Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1929 — Page 1

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HIM NOT TO resortto war UNLESS INVADED Both China And Russia \nree To Abide By Kellogg Peace Pact i s. (JETS CREDIT FOR AVERTING WAR i Shanghai, China, July 23. (UW- The Chinese government announced today it would not ,r o to war unless invaded. . The declaration was made m a circular telegram from Nan king, seat of the national gov-j ■Krnment, to military and civil ofall through China. It. was isstiHl undei institutions of General Chijng Kai-Shek, head of the go\ennnent. The telegram said: “Unless the Soviet government eon fronts as with force, we wil no-t remrt to war." Reiterating the government's policy of maintaining peace, the telegram said no official report of a clash between Chinese and Russian troops had been received so far from Manchurian authorities. London, July 23—,(UP)—Russia has proposed the creation of a committee at Harbin to settle the Manchurian dispute with China immediately in the interests of railway traffic between Europe and the far East an exchange ‘tflepaph dispatch from Riga said today The proposal was made in reply to the latest Chinese note on the dispute, the dispatch said. Washington. July 23. —(U.R) —“Shirt sleeve” diplomacy, without a, single formal note of impressive phraseology, was credited today with, accoa*lihshmg the first notable achievement of the Hoover administration in the realm of world affairs, —the pledges of China and Russia not to wage war over the Chinese eastern j railroad. Now that the lawyer-diplomat, Secretary of State Stimson. has obtained these pledges to abide by the KelloggBriand renunciation of war pact, after a 5-dav series of aeross-the-tabie conversations, attention turned today to possibilities for settling the railroad controversy. To Await Invitation The United States may he called Won to help settle the Russo-Chinese differences, but Stimson Is determined to make no move in that direction unless and until this government’s good offices are sought tty both nations. The threat of hostilities was believed ended by the Kellogg pact negotiations. Whether the pledges of peace can be credited directly to the peace treaty, or whether it is true that both nations, dreading war, v »re merely bluffing, the assurances of Russia and China clear the atmosphere tremendously for President Hoover’s proclamation of the pact’s effectiveness tomorrow noon. Except for this Manchuria dispute, the world now i s free of “wars and only a few relatively- minor international dis-if-ntes are menacing mankind. Stimson circumvented the difficulty raised by United Stated non-recogni-llon Russia by sending messages to Moscow through French AmbassaR or I laukiel and Foreign Minister wiand of France. This action raises „ T ,res umption of de facto recognii°. n ” ftusate by the United States, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ken house tobeenlarged JWtur Floral Company To Erect Addition To Plant Soon 0f the Floral com--sion " lans f <»' ‘he on Nutlma,/ 11 a ' <lltlon t 0 ‘Heir plant he erectw) 81 “T" 16 ’ The addition will m lt : U,e weßt the prewill be ins,T' A new !al 'ge boiler sled. ' ant * the office remodGeorge \y q, Wetheniemho and 3on - Donald Mr ’Stump ha ß be°e U ! e firm ' The eUtel“pm for been ‘he floral busier from Pent coming to Decani start ou nf yearsl ago - Work la ige brick si, mV he urtH'tion soon. A ed «Crrw taCklßbeil^^-

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Music Dowager and Her Proteges Madame Sehumann-Heink returning to Europe with three young American singe-s. loft to right. Miss Ellen Weekes of New York, Miss Grace Hopkins of Kanst- City, Mo., and Mise Mary Rose Barrons of. Kansas City, Mo. She will launch them on their careers in German opera houses. Two of tite 1 diva's grandchildren. Charlotte Guy, left inset, and Barbara Sehumann-Heink right inset, accompanied the gtoup. Mike Writes Mr. Hoover For Job On Farm “Bored”

