Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1929 — Page 1

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ram SENATE bills advance IN LOWER HOUSE Representatives Have Busy ‘ session; Few Measures Are Amended COMMITTEE REPORTS ON ARMORY PROBE BILL Indianapolis. Mar. B—(U.R)— The antidaylight saving time bill with an amendment that made the measure state-wide passed the senate today, without a dissenting vote. Indiaiupolin. March 8 (U.R) More than 411 senate bills were shoved one step neater enactment in a busy mornini session of the Indiana house of representatives today. The measures, mostly of local or minor significance, were advanced to engrossment and third reading, nine out of ten without amendment. After brief debate, the bouse killed the senate hill providing hial where voting machines were used in the primary and there weie three or more candidates for one office, the names should be rotated An amendment by Oscar A. Ahlgren of Whiting seeking to amend the senate bill providing that referendum on constitutional amendments should lie held in connection with the primary election in i:»3u to read with the general election in November 19:10, was killed. The bill then was sent to engrossment. Committee Reports Indianapolis, March B—(U.R8 —(U.R) —Threatened with a rebuke from his felloe.' members. Representative Lloyd 1). (Tayenm.be. Indianapolis. fnally hr ught in a report from Judiciary B committee today recommend Lug passage of a bill authorizing investigation of National Guard Armory construction in Indiana. For a week Claycombe, single handed, held in his committee the senate bill authorizing a seatching examination of "closed cormir.it ion --exist plus armory construction and appropriating $10,09(1 to defray expenses there fore. By Wallace C. West (United Press Staff Correspondent) . Indianapolis, March 8— (U.R)—Shorn of amendments the Senate had added the republican platform primary modification bill went hack to the upper house today lot concurrence, hearing ah to 37 approval of the house of representatives. Organization pressure turned to the senate to win approval for Bouse amendments which restored voting pri'deges to proxies in state conventions and eliminated the use of the austrattan ballots in convention. It the Senate concurs, the measure "il so to Governor Harry G. Leslie, "hcse app.oval is expected in viewer recommendations contained in his Message to the legislature Fifty-six tepiiblicaiH vote ave on mat Passage in the house late Thursday while 22 republicans and 15 demons Joined in opposition. Five demoand one republican were absent, ne bill places nominations for govn°r and United States Senator in , " convention and repeals the presi feature of the priWn ,» ¥ TWO) MS. E. D.CONNER CALLED BY DEATH •oFiner Decatur Resident tries At Home Os Parents In Huntington Barton ‘!f rnice Conner, 24, wife of dent . onner ’ farmer Decatur resiMarch *7 C , rt .„ al mldnight lost night, ents Mr I ' 29 ’,® 1 the llome ot her par ‘ llimtfnw a '!' M *' B ' -’ ames Allen - in losis g ° n ' >eath "’ :ls due to tubercnn r \ Conner moved froni fears ,J , ayton ’ O1,!o - al ’oU< five ner - <’<»«- Slid tireo d a san,tai ' l,ll » at Dayton ,0 th e honm'of'he 8 WaS removed ton, mo ot her parents at Huntingbut' IrMhu 1 rMhua a < Be<l Was boiu ct Markle, Fears. Survive Huntlngtou so " several b an(!; O n' “ B are the Parents; •HISOne «ep.son °t n ’. Jameß Richa ''d. and '".2* K’*' c «mpiete<|. aranSe "’ ( “" lf ' havP not

