Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1929 — Page 1

WEATHFR Rain turninn to ■new tonight, followed'ty generally fair Sunday. Much cold er. Moderate cold wave west portion tonight.

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WEEK REPRIEVE AT LAST MINUTE HALTS HANGINGS Man and Woman Condemned To Hang In Louisiana Today Get New Hope LEGAL CONFLICTS ARE ENCOUNTERED Frank in, lai., .lan, 5. — (U.R) All arrangements for the hanging of Mrs. Aila Bonner Leboeuf ami Dr. Thomas 1 reh er, whose infatnatic n led th?m to murder Mrs. Leboeuf's husband, were cancelled at the county jail today after a morning of legal conflicts occasioned by the one-week stay of execution granted to them last night by Chief Justice Chat les A. O'Neill of the Izniisiana supreme court. Justice O’Neills stay was chai lenged as unconstitutional becaus" the other four justices of the court had dissented. Gov. Huey P. Long then stepped into the case, and as a precaution against, an execution this aftenoon in def ance of the chief justice’s order, issued a one-week executive reprieve. Later Governor Long rescinded his reprieve, after being advised that Justice O’Neill's stay was binding on the Franklin sheriff and that the executive writ was unnecessary. 'I he supreme court, ailing as a unit, then granted a new reprieve with Gov. Long assenting. Mrs. fjeboeuf and Dr. Dreher were immensely heartened by the happy turn of events on the day that had hcen scheduled as their last on earth The reprieve gives the supreme coin' an op,portunity to review the heating in a lower court where the condemned couple were held to be sane and denied an examination by a sanity commission. — ,_ n — U. S. Marshal Nominated Washington, Jan. 5. .U.R) President Coolidge sent to the senate today the nomination of Charles A. Smith for United States marshal, northern district of Indiana. Appeal Granted In Studahaker Bank Case Bluffton, Jan. 5.—(U.R)—An appeal was asked, and granted in circuit court here by Judge A. W. Hamilton, in a case covering the question in the Sttudabekvi' Ijank <tase. The specific cat* jn which an appeal was granted was Unit of Pearl Jones who was allowed $5,000 a few days ago as a common claim. She filed a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and the appeal was then asked. Aippeal bond was placed at SIOO, With 60 days to file bond, and complete the appeal record. I —— o Aged Cripple Disappears Bedford, Ind.. Jan. 5. U.R) — A searching party numbering nearly forty persons, scoured fields and swamps near here today for Tom Lewis, 71, cripple, who disappeared from bis home here Monday. o Probe Tate’s Nomination Washington, Jan. S.—(U.R) —Au investigation was started today by the senate finance committee into the nomination of H. Theodore Tate of Tennessee for United States treasurer. Representative Will Wood, Republican of Indiana requested the investigation. o —— ADAMS COUNTY WOMAN EXPIRES Mrs. Carson Welch’Dies Os Pneumonia At Her Home Near New Corydon Geneva, Jan. 5. —(Special)—Catherine Kinney Welch, 38, died of pneumonia'early this morning at her home near New Corydon. She had been ill with the influenza and pneumonia only a few days. Mrs. Welch was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Kinney, now residing in Fort Wayne. She is survival by her parents; husband. Carson Welch; three children, Imelda Reta, and Marjorie; one sister, Maty Kinney, of Fort Wayne, and one brother, Arthur Kinney, who resided with Mr. and Mrs. Welch. Mrs. Welch was a member of the St. Marys Catholic church, near New Corydon. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Woman, Seeking Divorce, Charges That Husband Tried To Burn Iler Alive Hammond, Ind., Jan. S—(U.R) —Mrs. Harry Jarschow, has filed suit for divorce in superior court here, charging that her husband attempted to burn her alive. The woman said her husband, saturated her with alcohol and attempted to set fire to her as she was in Led. ROE WINS IN DAMAGE SUIT Jury Awards Plaintiff $450 In Suit Tried In Circuit Court Here A verdict for the plaintiff, assessing his damages at $450. was returned at 5 o'clock Friday evening by the jury in the ease of Fred Roe vs. Kenneth though and William Bell, which was tried in the Adams circ nit court Thursday and Friday. The verdict was reached after the jury bad deliberated about two hours. Mr. Roe brought suit for SI,OOO damages as the result of an automobile accident which occurred at the corner of Third and Jefferson streets in September, 11126. Three automobiles, belonging to Roe. Lough and Bell, figured in the accident. The Bell and Lough cars collided and the Bell car was hnr.ed against the Roe car. Under the verdict returned, each defendant is held responsible for the $450 judgment, but the plaintiff cannot collect $450 from both. o May Bar Interstate Bus Lines From Indiana Roads Indianapolis. Jan. 5. —(U.R) —Acting ■cn-nn •nprnmn from the--office of the attorney general, public service commissioners believe they have po-.'er to force interstate bus lines oft Indiana toads “for cause” and today prepared to cite pony express line official- to appear and show cause why such action should not be taken against them. The line, whose headquarters are lin Detroit, was shown by investigation of an accident at Elkhart, Dec. 23, to have permitted bus drivers to work three days without leavink the machine. One man was killed and thirteen passengers injured in 'he accident. —• —o— - - Marc MacDermott, Noted Actor Dies At Hollywood Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 5. — (U.R) Marc MacDermott, noted stage and screen actor, died in the Windsor hospital today at Glendale. His death, which came peacefully while he slept, was not unexpected. He was taken to the hospital with a stomach disorder three weeks ago. o Superintendent Is Rehired Bluffton, Jan. s.—Ed Hans, superitnendent of the city light and water department, was rehired for a threeyear term at a meeting of the city council, Thursday night. Mr. Hans has been in charge of the city plant here for the last five years. o s*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ K * HOSPITAL NOTES * »¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ S Mrs. Leo Ulman, Sl3 Russel street, is a medical patient at. the Adams County Memorial hospital. Her condition is very critical. Mrs. J. I, Kocher, surgical patient at the hospital, is getting along lyEuDella Clovine Lttse, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Luse, of North Seventh street, who has been seriously ill, shows improvement today. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shackley, which has been seriouslly ill. is improving. Mrs. Mary Wemhoff, who for the past few weeks, has been a medical patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital, was removed today, to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Graliker, 327 North First street. Edward Reynolds, son of Paul Reynolds, who has been seriously ill for the past week at the Adams County Memorial hospital, is improving. The lad’s mother was buried Friday afternoon, having died of pneumonia. ... ■■ n Want State Library Building Indianapolis, Jan. S.—(U.R. 1 —lndiana legislators will be asked for a special 2-cent tax levy covering 1929 and 1930 in order to raise approximately $1,000,00(1 for construction of a state library and historical building.