Washington July 23 —(U.R) —A request to President Hoover tor a job on the farm board has just been received on a postcard, addressed to “The state department, United States government.” The letter with its BREMEN SETS 1 NEW RECORD New German Liner Crosses Atlantic Ocean In Less Than Five Days 000-ton North German liner Bremen, representing Germany’s latest bid for recovery of commercial oceanic supremacy lost during the World war, has opened new possibilities for rapid passenger anti mail service to and from Europe. The Bremen has cut the Atlantic crossing time to less than five days, thereby wresting the mythical blue pennant of ocean speed from the Cunarder Maretania. For mail its ship to shore airplane service will be able to reduce the crossing time by approximately 18 hours. The exact time to be saved in delivery of mail ahead of the ship will be determined by the distance from short that the Keinkel seaplane is catapulted from the liner’s deck. Pacific coast passengers utilizing train-plane service which crosses the continent in 72 hours could travel to-Europe in approximately eight days if all connections were made without delay. Mail from California—or passengers if they chose the all-air cross-contin-ent trip—would reach Europe even in a shorter time, eliminating almost a full day. The Bremen in making the trip in approximately 186 hours, took the speed record the Mauretania had held since 1924. The new official time is 4 days, 17 hours and 42 minutes. A colorful and noisy demonstration greeted the Bremen yesterday after her triumphant sprint across 3,157 nautical miles from Cherbourg. Girl Drowns In Pit; Two Young Men Held % Wincennes, Ind., July 23. — (U.R) Two young men today were under arrest at Lawrenceville, 111., near here, pending investigation into the death of Edith Marie Seward, 13, who drowned in a gravel pit allegedly after a drinking party. The arrested youths, Oscar Stone, 19, and Bert Latson, 17, were alleged to have been with the Seward girl and her sister, Lilie Mae, at tlie pit. Police charged that all had been drinking prior to the drowning. — o— — INSTALLING ELECTRIC CHAIR Santa Fe, N. M., July 23—(UP)— Death by electrocution will he in store for New Mexico murderers in a few more weeks. An electric chair is being installed at the slate penitentiary here and will be ready for operation eariy in August,

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- original spelling follows: ’ anderson, s. c. julte 12, 1929. ( deer mr. hoover: s “i rote you a few days ago and 1 1 asked you to name me on the farm ■ | relief bored, but have heard nothing | from you. what’s the matter? is you sick? if there ain’t no chance Ito get me on this cotton end of ths ! board, how about naming me to I represent the beet farmers of the south ansoTorth. t will be glad to take the poeish at 25$ per month, provided i am allowed to peddle beef as i am now doing in connection with ! my job of kurriner. rite or foam if i can depend on yore help, or will i hatter wait 4 more years hence on al smith or owen d. young? yores trulie, mike clark, rfd.” • o Niblick Funeral Held On Monday Afternoon * Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon for Burton Niblick, son of Mr. and Mrs- John | Niblick, at his liottiH east of Decatur The Rev. Ross \V. Stoakes. pastor of I the Methodist Episcopal church, ofI ficiated. The Scottish Rite funeral rii I ’ tual was delivered- Decatur members M of the Scottish Rite acted as pal! bear'!ers. Burial was made at the Decatur ' cemetery. 1 —| o SNOOK EXPECTED i TO CHANGE STORY Accused University Professor Ejected To Repu--1 diate Murder Confession t By Morris Haven Tracy, UP Staff Correspondent ' Columbus, 0., July 23. —(U.R) —There was every indication today that Dr. ' James Henry Snook, smug, middleaged professor of horse medicine at 1 Ohio State university, who goes on trial tomorrow for the murder of Theora Hix. 24-year-old co-ed at the university, would repudiate his confession. The confession was made three days after Dr. Snook’s arrest and at the close of some 20 hours of questioning. - In it he admitted he had killed Miss . Hix. It described how she had been struck with -a hammer and then, as , she lay on the ground moaning, her . throat was cut “because 1 felt sorry for her.’’ Later in an interview with newspapermen he went over the same account covered in the confession. But today it was understood that defense would make every effort, to exclude the purported confession from the trial on the grounds that it was under duress. Failing in that, it was reported thUt Dr. Snook himself would testify he had no memory of the basic facts contained in the confession and that his attorneys would argue that his forgetfulness was actually a part of the emotional insanity from which they claim he suffered on the night of Miss Hix’ murder. |

