Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1924 — Page 1

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hHIRTY-FIVE MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION

M. ?! ANS Ip; WF. WE I STREETS IN 1925 ■Plan- 1 0 Brick ~e? e r‘r ‘ | son. N- Second And S. K First Streets * Ijpreovi- SKWER I'I.AX ■foal Purchased For ( ity K Plants: Other Action ■ Taken By Council mu — K According I” plnns made by Khc cilv council, following ac-| Kn l.ikcn last evening. ■’’'Her-, Hon street. I nun First to Eighth | Kin.l North Second street, Krom the old ’grist mill to the, Kad lending to the Holland-j Kt Louis Sugar factory. and| ■South First street from Adams' Kfiugg street, will be bricked; ■next spring. . ■ tpon motion cf E. A. Beavers. chair 1 ■md of the sTPet and sewer commit- > ■e, the city clerk was ordered to , Kotif' the Northern Indiana Gas and ■krtric company to install any con- i ■template,! service connections on ■forth Second street and on the other ■greets where needed this fall, so that ■tork on the improvement of the ■greets could bo started next spring. ■ South First street already has a ■nrb and cement sidewalk installed. ■The other two street improvements ■Till consist of brick street, curb and ■sidewalk. Eight or nine blocks are ■included in the contemplated inimovement and when completed pracifally every street within the railItoad boundaries of Decatur will be ■bricked. I Plans For Sewer Approved I Engineer Harruff’s plans for the leitension of the France sewer, be■tween Third street and the G. R. and I. railroad tracks on the west, and between Adams street and the Erie railroad tracks, were approved and the clerk authorized to give notice to property owners that remonstrances would be heard by the council on Tuesday, October 21st. The proposed extension will run through the Fallen- 1 kamp addition to the city of Decautr. The length of the proposed sewer is •bout 66b feet. Bids For Sidewalk Rids for the construction of the sidewalks on Dirkes and St. Marys street will he received by the council on October 7. No objections were hied against the proposed improvement last evening. Other Council Action The purchasing committee reported that it had entered into a contract vith the Hutchinson coal company of Fairmont, West Virginia, for coal to * furnished the city, the maxlnum per ton, plus freight. (Continued on Page Three) ' SENTENCES TWO YOUTHS TO HANG Baltimore Judge Sends Two B°ys To (fallows For One Murder Ba'timore, Md„ Sept. 17-Clande «, of Baltimore and Thomas J. ' ° f Philadelphia, two of four, recently convicted of the murSent ° UIS f ohen ’ local Jeweler, were I Stant n Ced b ' Judge Gorter - Frank and 1 be hanged” "“"‘“a’ C ° Urt today t 0 «at t ch d , memher ot the convicted ’i eoM’ eS M ” l,en ' ° f thi « ci ‘v - based «.- eßsion tile state's case was meat. Th Se " tenced to life imprisonCeorcu c ° fourtll convicted youth, jail hero ?' he “ he esca Ped from The th 3 " WS Shot by detectives, are all m' reP youtbs sentenced today as Richard Tn ab ° Ut the Bame age Jr., Chien ° e ’ an< ’ Nathan Leopold, n aE ,° f Slayers ' ’ho were senmi lmprisonmen t for the 01 “T|

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ENGAGED TO FLYER ■ ' ■ ■ ' — j.. wkb > ■ r \ ’ w Jr ! P -vs? I MISS IDELLA REUSSENZEHN Daytcn O.—Lieut. Jack Harding, (round the world flyer, and Miss Idella 1 Reuss* uzehn oi Dayton, O. (shown in this photo), an employe of the technical data section at McCook f eld, are to Im- married on coinpie‘tion of the flight and the inspection of the round the world planes, according to a report. The romance had its inception more than two years ago. Miss Reussenzchn. who is strikingly pretty, is said to have followed the Light as c’osely as the air service at Washington YOUNGBDY DIES OF DIPHTHERIA Five-Year-Old Son Os Mr. And Mrs. Harry Kelly, Dies At Monroeville Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Whitright receiveda telephone call from Monroeville last night, 'announcing the death of their nephew. Robert Kelly, five-year 'old son of Mr. and Hrs. Harry Kelly. I Death was due to diphtheria. The fam ily was quarantined last Thursday afternoon. The child first suffered from scarlet fever and had almost recovered from that disease when he was taken ill with diphtheria. His grandmother. Mrs. Spies, was the only person with the family when Robert died. She was admitted about an hour before he died. Robert is survived by his parents, one brother. Norman, age 8 years, and one sister, age 4 years. Funeral services were held from the home at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The casket was placed in the front yard and relatives and friends gathered along the road in front of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Whitright and daughter Helen, and Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly, of this city, attended the funeral. Burial was made in the Monroevillt cemetery. o County Detectives To Meet Here Saturday All members of the Adams County Detective Association are duty bound to attend the annual session of the association to be held in the directors' rooms of the Old Adams County Bank at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, September 20, according to an announcement made today by the secreItary. The election of officers will be j held and a delegate to the national J convention, to be held at Terre I Haute. October 7. will be chosen. Action will be taken on several new members, also. o W. L. Douglas. Noted Shoe Manufacturer, Dies (United Press Service) Boston, Sept. 17.—William Louis 1 Dauglas. former governor of Massachusetts an downer of the XX■ L. i Douglas Shoe company, died in his , 80th year at a hospital here early today. ■ I Death came after a long illness ,dur- ■ ing the latter stages of which he subjmitted to two operations.

