Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1929 — Page 1

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Ste acts to HOVE MARINES Ml NICARAGUA I Iwndment To Naval Appropriation Hill Would Force Withdrawal r 0 I’ LEADERS MOVE TO reverse ACTION i V.'asliinid o|,< * (UR) ( - i The senati- aiii«n<ln>cnt to the , ni\al approin iiihoii bill (lesign- ! J Io compel Hie administration i Io withdraw marines Irani Mc.iramia, would seriously bandi,,ip I nited States policy in Nicarauj’u if >' hcaiinc a law, ■ Secretory of Stale Kellogg said J A rter making his statemen to news- | Secretary Kellogg went to s tjf White House where he discussed -se « nicaiaguan development with president Coolidge. f Kfllcgg declined to comment on his I cwtence with the president. I By Wallace G. West, 1 I’P Staff Correspondent Indianapolis. Felt. 23 U.R) -The I four cent gasoline tax bill and the • Republican platfoim modification ' I measure will exchange places on : tee and senate calendars next nek if voting lines formed in FriF day’s bitter battles stand firm. Senate passage for the primary: i : modification bill was predicted today la light of the roll call which climax- I «i the light on the measure in the i upper house late Friday. Twenty-five Republicans voted aye, ’ • lacking one vote of a majority. Elevm Democrats joined with thirteen reWious republicans in opposition. Senator Sam Benz, English, a Demoerat, alone was absent. He had spoken for the bill before leaving the senile chamher. Should he decide to ttick with the minority group in op- t position, Lieutenant Governor Edgar ’ D. Bush, would cast the deciding vote j < for passage. Therein lay the cause! tor predictions of passage. 11 Spectators dodged from senate! chamber to house chamber as the ! ! lower house became embroiled in a 1 I aaoline tax debate equallying the i | primary fight for vehemence. t | < J^ ,l ’ s,ail(ling an hour And a half j ' K’OXTIXtEII OX PACK FIVE! Nurses To Hold Meeting At Kirkland Gym Tuesday t i Miss Winifred R Sink and Miss I tols Lindsay, graduate registered t I nurses representing the extenion I j division of Indiana University, will ' I conduct a public meeting in the KirkI hud high school gymnasium, Tuesday F evening. at 7:30 o'clock. They will ; stow stereopticon slides and give lectures concerning the .James WhitI comb Riley hospital at Indianapolis, i • Owing the afternoon, the two nurses i wik make physical examinations of i Ito Kirkland high school pupils. The Public is invited to attend the meet,a« Tuesday night. MEE GIRLS ARE POISONED Two Believed Dying As Result Os Eating Contaminated Food At Chicago Chicago, Feb. 23-<U.R)—Two girls th j belleved t 0 be dying and a Mem * a , S (langeroUß >y iH in Wesley Down° ria h° s Pi ta l today after being F;t7^' J ,.. by food whtch Dr - J 01111 E. Fdbv a s Sai<l kad been contai »i’ l «t- • » arnily automatic refrigerator, tone' , t2gerald s “id there was no and t „ o „ r ,, savi ” K Catherine Whaley tolmn» « Cuinmin 8s but that Wilsmall am Meckel lla< l eaten only a would recover. 01 P ° is ° n f °° d Bnd ViC ! imS an<i a toUrth « lrl "“nt emrtnn r , 11 a sou lhside apartblserator P mu Wlth an electric retor Swift &r- were sten °Graphers tion of P th Z o Serald Baid llis investigaovercame , h ” ,ys 1 t ? rioUß »lne»s which w ßht Bhoweu o! r s after dinner last Aerator h»u hat a pipe in the re " fog Poison nn a leak, releasthol chloridp 8 ethyl chloride and men80rbed b v ~ gases which were abSi ‘ d 118 u n dp! , fOOd ’ The Physicians at “ a n fe d three nurses had ! botulisni J Ca u? hospital recently Mooning. esu *Ung from similar

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Inaugural Air Show K <Z l/ L. Un I I This exclusive picture of Major John Berry, acting superintendent of the (’leveland Airport, is the first posed picture made of hint in years. Major Berry will soon take charge of the arrangements for the big ainplane display which will feature Mr. Hoover’s inaugural. KIDNAPER SHEARS DOWNiCONFESSES Woman Who Took California Girl Blames Mother Instinct For Act By Richard G. Baldwin, UP Staff Correspondent San Francisco,' Feb. 23. —(U.R) —The mother instinct of a lonely woman was given as the reason today for the disappearance of four-year-old Doris ViVrginia Murphy from a city playground eight days ago. While the child, returned to her parents unharmed yesterday, was receiving the attentions of her mother and step-father, her confessed kidnaper, Mrs. Edna Sharp, wept in her cell at the city jail. After hours of questioning by police, during which she told a number of contradictory stories, the woman late last night broke down and confessed that she had taken little D ris from the playground. Mrs. Sharp, het husband, Charles, and John A. Williams, previously bad been arrested and booked on charges of child stealing and kidnapping. The arrests were made when Doris identified Williams as the “dark man" whom she said had kidnaped her. Police believed the child’s imagination had been fired by talk she overheard