Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1928 — Page 1

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i j (INC GEORGE'S 1 CONDITION IS I STILLJCRITICAL ■ passes Fair Night With ■ I “Quieter Sleep” Noted i Toward Morning Ip L AN KORNEW I YEAR CELEBRATION London, Dec. '2B.— U.R) —The | physicians attending King I George issued the first bulletin I on the king’s condition in several I ( | itV s. The bulletin said: F The king had a fair night I with quieter sleep towards mornI j n <r. There is less difficulty in I taking nourishment and the genI oral state has improved during I the last 12 hours. K "At a consultation he.d this mornM inz the progress during the past week was reviewed: during that period I there has been definite improvement the local condition. On the other SI hand, the general condition, as eviI denccd by the king's weight and B strength, does not show the same B progress. i > "Measures best adapted for meetI -ng this difficulty were considered : U and determined upon.” “Stanley Hewitt. “Hugh Rigby, ?€ “E. Farquhar Buzzard. "Humphrey Rolleston. H “Dawson of Penn." The bulletin was timed 11:45 a. m. 9 The regular morning bulletins were 8 .suspended several days ago when the H king continued to show progress, ami I although his improvement was slow, ffi the physicians considered that the H small chances in the condition did S not justify the issuance of two daily ■ bulletins. S The unfavorable turn in the kings | condition noted in the bulletin last night, brought the five physicians toK gether for the first time within a ■ week. It was considered necessary, how [ ever, that a thorough review be made and the report of Dr. J. E. 11. Whitby ; on a bacteriological examination made 1 yesterday be studied. Most of the physicians remained at I the palace for more than three hours Lord Dawson of Penn walked as far as the palace door with those who | left early, but immediately returned to the king's bedside. Plans are being made at the palace for New Year's celebrations but this year they will naturally be of a very quiet nature, on account of the king's illness. Queen Marie of Roumania, widow of the late King Ferdinand and a cousin of King George, will be among the palace guests at New Years. Afterward she will go to a health retort. •ne royal yacht, “Victoria and Al(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o DEATH SUMMONS BERNE WOMAN Mrs, Caroline Baumgartner Dies Following Short 111ijess Os Influenza Rerne, Ind., Dec. 28. —(Special) Mrs. Carcline Baumgartner. 8;>, well known elderly lady of this city, die at 6:30 o’clock last night from infltt enza. Mrs. Baumgartner had been d only about five days but because of het advanced age was unable to c mb i the illness. The deceased was botn August 1843 at Mount Eaton, Ohio. She moved to Adams County in her early childhood and has resided in and ne i near Bdrne since that time. Her hu. band, Abraham Baumgartner, piece, ■ ed her in death several years ago. Surviving are the following childr. n Mrs. Ellen Nussbaum, Mrs. Peter Nussbaum, Mrs. Levi Sprunger, Mrs. C. < ■ Wltwei, Mrs. Noah Augsburger, Mrs. Lucy Winteregg, Sam L. Baumgaitm and Miss Anna Baumgartner, all "t 'Refne. Two sons diet! in infancy .m ■ another sen, Albert Baumgartner was killed a few years ago in an autoinoB bile accident. No brothers or sist'' survive. Funeral services will be held Sund ly afternoon at two o’clock at the Mennonite Church in Berne. Short services at the home at 1:30 o’clock will precede the church set vices. Rev. ( Suckau will be the officiating ininiste: Rurial will be made in the M. R Cemetery

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Denied Insurance .... r’ ' ■( fel -4 Sr I Y I -Ar I I f 1 •V J ’ f » Corinne Hanna, who lost war risk insurance of her husband, Mark Hanna, killed in France, after sevenyear Chicago court battle in which her moral conduct, was questioned. Hanna’s father. Thomas M. Hanna of Ruthven. lowa, was awarded insurance. OTTO SYPHERS DIES SUDDENLY Heart Attack Thursday Is Fatal To Life-Long Decatur Resident Otto Syphers. GO, died sudden.y at 7:15 o’clock last evening. Thursday, December 27, 1928, at his home on South Tenth street. Death was due to heart failure. Mr. Syphers had been ailing for a number of years and had been unable to work for some time. Yesterday, however, was the first morning in the past few years, that Mr. Syphers had failed.to call

