Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1928 — Page 1

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hoover guarded CLOSELY AFTER PLOT IS FOUND Several Arrested In Connec- ‘ fjon With Plot Against President-Elect HOOVER CONTINUES ON w AY TO BUENOS AIRES Buenos Ain-s. Dec. 12. <U.H) Several uddilionnl arrests ver,' made today in connection with an anarchistic plot against ihe life of President-elect Herbert Hoover. Elaborate precautions nave been n.ken to guard the entire line of the "-.n; sandean tailway over which Mr. Hoover will travel today from Los Andes. Chile to Buenos Aires. Bridges, culverts, snow shoes in th? mountain passes of the Andean Cordji’ers. and other danger points along the transcontinental rail lino from chile acrcjs the mountains and over Hip Pampas of the Argentine are beiug picketed by troops and police. General .Juan Vacarezza appointed ,"s Mr. Hoover’s aide and who left Monday to meet the Hoover party at die liontier. returned here yesterday. Vo reason for Vacarezza’s recall was given. The nr t recent arrests came today when a house located in the outskirts of the suburb Belgrano was raided. The dwelling was just inside the city limits. After yesterday’s raid, when police found sAven bombs, dynamite, and arms and ammunition in the house of Manuel Scarzo. additional steps were taken by police to insure safety for Mr. Hoover and his party. Po'ice claimed that Scarzo and his companion Cefeiino Castro, a Spam h chauffeur, who has so far eluded arrest. had been manufacturing explosives for some time. Two young women were also ari'emed when they visited the house after Searzo's arrest. Both of the girls were under 18 years of age and they wore reported to be Searzo's sister and fiancee. They said they were ignorant of Searzo’s anarchistic activities but police said their handbags contained anarchistic literature. Several pistols and revolvers, a railway map of Argentina with lines marked heavily in red pencil, and a Quantity of counterfeit ten pesos notes were found in Searzo's room. Hoover Party Moves On Aboard the Trans-Andine Special Enroute to Buenos Aires. Dee. 11. (U.R) —President-elect Herbert Hoove.' snent today in the grandeur of the Cordillera, the Andes mountain range of South America. After a brief visit to Santiago, where the party was received with the greatest enthusiasm, the Hoover partv left for Buenos Aires by the overland mountain route at 10:04 Pm. The night was spent at Los Andes, a three hour journey from Sant ago. Los Andes marks the beg nning of the steep narrow gauge c nib over the range.

AERONAUTICS MEET OPENS President Coolidge Addresses International Conference In Washington Washington, Dec. 12.—(U.R) The world is looking forward to the day when extensive and reasonably safe intercontinental and interoceanic air transportation will cement more firmly the bonds ot international brotherhood, President Coolidge said in an address of welcome here today before •he International Civil Aeronautics conference. Orville Wright, guest of honor, failed to arrive in time to hear the glowing tribute paid him by President Coolidge in his address before the Ratherlng. it was explained Wright's •rain was late. Col. Charles A. landhergh, a member of the American delegation , was virtually unnoticed as he took his seat between Assistant Secretary of War Warner and Harry Guggenheim. Fifty nations were represented at •he conference, whose attention, the President pointed out, was to be directed to “the development 01 aeronautics as an aid to the peaceful Pursuits of transportation, of commerce and of trade."

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Because Miss Florence Carter, his former school teacher, slapped him for "sh elling three* years ago, 15-year-old Jimmie Deacons, accord ing to Its ov n lonfes. ion. asked her for a lift in her car and bent her tn death with a hammer near Stu fldan, Michigan. Above, Deacons, bolding de tective magazine, is shown telling Deputy Sheriff R. S. Fries of the crime.

E, C, CLEVENGER SPEKS TO LIONS Decatur Man Explains His Business In Talk; Bluffton Men Guests E. C. Clevenger. of tins city, gave a talk nt the weekly luncheon meeting of the Lions Club, last night. Mr I Clevenger told about his business, ihi’J i of re-checking and collecting freight | overcharges. He al- > told about a book ■ published by him which is used in computing the weight of all freight train equipment. It is the only book of its kind published. Herman Myers was chairman of the program for last night. France Comer, Commander of Adams Post No. 43, of the American l.egi n, in this city, Fei.l \\ picking ol Bluffton, state commander of the Legion. and Hoyt Hartman. .1 Bluffton, wete guests of the club last night, also. Plans were made by the Lions to enter lain a number of needy boys at a Christmas parly next Tuesday evening. Each Lion will take a needy boy Io the meeting, and gifts will be given in the boys. Charles Weidler, Prominent S. Bend Man, Found Dead South Bend. Ind., Dec. 12.—(U.R)— Charles Weidler, (10, tanker and stock raiser, and widely known in Democratic politics in Indiana was found dead in his office here today. Weidler was a progressive Democrat, and once bolted the party to lead the Lafolette forces in Indiana. For a score of years he lias been identified with agricultural movements in Indiana. Auto Crashes Head-On With Interurban Car Indianapolis, Dec. 12. (U.R) ~ Three boys, Hershell Stansbury. 17, Robert Graham. 17. and Stanford < otman, 17 all of Indianapolis, were injured when their automobile crashed head-on with a Union Traction car. Stansbury sustained a fracture of the skull, tat hospital attendants said his condition was not regarded as serious. The other two youths received cuts and bruises. Witnesses said the boys attempted to pass another automobile and drove directly in the path of the interurban. — o— Stahly Child Dies At Hospital In Fort Wayne Berne, Dee. 12. - (Speciall — Mary Catherine Stably. 11-monthold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Stahly. of near Geneva, died at. the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, at 3:12 I o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The child had been ill for the last five weeks and was taken to the hospital last Friday. The parents survive. A sister died several months ago. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1 o'clock and at the Reformed church in Berne at 2 o clock Friday afternoon, with burial in the M. R. E. cemetery, west of Berne.

