’• woman answering her description had 1 pawned a wedding ring at a local pawn 5 brokers. : • -- —— ■

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HOOVER SNIP NEARS SHORE Good Will Trip Ends First Leg Os Long Ocean Voyage Aboard the U. 8. S. Maryland, enroute to Amapala, Nov. 26 —(U.R)—As the Maryland drew in toward the Honduran coast, today. Presidentelect Herbert Hoover scanned the shoreline eagerly. Arrival off Amapala was expected in the mid-forenoon and Hoover expected to be ashore by 11 a. m. Everyone was eager to get their fit st close view of Central America, often in the news but not familiar ground to many of those on board. This was the eightli day of the voyage and all members of the Hoover party were glad of the prospect of setting foot on land. Neither Hoover nor Mrs. Hoover had been bothered by the gale encountered as the ship crossed the ( Gulf of Tehantepec. Their son Allan . and a few other members of the par- ' ’y were sea sick during the storm ( when the Maryland pitched heavily. , In his first Latin American stop today, Hoover will call at Amapala and then go ten miles across the Guli of Fonseca to La Union. The Maryland will anchor about six miles off the island upon which Amapala is located, in the Gulf of Fonseca. The Hoover party will leave the battleship in launches and land at Amapala where they will be greeted by representatives and perhaps by President Miguel Paz Barahona, himself. After luncheon, launches will take the party to I-a Union where representatives of Salvador will greet the president-elect. It is expected that Hoover will reach La Union about 4 p. m. After a formal dinner, the party wiill return to the Maryland which will get underway about midnight for Coriirto, Shmragua. Arrival at Corinto was planned for 10 a. m. tomorrow. The Hoover party will be greeted by President Adolfo Diaz, Presidentsleet Jose Maria Moncada and Gen. Emiliano Chamorro, a former president and a conservative leader. After sight-seeing ashore in Corin‘o, Hoover will give a luncheon on irw***M vn MAY CHANCE ENFORCEMENT Federal Prohibition May Be Placed Linder the Department Os Justice Washington, Nov. 26. —(U.R) —Presi-dent-elect Herbert Hoover is working on a plan to transfer prohibition enforcement from Hie treasury to the justice department, it is learned from his friends here. The Anti-Saloon League and ardent drys opposed ,t he scheme when it was first suggested by President Harding in 1921 but it is understood they have become convinced of the feasibility of the move as an aid to prohibition enforcement. It is expected Hoover will Include the recommendation in his inaugural address, following It up with a recommendation for legislation to his new congress. Congress must authorize tiie transfer if it is to be made. \ The idea of the project is to coordinate the enforcement and prosecution ends of the prohibition act. Federal district attorneys throughout the country direct largely the activities of agents, gathering up evidence. It is the attorneys who must prosecute tiie cases. ’Technically, the agents are under the treasury department where they were placed by the original Volstead act on the theory that liquor enforcement would lie like enforcement of the narcotic laws. Advocates ot the proposal for a change believed direct assumption of enforcement control by the Justice department will bring closer cooperation between tiie two agencies and hence make for more effective prosecutions and better enforcemnt. Hoover has never mentioned tiie matter publicly and did not discuss it In his presidential campaign, but he has talked it over with certain of his closest friends who also are friends of prohibition. He sounded out the attitude of the leading drys, finding they were entirely favorable to the proposal. He told his friends before he returned to Washington so he could put it into the form of a definite recommendation to be prestented to the public and to congress.

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Ixtrd Dawson of Penn (above), personal physician to His Majesty, George V„ who is in constant attendance upon British monarch during his present illness. Tiie ruler's condition is now believed to augur a speedy recovery. NEW OFFICIALS LEARN DUTIES Adams County Officers Are Acquainting Themselves With New Jobs The county officials who wore elected to office in the November election started this morning to acquaint themselves with the duties of their respective offices. Albert Harlow of Geneva, county au-ditor-elect started this morning to acquaint himself with the duties of the auditor’s office. Mr. Harlow will devote this month to that task. Mr. Harlow has not yet named his deputy. He recently disposed of his grocery store! in Geneva. He will assume office on January 1, 1929, succeeding Martlu Jaberg, who has served eight years in the office. Ralph Roop, Decatur, who was elected county surveyor without opposition also staited to work this morning in the county surveyor’s office. He will begin ills term on January 1. 1929. Mr. Roop is a qualified engineer and lias been employed by tiie General Elec trie company. He has not yet named his deputy. Nathan Nelson, Geneva, Prosecuting attorney-elect met this morning with the grand jury and Prosecuting attorney John T. Kelly. Mr. Nelson has moved his office to Decatur. He will assume his office January 1, 1929. Mrs. Clara Anderson, county recor-der-elect, will move from Geneva to Decatur this week and will start immediately to acquaint herself witli the duties of the recorder's office. Mrs Anderson lias leased one of the appartments in the Morrison property on Third street. Her father, former State Senator, Silas Hale of Geneva, will also move here. Ed Ashbaucher, county treasurer will begin his second term next January. Miss Alice Lenhart has served as his

