Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1929 — Page 1

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MN NO EFFORT TO RE-APPORTION STATETHIS YEAR * J Sol Vian To I'rge Re-apportionment POPULOUS COUNTIES WIII.DBEBENEFITTED ■.five re-appnrtio»'» ent w* ll n< * be L nnon the top-heavy Republican '"Torities in the state senate and of representatives by the Reblifttn state committee. This was evident today alter O O P. , tatP committeemen discussed the failure of the 1927 general assembly . fulfill its constitutional duty and Xct re-apportionment. The state committee, with one member from each of the state s 13 congressional districts, found itself as divided in opinion as are the senators and representatives from counties tn ihose same 13 districts. Populous Countiss Would Gain pc.puio'ts counties would stand to •min hy re-apportionment at the exof counties picdominanf* rur •I. her:.use of llv shift of population Fn>m ti e country to city. Population g..ms would refill, in increased reparation in the legislature for , k iiarior. S' « '3-' Allen, and rolmtiv Vigo a l ' Vanderburgh coin ties while exacting a sacrifice from . ss populous c "■.utics. A Imlf-hearteu at* -inw was made in (27 for re ap t >t‘ionment, but the bi" 1 • ver ent"! from committee. ,w-?a.is" of the strength of the farm i.p. Timing its back on re-apportion-ir.ent the (1. 0. P. state committee hove,er, court-:! feminine f.-fvor by a.prt'.ng proposes for a bill to ins r- ramen eqn: I voting power with men tn all stale .md local political t": ::* Itt.'cS. .» !,“* will be diutieu ' :f. Un' 1925 election law wnit'. specified Uta* vicechairmen, usually women, cannot vote except in the i b.ience of the chairman. 'l' thi measure succeeds, voting n. " hers of th? state political comtn'iaes would be increased from thirteen to twenty-six with corresponding di riding of the number it* all the ■m: " (f polltic.il orgnnizath n in the s'tile ’Hi' controversial primary law has t'C" unscathed through two weeks cf h'.Mature, tl-it.ng which 152 house I' I ' l - : i.d 9’ tenato bills have been m'ti'iiiiced.

MOO CHINESE BEPORTEDKILLED Hundreds Os Villages Are Destroyed In Communistic Uprising Peking, China, Jan. 26 —(U.R)—Five thousand Chinese were killed and hundreds of villages destroyed in a communistic uprising in southern onan province, American missionary reports estimated today. He pi eRS aKe(t J)ersons an[l children "ere killed by 10,000 men who went about burning and pillaging the vilit was said. The pillagers were made up large- _ f disbanded nationalists soldiers enroiur? ° Ut ° f work ’ They a ( . )J comrnur Hstic leaders in ’Paign to end the old regime. o— Arthur E. Kiess Gets 1 osition In Chicago E n iie« ng r° n ’ ,nd ' Jan ’ 26—Arthur the R « n Decatur who will receive end of thi? egree ln chemistl- y at the VH-sitv h se,: iester at Indiana UniPosi L h nn 8 " teived appointment to a O< t£ ", Ch '.E- Ly».. nient. mad! U ‘ chemistry departtoday K ann ouncement here February i take Up his new work Legi °M naires To H °ld Meeting Monday Night PoIt le 'v 0 W1 « be A a meeting of Adams at 7 X riCa ': Legi ° n hl evening Pi n !' I' 30 oclock Monday the member u f ° r the final days ot close campaign, which wi 1 n’Kht. will h ‘! niSht l next Th «rn<ia y are urged to attend ’ A ” memberß

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Photo shews pas engers from the liner Preshlent Garfield being taken aboard the S. S. Pan-America in the Bahamas. The former vessel had run aground on a coral refe. The passengers were taken to a port in the Bahamas, whence some of them later returned to New York.