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Fair Weather Forecast For First Os Next Week Weather outlook for the period of Jan. 7 to 12, 1929. For the region of the Greak Lakes: Mostly fair first of week with period of unsettled weather with probably snow about middle, followed hy fair again at close; rising temperature probably first of week, followed by colder at middle, with rising temperature again about close. MURDER TRIAL IS RECESSED Counsel For Harvey L. Smith Seeks Medical Experts As Witnesses Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 5. — (U.R) — The trial of Harvel U Smith, former South Bend detective, evangelist and carnival barker, charged with the murder of Mrs. Genevieve Stults, beauty parlor operator, has been recessed until Monday. The woman's body was found in a lime covered grave by hunters after she had been mising for some time. With the trial in recess Robert E. Proctor, defense attorney, was in Chicago today to confer with medical men possessing knowledge of the human body's decomposition and it was believed he plans to call them as expert witnesses. The state will place on the stand Monday one of its star, witnesses— Charles L. Rehyer, South Bend real estate dealer, who for four years, carried on an alleged love affair with Mrs. Stults. His wife, Mrs. Janie Reyher. gave Smith SSO to get Mrs. Stults away from Reyher, police said. It is also "charged that Smith, worked for Reyher and obtained letters he had written to the slain woman. o “Tex” Rickard Believed Past Crisis In Illness Miami Beach, Fla., Jan. 5. —tU.R) — George L. “Tex” Rickard, maker of champions, was believed to be winning today in the greatest fight of his career, a battle to overcome the effects of a collapse which followed an operation for appendicitis. The famous New York fight promoter survived a crisis during the night and his condtion today, while still critical, was improved, according to Dr. E. H. Adkins, his physician.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 5, 1929.

M. E. REVIVAL IS POSTPONED — Opening Os Services Delayed Indefinitely Due To Influenza Epidemic Because of the prevalent sickness throughout the church and community. the Methodist church of this city has decided to postpone its revival services. The pastor, the Rev. R. W. Stoakes, stated this morning that it was thought best, under the prevailing conditions of sickness, to wait until a later date to begin the intensive camI paign that had been planned to begin this Sunday night. It is quite possible that one week from tomorrow may see the epidemic of sickness abated and, if such is the case, the meetings will begin then. Otherwise the time will remain indefinite. o BOY ISCHABGEO WITH BLACKMAIL Chesterton, Indiana, High School Pupil Alleged To Have Threatened Man Chesterton, Ind.. Jan. S.—(U.R) —Edwin Sahinske. 17. high school student, has been formally charged with blnck- ’ mail by J. Oliver Johnson, banker, who declared he received a 'etter from the youth demanding $15,500. According to the banker, the letter said that if the money was not forthcoming, he would blow up Johnson's • home. Two years ago Johnson received a > similar note, but no arrests were made. The youth told Johnson “not to call police like he did before” as his “gang was gatching,” the banker said ; According to police, the lad has admitted sending the letter which was signed “Black Donald”. , 0 ’ Martinsville Dentist Ends Life By Hanging Martinsvi’le. Ind., Jan. 5.— ,U.R)—Dr. - William L. Klinneman. 59, dentist, • committed suicide here by hanging > himself in the basement of his home. 11l health was given as the possible , motive for the man’s act.

