Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1929 — Page 1

•• WEATHER pair tocMOht and Saturday, except com rwhat unsettled Saturday •" north , po.tlon. Warmer toniflht.

FALL JURY RETURNS GUILTY VERDICT

LPCJIMOOSE LODGE PLANS DECREE WORK l iffv Candidates To Be Received Sunday P. M. In Honor Os Founder iarge CROWD IS EXPECTED [■’ sty candidates will be admit ?d to membership in the I’ . tur lodge of Loyal Order of M<u ;e Sunday afternoon as a t-q t <>f the James J. Davis birthd-\ anniversary observance, it w i- announced today by Joseph B ennan. dictator of the local I „i- . James J. Davis, founder (l i' the Moose order has been ai<j ,jy engaged in the lodge work for many years and initiatory classes throughout the United States will be admit.ed to membership Sunday in his honor. I A great time is being planned by local MoOse. The initiation services will be held at the K. of C. hall in this c-fy. one to the lack of room for such <i 1 i _e class at the Moose home. All candidates and lodge members will nice at the Moose home Sunday at' tern, on at 2 o'clock and will proceed to the K. of hall where the ceremony "ill be conducted. The Van Wert. Ohio Moose'degree [ n mi will present the initiatory work ] to I" Decatur class, and following the ( initiation Jam-s Ford, of Fort Wayne ■ M cb.iven regent, will deliver an i a Id: ‘ss. A large crowd is expected 1 and several neighboring ledges have signif i d th.dr intention of sending delegations to the local cel.ebra.lon. At 6 o'clock the local iW. O. M. L ■ will serve a s.i(*per and all members of 1 the lodge are invited. The local lodge I boasts the largest membership of any I lodge in Decatur and Mi Brantian announced today that several more classes would be admitted during the ' next year. The Moose home is located on Third i street in this city, The organization is one of the rncst active of any of the I loc il lodges and has enjoyed a constant j I growth the last several years. I All members of the local lodge and members of other Moose lodges, who are here temporarily ate coidially invited to the Sunday anniversary program. i NEW DISTRICT MANAGER NAMED _ I Henry Bucher To Be Gas Supervisor; Mulholland Gets Advancement (Special to the Democrat) Fort Wayne, Oct. 25—Supervision of gas service for Decatur residents has been placed under control of a new executive in Fort Wayne, according to an announcement made here by Robert M. Feustel, president of the Instill Utiltities of Indiana. Henry Butcher, who has been manager of the railways of the Indiana Service corporation hate for the lasi six years, lias been made district manager in charge of all operations of the Indiana Service corporation and the Northern Indiana Public Service company. He will be in charge of operations in the Fort Wayne district of the Instil pioperties which comprises the territory from the Indiana state line on the east, as fur west as Lagro from Waterloo on the north to Geneva on the south. Mr. Butcher will take over his new duties Monday. Before coming to Fort Wayne. Mr. Butcher was resident engineer for the Rapid Tiansit Lines in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been a Consultant engineer in transportation work for many years. Mr. Feustel said that co-ordination of the Indiana Service corporation anfl the Northern Indiana Public Service company operations will become effective Monday. Plans for placing the two companies under a unified management were announced some time ago, when all the Insull properties were placed un<ler the general direction of Samuel Instill. Jr., of Chicago and Mr. Feustel. S. E. Mulholland, vice-president of the gas company, who has had charge of operations of the gas firm properties in Fort Wayne, will relinquish his local duties and have charge of the manufacture and transmission of gas in the entire state of Indiana for the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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>;kul Uisarinaiiirni t nney " nr- —-< £ / ™ IK. ft A < -s’ i 4 WrlPvWI W trlW Among those who will represent the United States in the Five Power naval conference to be held in London, England, next January, are Senator David Reed, of Pennsylvania (left). Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas (right > and United States Ambassador to England. Charles G. Dawes (inset).