SCOUTS PLAN OBSERVANCE Program For Anniversary Week, Feb. 8 To 14, Is Announced Today The program for Boy Scout Anniversary Week, as announced by C. R. Danielson, field executive for the Anthoney Wayne Area Council, after a meeting with Commissioner Bryce Thomas, Scoutmasters Harold Daniels, Russell Owens, Clarence Beavers and Chairman of Community Service Committee M. J. Mylott, is as follows: Friday, February S —B:ls I’. M. Recommittment to Scout Oath and Law, Saturday, February 9—Demonstration Day. All Scouts in Decatur to be mobilized on signal from Headquarters. The Scouts ate to be prepared for any emergency that might have happened. They are to gather in front of the court house when they will be given further instructions as to a good turn to be preformed. Sunday, Februaty 10 —Scout Sunday, Scouts are expected to attend church. Monday, February 11—School Day Talks and demonstration of Scouting activities to be held in all the schools. Tuesday—February 12 —The Great Scout Jamboree at South Side High school. Fort Wayne—7:3o to 9:30 P. M. Wednesday, February 13th —Citizens Day. Scouts will perform a Community Good Turn to be decided upon by the Community Service Committee, of which M. J. Mylott is Chairman. Thursday, February 14 —Home Day and Court of Honor. Scouts will demonstrate their knowledge at home in performing good turns. A Couit of Honor for that evening has been announced also by J. L. Kocher, chairman. This promises to be a real Court as there should be about twenty-five Scouts for badges. Anniversary Week of 1929 is.the 19th birthday of the Boy Scouts of America and will be celebrated by a million Scouts and Scout officials in this country. Similar programs to the one above will be followed in all Scout Councils of the country. Fort Wayne Man To Be Extradited To Columbia, O. Indianapolis, Jan. 26 —(UP) —Edtradition of Elmer Kramer, Fort Wayne, to Columbia, Ohio., where he was wanted on a charge of assualt has been approved by Governor Harry G. Leslie The Ohio officials have gone to Fort Wayne for Kramer. . o Physicians And Dentists Plan To Collect Accounts Evansville, Ind., Jan. 26 —(UP) —An agency for collection of bills is proposed by Evansville physicians and dentists, its activities to be directed mainly aganst those persons who make a practice of getting service without paying .

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Nineteen Arrested In Liquor Raids At Capital Indianapolife, Jan. 26. — ((U.RD — Squads, composed of federal agents, I deputy sheriffs, and city police, simI ultaneously raided private homes and apartments ‘in widely separated secI tlnne ♦!»** ✓••♦ v anti arfAutorl teen persons, on liquor charges. Hundreds of quarts of “home brew” and other liquors were confiscated. The alleged violators were arraigned before United States commissioner John W. Kern, and some were confined when they were unable to obtain $2,500 bond. Prohibition agents said they had “purchased liquor from most of the pei sons arrested." o — Case Venued Here A suit for SBOO and foreclosure of a mortgage on a 140-acre farm in Allen county, filetl in the Allen superior court by William F. Leighner et al against Etnilie R. Cooper et al, has been venued to the Adams circuit court for trial. Attorney Harry F. Kennerk, of Fort Wayne, is counsel for the plaintiffs. Real Estate Transfers Daniel Stud'jer, trustee, to Jacob F. Moser, tract in Hartford township for $390. 0 WOMAN HEARD IN OKLAHOMA PROBE Secretary To Impeached Governor Is Witness In Legislature Investigation Oklahoma City, Okla., Jan. 26 —dI.R) —Mrs. Mamie Hammonds, center of Oklahoma’s two-year-old political revolt, faced her accusers today. Mrs. Hammonds, diminutive but dominant confidential secretary to Henry S. Johnston, impeached and suspended governor, appeared as the chief witness in an inquiry which has turned Oklahoma’s politics upside down. Ths dimpled and disarming young secretary, witnesses charge, is /lie woman who shook her fist in the governors face when he opposed her, but wept for 30 minutes when the general assembly impeached him for alleged corruption and incompetency. Mrs. Hammonds appeared before 30 men instituting a house investigation committee, climaxing three weeks of legislative investigation in which she has been branded as the political dictator of the state house. She will answer that she controlled the governor, dictated patronage, hired and discharged employees and sat in secret executive councils. At her own request, her testimony will be taken by her own stenographer.