IJecatur Women Sing At Rotary Club Meeting Mrs. C. E. Bell. Mrs. Ilan Tyndall amt Miss DesAolee ('heater gave i. special musical program in conii-c i tlon with the regular program nm.-t ' i ing of the liecatnr Rotary Club la it ' , evening. The women sung several groups of songs, accompanied by Mrs. L. A. Holihouse at the piano. ('. E. Bell had charge of the program, conducting a test in Rotary facts. BERNE FILLING STATION ROBBEDi Two Armed Men Hold Up Glen Gifford, Attendant, And Escape With S2O Berne, March 8. (Special) Tw> armed men held up Glen Gifford, nt- . tendant at the Main Street filling sta- ’ tion, on West Main street here, :it 9:30 o'clock last night, and escaped I with S2O in cash. The two robbers, in an Advance Nash 11. four door sedan, drove up in front of the tilling station and stopped their car. Mr. Gifford was about to step from the door of the filling station to wait on what lie believed to be i ustomers for gas or oil. when one of the men poked a revolver in his side ami oidered, "Come here." Believing himself the victim of a joke. Gifford began laughing and failed to comply with the request. Then the robbers became “hard boiled," and in a more commanding tone, which meant husqpess, repealed the order, "come herA.” Search Gifford With this. Mr. Gifford stepped from I the station, and the men proceeded to search him. Finding nothing, one man kept him covered while the secI ond went inside the station. Mr. Gifford stated that he could hear him working with the cash register. But he returned unsuccessful, and commanded Gifford to go in and open tiie cash register. From the cash register, they obtained the sum of S2O. There was no safe in the station. Returning to their car. the bandits forced Gifford to walk a distance away from the station before they made their departure. This is believed Io have been done to keep him from seeing the license numtier on the cat. as well as making it impossible for him to call for help. Both men were described as being about 35 years of age. One man was about five feet and eight inches tall, and weighed approximately 180 pounds. He was well built and of dark complexion. The other man was taller and thinner and of light complexion. They succeeded in making their getaway, leaving no clues as to their identity. o President Os Bank At Montpelier Arrested Hartford City, Ind., Mar. B.—(U.R)— Charged with embezzlement of funds from the Farmers Deposit State bank of Montpelier, of which he is president, Guy R. Brackin, was at liberty today under SIO,OOO bond. The arrest was made after an affi--1 davit filed by Jack Winings, a stockholder, who asserted Brackin accepted a deposit after he knew the bank was insolvent. Brackin maintained that no money changed hands as Winingts merely detpcltited a check for a draft which he intended to use. This draft had not been cashed when the hank failed. o— Pleasant Dale Church Plans Special Service ; The Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, in Kirkland township, will dedicate the Junior department room of the church building, next Sunday - morning. The service will start at ' 10:30 o’clock. The Junior department room has ’ just been remodeled and redecorated. ; Mrs. Homer Arnold, superintendent of . the Junior department, has arranged an interesting program for the dedi- ! cation service. The public is invited . to attend. o 1 W. D. Porter Takes Automobile Agency W. D. Porter, of this city, has tak--1 en the local agency for the Overland - and Willys-Knight motor cars and has I a line of the new models at his gar- - age, corner of First and Jackson streets. Announcement of the new i agency was made today by the WillysOverland company, of Toledo, Ohio,

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Vidor and Vanquished I L I [ 3 HI B- 11 „Ji *. , . .. # IF "AA ta 13 a Mi ant M ® Tim ® M Sil ' John It Rockefeller Jr. (left) and Col. Robert W. Stewart, whose fight for control of the S andard Oil Company of Indiana attracted nationwide attention. Rockefeller secured Hie victory hy gaining a majority of the proxies and Col. Stewart was oiis'ed at the annual meet’ng of stockholders al Whit. ng. Indiana.