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Wabash College Closed Due To Influenza Epidemic Crawfordsville. Ind., Dec. 12. —<U.R)' With nearly 200 students and ten! faculty ineinbers of Wabash College ] afflicted with influenza, it has been decided to close the institution until Jan. 3. to prevent further spread of the disease. Although none of the cases are believed serious. President Louis B. Hopkins, ami local health authorities, ’ decided to close ihe school merely as a precautionary measure. It was also decided to postpone the dedication of the new $125.0110 c olilege chapel, which was to have been dedicated Monday. Fraternities have been warned to send all men afflicted with the malady home. 0 SHUMAKER CASE NEARING CLOSE e Attorney General Files Final Brief; Court's Decision Awaited

Indianapolis, Dec. 12.— (U.R) With the filing of a final brief by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom. the last round of the Shumaker contempt case awaited final decision today. The court, which fined the Rev. E. I S. Shumaker, secretary of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, $250 ami sentenced him to serve sixty days at the Indiana state farm for contempt, must now decide whether the imprisonment still holds. Shumaker went to the farm, paid his fine and was pardoned from serving the imprisonment sentence by Governor Ed Jackson. . Gilliom, who had instituted the contempt proceedings, then moved that the court impose the sentence on the grounds that the governor had no power to pardon in a contempt case. Attorneys for Shumaker moved dismissal of the Gilliom motion, which was denied. They then filed a de- . murrer to motion in execution of judgment and briefs in support of their contention that the governor was within his province in issuing the pardon. That is the question now . awaiting the court's decision. _o Jury In Murder Trial At Marion Disagrees , Marion, Ind.. Dec. 12—f|J.R>—After ' deliberating more than eight hours, the circuit court jury trying Uhle Ferguson, 23, for the murder of Orville Goodpasture, 22, reported that it could not ' agree. 1 Ferguson and Charles Manlier, were ‘ indicted for second degree murder fol--1 lowing the finding of Goodpasture’s 1 body along a lonely highway, September 1. 1 The state charged that one of the men struck Goodpasture and that in ’ falling he broke his neck. Ferguson’s ■ testimony said that Goodpasture was : intoxicated and fell. Manlier .obtained a separate trial which is to open Monday.

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schools. .Mr. .Jeff i cry stated that Ihe Herne school had | disposed of the quota of 10,out) seals I I sent them several days ago. Miss | Pauline Steele, teacher in the Wash- ] ingto iischool, southwest of Decatur.! als : sent a request to Mr. Brown fori, 200 more seals, saying that her ’ s< hold's quota of 500 seals had been 1 sold e o - ______ - - — -.--

KING UNDERGOES t OPERATION TODAY ; — s Pus Removed From Lung; t Slightly More Hope Is Held For His Recovery By Keith Jones I'P Staff Correspondent London, Dec. 12. (U.P.) —An oper- I alien was performed on the king to-1 day. t Pus was drained off by puncturing ( his lung. The process will have to < be repeated, his doctors announced. ( More hope was expressed for Hie ] king than prevailed yesterday while ( the P.ince of Wales was speeding ( home across France. The doctors said that "the slight improvement" which . they had noted iii a bulletin this morn- , ing was being maintained. , Tlie minor operation was performed after a consultation of the king's physicians and the announcement was signed by all five doctors. The Prince of Wales spent about about an hour and a half at Buckingham palace. He left for York house at 1:30 p. m. The king's youngest son Prime George is expected to arrive in England on the Canard liner Berengartia Dec. 20 his 26th birthday. He will sail from New Y'ork Friday. o — - Members Os The xGOOi) FELLOWS CLUB Os Decatur Previous total $41.85 | Lions Friend 5 M Friends