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DR. SHUMAKER IS UNFAVORABLE TO FURTHER APPEAL Would Rather Serve 60-Day Term Than Undergo Worrv Os Appealing FUTURE ACTION IS UNDECIDED By Paul 11. King. (United Press Staff (’.^respondent) Indianapolis, Jan. 26 —(UP)—Dr. E. S. S tumaker, Indiana anti-saloon league superintendent is inclined to prefer serving his 60-day Indiana state farm term lather than undergo the woriy and uncertainty of further appeal, it was learned from an authoritative source today. Shumaker was at liberty today on a 30-day stay of judgment following fede.al Judge Robert C. Baltzell’s decision Friday refusing to interfere with the Indiana Supreme' Court's penal farm sentence for alleged contempt. Affected By Worry Those close to Dr. Shumaker said wor.y over the extended legal fight he has waged since he was first sentenced- by the state court has affected him greatly, creating his mind the feeling that perhaps it would lie best to serve the .sentence and have it over with. An appeal to the U. S. supreme court would require probably another year or two of uiicertainity, and even then might result in .in adverse ecision, it was said. Final decision on whether or not an appeal will be taken from Baltzell’s decision has been postponed until a meet ing of the full league headquarters committee. o Ex-Kaiser’s Statement Branded As “Childish” Rv Gporjrps Clpmpncpaii Paris, Jan. 26— (U,R>—Georges Clemenceau, war-time premier of France, emerged from his retirement today 'ong enough to comment briefly on the former kaiser's disavowal of Germany’s war guilt, contained in a statement to the United Press. ‘ The Tiger'” used just six wordb to express his opinion of Wilhelm’s statement. “Not worth wasting my words,” he snapped. The other word he used came after Clemenceau had read slowly and carefully the English translation of the statement. His jaw squared, his eyes glinted and he ejaculated in English: “Childish." Then the famous sardonic Clemenceau smile appeared. The Tiger shrugged his shoulders and raised his bushy eyebrows to the ring of the gray poilu cap which he invariably wears indoors. o Passenger Airplane Is Reported Missing In South Mexico City, Jan. 26 —(UP) — A Fairchild airplane piloted by Theodore Hull, enroute from Los Angeles to Mexico City with seven passengers, was repotted missing today .by the civil avitation department. The missing plane apparently is lost between Mazatlan and Guadalatara, thedapartment said. It arrived at .Mazatlan yesterday at 7:30 A. Al. and w.ts next seen between 11 A. M. and noon over Vatlan Delllo, state of Nayarit. o One Reported Killed In Train Collision At Chicago Chicago, Jan. 26 —(UP) —One person was reported to have been killed and more than 30 injured today when a suburban train collided with a limited train in the yatds of the Northwestern railroad station here. The suburban train was said to have been backing into the station as the limited was backing out when they crashed, wrecking the rear coach on each train. 0 Film Actress, In Nervous Collapse, Stabs Physician Hollywood, Cal.. Jan. 26.— (U.R) — Miss Alma Rubens, film actress, was in Rosemead sanitarium today suffering from atcomplete nervous collapse after stabbing her physician in two attempts to escape from the automobile in which he was taking her to the sanitarium. Dr. Emil W. Meyer, Miss Ruben’s physician, suffered slight wounds from a paper knife which the film actress used to fight him off.