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| Boy Saves Pennies For 5 Years To Buy Pony: Killed On First Ride Chicago, July 23- (UP) —After saving his pennies for five years Cyril Watson, 11, realised his life’s ambition and bought a Shetland pony. On his fli'sst rifle last night the animal trampled him to death when It became frightened by a cat. BANKER PLEADS | GUILTY TO FRAUD James Rae Clarke Shoulders Blame For Failure Os Biff New York Bank New York, July 23.— (U.R) —Full blame for the $5,000,000 failure of the private banking firm of Clarke Brothers was shouldered today by Janies Rae Clarke, senior partner, when he pleaded guilty to indictments in both federal and general sessions courts. The federal court indictments charged him witli using the mails to defraud. Tltose in general sessions alleged that he had accepted deposits after he knew the bank to lie insolvent. None of the other three partners was with Clarke when lie appeared in federal court. He had been sehed- • tiled to go on trial oilay in general sessions with his federal court appearance set for next Monday. U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle said that the indictment- to which Clarke pleaded guilty contained 12 counts on specific instances of using the mails to defraud and one of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud, for which the total possible prison term is 62 years. POSSE SEEKS THREE YOUTHS # | — Trio Alleged To Have Taken Teacher From School And Assaulted Her Monticello, Ky., July 23.— (U.R) -A posse of county officers and a mob of enraged citizens spread out through the Cumberland foot hills, near the Tennessee state line today, seeking three youths who invaded the Slick Rock school yesterday, took Ruby Taylor, the 19-year-old teacher into a glade, stripped her clothing from her and assaulted her. The youths—Sain Abbott, 20, his brother, Otto, 16, and a cousin. Blueford Abbott, 2-1. are believed to have fled into Tennessee. According to advices telephoned to Monticello, the youths went to the school yesterday after a drinking j bout, terrified Miss Taylor’s class of summer pupils and finally forced them to flee. Miss Taylor remonstrated and wes forced to accompany the hoys into the woods, where her clothing was torn from her. She was reported in a serious condition today. Threats of lynching were heard on every side. Slick Rock is an isolated village in |he rolling foot hills 15 miles south of here. o Youth Breaks Neck In Dive Into Shallow Water Celina, Ohio, July 23 —Vernon Goodard, 18, of Urbana. Illinois, suffered a broken neck when he dived into shallow water at Edgewater park here, Sunday. The young man is a patient at the Otis hospital here, where physicians believe be will recover. Young Goodart, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Goodart, and a friend, Chester Logan, wore cn route home from Niagara Falls and had stopped off at CoUna to spend the day. Request Resignation Os Prohibition Party Head Indianapolis, July 23—(UP) — The Indiana state prohibition executive committee, in an adopted resolution, requested resignation of 1). Leigh Colvin, New York, National chairman of the prohibition party. “He failed to preserve the identity of the prohibition party in the las; presidential election’’ the resolution said. District chairman were elected and a resolution adopted favoring the placing on national, state and county tickI ets in elections.