and that she had made much of the conveisation. Mrs. Sharp first told of receiving Doris soma “dark’’ man at Vallejo, north of this city on San Francisco bay. Later she changed her story and said the “dark" man had given her the child at the Terry building here. Under continuous questioning of police, she finally burst into tears and said she “took Doris because she wanted a child of her own to love.” The confession climaxed the greatest hunt this city has ever known. An engaged populace had feared Doris was in the hands of a degenerate and might be killed. Her fate was not known until Charles Sharp brought the little girl to the offices of the United Press and the San Francisco News said his wife was convinced the baby was not her own. He said his wife found a mysterious note telling her to go to Vallejo and a “dark’’ man would return to her a baby daughter whom she had placed in the care of a relative more than a year ago. -o — Lindy Admits That His Flying Will Be Curtailed By Marriage Wichita, Kai., Feb. 23—(UP)—Before taking oft’ for Wynoka, Okla, at 7:15 A. M. today on the tout th leg of his inspection trip of western airlines, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh admitted that his forthcoming marriage to Miss Anne Mcrrow would tend to curtail his flying activities. “Will your marriage keep you on the ground more than at present a reporter askedHesitating a second. Lindbbrgh smiled and replied; “Yes.”

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PETITION FOR REDUCED LIGHT RATES GRANTED Public Service Commission Grants Petition Os Decatur City Council NEW RATES BECOME EFFECTIVE MARCH 1 — Notification was received today by M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the City Light and Power plant, that the public service commission of Indiana had approved and granted the petition of the city council for a reduction in the light, power, cooking and I rural route line rates in Decatur. The petition was filed with the public service commission on February 20, with the request that the new rates become effective March 1. Mr. Mylott stated this morning that the i patrons of the city light and power ’ plant would be given the advantage,< of the new rate, beginning March l.il Means Big Saving j ( The new rates cut one-half cent | 1 from the-light rate on the 100 K.W.H., . 1 which will mean a saving to all lightj’ users in this city. The new rate will I be eight cents per K.W.H. with a cue ■ cent discount if paid by the twentieth! of the next month, making a seven cent net rate. It is estimated that the lower rates i will save the patrons of the city light | and power plant between four and five thousand dollars a year, the light users receiving the largest benefit. A substantial saving will also be given to those who use city power for cooking purposes, the saving being given by the first 100 K.W.H. per month. This rate has been reduced to four cents for the first 100 kilowatts. The power rate is reduced to 2(4 cents per K. W If. after the fiist 50.000 kilowatts used per month. The rural route line rate is reduced to 2% cents per K.W.H. after the first 1,000. Rev. Miller To Conduct Meeting At Burnettsville ; I The Rev. O. E. Miller will conduct a meeting next week at a church he formerly served as pastor at Burnettsville, Indiana. Mrs. Miller and son Ernest will accompany him for a day or two, returning Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Lightner of the Bible Training School of Fort Wayne will supply the pulpit Sunday, March 3. GANG MASSACRE WITNESS GONE Important Witness In Investigation Os Slayings At Chicago Disappears Detroit, Mich., Feb. 23—(U.K)—Victim he said, of four men wno kidnaped him in Chicago, Dr. Loyal Packer, witness in the massacre of seven men in Chicago on St. Valentine day was found dazed on the street here at noon today. The Chicago dentist, who is relied upon to identify one of the killers as the man who visited him for treatment, said he had been drugged and was unconscious most of the night after being taken from Chicago in an automobile. Chicago, Feb. 23 — (U.R)—An important witness in the investigation of the St. Valentine’s day gang massacre here has disappeared, police announced today, and death threat letters have been received by two others. Dr. Loyal Tacker, dentist, who said he believed he may have pulled a tooth for one of the men seen in the automobile which drove away from the north side garage where the murders occurred, was reported missing from his home by his bride of a few months. Police were told by a witness who saw the death car leave the garage that one of the men had a tooth or two missing. Dr. Tacker appeared at police headquarters a few days later and identified pictures of a gangster as those of a man whose teeth he had extracted prior to the murders. o —< Haldeman On Flight Tampa, Fla., Feb. 23—(U.R)— George Haldeman, flying a Bellanca monoplane, passed over Tampa at 1:30 p. m. on his attempted non-stop flight from Winsor Ontario, to Havana, Cuba.