deputy and will continue in that capacity. Harl Hollingsworth, county sheriff will begin his second term the first of the year. Dallas Hower is the deputy sheriff. George Shoemaker, commissioner from the first district, were re-elected to succeed themselves. . Six Are Killed In I Calumet Auto Wrecks > Hammond. Ind., Nov. 26-XU.R) —Six i people were killed in week-end auto t accidents in the Calumet region. Four • young people were victims of a grade I crossing accident when their auto was ■ hit by a Michigan Central passenger Haiti in Calumet City. They were Alex i Rakowski, 20, Indiana Harbor, John f Medwitz 22, East Chicago, Misses Jes- , sle Orezel, 19. Irene Kcnarski 17. both . of Calumet City. The four were killed I outright. John Cornick, 49, Indiana Harbor was killed by a non-stop driver Mrs. Orvilla Stevens. 84, fatally in- . jured in an auto collision near crown I point, died in a hospital. 0 — s Americans Are Leaving Nicaragua Battle Front e R Washington, Nov. 26 — (U.K — Tho e Blue-Jacket Batalllon numbering 326 e men has been withdrawn from Nicaeae gna and is returning to the West Coast e aboard the Navy vessels Vega and Ka o nawha, the Navy department announc ed today.

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DIS ASTERS AT SEA ADD TOLL AS LIST CROWS Loss Throughout Europe Will Amount To Millions Os Dollars SEVERE GALE STRIKES MANILA London, Nov. 26.— <U.R> —At least 21 ships were wrecked or in distress and 17 persons were known to lie dead as gales which have raged since Friday continued today to batter the British Isles and the continent. The winds attained terriflic force, lashing the surface of the Thames and piling up waves two feet high In Liverpool, wind velocity reached 93 miles an hour; at Holyhead, 81; at Croydon. 79; and at Morthydown. 65. Belfast was cut off from telephone communication with England. Four vessels with a total of 38 in crew personnel were missing. They were the two British trawlers Dean Swift and the Forget-Me-Not, with nine and four Respectively ou board; the British steamer Mia with a crew of 7 and th Norwegian steamer Hjiert witli a crew ot 18. On the French steamer Emile Delmac. two passengers were lost from a lifeboat and two of the crew were washed away, off Mersey lightship, New Brighton. The Ilnur Metagama, reaching Queenstown, reperted receiving 11 SOS calls during the crossing The Cramlington Airdrome was wrecked and the entire fleet of Morh Planes destroyed. The t..g Them is overturned in ths mouth of the River Trent, at Hull. The mate was drowned. The Allerman Liner City of Aera, 4,836 tons, radioed Cherbourg for Immediate assistance at midday SunI day; nothing has been heard from her since. A passenger train near Ashburton I was derailed but passengers escaped injury. A girl was killed by a falling tree at Strabaue, Ireland, and a child, blinded by rain, was killed when struck by an atuomoblle in Newport. Floods threatened in many places. South Wales was badly hit, rivers I overflowing and fallen trees blocking the roads. From Elgin. Scotland, reports of continued floods came in. The River Spey was over its banks. It had invaded Garmouth, threatened the main line of the Elgin-Aberdeen railroad. Channel traffic was subended between Ostend and Dover and more than 50 vessels sought tiie shelter of ’ the roadstead off Deal. t i Death Toll Mounts ' Paris, Nov. 26 (U.R) Northwestern Europe was in the grip of one ot the worst storms in many years today. There was a mounting death toll as lowlands were flooded and scores <con ruviTun «•»«« twui 1 0

FARM BUREAU OPENS SESSION Indiana Federation Convenes At State Headquarters In Indianapolis Today Indianapolis, Nov. 26. —(U.R) One thousand Indiana farmers assembled in Indianapolis today for the tenth annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation. A new attendance record was set. The meeting will last two days. Mayor L. Ert. Slack, welcomed the delegates and then the tenor of tho session was sounded by W. 11. Settle, preaident In his annual address. "It. is the duty of every farmer to fight for adequate legislation,” he said. “The rural home, the rural school and the rural church depend no the prosperity of the farmer. ! "In my opinion the only thing that would prevent real farm relief legislation would be to undertake to jam an agricultural bill through the short session of congress that, convenes December 3. "It is apparent that President > Coolidge referring to his own state- > ment does not understand agricultural problems. An attempt to enact t legislation in the short term would t- no doubt prevent Herbert Hoover '■ from carrying out the program he has promised."

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