at the Democrat office for his daily paper. The deceased was born in Adams county and has spent his entire life period in and near Decatur. His wife, F'va Syphers preceded him in death several years ago. No children were born of this union. two bro ahters M TAOIN SCHRI .1 two brothers and one sister, U L. Syphers of Fort Wayne; Grant Syphers residing on Decatur route eight, and Mrs. Arminda Edwards of Union Ci tv Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at the Black rt.net itl Home the Rev R. E. Vance officiating. Burial made in the Tricker cemetery. oFifield Advances Clerk To Auto Bureau Chief n _„ os—(UR)-Because Indianapolis. Dec. .8 u.r he gave a pint of blood to lirp of an emP lo Y’ o J t a ™ e e Automo biie SZ'diX. has been promoted to X " ‘” e nS’o G FiS kind of men we need in olir T !S:r!Lnt". Fi«eld said in announcing the PromMma T!ie employe. Miss "’and Bradley readily res. • ponded. _ Aviatrix Declared Dead D c 26 _(U.R)-Andrew Muncie, Ind., Dec. been ■ j. Wilson, Muncie g.oce. named administia 01 n£ , eg W j]son his daughter, M.S, from ; surrogate James A. , admllli g tra . who appointed - ie . *12,000. ’ tor of her Ogden Reappo» nts Ross . Indianapolis. has sM . ogden attorn -Ge^ n£ Cou . "boss has served . ney-gePeral for six .

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SPEAKERSHIP CHIEF TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Indications Are That “Dark Horse” May Be Named As 1929 Speaker SEVEN CANDIDTES ACTIVE AT PRESENT By Wallace G. West, I P Staff Correspondent

Indianapolis. Dec. 28.-7U.R) Possi[billy that a “dark horse" might be selected Io become speaker of the In diana house of representatives appeared today as a majority of the 80 republican members of that body met to discuss various candidates with state Chairman Elza O. Rogers. Seven men are seeking the speakership. but there has been no decided erystalization in favor of any one. ' Due to this fact a number of legislators hinted that if no one man obtains a commanding lead hy January 9, when a final caucus will be held, someone whose name has not yet been mentioned might be brought forward. Those actively seeking the office at present are James M. Knapp, Haggeistown; H. H. Evans, Newcastle; J. Glenn Harris, Gary; Truman Murden. ('ass county; John W. Chamberlain, Terre Haute; Frank Wright, Indianapolis and George Freeman. Kokomo. Some sentiment favoring elimination of Knapp was voiced as the result of what appears to be a ral.y to Denver ('. Harlan, Richmond, as president pro-tem of the senate. This development came at a conference of republican senators here yesterday and asid from discussion of speakership possibilities the delegates discussed a program for the 1929 general assembly and a proposal of the republican state organization that the primary law be repealed or greatly modified as to state wide features. A bitter fight between James J. . Nejdl, of Whiting, and Harlan for the post of president pro-tem was indicat- ' ed at the meeting of senators yester- ' day. Much dissatisfaction with the present domination of the assembly by the Lake county delegation has been

expressed. Lieut. Gov. elect Edgar D. Bush. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HOOVER SHIP IS HOMEWARD BOUND U. s. S. Utah Strikes The Open Sea And Passes Equator Today By Thomas L. Stokes,

U p Staff Correspondent Aboard the U. S. S. Utah, Dec. 28. president-elect Herbert Hoov- ( er was on the open sea today for the first time since his party left ban Pedro, Calif., more than a month ago on the U. S. S. Maryland. Cape Saint Roque, the most northeasterly point on the steamship lanes. has been passed and the Utah was sailing out of sight of land toward the equator, which will be reached today There will be no father Neptune St to the Utah as there was to the Maryland, however, aboard has been across the line. The vessel still has a ten-day trip to Hampton Roads, where the party will disembark Jan. 6 tor its trip to Washington by special ‘rain Ever since the president-elect de ,i.led to go to Washington instead of or da for a rest after his trip, the wireless of the Utah has been kept constantly busy transmitting his messages to party and congressional leaders in Washington. Final arrangements have been con - nleted tor the discusions he will hold P u rtv leaders No official word "■’t been ssued regarding the conferences n”r regarding the makeup of HO T O he er weatlie’ e has become intensely Everyone in the party slept on deck last Zt - ‘be second bight that CO k B JZr TX'a-nged by in C R Train of the Utah anil «r "» I"' *“„el w <"• N " Y “" “ tions.