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Faces Death ■ -•' "J Known as the “Boy with a hundred sweethearts.” young women over wfrem he exerted complete hypnotic control. Joseph R. V. Clarke, former Piinceton student, was sentenced to death for murder of one of his sweethearts at Liverpool, England. The trial, shortest known in history, lasted frur and a half minutes. ADHERENCE TO -- WORLD COURT IS COOLIDGE PLEA President Discusses International Relations In Public Address THINKS RELATIONS ARE GOOD AT PRESENT By Lawrence Sullivan, UP Staff Correspondent Washington. Feb. 23.— (U.R)— Diplomatic circles today applauded a new appeal by President Coolidge for American adherence to the world court. That was the interpretation placed upon the president’s address last night at the mid-winter convocation of George Washington University, in which he gave an account of his stewardship of America’s international relations since he tool, office in 1923. In what probably was his last presidential utterance, Mr. Coolidge urged cultivation of international good feeling and called upon the people and the press of the nation to "be friendly.” Opposed To Isolation He declared that rarely if ever ever have our foreign relations been in a more happy condition, discouraged the attitude of fault finding and hostility to everything that is foreign, and admonished his Washington's birthday radio audience that even the president’s warning against alliances did not advocate a policy of isolation. “In that day,” said President Coolidge, “an alliance meant the banding together of two or more nations for offensive and defensive uprises against certain other nations, either (CONTIWIIKn OX I’MilC l-’IXfo. MRS. KAUFFMAN IS A CANDIDATE Present City Clerk Seeks Nomination For Re-elec-tion In Primary Mrs. Catherine Kauffman, wellknown Decatur citizen, and present city clerk, announced today that she would be a candidate for re-election to her present office, subject to the decision of the voters at the Democratic primary election to be held next May. Mrs. Kauffman has served as city clerk in an efficient manner and has carried out the duties of her office with much credit. She announced today that, if nominated and re-elect-ed, she would continue the same policy in her office. Mrs. Kauffman has been active in Democratic politics in Decatur and Adams county for several years. She stated that she would make an active campaign for the office and promised a continuation of < fficiency if elected.

