Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1929 — Page 1

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former INDIANA JUL IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Mnvol Crosson, Born ini Warsaw. Falk to Her Death in Arizona WAS CONTESTANT " IN AIR DERBY| Wellton. Ariz., Aug. 20. <U.R) H1( . | M)( |v <>f Marvel Crosson, | cnlrout in the woman’s air; | rr | )V was found in the desert , brush'near here "W ! . Dbme was reported to hay i hurtled to earth in a tad spin! hie vesleniav. .... , I \ searching party, which had | went the night heating through’rush mon than 10 feet high, report„l the discovery of Miss Crosson's hxlv to the sheriff’s office. ( It was believed that her parachute had failed to function or that she had "est the plane too late to permit it to open. The body, searchers said, struck th" ground with such force as to make it almost unrecognizable. The plane was demolished. Miss Crosson had left San Bernardino, first overnight control of the competition, early yesterday morning. She pissed over Calexico, t alif., as required, ami headed toward Phoenix, Ariz.. second overnight stop. Ranchers near Wellton reported ieeng a plane drop into the brush near the Gila river bed. When Miss Crosson failed to reach Phoenix a search was started. The wildness of the country where she was repor ®d down made pro-1 press difficult. The plane and Miss Crosson’s body were in a tavine near the Gila river bed. The searching parties had to batter: their way through thick underbrush J <-( arrow weed and mesquite trees to : reach the wreck. The plane was so badly wrecked | as to preclude any attemp". to determine the c ause of its failure. It was expected, however, that I authorities at San Bernardino would I be asked to investigate. As soon as a wagon can force its | way to the spot where Miss Crosson , crashed, her body will be brought here and then sent to Yuma. Ariz. Miss Crosson was born in Warsaw. I Ind. on April 27. 1904. Her father is Eslqr E. Crosson and her mother was christened Elizabeth Wynant. Marvel has an older brother, Joseph, and a younger sister. Zelma. The three children were reared on a ranch and attended a grade school near Minneapolis. Kas. Marvel was graduated from the Ixigan county high school in Sterling. Colo. While still a child, she was fascinated with the accomplishments, of a barnstorming aviator named McMullen. who flew' in an old-style ‘Pusher’ a rplane at the fair in Sterling. In 1922. tite family moved to San Diego. Calif., and the many airplanes oper(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —o_ DECATUR MEETS REQUIREMENTS tower Insurance Rate is Anticipated— Inspector Visits the City W. p. McGuire, engineer of the Indiana Inspection Bureau was in De,a,Ur making in inspection of the wat- *“! hydrants and of the sprinkling sys•'•n in the Schafer Company’s buildings. A test of the water pressure was made by Mr. McGuire and this was tound satisfactory. The water pumps at the City Wat®r works plant were also inspected n, l owe new pressure pump was recommended by the bureau engineer. the city has practically conformed n all the requests of the Indiana Hl Pection Bureau in connection with Ruting a lower genetai insurance te foi the city and McGuire stated nat the new tariff lists would probab y contain the lower rate for Decatur. e ®atur has been in class four and aer the new rating will be in class lnree and one-half. Deeatur has ample fire fighting equipment and sufficient ieserve watsupply at the water woiks in case w Uti ’ n th® lasl few yeers the . ’ hydra,lts have been renewed •»n<l repaired.