BONDS SELL AT I SMALL PREMIUM Three Issues Os Adams County Road Bonds Are Sold Here Today Dullness In the bond market was reflected in the sale o f three sets of j .(flams county road ’ bonds today, when premiums of only $2 and $1.23 I were paid for -the issues. The bonds Isold were the McCone road in French j township, to tite Bank of Berne, premium, *2: on the Hendricks road, Wabash township, to the First i National Bank. Decatur, premium,! $1.23; on the Hockemyer and Fulirman road. Root and Preble townships 1 to First National Bank, of Decatur, < premium $1.23. An Indianapolis bank submitted an offer, no premium being offered on anv one of the issues. The bonds on tite McCune road were for $2,400; on tite Hendricks, $7,120 and on the Hockemyer - Fuhrman, $4,880. The bonds will be printed ns soon as transcripts are approved. oTwo Bobo Men Face Liquor Law Charges William Banner and Frank Swank. I of Bobo, were arrested Monday after- 1 noon by Sheriff Hurl Hollingsworth j and Deputy Sheriff Dallas Hower on affidavits filed in Mayor's court | Charging violation of the prohibition law. Both men were released on bond and will stand trial in Mayor George Krlck’s court at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The men were alleged in the affidavit to have violated the law on or about July 12. o Plan Merger To Stimulate Vaudeville Los Angeles. July 23i— (UP) —Negotiations are under way for a met get' tii Railio-Keiili-Orpheum and the Al- | exander Pantages vaudeville circuits, 1 according to announcement by Joseph Plunket, general manager for the R j K. G. Plunkett predicted the “Talkies'' | would stimulate vaudeville and bring | it out of its present slump. Question Legality Os Phone Company Practice Richmond. Ind , July 23 — (UP) —The Indiana Public Service commission will ask Attorney General Janie M. Ogden sot an opinion on legality of a state wide practice of telephone companies in collection of a month's rental in advance, John McCardle, chairman of the commission, said here. McCardle disclosed intention of settling the matter while conducting a hearing relative to new collection rules for the Richmond Home Telephone company, involving the pay-in-advance practice. He said this is the first time the matter has been put to a test. RUM SMUGGLERS 1 ARE SHOT DOWN U.S. Border Patrolmen Rout Two Smuggling Gangs Along Mexican Line El Paso. Tex., July 23. — (U.R)— United States border patrolmen conducting an extensive drive against t uni runners, last night and early today routed two smuggling gangs, killed two rum runners, wounded three and arrested six men. The smugglers took their dead and wounded back to Mexico. Two passenger ears, three automobile trucks and 200 gallons of liquor were captured. The officials believe evidence obtained front the arrested men will lead to later arrests of ring leaders in El Paso and break the backbone of one of the best organized ruin rings in the history of this, section of tite border. The first clash occurred last night on the border about a mile from the El Paso city limits. Another took place this morning. From the prisoners, the officers learned that the smugglers suffered two dead and three wounded in the first encounter. The smugglers rushed their dead and wounded back to Mexico while the fighting continued. — o PROPOSAL IS REJECTED London, July 23—(UP) —The idea of an “Economic United States of Europe”, to fight high American tariffs was tejected by the government in the house of commons today.

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Snook Trial Judge | —« jp Judge Henry Scarlett, of Columbus, j Ohio, will preside at the trial of i Professor James H. Snook, college professor, who is on trial for the murder of Tlteora Hix, college co-ed, whose brutally Ijeaten body was found on a shooting range near Columbus recently. EXAMINATION TO BE HELD HERE High School Equivalency Examination To Be Held Saturday A high school equivalency examination will lie held in this city Saturday, under the supervision ot Clifton E Striker, county superintendent of schools. Sevetal persons are planning to take the test, it is said. The examination is given for persons who have been attending a non commissioned high school or who have taken most of the high school work required for a diploma and who wish to obtaiu a diploma. The questions are prepared by the state board of education and the papers will be graded by that department, if the "candidates make the required grades in the examination, diplomas will he issued to them by the state department, rather than from an individual high school. Scores Killed In Explosion Os Munitions Berlin, July 23.— (U.R) —A secret store of munitions exploded today at Rouriievo, Bulgaria, a dispatch front Sofia said. One hundred bodies had been recovered and it was estimated many more persons were dead or injured, the dispatch said. Five Russians Plan Flight To United States Washington, July 23. — (U.R) — Five Russians are to leave Moscow, Aug. 1, in a large plane, the “Land of Soviets", for a flight across the wide expanses of Asia and Noi lit America to the United States, the United Press has learned exclusively. Arrangement for passports, fuel, weather reports, and other necessities for long distance flying already have been concluded wilh the state, navy and commerce departments of the American government. Passports for the fliers wete visaed by an American consul in Berlin. Redecorating Office Os County Treasurer i Work bus started on the painting I and redecorating of the county treasurer’s office in the court house. All the paper has been taken off the walls and the room will be painted. Man Burned By Acid Which Fell From Plane Homestead, la.. July 23. — (U.R) — James Cooney, 12, was suffering from critical burns here today as the result of being splashed with acid which fell from an airplane. It was believed the machine’s battery boiled over. OFFER POLICE PROTECTION Indianapolis, July 23-(UP) —Police protection will be given property of Indianapolis residents on vacation, if they will inform the department of their departure and return dates, Claude M. Worley, police chief, announced. Worley believes property losses will be greatly reduced hv this expedient.