Daladier May Form t New French Cabinet I Paris, Oct. 25-(UP) —Edouard Daladier, President of the Radical-socia-list party, called on President Gaston Doumergue today and was’asked to form a new government to succeed the resigned cabinet of Aristide Briand. ] Daladier informed ihe President he Would respond to the invitation at 3 P. M. Tomorrow. The general opinion is that he will accept. — PANTAGESWILL ■ KNOW FATE SOON C —— ( State And Defense End • Arguments With Outbursts Os Oratory Los Angeles, Oct. 25.—(U.R) —Before * nightfall, Alexander Pantages, wealthy ( theater man charged with attacking , 17 year-old Euncie Pringle, a dancer, j may know whether he must go to San t Quentin penitentiary. Attorneys for both state and de- < sense argued against compromise and 1 predicted a quick verdict, as did court- 1 room attaches. The case was expect- , ed to be given to the jury late this 1 afternoon. "Either send this man to San Quen-|! tin where he deserves to be, or sot ' him free,’’ was the plea of Chief Deputy District Attorny Robert Stewart, in his closing argument. "Restore this man to his rightful place in the community or else send him to prison,” urged defense Attorney Jerry Geisler. Following completion of final arguments for the defense today by Attorneys Joseph Ford and W. I. Gilbert, district Attorney Buron Fitts will close for the state. Superior Judge Charles Fricke indicated his f instructions to the jury would be ( brief. 1 Pantages, if convicted, may be sen- ( tenced to a year in the county jail or ( to from one to 50 years in prison. ( Stories told by the two principals formed the basis of final arguments. { Miss Pringle claimed she was attack- , ed Aug. 9 when she went to ask the t theater man to book her act. Paa- ( tages declared the young dancer dis- , arranged her clothing and his as part ( of a plot to blackmail him. “This girl was no blackmailer,” j Stewart shouted. “She went to see j Alexander Pantages and after that at- | tack she saw him again and scream- j ed: ‘There is the beast; don’t let him ( say it's a frameup.' t “It was the spontaneous cry of a lost soul. This girl has suffered pub- e licity and has been stigmatized be- ] cause she appealed to a tribunal of f justice. She never asked for money, j W e m ust accept her story.” s Then Geisler spoke for the defense i declaring the girl's story impossible. < “The district attorney didn't bring f in medical testimony,’' Geisler said, , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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MRS. COOLIDGE'S MOTHER EXPIRES Mrs. Lemira Goodhue Is Victim Os Year’s Illness Os Influenza Northampton, Mass. Oct. 25 —(UP) Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, died at the CcoleyDickinson hospital here last night, after an illness of more than 21 months. The wife of the former President was at het aged mother's bedside as she died. The Coolidge family physician. Dr. Justin E. Hayes, pronounced death due to hardening of the arteries. Mrs. Goodhue entered the hospital on December 11, 1927, suffering from an acute at:ack of influenza. Her condition gradually grew worse. Daily for the past year, Mrs. Coolidge called at the hosiptal to see her mother. The former President also made numerous visits to the institution, bearing flowers for her bedside. Mr. Coolidge, when informed of the death, was deeply grieved ano asked to be excused from discussing Mrs. Goodhue's passing. Funeral arrangements will be made late this afternoon, it was learned. WATER GIVES UP SHIP'S VICTIMS Planes Search For Bodies of Those Lost When Lake Ship Sinks Chicago, Oct. 25.—(U.R)—The old gray waters of Lake Michigan gave up their prey stubbornly today, relinquishing one by one the bodies of the more than 50 sailors who went down with the Grand Trunk Car Ferry Milwaukee. Bleak dawn saw airplanes winging above! the choppy waves through which coast guard boats plowed in the search for victims. No trace had been found of the hulk of the ferry, which was believed to have slid under in a storm Tuesday night. Five bodies, including that of Ca.pt. Robert McKay, were known to have been recovered. Others possibly had been picked up by lake craft or by landsmen along the shores where breakers/ were casting up wreckage torn from the ferry. (’oast guardsmen said they believed the Milwaukee foundered off Wind Point, a peninsula which extends seven miles into the lake three miles north of Racine, Wis. There the storm struck with the most fury. Waves crashed over the narrow neck of land, swirling over the top of a 20foot lighthouse at the end of the peninsula. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 25, 1929.