Total ?57.82 ALLEGED BANDITS HELD AT LIGONIER Two Youths Giving Indianapolis As Their Home Are Wounded In Chase Ligonier. Ind.. Dec. 12.—(U.R) Walter Dubois. 24, and Ralph Taylor. 21, giving Indianapolis as their homes were wounded and held in jail here following capture by Goshen pol.ee after they had robbed a local restaurant of sl4 and escaped. Dubois was shot five t'tnes and Taylor was wounded in the head by Goshen police who chased the bandit car ten miles before they succeeded in overtaking it. The bandits did net return I lie fire, police said. o—ffl BS

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STATE LEGION COMMANDER IS SPEAKER HERE • Fred Wiecking Presides Al Installation Os New Officers Os Adams Post DISTRICT COMMANDER ALSO GUEST OF POST Installation of new officers ami talks by Fred \\ iei king, of Bluffton, state commander. ami Hoy Pali hell, ol Union City, eighth district commander. featured an enthusiastic meeting of Adams Post No. 13. of Ihe Amer ! lean Legion, in this city, last night. A feed fo’lowed the meeting. More than forty Legionnaires were present. Mr. Weicking presided during the installation of the new officers. Fiance Confer assumed his duties as j post commander. Other officers installed last night were C O. Porter, first vice-commandet : Joe McConnell, second vice-commander; Charles Starost, adjutant; Joe Laurent, finance officer; and Ford O'Brien, I*. F. Holler and V. J. Bormann, members of the i xecutive commitee. Mr. Wiecking Speaks Following Ihe installation of officers, Mr Wiecking gave an interesting talk, in which lie discussed the history of the American Legion from its founding nearly ten years ago until the present and gave a detailed outline of the purposes and ideals of the organization, lie mentioned many ot the things accomplished by the Legion for the aid of the disabled veterans, war orphans and veterans who were not disabled. Ho also discussed several goals toward which the Legion is working at present. Geneva Seeks Post Mr. Pat shall was called on for a talk and he discussed the wink of the organization in the eighth district. During his talk, he stated that an application fora Legion post in Geneva had been received by him and lie stated that an effort would be made to organize one there. Adams Post pledged its assistance in starting the icio riM i:r> nw oacic Tsvo> HINDUS R Alfi ARMOREDTRUCK Two Motorcar Loads Os Bandits Get $104,000 In ('ash In Yonkers, N, Y.

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Yonkers. N. V . Dee. 12 - (U.R> -Two motorcar loads of bandits made a spectacular raid on a steel plated “Armored" truck today and escaped with $104,000 in cash after wounding two men. It was learned later that the bandits obtained non-negotiable securities valued al about siuii.ooo in addition to the in cash. The wounded are Ail Iph Ranter, a guard on the truck, who was shot in both arms and Patrolman Patrick O'Keefe whose face was cut by a spent shotbun slug. Although the bandits fire was returned by the guards, it was not believed any of them was injured. They escaped in one motor-car leaving the second machine behind. o —— Decatur Student At DePauw Has Influenza 1 Miss Geraldine Hower, freshman ; student at DePattw University, is ill with influenza, according to information received by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Hower, in this city. The letter stated that Del’auw had been seriously hit by the epidemic, and that, due to the infirmary being already filled, Miss Hower is one of the .many students who are confined to their rooms with the illness. There is much talk of closing the university.

’ Alleged Slaver Refuses To Pay Lawyers Unless They Guarantee Acquittal Tetre Haute. Ind., Dec. 12—(U.R) Members of the Mlllikin and Mullikin law firm lias withdrawn as defense e tinsel for Sam Palmer, charged With slaying his uncle, Ira Tobey, asserting that Palmer refused to pay them a reasonable fee unless they guaranteed he would he acquitted. Tobey died as a result of a blow on the head after he and Palmer had argued about a divorce suit filed by Palmer's mother, police said.

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FRED WIECKING I Fred Wiecking. ol' IlJifßon, stale ( commander of the American Legion. | spoke ala meeting of Adams Post, | No. 43. in this city, last night. , “FLU" EPIDEMIC J CAUSING ALARM ( Hundreds Os New Cases And Several Deaths Reported In Indiana Indianapolis, Dec. 12. U.R) —With hundreds of new cases and several deaths- reported, the influenza epidemic in Indiana today had reached alarming proportions. Reports from various sections of the stale said that the malady had spread with great rapidity in the past twenty-four hours, and that health authorities contemplated drastic measures in an effort to curb the spread of the disease. Wabash college al Crawfordsville, has been closed after it was reported that nearly one-third of the student body and ten members of the faculty were afflicted with the disease. 3.000 111 At Marion Marion ieported that appr ximately 3,000 persons were afflicted with the disease there. Several city grade schools and county high schools have been closed ns a precautionary measure, Dr. J F. Loomis, .Marion city health i ommissionei said. From Columbia City came reports of tlie absence of nearly ten per cent of Ihe city's school enrollment, lb alt li ' authorities said that the malady however, had not reiyhed such proper lions as to warrant tlie closing of ' schools. Officials of DePauw university, at Greencastle, have announced that no more chapel or public gatherings would be held there in an effort to