Former Kaiser Wilhelm Denies Germany’s Guilt In Causing World War

Former Emperor Issues An Important Statement On Eve Os 70th Birthday BLAMES RUSSIA FOR START OF CONFLICT Editor's note: The United Press presents herewith an exclusive statement of former Kaiser Wilhelm II on his policies as emperor of Germany and on events leading to the World war—his most impoitant newspaper utterance since his famous interview 20 years ago with the London Daily Telegraph. Out of his memory of events as leader of a powerful nation and through an intensive study of state archieves and diplomatic documents, the former kaiser has prepared a considered personal statement, ftt'ly authorized for publication by the United Press. It coincides with the observance of his Tilth birthday which he celebrates Sunday in exile at Haus Doorn. Holland. By Former kaiser Wilhelm 11. (Written exclusively for UP Copyright in all countries, 1929, by UP. All rights reserved) Doorn. Holland, Jan. 26. —(U.R) —The foreign policy program of my reign remained unchanged throughout. The general outline of this program was contained in my first speech from the throne in the year 1888: “In foreign policy I am determined to maintain peace with all nations, insofar as it lies within my power. My love for the Get man army and my position in relation to it will never lead me into the temptation of encroaching upon the benefits of peace to the country's detriment, unless war become a necessary imposed upon us by an attack tm Germany or her allies. Places Blame on Russia The German government to the last followed the same principles of peace in the crisis of July. 1914. All our efforts!—among which I may mention my proposal of a “halt in Belgrade," my personal appeal to the czar and the King of England, as well as my warning represeottaions to the Emperor of Austria—wers made vain by the general mobilization ot Russia, which, on the evening of July 20th, put 111 divisions in the field. Austii? only ordered her general mobilization 18 hours after Russia, and in Ger many, at almost the same hour, about 19 hours after the Russian mobilization. the “state of imminent war danger”—not yet, therefore, the complete mobilization —was first ordered in consequence of the announcement of the Russian mobi ization. Since through the military treaty between France and Russia, World war, after i< IIVTIVI icn OV »-*«K FIVK» FLOODED RIVERS. RECEDING TODAY Indiana Streams Reach Flood Stage; Many Highways Are Inundated Indianapolis, Ind., Jan 26. — (U.R) — Rivers throughout Indiana declined today after reaching flood stages, due to the recent heavy rains, according to an official report. The White river in the Bedford section which had reached alarming proportions, declined steadily, the report said. Many sections of highways were still under water, however. Advices from the Seymour district said streams had reached their crest and were on the decline. Highway travel was somewhat hampered in that section. Evansville reported that streams in that vicinity dropped last night and that no serious damage was expected. Hundreds of acres of wheat and alfalfa were under water near Petersburg, reports said. Many acres of botto mland in that section were inundated. Schools have been closed at Clifford and Petersville on account of the highways. At Clifford the overflow crept into the school basement and extinguished the fire in the boiler room. White river has spread over most of the low lands in that section. Most highways leading into Shoals have been covered by the overflow, advices from there said. Word from Anderston said the intense cold had curbed the rise of White river there.

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LOCAL CAST TO PRESENT PLAY Musical Comedy, “Pickles”, To Be Staged In This City Sunday Anu Munday The final rehearsal for “Pickles," the home talent musical comedy to be given at the Catholic high school auditorium, on Sunday and Monday nights, w’i! be held this evening. The chorus and cast have been rehearsing diligently and an evening of rare entertainment is promised all who attend. Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, a matinee will be given for school children, who will be admitted for the sum of ten cents. This will be Held at 3:15 o'clock. The evening performance will start at 8:15 o’cock, prompt. The cast of the pay comprises some of tlie best musical and dramatic talent of the city, and in addition to it's tuneful melodies, carries a delightful story which is full of laughs and thrills. O • Bus Goes Over Road Bank; None Injured Van Weit, Ohio, Jan. 26 —No one was injured when a large motor bus of the Intel state line, operated through Van Wert, slid down a high embankment fllong the Lincoln highway about ten miles west of Convoy at 4 o’clock Friday morning. The bus enroute from Columbus to Chicago, was occupied by tlie driver and one passenger. It was reported that a strong wind caused it to leave the road. o Fair Weather Forecast For First Os Next Week Weather outlook. for the period of Jan. 28 to Feb. 2, 1929. For the region of the Great Lakes mostly fair first of week; followed by one or two periods of precipitation during middle and close; cold first of week, folowed by rising temperature middle; cold again at close. o United Brethren Church To Open Revival Sunday A series of evangelistic meetings will epen at the United Brethren church Sunday. The meetings will continue for three weeks with services each evening except Saturday. The pastor, the Rev. R. E. Vance will do the preaching Catholic Missionary Is Held For Ransom In China Washington, Jan. 26—(U.R) —Chinese communists are holding Rev. Edward Young, a CathoCic missionary, for SIO,OOO ransom, the state department was informed today in a message from the American consulate general at Hankow.