* WOMEN TO MEET All women voters of Decatur are inv ted to attend a public I meeting at Democratic headquarters at X o’clock tonight, rollowing the short addresses, re.reshinents will be served. I'< niocratic headquarters are located on the second floor of 1 tin- Daily D<-mogratic building. CROWD ATTENDS FIRST MEETING OF DEMOCRATS " “• 11 ■ More Than 150 Applaud As Speakers Recite City’s Record LADIES WILL MEET TONIGHT More than 150 local Democrats gathered at Democratic headquarters last night at Hie opening of the city campaign. It was the first public mee'ing of the campaign and much enthusiasm was demonstrated during the evening. Dr. Burt Mangold, city chairman, after outlining the program of meetings for (lie lost of the campaign presented Lewis Armstrong as chairman of the nice ing Mr. Armstrong introduced H. M. DeVoss as the first speaker of the evening. Mr. DeVoss praised the administration and warned Democrats not to succumb to unfounded stories being circu- | lated, especially among the women voters of Decatur. Reduction of light and power rates, insurance rates, ami re- , tirement of a 20-year old bond issue were stressed by the speaker. D. B. Erwin gave an interesting talk I in which he remind ~1 the voters of the efficient manner in which the city light and power plant had been conducted the last four years. He further stated that the city plant had not only been made free from all debt but that great improvements had been made. “What could they do better?, Mr. Erwin asked. “Why change 9 What do the Republicans propose." He closed by urging strict party lines stating that : results of recent elections proved that ■ the opponents always observed the strictest party lines when casting their votes. Great enthusiasm prevailed and sev I oral ether speakers were introduced ini eluding Senator S. W. Hale formerly • of Geneva but now a Decatur resident; John T. Kelly. Frank McConnell and Dick Heler. The Democratic candidates • then were introduced and each receivi ed a hearty applause. Following the speaking program a . smoker was enjoyed and plans were (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) > Q Huntington Concern Is Absorbed By Group Chicago, Oct. 25—(UP) —The Cas-well-Runyan company of Huntington. Ind., manufacturer of radio cabinets and cedar chests, has been acquired by J. W. Caswell, secretary-treasurer 1 and general manager of the CaswellI : Runyan company today. This makes the fourth unit of the new group. I which has for its aim the establish- . ment of a powerful radio parts and accessories organization of National scope. Decatur Men M ill Speak 1 At Union Chapel Rally ? _______ Rally Day will be observed at the f Union Chapel church located three 1 miles northeast of Decatur, next Sunr day, October 27. Special programs have been arranged for the morning and > evening services. Lewis Armstrong of t Decatur will be the principal speaker t at the morning session, which will beI gin at 9:15 o’clock. H. W. Thompson, , also of Decatur, will bring the message r for the evening service, which will lie held at 7:15 o’clock. Special music and . other features of entertainment will j complete the program. Everyone is 1 cordially invited to attend both serr vices. » o ’ Willie Doody Found Guilty Os Murder ’ Chicago, Oct. 25 —(U) —Willie Doo. , dy, diminutive but notorious gangster was found guilty of murdering police chief Otto k irner to death in the elec- ' trie chair. Only two hours and 20 minutes de- ’ liberation was teqnired. Doody took the verdict stoically and made no effort to commit suicide as he had declared he wojild do if found giulty.