i committees in SENATE ; PROBES TODAY Inquiries Are Resumed With Probe Os Internal Revenue Bureau i PLAN TWELVE PROBES Twelve Committees Squaring Away For Action; Expected To Be Mild (United Press Si rviee) Washington, J', pt 17 Th cur: in today went up on the late 1024 ’ : :i • of senatorial inquiries with the )■'- ■ convening of the senate committee t > investigate the bureau of internal revenue. The carnival of inve-tigations. I brought to an end with the adjourn- i ment of congress in June, is about to be resumed, with the proqv t. h w- , j ever, that it will he much mill r th ; 1 session. '[ Twelve committ- es are squaring ''awaj’ for action and many of th-m I ! will get under way ivfor con t -.r< - cor. vc a . The most important of these i th ■ 1 international revenue bureau < om- . rnittee which starts its operations toI' <lay. This committee, which was called into being when Secretary of the Treasury Mellon asked congress for $1(15.000,000 to make tax refund- will conduct a double barreled probe of tax questions and prohibition em rce,ment. [p ' o . W.R.C. To Hold Meeting On Friday Afternoon A meeting of the W. R. C. will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the Legion hall and every member is urged to be present. Plans will be made for attending the convention at Columbia City of September 23rd. and every member of the local corps is invited and urged to attend. Mis. Ida Chronister, who is president of the local W. R. C., and several other wo men are planning to attend the < invention. DECREASE IN KHALBATION Total Taxable Value In Countv Shows Decrease Os $527,670 According to the assessment . heet of which taxable property in Adams county this year, including real estate improvements thereon and personal property, prepared by County A lessor William Zimmerman, the net total taxable value of all property is $lO.485,730 or a decrease of $527,670 over the 1923 assessments. The total for last year was $41,013,700.00 r The net taxable assessment of real estate and improvements in the conn ty this year is $27,142.12, as compared with $27,353,340. The net assessment of personal property this year is $13,343,610. The personal property last year was listed at $13,661,320. The personal property assessments include the assessments or railroads, utllith's and other property made by the s ate tax board. Decatur's Valuation The assessed valuation of property in Decatur this year is $6,394,200, as compared with $6,774,030 last year. Reasons For Decrease In addition to the lower assessment of personal property in the county this year, a drop of $154,860 was made > in the state's assessments of public) utilities, the total of these assess-) menls being $5,963,220. The mortgage exemptions this year were $52,440 - higher than last year, which two items account for $207,300 of the decrease. Improvements on real estate were assessed lower this year and the state tax board also adjusted one or two real estate assessments last year afte rthey were added on the tax duplicate.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 17, 1921.