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Three Youths Arrested Confess Iloklui) Plans Indianapolis, Dec. 28. (U.R) Three I youths who were alleged to have planned to tob a local factory and a theate. nt South Bend were in jail here today under high bond, pending an investigation. The three, Joseph Carmichael. 21. Hubert Hamilton, 23, and William Cosgrove, 19. were arrested at intervals during the past three days. A story told by one of the boys was that they panned to rob a factory here and then drive to South Bend. They failed to go through with their plans here and c.mid not go to South Bend because they could not obtain in automobile, police said.

The statements of the boys tallied. DEATH CLAIMS MRS. HEIDEM AN Aged Widow Os Gerhardt Heideman Dies Following Short Illness Mis. Elizabeth Heideman. Sfi, widow of C.e.haidt Heideman. died at 1:39 o'clock this meriting Friday. Dee inlier 28, at her home three miles south of Decatur in Washington township. Death was due to pneumonia with which she had been c nfined to her :>ed the past five days. Mrs. Heideman was born May 8. 1842 in Hanover Germany. She was the mother of eight ehildien, four of whom preceded their mother in death. The suiviving children are Henry and Julius Heideman and Mrs. Lucy Colcliin re.-iding at the homestead, and Mrs. Mary A. Bueter of Fort Wayne. Fifteen giand-chlldren and twelve great

giand-children also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at nine o'clock at the St. ( Marys Catholic Church, the Rev. J. A. ( Seimetz officiating Burial will be made in the Catholic cemetery Y. P. S. Os St. Paul Church To Give Play "The Midnight Charge" is the name of a home talent play to be given on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. January 1, 2 and 3, by the Y. P. S. of Hie St. Paul Lutheran church, one and one-half miles north and one-half mile west of Preble. Music between acts of the play will be furnished by the Magley quartette. The play is in four acts. Characters of the production are as follows: Major General Geary, U.S.A. Arthur W. Bieberict Colonel Jones, U.S.A. Gerhard Bieberict Captain Danvers (victim of a vile plot) Rudolph Scheuman Dick Ryon, (a Southern spy) ' Arthur Bieberich Pat O'Hara (a bright lad from the bogs) Wm. Macke Jumbo (leader ob de Punkin Blossom Club) Alton Bittner

Charley Wood (a young but enthusiastic Unionist) Herman Bittner , Grace Wood (pride of the valley) * Mrs. Wood (her mother) Edna Kirchner 1 Sister Alice (friend of the suffering) Helen Schettmann Pumpkin Blossom Club Magley Quartette 1 o GOVERNOR-ELECT NAMEDIN SOU Damage Suit For $50,000 Is Filed Against Harry Leslie And Glen Harris Hammond, Ind., Dec. 28. — (U.R) Suits for vindictive damages totalling $50,000 were filed in federal court here today by Otto Gresham, attorney against Governor-elect Harry G. Leslie and J. Glenn Harris, of Lake county, candidate for speaker ol tin 1 Indiana house of representatives. The suits were the outgrowth of refusal of Leslie as speaker of the 1027 house to permit a petition to impeach criminal Judge James A. Collins of Indianapolis to be presented to the house. The petition Gresham sought to file according to the complaint asked impeachment of Collins on the ground that Collins was a patty to the return and keeping alive for some months of indictments against state highway officials which later were no’led