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r Hostess II ft 1 5 KX ’ ■Kt *zf*- > r Ssc s|k <t <5 •>» aNH ,-r -■ — - i Miss Alice Davis, daughter of | Dwight M. Davis, new governor-gen-era! of the beautiful Maiacanang pal|ace in Manila. Miss Davis will act las official hostess for her father. SENATORS FORM NEW COALITION (Western Farm Leaders Join With Democrats to Beat New Tariff Bill Washington, Aug. 20—(UP) —A natural coalition of western farm senators and Democrats was in process of so; mation in the senate today with the common interest of controlling a senate majority to defeat the republican tariff bill. Promise of some success for the movement was offered in statements from both obpecting factions, commenting upon the new rates proposed by the senate finance committee. Similar p.oposals came from Sen. Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma Democrat, and senator Borah, Idaho, leading republican campaigner 'List fall, who now is protesting against inclusion I of general industrial increases in the J farm relief tariff bill. Thomas announced he would Introduce Sept. 4 a resolu'icn designed to strike out all of the bill save the increased duties on agriI cultural and related products. As author cf the resolution of similar import. defeated by the senate in June by only a single vote margin. Borah endorsed the move. He told - callers he believed the patty was ■ duty bound to confine tariff revision • to agricultme because farm relief in a • new tariff bill was uppermost during - the debate in the last presidential campaign while no suggestion was made ’ of any proposal for further industrial ’ rises. — o—- . Peter Everett Arrested Peter Everett was arraigned in the I court of Justice A. C. Butcher this as . ternoon on a charge of obstructing le- , gal process. Everett refused to plead and was committed to the Adams coun- ’ ty jail on default of S4OO bond. His 'rial was set for Sept. 12. C “> . MAKE CALL TO WINCHESTER The undertaking concern of Lobenstine, Maynard and Hower was callj ed to Winchester Monday afternoon . to take charge of the funeral of Mrs. . Harry Potts, who died Monday at 3 Winchester hospital. Mr. Maynard 1 formerly conducted a funeral parlor in Winchester.

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BORDER FIGHTS 1 ARE REPORTED : I V China and Russia Leaders 1 Concentrate Forces on Manchurian Border New York. Aug. 20.— (U.R) — Reporta from the far east today indicated that | frequent ilash't continued to take 1 place between the Soviet and Chinese 1 troops which are concentrated along he Manthrian border. Dispatches from Manchnli, western-1 most end of th’ ( hlnese eastern railway. said an extensive • force of 1 Soviet troops invaded Manchurian territory near the town of Dalainor and retreated after a three-hour engagemen' in which the Chinese forcements which had been rushed from Hailar had "behaved brilliantly." Intermittent firing in the vicinity of Dalainor had been reported throughout reports that Soviet troops had crossed the Manchurian border. The ministry said, however, that these incursions were only for the purpose of pursuing attacked and that the instances of these incursions were isolated. The Soviet government warned China through I<he German embassy that the responsibility for further complications would rest entirely with the Chinese government. An official announcement at Harbin said that several clashes took place between border patrols, but that the red—army troops did not occupy Chinese soil and that after raiding border towns the Russians retired behind 1 heir own frontier. — o Sun God Continues On Long Endurance Flight Miles City, Mont.. Aug. 20. —(U.R) — The Spokane Sun God, piloted by Nick Marner and Art Walker, was refueled at dawn today and left shortly after 5 a. ni. to continue its nons’op transcontinental flight to Spokane. Gasoline and oil were lowered to the Sun God in cans from a plane manned by Frank Wiley and Tom Mathews, local fliers. Their breakfast was lowered to them on the end of a rope. o Murphv is High Priest of Royal Arch Masons Vincennes. Ind . Aug. 20—(UP)—U S. Murphy is the new grand high priest of St. Andrews Indiana chapter Royal Arch Masons. He was elected at the closing session of the 27th annual convention here. Other officeis are Albert Tawkins, Marion, deputy high priest; C. H. Cayhert. Indianapolis, secretary, and H. C. Coker. South Bend, treasuier. CONDUCT SEARCH FOR WIFE KILLER Ogden Wheatfield, 24, Escapes Through Crowd With Aid of Shotgun Terre Haute. Ind., Aug. 20. —(U.R) ■ A widespread seal ch for Ogden Whitfield, 54. Wheatfield, former Terre > Haute man, was continued today by ■ local police. Whitfield shot his wife to death near Danville last Friday and escapi ed through an angry crowd by threat- . en’ng them with the shotgun he had I used. „ i Previous threats made by Whitfield i against lives of his two sons, James, i 15, and Kenneth, 19, have led to ex- : traordinary precautions to guard • them. Whitfield also had threatened ! to commit suicide. I A search of the Wabash river bottoms failed to reveal trace of Whitfield or his body, as also did a reconnoitering trip in Taylorville, river subui b of Terre Haute, and Whit- > comb Heights. Tips had been received that he might be found in one of . those towns. ! <> Girl Injured When Cap Is Struck With Rock English, Ind.. Aug. 20.—U.R)—Injuries which may leave Violet Gilliland, 8. blind and deformed for life. ' were suffered when she struck a dyn--1 amite cap found at the home of her • uncle. Dick Longest. Violet placed I the cap cu a rock and struck it with 1 another rock. Seven children who r witnessed the tragedy escaped injury.