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POSTOFFICE TO BE REMODELED IN NEAR FUTURE Interior Os Decatur I‘ostoffice To Be Rearranged And Improved NEW FURNITURE TO BE INSTALLED \’ew steel fixtures, including conn-, leis and lock boxes, will be installed in the D o catur Postoffiee, L. A. Graham, postmaster, stated this inciriing. The i ITiee will also be rearranged and a new vestibule type enranee will be installed. The installing of the fixtures and rearrangement of the office will be done by Harry Fritzinger, executor of the Erastus Fritzinger estate, owners of •he building. Everything will be new. except the step ladder and one .if the tables. Mr. Graham stated. The steel fixtures and furniture will l.e of standard type and bids will be received by Mr. Fritzinger tip io January 12. for furnishing them. Proposals are being received from sev.-r---il manufacturers who manufacture his type of office furniture. Old Lease Expires The tim-year lease which the postoffice department, had on the Fritz eager building expired January 1. mil befoie a new lease is signed the ini , roviment.s will lie made. In the rearrangement of the office, i new private off ce will be built for ibe postmaster on the east side of the building and back of lock ixox ■ounier which will run across the room. The postmaster's office is now 'ocated in the front of the building tit the northeast corner of the building. New lock l. xes will also lie installed. S'xty small boxes, 15 large and 10 ordinary size boxes will be installed. The entrance will he changed to i vestibule effect, thus keeping out of tlie cold, which now comes in hrough the old type entrance. The stamp, money order and general delivery windows ami accounting department will be I.sated on the east side of the room, directly to th? right, as patrons step into the office. The pre-ent fixtures were placed n the postoffice 27 years ago, when the office was moved from the Stndebaker l.nilding on South Second street. SEEK HIGHER FARM TARIFF Farm Representatives Plan To Seek Increases On 150 Farm Products Jashington, Jan. 5. — (U.R) —Farm representatives win seek tariff increases on at least 150 agricultural commodities, from the proposed special session of congress this spring. The American farm bureau federation disclosed today it W'ill have representatives before the house ways and means committee, which opens tariff hearings Monday, looking towaid drafting of a bill to be presented to the special session, for products “running all the way from alfalfa to yams." Chester H. Gray, Washington rep resenlative of the federation, asserted his organization would resist any attempt to separate the inter-related questions of farm relief and tariff. Consequently, both should lie taken up at the special sesion, according to his view. He declared for “econom-ically-made" tariff schedules, not political ones. The federation, however, opposes any general revision of the tariff. By this it was meant that no general increase in tariffs on manufactured goods would be supported by the farmers. o County Agents Confer At Bluffton Friday Ferd E. Christen Adams county agricultural agent, met with M. D. Butler and M. S. Smith, county agents of Grant and Wells counties, respectively, at Bluffton. Friday, for a conference on plans for starting projects on farm record keeping in the northeastern Indinna county agent district. The object of the farm record keeping will be to bring out the profitable and unprofitable systems.