Coolidge Found Tragedy, ; Not Glory In White. House

i New York, Mar. S, — (U.R) — Calvin, Coolidge, author, opened his mind and • heart to the American people for the first time today and revealed that ho found tragedy instead of glory in the White House. In an article published by the Cosmopolitan magazine Coolidge mentions the death of his son. Calvin, and tlie passing of the president s father as two severe burdens lie was called upon to bear while directing a nation's destiny, and says he does not STEWART GETS MANY OFFERS New Enterprises Beckon To Deposed Head Os Standard Oil Co., Os Indiana Chicago, Mar B—-(UP8 —-(UP) —New enterprises were reported beckoning to Col. Robert W. Stewart today. From his more intimate friends it was learned that the oil industry already had offered him at least two positions good for better than the $125,000-a-year one he lost at Whiting, i It was considered doubtful, however, that Stewart wotfld accept any j new connections immediately but would rest for a while from the strenuous campaign against John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whicih ended yesterday when the big shareholders of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana voted tn oust him from (he board of directors. Harry F. Sinclair, whose business dealings wtih “the Colonel” in the Continental Hading company, Ltd., led to Rockefeller's demand that Stewart get out or be put out of Standard oil, is reported to have made two attractive offers to the deposed executive. One is said to be a high position in Sinclair's present organization. The obiter report is to the effect that Sinclair is planning an immense oil merger with the Phillips and Skelly companies and wants Stewart to head the new concern. The Rockefeller campaign met with typical Rockefeller success, and although John D. Jr, himself remained out of the country during the entire proxy fight, he won with a majority of 2,555,327 shares of stock. The climax which was reached in the Whiting Memorial center yesterday was not the financial battle of the century as it had been pictured. Instead It was an intensely human drama of big business. Stewart knew he was beaten before he ever started to the meeting. As he mounted the platform to take charge of the meeting as chairman of tihe board of directors, the colonel betrayed not a trace of what must have been in his mind. In his hour of defeat he was complete master of himself and caried oft his part with a (CONTUS ED ON I , A<SK TWO I

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! know “why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House.” Discusses Son's Death “My own participation in the campaign of 1924 was delayed by the death of my son, Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July,” Coolidge wrote. “He was a hoy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen. “We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been president he would not nave raised a blister on his toe. which resulted in blood poisoning, playing tennis in the south grounds. “In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. “When he went, the power and thel glory of the presidency went with I him. “The ways of Providence are often beyond our understanding. It seemed to me that the world had need of the work that it was probable he could do." Coolidge tells how his father lay dying in the Vermont homestead while the pressure of presidential duties made it impossible for him to go to his bedside. “It exists a lot to be president," he | wrote. FOUR KILLED, 21 HURT IN BLAST Dynamite Stored In Barn Explodes When Building Catches Fire Schrlbner, Neb., Mar. S —(UP) — Four persons were killed four others probably fatally Injured and 17 less seriously hurt last night in an explosion of dynamite stored in the barn of Carl Hollander, Dodge county supervisor. The dead: Gits Pittack, Guy Clark; Fred Feigner; Harry Wibbles Those who are expected to die; Frank Bearer; William Studhre; Arthur Sch eneck; Elmer Steil. The dynamite was to have been used in dynamiting ice jams in the Elkhorn river near 'here. Fire broke out in the bant ami caused the explosion. All the dead and injured are members of the volunteer fire department ' which fought the blaze Presence of the dynamite was known to them but they felt safe because f the belief that the explosive was not caped and would not detonate As the fire became hotter the explosive “let go" Homes and buildings in the immediate vicinity were jarred n their foundations and many windows were broken. The blast was heard for miles, being felt in Fremont. Westpoint, Hooper and other nearby cities.

