Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 September 1925 — Page 3

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1925.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT.

HUB STORE RECEIVERSHIP. (Continued from Page One.) en wearing apparel that had been taken from many stores in surrounding towns by an organized band of thieves. The proprietor was first placed in jail and then released on bonds aggregating $21,000 each. The daily newspapers here were full of the story and it created a nine day sensation. The arrest of Wertheimer and Goldberg, occured on the first day of a great “fire sale” at the store* which had been extensively advertised. While the proprietors were in jail, Ed Slinger, a sign painter, and a brother-in-law of Prosecutor Van Ogle, brought suit in the circuit court for the appointment of a receiver. Slinger had painted a sign for the Hub sale. The price of the sign was forty dollars and the paint was not dry on the sign when the receivership action was brought. Later the proprietors of the store claimed that he had not even presented the bill for the work. However, Wertheimer and Goldberg were not exactly in a position to split hairs to any great extent. Van Ogle had them, so to speak, where the hair was short, Van wanted a job as receiver of a clothing store and he got it. Judge Dearth held that the demand for a receivership was perfectly proper, and promptly named Van Ogle, the prosecuting attorney, receiver of the stock of merchandise, a large portion of which was declared to be stolen goods. The court also named the law firm of Templer & Benadum as attorneys for the receiver. The appointment of the prosecutor as receiver of the store owned by men he was prosecuting was such an extraordinary thing that the public in general expressed great amazement. Prosecutor Ogle carried the keys of the store for a short time and after a showing of solvency was made the receiver was discharged, Van Ogle and Templer & Benadum ere paid large sums of money for their brief excursion in the field of “cheep clodink” merchandising and the Hub pursued its merry way under its original management. A few weeks ago, on an action brought by an eastern creditor, the store was again thrown into a receivership. Tom Bracken was named as receiver. Bert Needham, the attorney employed to defend in the criminal case, was named as attorney for the new receiver. That made everything even, Van Ogle, the prosecutor, got his out of the first receivership, and Needham, the defense, was given a whack at the grapes on the second round. Thus there can be no later reprisals on the ground of playing favorites in the little matter . of the splitting up of the spoils of war. It has been stated, unofficially, that just before the appointment of the second receiver, a large quantity of the Hub merchandise was hauled, in trucks, to New Castle, and a new store started. The new receiver sold the stock, or what was left of it, to Stillmans. The latter disposed of the shoe stock to a South Walnut street shoe store and both stores have been advertising the sale of the bankrupt stock. Now that the last vesige of merchandise, both that purchased legitimately by the proprietors and that which was alleged to have been stolen, has been removed from the store rooms, and all possible sums extracted from the su mtotal received from the sale in the form of receivership and attorney’s fees, the decks seem to be cleared for action in the matter of the criminal cases. Although it has been many months since the arrest of Wertheimer and Goldberg, their trials were not sent until Wednesday morning, being scheduled for September 28. If, as charged, the store was used as a “fence” for the receipt and sale of goods stolen by an organized band of Muncie thieves, the public is greatly more interested in the outcome of the criminal cases than in the scramble for receivership fees by a flock of lawyers. Since the Hance farm was known to be an asembling place for the thieves who were supposed to do the Hub stealing, and since Charles Wolfe, Hance murder suspect, is under bond charged with stealing part of the stuff found at the Hub, there seems to be a connection which an assidious grand jury and prosecutor might unravel if sufficient effort were put forth. Most of the thieves who took part in the numerous robberies in this section are known. They were associates of Dutch Anderson and Gerald Chapman while these two noted criminals made the Hance farm their headquarters. It is said that a large quantity of the alleged stolen Hub merchandise was taken one night and deposited in the large barn at the rear of the Whitely home on McCulloch Boulevard which now belongs to Prosecutor Ogle. It is declared that on the following night the stolen stuff was transeferred to the Hance farm, near Eaton and that after it had all been removed Sheriff

Hoffman and a posse pf deputies searched the barn and found nothing, of course. Taking all of these circumstances into cosideration the average citizen is inclined to believe that there have been many spokes radiating from the “Hub” and nothing but a complete investigation covering all the related transactions, will be tolerated. Included in these related crimes are murder, burglary, bank robbery and possible bribery, and arson. The citizens of Delaware county want the light of day thrown upon these things. The public safety demands it

MEDIUMS TO BE TRIED IN OCTOBER

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FILES CASES WITH JUDGE KITTINGER THURSDAY.

HAMPTON’S PROMISES. (Continued from Page One.) do not accept the Press’s cheerful and bromide view of the situation. One fellow said he had heard all about law and order before and wanted to know just exactly how Hampton was going about it to put Muncie’s idle men to work. The Post-Democrat has heard the wind blow before. We have a little platform of our own, and believe that its one plank would elect the candidate for mayor that espoused it.

The cases of fourteen spiritualist mediums at the Chesterfield camp ground originally filed in Anderson city court, were filed‘Thursday in the circuit court by Lawrence M. Busby, prosecuting attorney. The mediums, charged with false pretense, waived preliminary hearings when arraigned in city court and were released on bond in the sum of $500 for each defendant. Mediums against whom charges were filed in circuit court are: May Bute, Mamie Shultz, Nina Challen, S. D. Bennett, Mary Ludy, Mary Langley, A. Norman, Adda Norman, Anna Thorsden, Ida McDaniels, William E. Hart, J. B. Clark, Mattie Nichols and Mabel Riffle. The trial will be held in the October term of court, according to present plans.