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Funeral Services Held 11 For Miss Maria Moser I ITincial services were held Monday afternoon for Miss Maria Moaer. 77. ot French township, who died last Saturday nftet several months illness. Mis Moser died at the home of her half-brother. Peter Neuhaiiser. I Maria Moser was the daughter of Mr. and Mra. Abraham Moser. She was hot n in French township in 1852. and lived her entire life on the farm where she died. Surviving besides the half-brother is a half-sister, Mrs. I Katie Schindler. Burial was made a l , i the cemetery of the Defenseless f Mennonite church, west of Berne. o MRS. WILEBRANDT r SUED FOR LIBEL I Former Assistant AttorneyGeneral Defendant in Lihel Suit St. Louis. Aug. 20.—(U.R)—The sl.OCO.OOO libel suit against Mrs. Mabel Walker W llebrandt, former IT. S. assistant a torney general and current news features company, tiled here yesterday by Gus O. Nations, foimer chief of the federal prohibition enforcement in the St. Louis district will be filed in duplicate in Wrshington. 1). C„ Nation’s indicated today. The petition asks $500,000 actual and $500,000 punitive damages growng out of a series of articles written by Mrs. Willebrandt on prohibi'ion enforcement now being publish’d in serial form by several newspaper s. Nations has moved to garnishee funds due Mrs. Willebrandt by tho St. Ixuiis Post-Dispatch which publishe the articles headed, “The In- ; side of Prohibition. ’’ The plaintiff, who acts as his own attorney, declared ‘‘his excellent reputation and wide acquaintanceship during his two and one-half years of office and afterward were materially damaged" by the defendant s first article published Aug. 13. in which she wrote she “had to fight the Anti-Saloon League to remove a popular agent.” Nations said he believed the popular agent was himself. Toscin Boy Returns From Trip With Amputated Foot Lavere. son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sowaids of Tocsin, arrived home Friday evening from Enid. Oklahoma, where he has been confined in a hospital. Lavere left last fall with another boy for the west. They spent the win'er in Colorado and Kansas and this summer they have traveled over several of the western states. On July 22 they were hit by a train at Enid, Oklahoma. Lavere’s foot i was badly cut and after three days | gangreen set in and it was necessary I to amputate just above the ankle. The other youth had all his ribs on his light side caved in and was in a serious condition for sometime. 0 _ September 2 Designated as Labor Day by Governor Indianapolis. Aug. 20 —(UP) — Praising labor as the greatest blessing bestowed upon humanity Gov. Harry G. Leslie has issued a prcclamation setting Sept. 2 as Labor day. GIRL RECEIVES PAINFUL BURNS Alice Tumbleson, 4, Places 1 Celluloid Comb in Chimney of Oil Lamp Alice Jeanette Tumbleson four-year • old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest . Tumbleson of north of Decatur, was . painfully burned last evening when a • celluloid comb with which she was playing caught fire. Her hand was seriously burned, and her hair was singed. The child, together with her sis’er, Norma Joan. i was playing “beaty parlor" in the living room cf the Tumbleson home. • when she thoughtlessly put the comb - in the lamp chimney. It ignited im- , mediately and the child was burned - before the mother, who was the only r other occupant of the parlor, could 1 snatch the comh away from her. i The child’s burns ate better today, > but she is carrying her arm iq a ban- - dage and it will be some time before the burns will be healed.