Anti-Daylight Saving Time Bill Is Amended Indianapolis, Mar. S.-(U.R) Senator Chester A. Perkins. South Bend, succeeded in having an amendment added to the anti-daylight saving time bill in the senate late yesterday afternoon. The hili originally provided that all government find banking business in Indianapolis be on central standard time. The Perkins amendment make the bill's application state wide. Civil War Veteran Dies Linton. Ind , Mar. 8.- (U,R)—Funeral services were held today for Thomas N. McClung, 84, Civil war veteran, last survivor of Co. B. Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which at its organization, numbered . 200 men CHILD PROBLEMS TDBE DISCUSSED Mrs. Nellie C. Young To Hold Children’s Division Institute In Countv Miss Nellie C. Young of Indianapolis, state superintendent of children's division of the Indiana Council of Religious "Education, will be in this county next Wednesday and Thursday, to hold a children’s division institute under the auspices of the Adams County Council of Religious Education. The first two sessions will be held in Hie M. E. church at Pleasant Mills on Wedensday. March 13, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and 7:31) o'clock in the evening. On Thursday, March 14, the institute will continue in the Methodist church in Geneva. The sessions there will be held at 9:3(J o'clock in the morning and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The purpose of this institute is to promote a greater interest in children and to help parents and teachers to solve the problems that are confronting them In their wotk. Miss Young will also discuss ways and means by which they may teach the children more effectively. Miss Young has been in the county before and all who have heard her are looking forward to her coming. One subject which she will discuss is, “What is Easter and what should it mean to our children?" This is a discussion of material to be used with children in teaching lessons and planning worship programs. Further subjects are, "Organization of children's work" and “Teaching and planning programs for children.” In Geneva, Miss Young Will give a teaching demonstion with primary and junior children. Parents, teachers and friends of children are* cordially invited to attend this institute, not only because of the Inspiration and spiritual blessings which they themselves will re cieve, but. for the purpose of passing I* on to the children whom they are called to teach.

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[Factory Officials Make Announcement Officials of the Decatur Foumfry, land Machine company, located on Pat--1 terson Street, having recently leased | thel; foundry department ta the DecaItitr Castings company, stated today i that they will continue tv manufacture elevators, stokers ami do general ' i repair work of all kinds. They will I |continue to operate In the same building. TAGGART BITES AREHELBTODAY! Simple Grandeur Marks I Funeral; Public Service Held In State House Indianapolis, Mar. 8. — (U.R)— With the simple grandeur of the F.piseopaleau funeral and burial rituals. Thomas Taggart. Democratic leader, was la d to rest this afternoon in Crown Hill cemetery. While the funeral service was held at 2 p. tn., at the residence where Taggarl died Wednesday, high officials gathered in the state house of representatives today for the only public eulogy of tiie former statesman. Only the exjsenator’s family and about 150 friends with whom he was intimate within the last half century ai ended the private services. Eddie Stinson Starts Endurance Flight Today Bay City. Mich., Mar. B—(U.R)- Eddie Stinson and his chief test pilot. Randolph C, Page, took off from frozen Saginaw Bay at 10:41 this I morning in a Stinson-Detroiter in an | effort t.v set a new world's endurance I ■ flight record for planes not refuelled . I in Hight. Their plane, the "Sally! Sovereign," must remain in the air. more titan 67 hours to gain the rec-’ ' ord. but Seinson hopes to stay aloft j 185 hours. The total weight of the I plane, which carried 800 gallons of gasoline, was almost nine thousand pounds. o , To Hold Cemetery Association Election —l—- — trustee will be elected for (he Salem cemetery association, at the First Evangelical church in Decatur, Saturday afternoon, March 16. at 2 I o’clock. All persons, of legal age. inI terested in Illis cemetery have a right to vote. | Lindbergh-Morrow Wedding Cake Passes Through Indiana Today t Evansville, Ind., March .'(-(U.R) — A wedding cake so large that its postage cost $38.75 addressed to Miss Anne Spencer Morrow. Mexico City. Mexico passed through here today, via >- air-mail. The cake assumed to have been 1 baked for Miss Morrow's marriage to s Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was made - in Nashville, Tenn. It was said that the cake would be . sent from here to Chicago on the In- . terstate air lines’ plane where it would be transferred to another ship I for its trip to Mexico City. < Bank Depositors Hold i Meeting At Bluffton ? Bluffton, March. 8-(U.R)—About 30 8 depositors of the defunct Wells Counj ty hank of this city, met today to diss cuss plans concerning their attitude in the bank's affairs, it was decided at j the meeting to appoint a special comj mittee to represent them in the bank's 0 affairs. It is understood that tihe committee ? will fight the appointment of a receiver. but other than that, the committee would not discuss its movements. o Train Kills Man At Van Wert, Ohio e Van Wert, 0., March B—-Robert M I West 32, of this city, was killed here , last night at 5:30 o'clock when t te 1 automobile lie was driving was struck by a speeding Pennsylvania mail train at the Schaffer street crossing. s West’s body and the automobile r was carried nearly a city block. West ’ died of a skull fracture ami internal ’ injuries. The automobile was demolished. Mr. West was an engineer for the Cincinnati Northern railroad He is ’ survived by his wife. E. H. Alspaugh, county coroner, as- ? tei an investigation of the accident • gave a verdict of accidental death. The body was taken to the B. L. i Vore undertaking parlors ihere- No ’ funeral arrangements have been made yet. •