I Painter Plunges 45 Feet To River From Scaffold

STOCKMARKET 1 GAINS STRENGTH — Prices Advance Rapidly At Opening Os Market After Thursday’s Break . - • New York, Oct. 25. —(U.R)—Traders 1 showed their confidence in the stock market at the opening gong today and were in the exchange buying bar- ‘ ' gains left from yesterday's terrific battering. Prices at the opening ranged up to 19 points above yesterday's close. The meeting of some of the great- ( est of American bankers in the offices ( of J. I’. Morgan and company yesterday and overnight optimistic statements by bankers and financiers gave , the impetus needed to pull the trend up from the chaotic law established ; yesterday. , Thomas P. Lamont started the optimistic reports yesterday and overnight there were many such reassurances in the market. John A. Topping, chairman of the Republic Iron ( and Steel company. Arthur Reynolds, Janies A. Campbell, president of the , Youngstown Sheet ami Tube company, were among those to speak favorable about business conditions. (CONTINUED* ON PAGE FIVE) TALK PLEASING TO AUDIENCE “Dusty” Miller Addresses Rotarians And Guests At Annual Ladies’ Party Wit, humor and a bright philosophy on life flowed from the lips of Thurman :'Dusty" Miller newspaper editor of Wilmington. Ohio and nationally know'n speaker at the Ladies’ night , banquet of the Decatur Rotary club held at the K. of C. hall last evening. The wives . sweethearts and other invited guests were the guests of tlie Rotarians and Mr. Miller was the prin- ■ cipal speaker of the evening. His address was one of the finest ever heard in this city. Mi. Miller, in a philosophical way. expressed a bright outlook on life and discounted the “view with alarm" attitude taken by many persons on pre sent day conditions. He stated, as one of his climaxes. ".Now tell the truth You parents don’t begin to worry about your children until they begin to do things you did when you were ■ a boy or gill. Why worry? You lived (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WOMAN'S CLUB TO GIVE PLAY I ! Dramatic Department Will Present “Little Women” November 18 ' The play. “Little Women", dramatized by Marion De Forrest from Louisa M. Alcott's world famous story of the same name, will be presented ' by a cast composed of 5 women and 7 men at the high school auditorium. > Monday November IS, under the aus ■ pices of the Dramatic Department of - the Woman's Club. > The stage, so much condemned, and I yet possessed of the opportunity to do f wonders towai d teaching life's gr -at- ■ est lessons, is to be given its one big - chance in Decatur on the night of the presentation of this play. . Practically every person has read > the story, not only once, but many I times. It is a story that meets all reI quirements, being clean and wholei some, telling its tale of sentiment in . a simple manner, imparting entertainment without offending the sense of propriety, affording amusement of n healthful kind and imparting beneficial thoughts that sends a person from the performance with a high opinion of mankind than possibly he had when . he entered. “Little Women” accoiiic pllshes all these things. t The cast, composed of some of De- ■ catur’s splfend’jd talent, is wotkting hgrd to make this play all that it is • said to he. It is being ably directed by < Miss Vertical Whalen and the support • of all the town people, who desire to • really see a worthwhile play put on in a worth while manner, is desired.

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L. M. Sheppard Has Narrow Escape From Serious Injury Here Thursday L M. Sheppard, crew manager of the men who are painting the St. Marys 1 liver bridge on Federal road 27 north of Decatur is smiling today at what he says a narrowest escape he has ever experienced. I, Sheppard was standing on a sealfold erected almost at th.' top of the liver bridge Thursday afternoon. In some manner 'he scaffold let loos? and Sheppard plunged 45 teet into the icy waters of the river. A member of the crew at the other eml of the scaffold grabbed the rope | and saved himself a plunge into the , water. The spot where Sheppaid lan I i ed head-first in the river is normally only two feet in depth and the hot- ( tom is covered with protruding rocks Recent rains however have raised thf river considerably and Sheppard stated that he barely touched bottom in his involuntary dive. As the man toppled from the scaffold he grabbed two buckets of red paint and they ( plunged into the water witn him. The men looking on helplessly saw Sheppard come to the surface, all covered with red paint and they iinme diately felt grave fear for their foreman. thinking his head had struck the ' rocky bottom of the river. Suddenly Sheppard’s arms stietched out ami he started to swim to shore. He was able to reach the north bank ! in a few minutes and emerged from the water frightened but unharmed. Today he is smiling at the incident ' and stated that he was at least one man who was thankful for the rain of the past week. Henry U. Sims Heads American Bar Association Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 25. — (U,P.)«— Henry Upson Sims, Birmingham, Ala., was elected president of (he American Bar Association today at the 52nd annual convention here. Sims succeeds Gurney E. Newlin. Los Angeles. His election was unop posed ami was made by acclamation. John H. Voorhees. Sioux Falls. S. D.. was re-elected treasurer, and William P. MacCracken Jr., Chicago, secretary. o ADAMS COUNIT WOMANEXPIRES — Mary Elizabeth Urick Os Near Monroe Dies Early Friday Morning Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Trick, 56. died at her home southeast of Monroe this morning at 4:10 o’clock. Death was due to diabetes and complications. Mrs. Urick was born in Van tWert County. Ohio January 26, 1873. a daughter of Mr. and Mis. Francis M. Elzey, who are both deceased. On February 10. 1X93 she was united in marriage to Geoige Urick who survives along with the following seven children: Mis. Peter Martin of Huntington. Mrs. John Hirschy of this city, Mrs. Kenneth Kiser of Monroe. Mrs. Hubert Quelling of Fort Wayne, Freeman. Robert Daniel, and Virgil Jesse Urick who reside at borne. Two other children died in infancy. Four grandchildren also survive the deceased. Mrs. Urick is survived by the following brothels and sisters, Janies Thomas Elzey of Monroeville. John William Elzey of Bobo, Mrs. John Hocker, of Monroe. Mrs. Charles Lamlin of this city, Frank Elzey of Cleveland Ohio and one half-sister. Mrs. Roger French of Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Urick was converted when she (CONTINUED ON PAGE o Body Os Former Local Resident Arrives Today The body of August H. Sellemeyer, prominent former Decatur resident who died suddenly* Saturday night at his home in I.os Angeles, arrived in this city this afternoon at 2.57 o'clock The body was taken to the home of Col. and Mrs. Fred Reppert on North Second street. The body may be viewed from seven o'clock until nine o'clock tonight. Mrs. Sellmeyer and son, Jess, accompanied the body to this city. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 O'clock from the Zion Reformed church, the Rev. A. R. Fledderjohanu, officiating. Mr. Sellemeyer was engaged in the lumber business in this city for a number of years and several years ago moved to Los Angeles.