GRAF ZEPPELIN READY FOR HOP Officials Plan Next Leg of World Tour — Will Start Thursday — Tokio, Aug. 20. (U.R) Refueling of | the Graf Zeppelin and retuning of i the inigh’y motors which drove her more than half way around the world began at the Kasumigaura airport today preparatory to her departuie Thursday morning on the tliird leg of her glolie-c.ircling flight— Tokio to Los Angeles across the Pacific ocean. Hans Von Schiller, pilot of the zeppelin. announced defini’ely todav that tlie start would be made at I a.m.. Thursday. The course, be said, would depend on I lie weather. Probably a circle route will be taken. The zeppelin will not puss overland before leaching San Franisco if the weather is good. Otherwise, it may turn inland at Victoria or Seattle. After a thorough inspection of the silver-gray air liner today she was found to be in excellent condition in spite of the long and exacting cruise from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Tokio. a trip which kept the huge dirigible in the air for 101 hours and 50 minutes. It was found after a careful inspection that the motors were in perfect condition after the terrific task they had performed. The reserve motor which had been shipped here by the Maybach Motor works, manufacturers of the Zeppelin's motors, would not be needed, officers of the dirigible stated today. _o World Awaits Word From Swiss Airmen New York, Aug 20 —(UP) —The silence of the broad air-reaches above the ATisntic Ocean today enshrouded the two young Swiss fliers. Oskar Kaesei and Kurt Luscher. as they supposedly flew onward from Lisbon. Portugal, to New York, bS' way of Halifax. Nothing hail been heard from the courageous youngsters —Kaeser is 22 and Luscher 21—or their plane, the Young Switzerland, since it circuled Terciera island in the az.ores at 4 P. M. (1 P. M. EST) yesterday and daited away to lhe northeast. o Ship Sinks In Storm Weathered by Zeppelin Muroran, Japan. The motor fishing boat Yushin Marti was swamped during the storm over Hokkaido which the Graf Zeppelin weathered on Monday. Eleven men were drowned. The wreckage was found today. JUDGES MEET TO SELECT NAMES — More Than 125 in Contest to Select Title for Local Sub-division More than a hundred and twentyfive suggestions of names for th|e ■ Meibeis-Nii.lick subdivision were received up to five o'clock last evening nd a committee consisting of J. \V. Meibers, J. G. Niblick. J. W. lyndall and George Q. Bruce are now going over them in efforts to select the one thev consider most atractive. 1 The winner will be announced toI morrow and receive the sum of fifteen dollars in cash, that amount now being in the safe at the Daily Democrat office awaiting the decision of the ’ judges. Mr. Biuce returned today and will hurry plans along for the opening of the big sale at which time 194 choice suites will he offered to the public at a very low price, on the dolI lar down and seventy-five cents a week , plan. There will be no taxes lor the pur1 chaser for two years and opportunity will be given every one so desiring to I own a lot in this new and be lutiful subdivision. Watch for announcements. Despondent, Kills Self ) Hammond, Ind., Aug. 20.—(U.R) —InI ablity to return to the hills of Kens tucky, which Bethel 1 sc well, caused despondecy and finally his suicide. , Sheel received a letter from home; - it augmented his homesick condition ’ and lie borrowed a revolver, with which he shot himself to death.

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Belt Saves Life tK v $ J BS ■ Motorcycle Patrolman Robert Phillips of Yonkers. N. Y.. holding the Sam Brown belt which stopped a bullet fired at him by one of five bandits he was chasing. Phillips continued tlie chase and after wounding one of the thugs, helped capture the other four.