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STRAY BULLETS HIT AMERICANS IN EL PASO,TEX. ! Federals Surrender Key City Os Juarez After Several Hours Fighting U. S. TROOPS ARE PLACED ALONG BORDER El Paso, Texas, Mar. B.—(U.R) —Rebel troops gained control ot .Juarez, Mexico, revolutionary key center today when federal troops raised the white dag of surrender. Firing, which started at 5:30 a. m., ceased when an automobile tilled with federal officers rode down the principal streets flying a white flag shortly after 10 o’clock. Federal troops were dispersed and General Miguel Valle, one of the rebel leaders, took charge of lhe city. He said that four men had been killed in the battle and that several had been wounded. Rebel forces arrested federal officers as rapidly as they could be rounded up, but announced that none would be executed. Prior to the surrender, three persons, 2 children and an unidentified man. were injured in El Paso hy stray bullets. One child. Luis Chavez. 6. was shot tl.rough the stomach, while at play near his home at the river side. Lydia Rodarte, 2. was critically wounded when a bullet struck her in tiie head. I The unidentified man was wounded I nearby. Neither js expected to live. Other bullets coming from Juarez ! smashed windows and clattered on walls in the center of the El Paso I business district.* A window on the j thirteenth floor of the First National ! bank building was broken. W’indj shields on several automobiles were shattered while one splintered a tree in San Jacinto plaza, more than a mile from the battle scene. A woman I sitting on a bench narrowly missed being struck The rebels advanced, on Juarez after a night of waiting and braved the government's deatli-deallng machine guns by entering the »treets of the city. The rebel advance was from every point of lhe compass, drawing t> line of fire around the hapless loyalties. North, of the city, parlies of rebels maneuvered into position and barricaded themselves behind irrigation earth works before launching their part of the assault. Residents of Juarez, who ut first tied to the shelter of their homes, took the fighting nonchalantly as the battle of machine guns and rifles continued. A bit of irony was added to the confused scene when a milkman made his deliveries and a kindling peddler continued at his trade. Housewives swept their doorsteps and chatted about the battle, seemingly unawate of the dangers of strav (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) OHIO IS SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE Slight Tremor Rumbles Through Western Part Os State Early Today Columbus. Ohio, March 8 —(U.R)— Slight earthquake hut of sufficient intensity to arouse hundreds of tiersons, rumbled through western Ohio shortly after 3 A. M. today The temblor centered at Bellefontaine and Sidney, Ohio, where several houses were loosened from their foundations, windows wefie broken and sleepers were tossed from their beds. The tremors apparently receded near the Indiana State line Slight damage was reported and residents in a majority of the towns s'liaken. believed a distant explosion had caused the tremors. Cities shaken included Cincinnati, Hamilton, Oxford, Sidney, Piqua. Bellfontaine, Dayton, Wapakoneta, Lima, and intermediate villages. Slight Trembling At Richmond Richmond, lad., Mar. B.—(U.R) —A slight trembling of the earth was t noted here early today by a few resi- . dents. It was believed to have been the same quake recorded in western .> Ohio, and probably the farthest point ? west at which the disturbance was noted.

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