Price Two Cento

JURY REACHES DECISION AFTER 23-HOUR STUDY Former Interior Secretary Is Present When Verdict Is Announced Today TRIAL LASTED THREE WEEKS By Herbert Little, UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 25.— <U.R> — Former Secret: l rv of Interior Albert B. Fall so c by a jury here on a ci., gt / receiving a $100,0(10 bribe from E. L. Doheny, oil millionaire, nearly eight yeais ago. The jurv recommended merev. Fall, who leased the valuable Elk Hills. Calif naval oil reserve to Dolienv's Pan American company in 1922 had been on trial here since October 7. His illness at one time threatened to cause a mistrial. The jury was out 23 hours and 50 minutes. It received the ease at 11 30 a. m. yesterday and returned its verdict in open court at 11:20 a. m. today although the decision was ready some time earlier. Fall, who has been ill with a lung ailment since the trial started, sat still in his green leather easy chair in the prisoners dock, as the verdict was read. Doheny stood at his left and his El Paso physician. H T. Saf(CONTTNUED ON PAGE TWO) r o ,— Believe Ruling Will Establish Precedent Hope. Ind.. Oct. 25 (UP)—A precedent in fixing responsibility for a cashier's ■ pergonal defalcations may have been established here. The receiver for’tW' t'irizen s National Bank here allowed i cl iim for 13,000 against the former cashier. Herman A. Stewart, to !><■ assessed against the bank. Mrs. Tessie Armstrong claimed to have turned $3,000 over to Stewart ami instructed him to invest the amount in bonds for her. She was never given the securities or a refund of the money, the receiver was told. Her claim was the first of its kind allowed against the bank here for acts of Stewart. The former cashier is now s n ving a prison term for embezzling SIIO,OOO from the bank. The fhstitutlon was forced to close its doors. MEET IS CLOSED BY CLUB WOMEN Mrs. E. F. Miller, Peru, Is President of State Federation Os Clubs (Special to the Democrat I Fort Wayne, Oct. 25-The business sessions of the forteith annual convention cf the Indiana Federation of Woman's clubs were brought to a close here last night with the elec ion of Mis. Edwin I. Poston of Martinsville as corresponding secretary in the only contested office. Mis Floyd T Jones of Lafayette was the other candidate for the office of corresponding secretary Mrs. Jones got 111 votes and Mrs Poston 237 votes. A report showed that 349 i f the 351 voting de\egnb ' >ok ;i . i, Hi election. Mrs. Edwin F. Miller of Peru, former s'ate ch lirni in of "ducation for the organization, was named president and assumed her new duties as an executive meeting held this morning. Other officers elected were Mrs. Harry L. Green cf Muncie, second vicepresident; Mrs T. W. Peck, of (’layton. reelected trustee, and Mrs. Unmet I). Hinkle, of Vine ‘lines, former president, general fedet ition director. Officers who retained their positions in the organization to fill on: their unexpired terms are as follows: Mrs. Edwin N. Canine, of Terre Haute, first vice-president; Mrs. Charlesf S. Hartley of New Albany, recording secretary; Mis. Robert A Hicks of Cambridge City, treasurer; trustees, Mrs. George W. Phillips of South Bend, and .Mrs. Edward F White of Indianapolis, and parliamentarian, Mrs. E. C Rninpler. After historical Hips about Fort Wayne and to the Limberlost cabin of . the late Gene Stratton Porter at Rome . City, the delegates left for their homes (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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