RETURNS FROM : FOREIGN TRIP: f Miss Ruth Sunderman of Decatur Back From European Visit ( € Miss Ruth Sundermann, daughter ' of Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Sundermann, ’ returned Monday evening from an extensive tom of France. Italy, Germany ; Belgium, Holland and England. One of her interesting experiences was the climb ovei the glacier on the side of he Jungfrau. She reports that it was ouite interesting to be able to throw , snew balls in July. At Geneva she. with the others in . 1 the paity, was permitted to listen to the hearing of the League of Nations Permanent jCommitte, which was discussing the problem of an internation- , al standardised system of measurement. She visited Heidleberg dining the week ot' the German Shakespearean Play Festival which was attended I by all the notables of the German I government. The plays were held in the court of . the old castle which was once the 1 residence of the elector of tlie Palatinate. In Holland she visited some of tlie Northern Islands where the people still wear the pervincial costume of the Dutch. In England she *aw some of the nobility at Buckingham Palace , but her most interesting experience in England was attending church at i Westministre Abbey a fortnight ago, , which is probably tlie most interesting ’ chmch in the world. Miss Sunderman returned by the Northern route, leaving from Glascow, , Scotland, and coming through the ice fields during tlie night where the ship I was obliged to stop for five hours to ? wait for daylight, j The party landed in Quebec, Satur- . day afternoon and went ashore to visit I the city. Sunday morning at 6 o'clock tlie ship docked i.t Montieal. She reports that she is glad to get hack to { the States where she can speak the language with less dif'.iillty. > o t Hoosier Aviators Are After Two New Records Indianapolis, Aug. 20 —(UP) —Two new aviation records will be the goal of Lts. Walter Peck and Lawrence Genato. U. S. Army., when they take tlie Indianapolis Flamingo into the air i- next week. i- In addition to the record of more 1 than 400 hours of sustained flight i- established 'by Dile Jackson and Forrest O'Brien the Hoosiers are poin‘- ; ing a new trans-continental non-stop n round trip mark. ti The plane in which the flight is to be made is expected here.

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MURDERER OF I THEORA HIX IS DENIED RETRIAL Enters Death Row Fifteen Minutes After Sentence is Formally Given WILL DIE BY ELECTROCUTION I Columbus, 0., Auj’. 20. —<U.R) — I’lie f»ates of the state penitenlitirv swung shut behind Dr. James Howard Snook today, 15 minutes after he had been sentenced to death for lhe murder of Theora Hix. The iormer university professor. American pistol chainnion and chib man was assigned number 60636 and a few moments la’er was locked in death row where four other men are awaiting execution. The death sentence was formally I imposed today, and Nov. 29. the day after Thanksgiving, was fixed as the late for his execution. Sentence was pronounced by Judge Henry 1.. Scarlett after the juris 1 overruled a motion for new trial. Tlie motion alleged, among other things, that the jury which convicted Snook last week "was actuated by 1 ‘ he spirit of the mob.” e Dr. Snook was calm. !’ "Stand up!" said the court. 8 Snook arose and faced the court, il He was dressed immaculately. f The court room was crowded and r the spectators rose in their seats to see him.

“Have you anything to say as to why sentence should not be pa-eed upon you?" the judge asked. ‘‘No sir. your honor." said Snook in low. but distinct tone. "It is then the duty of the court." said Judge Scarlett, "in view of the verdict of the jury anil under the law for such cases made and provided, to impose the following sentence upon von: “I sentence you to die on the 29th of November (Friday) by means of electric current passed through the body of sufficient intensity to cause and pass through your body until you are dead." o Man Kills Two, Then Ends His Own Life South Bend. Ind.. Aug. 20 —(UP) — James O. Ashcraft. 30, who shot to death his wife. Sarah. 26. and his mother-in-law. Mrs. Grova Bean, 48. about 10:30 last night, died in St. Joseph's hospital at 2:30 this morning. Ashcraft's death-leaves font little children, ranging in age from two to eight years, orphans. The shooting came after a family quarrel that started when Ashcraft pio’ested becau.-e his wife insisted upon working in a factory, according to coroner W. S. Mikerch. KIRKLAND VOTES AGAINST TENURE Residents Favor Release of Teachers After Fifth Year in Township Kirkland township residents voted 206-19 against retaining teachers the sixth year, and thereby making their position secure for life under the state teachers' tenure law. according to the return of votes filed by the advisor} - board with Charles Arnold, trustee of the township, today. The voting was done the last several days, and solicitors called on the various residents in order to obtain the consensus of opinion. The tn ipority favored releasing all teachers of the township aftei they had taught for a pel iod of five years, and the result of the balloting will be in effect for two years. Only one teacher is affected this year by the voting, it was stated this morning by Mr. Arnold. Rollo Houck, who had been hired io teach at Peterson school this year, will lie asked to ihsign. following the billeting and Miss Nellie McGath. formerly a teacher in this city, Already has been employed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Arnold stated that before any action was taken concerning the tenure law, he wanted the opinion of all his constituents. so a complete canvass of the township was made.

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