FIGHT AGAINST CRUISER BILL WILL CONTINUE ' Success Or Failure Os The Kellogg Treaty Will Not Stop Opponents SENATOR KING JOINS STRONG OPPOSITION By Kenneth (L Crawford (United Bless Staff Correspondent) Wm- lington, Dec. 28 (U.K)~~Oplgnition to the navy cruiser c nstinetion bill, now the unfinished business in the senate, will continue legard'ess of the success oi failure of the Kellogg peace treaty, it was learned here today. So far. opponents of the bill calling for const ruction of 15 cruisers and an airplane cat tier have confined themselves to a fight for action on the treaty ahead cf t'.ie so-called big navy measure. Now they are preparing to cariy on.theit battle even if the peace pact is ratified before the debate on the bill closes. Senator Norris, Repn.. Neb., and other western independents, j incd by a few Democrats, aie prepared to fight the cruiser bill to the last, so far as can be learned, however, none of them are planning to resort to a fillburster and unless they can gain more recruits cannot stop its passage by other means. There is a possibility, however, that they will succeed in i educing the number of shitis authorized by the bill as it passed the house at its last session. Many senators who do not oppose the naval construction program would vole

for in diflcation. Senator King, Dem. i’tah, who lias joined Norris in the fight for treaty priority, will introduce an amendment calling f;r construction of only five 1 cruisers. He will also seek Io eliminate i the- >wovislon isilling fr completion of the 15-cruiser program in three years. President C olidge in his message to congress suggested this elimination of the time-clause. Big navy advocates contend that removal of the time limit would create only a “paper navy" and proponents of the bill profess to have enough strength to retain this provision despite Mr. Co lidge's opposition. League To Meet Geneva, Dee. 28 U.R.’-President J. London of the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission, announced today that the commission would meet April 15. SAYS NEW ACTS MEAN TROUBLE Bolivia - Paraguay Trouble Renewed By Occupation

Anew Os Fort Washington. Dec. 28. — (U.P.) —Or Ayala, Paraguayan delegate to the Pan-American conference made public advices from his government charging that acts by Bolivia had created a new grave situation. "Bolivian forces have occupied a new fort Vanguardia abandoned after the last hapening,” the advices said. ■The troops (Bolivian) still retain Boqueron (a Paraguayan fort) and have advanced four leagues (12 miles) further into the interior, threatening the zone occupied by the Mennonite colony. AH' this took place without fighting, taking advantage of the order given our troops to cease hostilities. , “As soon as it accepted the good offices of the government at Washington. this government (Paraguay) revoked the order which had been given to reoccupy Boqueron, as proof of good faith. "All the foregoing shows that Bolivia has not complied with its promises and a very grave situation again

is created, because Paraguay alone can not avoid new fighting. Fort Vanguardia is a Bolivian position in the Chaco region along the Bolivian-Paraguayan frontier which is disputed between the two nations. Bolivia claims that on Dec. 5, Pat I aguayan troops occupied the position | and killed 24 Bolivian troops. Paraguayan sources refused to recognize i the position as a fort. The Bolivians retaliated Dec. 14-I.> | by capturing Fort Boqueron. There • were casualties on both sides. The • Paraguayans claimed that the Boliv ! fans seized several other forts, but • this the Bolivian government contradicted.

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Twain Heroine Dies u $ Mrs. laiura Frazer of Hannibal, Mo.. Mark Twain's “earliest sweetheart" and the original of “Becky Thatcher" iu “Tom Sawyer," who has died at the age of 91. Mrs. Frazer died just a few blocks from the little school which she and the humorist attended. LOCALCONCERNS TAKE INVOICES Retail Business Conditions

In Decatur Reported To Be Improving With th- 1 approach of the New Year, i local business houses and manufac Hiring plants are taking the minimi inventory, preparatory to closing their books for the year 1928. Several stoics arc taking the invoice this week and others wi I begin next Monday. As most of the stores will close Tuesday, New Year's day, it will afford those who take an Inventory time do so on that day. Local merchants and bankers state that the year 1928, although not a i record year in sales and profits, was fair and several merchants 1 eport an increase over a year ago. Several of the manufacturing plants in the city enjoyed a big year, it was stated. Sales kept up with a year ago and in some instances they showed an increase over ayear ago. In the retail district, business was not so good, due to unseasonable weather and unsettled niaiket conditions. The banks report increases in savings accounts and so far increases are shown in the enrollment for next ) year's Christmas Savings funds. All

three banks, this year have special savings funds. i The employment situation in Decatur has been good the past year and | for several months during the year the leading manufacturing plants were carrying capacity working forces. The local sugar factory however had a shorter run this year compared with previous yeais. Tlie New Year gives indications of a spurt in business and those who watch the trend of things and know conditions predict that 1929 will see increased business in nearly a.I lines. Geneva Workman Injured Geneva, Dec. 28. (Special) Jacob Nelson, of Geneva, who is working on the bridge construction not th of this town received a painful injury late yesterday afternoon when he slipped and fell into the building form of the bridge. Nelson's left hand was severely cut and bruised in the fall. He was taken ■ to a local doctor who dressed the in- ■ jury, it is not regarded as serious.