SOLICITORS FOR SCOUT FINANCIAL DRIVE APPOINTED Plans Complete For Annual Campaign To Be Conducted Next Week SEEK FUND FOR ENSUING YEAR The Boy Scout financial drive will be made in this city on next Tuesday j and Wednesday. February 26 and 27.. The city has been divided into v:.r- | ious blocks and respective commit- j tees have l>een chosen. The solicitors , will meet in the Industrial Association rooms Monday evening at 7 o’clock, to receive the detailed announcements and instructions for the canvas. The local Boy Scout committee hopes that the solicitors will be able to go over the top. This solictiting is to cover the work of the Boy Scouts ( fi i- the year 192!) and January and February of 1930. The National Boy . Scout organization is requesting that ( the last week in February shall be t the time for soliciting. Roscoe Glendening, assistant cashier of the First \ 1 National Bank, is the local treasurer. The so’.icltors are as follows: Block I—Leo1 —Leo Kirsch and Herman Gillig. Block 2 —Robert Helm and Vincent I Bormann. Block 3 — Wm. Linn and Theo. ! Graliker. i, Block 4—l>r. Glen Neptune and I > Paul Graham. Block s—Ed5 —Ed Bosse and Fred Kolter Block 6 —David Campbell and Wm. | Bowers Block 7 —Oscar Lankenatt and Raymond Keller Block B—Dr.8 —Dr. Mangold and Ford O’Brien Block 9—Dee Fryhack and Janies Ellierson Block 10—Chas. Colter and Herb : Curtis. Block 11 —Glen Hill and Felix Maier 1 Block 12 —Paul Edwards and W. J. Krick. Block 13 — Fred Ashbattcher and Harl Hollingsworth Block 14—School Principals Block 15—Avon Burk and J. S. 1 Peterson. Block 16 —Bryce Thomas and Carl ‘ Klepper 1 Block 17 —James Burk. Marcellus 1 Miller and Harry Dailey 1 Block 18 —Clarence Bell and W. A. ’ Klepper. (COATINITKIJ ON PAGE l-’IVR> ; CORNSCHOOL l WILL BE HELD: Methods Os Picking Seed Corn To Be Discussed At ] Monroe, March 8 What is good seed corn? How can you pick cut the ears? This is a question that will be fully discussed at the ' Corn School to be held Friday March ' 8 in the basement of the Monroe high school building at Monroe. Ccv.n- . ty Agent Ferd E. Christen announces that C- T. Gregory and M. O. Pence of the Purdue Agricultural Extension Department will consider this matter i front all angles ; Dr. Gregory will give an illustrated lecture on corn root rot in which he explains the relation of good seed corn to the control of this disease. He will also give a demonstration of the modified rag doll test which is the best method of discovering weak and diseased seed ears. This is the test that has increased the yields of corn on an average of ten bushels during the past five years. Prof. Pence has a lot of information concerning the physical character of the ear that wil giude us to better coin. He will also discuss the question of rate of planting, best suited to different conditions, fertility and varieties. Au opportunity will be afforded after each talk for a discussion of the idvidldual problems of the Adams coun ty growers. Come and find out how to increase your yields, improve the quality of your corn and learn about the condition of the seed corn in Adams County this year. .. n ■ ■ - College Student Killed Jacksonville, 111., Feb 23 —(U.R)— Eugenia Norman, 19, Jasper, Inwana., leaped from the second story of the gymnasium at the Illinois Women’s college last night, when the building caught fire and was killed

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Anaesthetic Discover E? wIt i j i v Y/G' ■ r- V it World wide fame has settled on the shoulders of Dr. Miguel Garcie of Mexico City for his discovery and application of intravenous ejections of ethyl alcohol as the perfect anaesthetic in place of chloroform or ether. TO INVESTIGATE ” REVOLVING FUND State Finance Board To Probe Charges Against Highway Department Indianapolis, E'eb. 23—(U.R)—An investigation of the ’ evolving fund” granted the state highway department undet past governors and the highway department’s method of paying"by payroll and not by individual signed and sw rn voucher will be made at t ie meeting of state finance board, sometime in Match, Gov. Harry G. Leslie announced today. Washington. Fell. 23. —(U.R)—While good Republican senators were eating dinner independents and Democrats succeeded last night in forcing the senate to adopt an amendment cutting off funds tor marine occupation of Nicaragua. A call was sent out by the Republican whip today to have all present this afternoon to overturn the vote of 38 to 30. The amendment was proposed to the naval appropriations bill by Senator Dill. Democrat of Washington, who has long been conducting a fight against what he calls “American Imperialism” in Central America. Dill asked a restriction be placed on appropriations for the marine corps and the navy so no money could be used after July 1 to maintain troops in Nicaragua or to transport them there. For six hours the senate had droned through debate. So useless appeared the efforts to defeat the naval bill, the midwesterners abandoned their fight to eliminate or curtail the appropriation of $12,370,000 for starting work on the new naval cruisers. Amendments authorizing these expenditures were approved without the formality of a record vote. o — Adams County Vigilantes Attend Shoot At Ft. Wayne I Seven members of the Adams county bank vigilante committee attended a sheet held by the vigilante committees of group No. 1, of the Indiana Bankers Association, held at the General Electric indoor range in Fort Wayne last night. Five of the ten count'es in the group attended the shoot. The Adams county vigilantes made a gcod showing in both <he rifle and pistol competition. o Fire Damages State Capitol Os Kentucky Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 23—(U.R) —The right wing of the old state capitol housing offices of the state highway department, the railroad commission and the geological survey, was destroy ed by fire today the blaze apparently started from defective wiling. Damage was estimated at $250,000. Valuable records and instruments were believed destroyed. o—■— Frequent Precipitation Forecast For Next Week Weather outlook lor the period of Feb. 25 to Mai ch 2, 1929 For the region of the Great Lakes: Frequent precipitation likely; No matked departures from seasonal temperatures indicated.