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RESCUE SQUADS PUSH WAY INTO WRECKED MINE Fate Os Men Trapped In West Virginia Coal Mine Is Undetermined CAUSE OF BLAST NOT YET LEARNED Bluefield. W. Va.» Jan. 26.-— (U.R)—Mine number live ol Ihfe Kingston Pocahontas Coal Co., al Kingston, wrecked by an explosion this morning, gave up three bodies this as ternoon. Fifteen miners still were believed imprisoned beneath tons of rock and earth. Whether they are alive or dead is prohlematica 1. The bodies were discovered bv rescue crews who penetrated the mine from two shafts, one on each side of the mountain into which 71 men marched on the midnight shift last night. Chatleston, W. Va.. Jan. 26 —(U.R) — Revised figures telephoned to the state mining department here today said 18 men were entombed by an explosion in mine No. 5 of the Kingston Pocahontas Coal company at Kingston, Fayette county, early today. Rescue squads have entered the mine through two shafts one on the Coal river side and the other on the Paint Creek side —and are working towards each other, the department was advised. The first crews to enter found fire raging but it was extinguished and the rescue work was pushed forward. Cause of the explosion lias not yet been learned, department officials said, adding that 71 men were in the mine when the blast let go. o Many From Here To Attend Jones Meeting A large crowd is planning to go to Fort Wayne, Monday and Monday evening, to attend the E. Stanley Jones neeting. The local Methodist church expects to have at least ninty per eent of all its official families in the services. Then, there is every indication that a large number of the members of the other churches of the city will attend, as inquiries are being made as whethet the service is open to all. It was state by the pastor of the local church that the Monday meeting and the Monday evening meeting would be open to all who wished to attend, regardless of church affiliation. STATE NURSERY TO BE ENLARGED Enlargement To Be Made To Meet Demand For Trees For Reforestation Indianapolis, Ind Jan. 26—(Special) — Pulflic response to the policy of the state conservation department growing trees for reforestation is creating such a demand on the present nursery at the Clark County Forest Reserve, that it must be enlarged. Although 5 acres are now in intensive cultivation and contain over 2,000,000 small trees, it will be necessary to develop three acres more at once, according to Richard Lieber, department director. Plans are now going forward to plant a thousand beds with forest stock to provide 3,000,000 trees for planting in 1932, Lieber said. Conservation officials say that much cf the stock being raised will go toward planting thousands of acres of waste lands in southern Indiana, and added to the forestery problem of returning this abandoned land to usefulness, comes the need of'tree planting in the sandy soil of the Kankakee region. Indiana has 5,250 acres in forest reserves. Statistics show Idaho has in excess of 700,000 acres; Michigan 333,000 acres; Minnesota 350,000 acres; Montana 566,000 acres: New York 2,026,000 acres; Ohio 33,773 acres: Pennsylvania 1,131,000 acres; and Wisconsin 97,000 acres. States recognizing the importance of farming timber on worn out lands in the same scientific manner as folowed for agricultural crops and expending large sums annually to that purpose are' California $188,165; Connecticut $137,500? Idaho $121,000; Maine $201,000; Massachusetts $433,750; New Hampshite $76,000; New Jersey $313,000; New York $749,000; Ohio $225,000 and Jennsylvania $1,155,000. Indiana's appropriation is $65,000.

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