curb the disease. One hundred and I seventeen cases have been repo, ted among the students. Lebanon reported that nearly 200 school children were ill with the disease. School officials intimated that the city schools may be closed today ( as a preventative. Word from Hartford City said that the epidemic there was waning hut that nearly 150 persons were still receiving treatment. General In Middlewest Chicago, Dec. 12. — (U.R) The epi- , demic of influenza which has spread | eastward from the west coast in the I last three weeks lias attained serious proportions in the middiewest, health reports indicated today. A United Press survey of the entire western area today showed that I several thousand new cases have been . reported in tire last 24 hours. Health authorities of the middle | west reported lite disease apparently is a milder type of influenza than that which swept the country in 11HS. They agreed, however, that all precautionary measures adopted by numerous localities a week ago have failed to check the advance of the epidemic. California, particularly in Lob An--1 geles, where the present epidemic “ first gained foothold, reported considerable reduction in the number of

new cases, indicating the situation thete was well in control. Father Offers To Give Away His Twin Daughters Winslow, Ind., Dec. 12 'U.R)~Twin girl babies, born at the cost of their mother's life, are offered as gifts by : their father, Jasper. Nolan, to anyone who will assute him that they will I grow up in a good home. The father, a section hand, has five i other children, and cannot support or care for the twins, he said. The babies weigh six pounds each. Their names are Catherine Ray and Maxine Ray

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DECISION MADE AT BLUFFTON IS IMPORTANT ONE Court Rules That Stockholders Os Studebaker Bank Are Not Liable RULING. II UPHELD. AFFECTS OTHER CASES Bluffton Dec, 12. —<U.R)—Judge A. W. Hamilton, of the Wells circuit court, today handed down a decision in the Studakaber bank receivership case that is of great legal interest throughout, the slate. In his findings, he holds that under the present statute, stockholders in a bank that has closed can not be held liable for 100 per cent assessment was made prior to closing of the bank The case In which this decision was handed down was that brought by Dona Gaiser, a creditor, against Henry ('. Arnold, and other directors of the bank, in which she sought in behalf of herself ami other < reditors to recover stockholders' statutory liability. Bank Closed In 1927 The Studebaker bank of discount ami deposit was organized here with capital stock of $200,000 on September 23, 1923 and was closed by bank examiners on March 28, 1927. Judge Hamilton finds: "It is not. contended by either patty, but is conceded that the stockholder may be made liable by assessment by proper bank officials, but all power vested for addition liability under said section is power that must be exercised prior to the bank's going into liquidation. There is no statute in force in Indiana where siockholilers in cases at bar can be held liable. The ItabilIry after the bank closes is against the stock and not the stockholder. This riding, if sustained, will have a far-reaching effect in banking circles in the state. The present statute can be changed only by an ait of the general assembly In another ruling. Judge Hamilton found that the officers of the bank knew the bank to be insolvent on March 25. 1927. The bank was closed March 28, 1927. so all deposits made on Saturday. March 26. 1927 wi’l be considered preferred claims. - —o • Young Bride Gets Divorce Evansville. Ind . Dec. 12 IU.R>-Mrs Helen Kasper, 15. who became n bride I at 14. lias been granted a divorce frcjhl i Edmund Kasper, 22. She accused her , husband of drinking liquor by day ami

hauling it at night. o Woman Gets Life Term For Selling Liquor Lansing. Mich , Dec. 12—<U.R>~F'>r the first lime In history, a woman will go to prison for life because she sold liqu r Mrs Etta May Miller, mother f fFn children, was convicted today on b‘-r fourth liquor law violation by a jury on twelve, the decision ant >m itically i sentencing her Io life imprisonment ’ under Michigan law. METHO DISTS TO OPEN CAMPAIGN To Start Preparations For Evangelistic Meetings This Evening Some time ago in an official board session it was decided that the first Sunday after New Year should be the time when the local Methodist ehutch should open its evangelistic Tn outlining the work leading up to

the intensive meeting, the board agreed with the pastor that the Wednesday nights proceeding should bo given over to "preparatory” services. Tin l service to be held tonight is the first of a series of such meetings. Word is being passed among the official families that tonight is to be official board night in the series and the members ot the board, with their families, are expected to set the pace in attendance. On last Sunday, the announcement could not l>e stressed much, on account of the illness of the pastor, i who is to have charge, but word from i him today is to the effect that he will | be present and lead the meeting.

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