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SCHEDULES FOR 64 SECTIONALS AHEANNOUNGEB — Decatur Meets Berne In First Round Os Tourney Here Saturday EIGHT TEAMS IN LOCAL TOURNEY Indianapolis, Feb. 23. , <UR) ’ I'hc drawings for Indiana s t> I intcrscholasiic sectional basketball tournaments were announced here lodav bv A. L. 1 tester, permanent secretary <»l the Indiana high school athletic association. Surviving teams wi,l meet in I'. regional tourneys March 9, after which the regional winners will compete in the Butler field house for tho state championship March 15 and 16. The drawings include: Decatur Sectional Friday Night— ' Game 1—7:30 p. m., Monroe vs. Hartford township. Officials 1 and 2. Game 2—8:30 p. m„ Monmouth vs. Geneva. Officials 2 and 1. Saturday ForenoonGame 3—9 a.m., Kirkland vs. Jefferson township. Officials 1 and 2. Game 4—lo a. m., Decatur vs Berne Officials 2 and 1. I Saturday Afternoon — ! Game 5—2 p.m., winner game 1 vs. I winner game 2. Officials 1 amt 2. Game 6—3 p.m., winner game 3 vs. ■ winner game 4. Officials 2 and 1. Saturday Night— Game 7—B p. m., winner game 5 vs. winner game 6. Officials 1 and 2. Officials: 1, Dale Krelgh; 2, Clive Markley. Bluffton Sectional Friday Night— Game 1—7:30 p.m., Rockcreek vs. Pet:oleum. Officials 1 and 2. Game 2—8:30 p. m.. Union Center vs. Lancaster. Officials 2 and 1. Saturday Forenoon — Game 3—9 a.m., Bluffton vs. Liberty Center. Officials 1 and 2. Game 4—lo am., Ossian vs. Chester Center. Officials 2 ami 1. Officials: 1. George Lambert; 2, L. R. Lenon. Fort Wayne Sectional Friday Afternoon — Game I—21 —2 p. in., South Side vs. New Haven. Offfl’icials 1 and 2. Game 2—3 p.m.. Arcola vs. Huntertown. Officials 2 and 1. Game 3—4 p.m., Harlan vs. North Side. Officials 1 and 2. Game 4—5 p.m.. Central vs. Madison township. Officials 2 and 1. Friday Night—, Game 5—7:30 p.m., Monroeville vs. Lafayette Center. Officials 1 and 2. Game 6—8:30 p. m., Maumee vs. Leo. Officials 2 and 1. Officials: 1, Horace Parker; 2, Clayton Hughes. Huntington Sectional Friday a. m. I—lo—Markle-Lancaster1 —10—Markle-Lancaster Cen., officials 1-2. ifOXTH’I’F.II “X FIVE! HERRIN MEN AGE SENTENCED Three Liquor Conspiracy Trial Defendants Sent Te Penitentiary East St. Louis, 111.. Feb. 23 —(U.R) — Penitentiary terms totaling four and one-half years and fines aggregatiJ’g $4,500 were imposed in federal court today on three of the four Herrin, 111., liquor conspiracy trial defendants. Sentence on Alvin Misker, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was deferred by Judge Fred L. Wham, Mayor Marshal McCormack, alleged ring-leader in the conspiracy, was sentenced to two years and fined $3,000. John Stamm, former police chief, was sentenced to 18 months and fined SI,OOO. Elmer McCormack, brother of the - mayor and a former policeman of I Herrin, was sentenced to one year and fined SSOO. House Kills Bill For ; Tobacco Tax And License f Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 23 —(U.R) — After killing one bill providing for a tobacco tax and licensing of tobacco ■> dealers, the house today passed on to • engrossment the bill which provides for annual licensing of chain stores.

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