— o 1 Dividend Is Announced • Indianapolis, Dec 28 (U.P.) No pat value common stock was d ttbled and common stock holders were granted about $1,000,0011 in rights at a meeting of the board of directors of the Marmon motor car company here. in a special meeting before the board session, Common stock holders authoiized an increase in the no patvalue common stock from 200,000 to ‘ 400,00 shares. After the board meet--1 Ing, directors voted to offer 60,000 shares of the increase for subscription t at |55 a share in proporation to hold- - Ings registered at close of business January 7. 1929.

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SUPREME COURT HOLDS PARDON AS NOT LEGAL Dry Lea g u e Superintendent’s Attorneys Will Appeal To Federal Court SHERIFF ORDERED TO RETURN SHOEMAKER Indianapolis. Dee. 28. -• The slate supreme court today ordered the Bev. E. S. Schumaker, superintendent of till' Indiana anti-saloon league, back Io the Indiana stale farm to serve his (iO-dav sentence for contempt, lherebv holding illegal the pardon issued by Governor Ed Jackson, October 18. The court sustained the motion of Attorney General Arthur L. Gillium, that Governor Ed Jackson had no power to pardon the league superintendent and ordered the sheriff to take Schumaker into custody at once. Schumaker's attorneys announced at once that they would file a writ of habeas corpus in federal court today to prevent the sheriff of th<' mpreme comt from taking Schumaker into custody. They declared the writ would be based on the claim that their client’s rights under the federal constitution had been abridged. O ■ Girl Says She Was Forced To Take Poison

Evansville, Ind., Dee. 28-—(U.R) —i'olice today Investigated a stcry told by Miss Eula Riley, 22. that she was forced to swallow poison tablets, and was made the victim of an attempted criminal attack. Alonzo Killlgrew. 22. said to be her sweetheait, and his friend George Dunn, 26, weie placed in jail for questioning. The woman said that after being forced to take the pois. n she win made to write a note alleging suicide, according to police. Police suid that Killlgrew has two Insurance policies on the woman and that he sought to force het to name him as beniflciary. Heidleberg twice Club To Give Program At Berne The Heidleberg University men's glee (lub will give an entertainment at the Reformed church of Berne next Wednesday night, January 2 at 7:30 o'clock and all persons Interested are invited to attend the program. No admission will be charged at the entertainment and following the program a free-will offering will be taken to take care of the expenses of the organization. The public is invited

to attend. HUNCHBACK IS BANDIT LEADER Chicago South Side Is ( enter Os Several Night Hold-ups Chicago. Dec. 28. - (U.R) A hunchback who gave commands in a high, falsetto voice led three robbers on n series of raids on the south side during the night, which ended with the murder of one victim who resisted and the killing of one of the bandits. The first raid was on a restaurant. The hunchback walked in first fol.owed by his three companions. The leader gave the commands to the victitns as well as to his own men. "Up with your hands," he said. Samuel Salvatore and Pasquale Re-

gina tefused to obey ami began throwing canned foodstuffs at the intruders. The bandits answered with bullets, wounding Salvatore ami killing Pasquale. The bandits fled without touching the cash register. The hunchback next ed his men into Joseph Adler’s drug store where the leader demanded that the clerk hold up his hands. It was so shrill that Adler, a one-legged war veteran, was awakened in his apartment up stairs. Adler strapped on his woodeu leg and his revolver, and came to the rescue. i The bandits were walking toward i the front door as Adler entered. Ho kil ed Henry Cassel, an ex-convict, , but the hunchback and the other two jrobbers escaped.

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