The question of white mule interests us not one little bit. We can stand plenty of bad whisky, for we don’t have to drink any of the poison unless we want to. What Muncie needs is a good drink of water, and we’re for the candidate who will promise to get it for us and point out the way he is going to do it. The filthy, lukewarm, ill smelling fluid which passes for water here does more to disgust people with Muncie than anything else. John Hampton has promised the wets that they will have all the beer they can drink and the drys that he will drive liquor from our midst, but we’re for the candidate that will place drinking fountains on Walnut street, from which will flow cold, clear, sparkling drinking water. It can be done and the mayor who does it will be inspired to do other real things for Muncie. Just shut your eyes and imagine yourself taking a drink of real water, instead of diluted sewage and pollywog cocktails from White River. We propose the following two-word platform for the democrats: PURE WATER.

Tl AT LOUISVILLE

GOVERNOR TO HAVE INTEREST IN PROJECT ON THE OHIO RIVER.

Chicago, Sept. 7.—The Standard Gas and Electric Company, owners of the Louisville Gas and Electric Company, announced plans for the construction in co-operation with the federal government, of a $10,750,000 water power plant in the Ohio river at Louisville. The project, to be completed early in 1829, is designed as an improvement link in the southern and middle western super-power system. It will be the seventh largest water power project in the United States. The plant will have an initial capacity of 106,000 horsepower in thirteen units, with provision for an ultimate capacity of 135,000 horsepower.

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PIES FROM CANS

* I •HE great American pie might I well be called our national dish, to tlhiversally popular is it. Men, particularly, like pies and mfi^ny of them feel that a dinner is not really a dinner unless it is topped off with pie. Many women, however, object to making It because of the labor involved and they hold out for more simple desserts against the irate protests of their husbands. It is not that the mixing of the dough is such a task, they point out, but the preparation of the pie filling requires much washing, peeling and coring of fruits. There are thousands of wise housewives, however, who are effectively solving this problem by making use of canned products. This means that their pie filling is immediately available and that they are saved a great deal of tiresome labor. Practically the only work in connection with the pie is the mixing and rolling of the crust. It bakes while the housewife is doing other things about her kitchen and is ready to be eaten by the time the dessert course is •due. That is, of course, if you like hot berry or fruit pies. Or if you prefer, you can have squash, sweet potato, pumpkin or mince pies from your larder of canned fruits. Many good cooks al; * , se can-

ned milk for their custard pies and] use it so successfully that it is impossible to distinguish pies made in this fashion from pies made from fresh milk. The following recipes have “been tested and found delicious. Cream Pie One cup evaporated milk, 1 cup water, y 3 cup sugar, 1-8 teaspoon salt; 3 eggs, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Dilute milk with water and bring to scalding point. Mix dry ingredients thoroughly together, add slightly beaten egg yolks and add gradually the scalded milk. Cook in a double boiler, until thickened, stirring constantly. Cool, add flavoring, fill baked crust, cover top with meringue made from stiffly beaten egg whites, and 4 tablespoons sugar. Brown slightly in a cool oven. Date Custard Pie Two cups reliquified powdered milk, 1 cup chopped dates, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon sugar, y teaspoon salt. Heat milk and dates. Beat eggs slightly and add sugar and salt. Add hot milk and dates and pour into pastry lined pan. Put into hot oven, After ten minutes i reduce heat and bake tv/enty-five

or thirty minutes longer or until custard is firm. Cream Strawberry Pie Drain canned strawberries, lay in an open crust and sprinkle with sugar. Fit on an upper crust. Put a pinch of soda in a gill of cream mixed with a gill oi milk and put over the fire. Stir until scalding hot and thicken with two teaspoons of cornstarch, wet to a paste with a little cold milk. Add sugar to make the mixture sweet, take from the fire, and when cool, pour the cream upon two egg whites whipped veiry stiff. Remove the upper crust from the baked and cool pie, pour this cream mixture over the berries, replace the crust, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. Maraschino Pear Pie Drain and chop 2 canned pears. Chop y 3 cup maraschino cherries Add y 2 cup syrup from pears and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and bring to the boiling point. Ad<j 14 cup sugar mixed with 2 tablespoons flour. Cook until thickenedi stirring constantly. Add 1 tablespoon butter and cool. Line a pie plate with pastry, put in the fillina and by narrow strips of phstr over the top. Bake in a hot ove^ fo 25 minute*-

N COLD ARTIC

EXPLORERS PROBABLY LOST IN STRONG GALE THAT HIT MSALL VESSEL

Washington, Sepjt. 5.—Further indications that the Lief Erickson expedition of 1924 had “sailed from its last port” was contained in a radio message from Donald B. McDonald, received by the National Geographic Society. The party, headed by William Nut.ing, sailed from Norway last year with three companions in the fortyfoot boat Lief Eerickson, to follow the Viking trail to the United States by the way of Iceland Greenland. They reached Iceland safely and sailed in August, 1924, for Greenland and Labrador. No further word was heard fom them and it was feared they were lost in a storm. A strong gale is supposed to have apsized the boat. STATE R0AD3] * 1 IS OPENED UP FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC

State road 37 was open from Anderson to Muncie yesterday and there was a mass of traffic between the two cities. There are no barriers at any point. At some places in Delaware county men and teams were working on the sides or shoulders of the road, but they were not so fussy about traffic as some of the contractors have been about traffic on other highways.