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ST. LOUIS FLIERS ARE STILL ALOFT AFTER 246 HOURS Dale Jackson And Forrest O’Brien Continues Rec-ord-Making Flight OLD RECORD PASSED AT 2:00 P. M. TODAY SI. Louis, July 23.-(U.R) The St. Louis Robin equalled the world refuelling endurance flight record of 210 hours 13 minutes-32 seconds a! 2:00:32 p.m., central time, today, it lias been aloft continuously since 7:17 a.m., July 13. Right at the moment Dale | Jackson and Forrest O’Brine flew their plane to the record mark, they were estimated to be 4,000 feet over Lambcrt-St. Louis field, almost out of sight. Despite an early morning "oil scare’’ nothing serious has occurred to mar the prospects of a record, Maj. William B. Robertson, sponsor of tlm flight, told the United Press. “As a matter of fact 1 expect they’l! stay up there until Friday a: least," Robertson said after Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine, pilots of the craft, had reported impaired vision because of oil. “That oil was fly-oft matter from applications they have made to the motor and is in no way indicative of anything wrong." Support for the contention that nothing was wrong wasg iven tty S. K. Prince, technical expert of the company which built the plane's “Challenger motor," who asserted in all probability it was ho: oil or grease blown off the motor by the propelloi. Prince said the fivers easily could overcome the difficulty by flying into cooler levels and staying there, and that's just what Jackson and O’Brine did. St. Louis, Mo., July 23. — (U.R) —A new world record for sustained flight was apparently within he grasp of Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine at 1:17 p. m. c.s.t. when they attained 248 hours aloft in their faithful St. Louis-Robin monoplane. The first indication of weakening on the part of the plane came .oday when Jackson reported in a note that oil was “coming out of the pushrod.” “We can't see,” lie said, asking that a supply of rags be sent up at once. When the request was reported, the plane was within six hours of a new record, and Jackson said “here's hop ing we can last, it." Its air-cooled, staggered-cylinder challenger motor purred perfectly under ideal. weather conditions, steadily shaving away the 1 remaining hour, 43 minutes, 32 seconds to a new mark, which will he reached at 3:00:32 p. m.today. One hour before that time, if all goes well, they will equal the record of 246 hours, 43 minutes, 32 seconds established July 12 at Culver City, Calif., by Mendell and Reinhart in the “Angeleno." The exact hour is required by aeronautical laws governing such flights. St. Louis appeared so sure of success, however, that big things were planned in celebration. Led by a squadron of airplanes, the St. LouisRobin planned to tty high above the Mississippi between 2 and 3 p. m., and the natives were ready to toot the municipal horn, to say nothing of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) E.F.SCHLEE, NOTED AVIATOR, INJURED President Os Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp., Struck By Propeller Detroit, Mich.. July 23.— (U.R) Edward F. Schlee, president of the Schlee-Brock Aircraft. Corp., was seriously injured at the Detroit City airport here today when he was struck by a propeller as he was attempting to remove the blocks from the wheels of an airplane lie and twr companions were to fly to Wausau, Wis., on a business trip. Schlee achieved international prominence in aviation when he flew with William S. Brock from Detroit to Tokio in the “Pride of Detroit.” He suffered a fractured skull and injured right arm.

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