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Mrs. Bert Miller Dies Os Pneumonia, Thursday Mrs. Bert Miller, daughter of. Mrs. William Waites, of near Decatur, died Thursday afternoon at her home in Hat risen town- hip, Van Wert county, Ohio. Death was due to pneumonia. Mrs. Miller having been ill for three weeks. Surviving are the husband, several adopted children and her mother. Funeral services will he ’vdd at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. MASONS TO HOLD BANQUET TUESDAY Blue Lodge And Royal Arch Masons To Hold Joint Installation • Arrangements are being completed ■today for the chicken supper and joint installation of the Blue lodge and Royal Arch Masons, to he held in the Masonic hall in this city next Tuesday night. The banquet will he served by the Eastern Star lodge and wi l start promptly at 6:30 o'clock. A fine program has been arranged, including musical numbers and talks by a few visitors, following tlie banquet. Judge David E. Smith, of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city, will be the chief speaker at the meeting. Judge Smith also will have charge of the instal ation of officers. Immediately following the banquet and program, the two lodges will open joint meetings for the purpose of installing officers for 1929. All mem- ' hers of the two lodges and a l Masons . of other lodges, residing near Decatur, are cordially invited to attend the affair. o Receipts Os Berne Postoffiee Increase Berne, Jal). 5. (Special) An increase of nearly $2,000 in the receipts 1 of tine Berne postoffiee during the year 192 S is shown in a report made 1 by Fred Rohrer, postmaster. The total receipts for the year are $23,<*69.56. which is $1,861.9S more than the 1927 receipts. The total amount sent in to the post office department for the last quarter was $4,293.39. This is an increase of $1.1411.1)3 over the same quarter year of a year ago. The Berne post office is one of the few in the country that is making large profit over expenses, and for more than thirty years has always bee nmore than self-supporting. o__ Snow I'orecast For Tonight; Colder Sunday Indianapolis, Jan. 5. — (U.R) — Snow tonight and colder Sunday was the forecast for Indiana by J. H. Armington, U. S. weatherman here today. Armington said the cold Sunday would assume the proportions of a moderate cold wave. Temperatures in the state today were considerable warmer than those of yesterday, the weatherman said. o Paroled Prisoner Is Returned To State Prison Richmond, Ind., Jan. 5. —(U.R) —John A. Reinholtz, Connersville, arrested here after an alleged attack on a Cambridge city school girl, has been returned to the state prison at Michigan City, from which local officials said he was paroled. Reinholtz was senteneced to tne state prison from Vanderburgh county in 1927 on charges of issuing fraudulent checks and according to police, was paroled one year later. o Wren, Ohio, Resident Dies Suddenly At Work William Springer. 65, of Wren, ()., died suddenly Thursday afternoon, ( while engaged at his work as a lab- . orer. He is survived by his widow. Funeral services will be held at 2 I o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Liberal; United) Brethren’ church at Wren. (“Question Mark’’ Still Sailing Through Skies Los Angeles, Jan. s.—(U.R)—Five men in an airplane who haven t touched earth since the dawn of the ' new year, sailed through the balmy 1 air of southern California today as peacefully as the crippled prince on his magic carpet. 5 At 7:26 a.m. (Paciffc coast time) ' the crew of the Fokker monoplane ■ Question Mark entered the fifth day 1 of continuous flying and seernad ce - tain to exceed all sustained flight marks for every kind of aircraft.

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STEUBEN COUNTY OFFICERS FAILED TO ACT, IS CHARGE Federal Government Considers Acting In Investigation At Angola OTHER ( RIMES ALSO ( BARGED Angola, Ind., .lan. s.—'U.R)— | Declaration by Merl Wall, assistant attorney general, that ’'sufficient evidence has been gathered to show a gigantic liquor conspiracy and other crimes,” was a development today in the investigation of Steuben countys crime ring. Wall publicly expressed amazement at failure of county officials to act upon a situation which he asserted could have been revealed seven months ago. Federal Probe Probable Fort Wayne. Ind., Jan. 5. (U.R)— The federal government may aid in tlie investigation of an alleged crime situation in Steuben county, it was intimated here. Oliver M. Loomis. United Slates district attorney, said bis action in the case would depend upon the evidence gathere. When questioned about the alleged ring, Loomis said, that the situation there had been called to his attention in an indirect manner ami that he had not had time to go into the matter. “If authorities now working on the ease can show us that there has been enough uncovered to justify it, there will certainly be a federal investigation,” Loomis said. The district attorney said, he expected evidence of the case as gathered by officials now on th ease to he presented to hihi soon. State and Steuben county authorities have already started their probe of the robbery of tlie First National hank and a murder. o NOTICE The L.0.0.M. will hold a get together and luncheon. Monday evening at the Moose Home. The affair will begin at 7:30 o'clock and all Moose are requested to be present. — - Man Sentenced For Aiding hi Robbery Indianapolis. Jan. 5. (U.R) Lloyd Amos, 25, Kokomo, was sentenced to serve five to twenty-one years at the Indiana reformatory for participation in the attempted robbery here of the F. W. Holt dry goods store by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, today Two other men, Otto Price, and Carl Kittrell, were kil.ed during the robbery. o To Fight Repeal Os Law Indianapolis, Jan. 5. —(U.R)—School teachers oranizations representing about 20,000 of the 24,000 publicschool teaciters in Indiana will fight bitterly to prevent the repeal of the teachers’ tenure law enacted by th-? 1927 general assembly it. was disclosed here today. A meeting of the legislative committee of the Indiana Teachers association with 17,000 members and the executive committee of the Indiana Federal ion cd' Public' School Teachers having a membership of 8,000, was held here today. “FLU" EPIDEMIC TOLL IS 12,000 Weekly Reports Show Steadv Rise In Number Os Deaths In U. S. Washington. Jan. 4.- (U.R)—The influenza epidemic, now in its ninth week, has taken more than 12,000 lives in 65 principal cities, reports to the United States census bureau showed today. Weekly reports have shown a steady rise in influenza and pneumonia deaths since November 3. The latest report, for the week ending December 29, showed 2,957 deaths from both diseases. . Additional deaths are expected before the epidemic has passed, as I’nit--Bjl>d States public health service officials estimate more than 800,000 persons are now ill of “flu.”