) Murderer Thinks He Ought Net Be hilled (Unit: ’ Pres, Service) vlllc, Ind.. Sept. 17. —Claude i’l-lztr. IS year old murderer in jail h«re awaiting trill, do°s not think lie ought to suffer th ■ death penally. Uneducated, illiterate and barely able to write h's own name, he knows practically nothing of the Loeb-i.ec-pold case. He h is never heard cf nn alienist, but his untrained, slow working mind i found it way unerringly to substan- ’. thdly the same dot ns ■ as did the I p< r-intele- tnc.l minds of the two I : : o millionaire youths. "Do they rend.boys under ago to 1" ■ ihi’.ir?" lie asked. "I am willing to take what's coming to me in prison i but 1 shciildn't go to th ? chdir.” H > admits frankly that he beat : Robe ' Tompk'n 23. to death with I pin ir n tod at a glass factory nt I , Arcadia on the night of Sep*. 6. The state will ask for a verdict of; ) first degre murder and the death | j penalty, Floyd Christian, deputy prostcutor, said. Th death penally has never before In inflicted in Hamilton county, ac- ) rdlng to I'heriff Sherrick. (FARMERS W SOYBEAN TEST Meeting Held At Otis Shifferlv Farm In St. Marys Township Tuesday An interested group of farmers met at the Otis Shiffer'.v farm, one mile north of Bbo. in St. Marys township yesterday afternoon to in pect a soy-, bean variety test and discuss the gorwing of that relatively new crop which has increased in acreage rapidly during the last few years. Test plots of Midwest, Mancha, Ito San and Early Brown soybean were s en along with a small field of Ito Sans which will be cut for hay. The use of soybeans for hay and | grain in various rations for farm | animals, as wll as their place in the I rotation of farm crops was di cussed by the countv agent, who was in charg“ of the meeting. It was brought out that soybans, when threshed, will replace tankage in the ration fed bogs tind that ground soybeans will replace‘oil meal or cottonseed meal in the dairy ration. According to indications, the soybeans acreage will be much increased next year in spite of the relatively poor crop th.is year occasioned by adverse weather conditions. INDEPENDENTS ENDORSE ADAIR Conference For Independent Political Action Makes Endorsements (United Press Service) Indianapolis Sept. 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The executive com rnittee of the Indiana Conference progressive po'.it’cal faction today unanimously indorsed a, slate of candidates for congress. The indorsement wtis made cn a , basis cf their official record covering questions of vital interest to the laboring c’asses according to A. E Gordon, of Terre Haute, vice chairman c,f the committee. John A. M. Adair, of Portland, demrfrratlc candidate, was endorsed) in Um eighth district. No endorsement was made in the eleven'll district. o Hear John W. Davis by radio from Chicago at Democratic Headquarters Thursday night. o Weather Generally fair tonight; Thusrday i increasing cloudiness; probably showiers in southwest portion by after- . noon or night; not much change in | temperature.

SEN, WHEELER MAKESSHARGES SF BLACKMAII Says Harry Daugherty And Others Are Trying To Intimidate Him INFORMED OF SUIT Says He Has Been Informed A Damage Suit Will Be Filed Against Him (United Press Service) Cleveland. O„ S-pt. 17 Senator | Burton K. Wheeler charg' d in a state- | men here today that “the Ohio gang 'headed by Harry Daugherty and asjsi tod by the Burns Detective agency and the republican national committee” are threatening Idm kmail procedings against him to intimidate his independent vice-presidential campiiign. Wheeler declared he has been informed that a damage suit would be instituted against him when be reaches Columbus tomorrow by a peron who has made many pr viotis effoits to blackmail him. Efforts also are being made by the same interests to induce, Roxie Stinson, star witness against Daugherty in the rcient enate investigat ion, to repudiate her story. Wheeler said. — o Van Orman To Open Campaign September 27 (United Press Service) i ImHcmrpwT:'. Sept. 17 -Harold Van I Orman, Evansville, republic an nominee for Lieutenant-Governor, will open his campaign on Sept. 27 with a speech at Seeleyville. near Terre Haute, it was announced at state headquarters today. — o — Filled Gasoline Tank With Motor Running I Hammond. Ind- Sept. 17.—Miss Harriet Verger. 16. is dead from burns received when an automobile which she was sitting was fired ai ike gas tank was being filled with 'he motor running. WORLD FLYERS LAND AT OMAHA Make Successful Flight From Chicago To Nebraska This Forenoon Ft. Crook Flying Field, Omaha. Sept. 17.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The army woijld flyers safely completed their hop from Chicago today landing at Ft. Crook Flying Field at 12:55 p. m. Carefully circling the field Lieut. IT. Smith commander of the flyers made a perfect landing. He was followed a moment later by Lieut. Wade. Lieut. Eric Nelson then i brought his plane safely to. * the ground. As the planes landed a crowd estimated at 15.000 broke through the rows of sentries guarding the field and nearly mobbed the flyers. They were escorted to a platform where Charles Gardner secretary of the A. K. Sar Ben Omaha booster society introduced the flyers to the crowd through a megaphone. I lowa City. la.. Sept. 17.—The American around the world flyers passed over lowa City on their way to Omaha at 10:20 central standard 1 ! time. • 7 Davenport. la., Sept. 17 —The army world flyers passed over hero at 9:15 a. tn. Maywood Flying Field, Chicago. Sept. 17. Twenty four hours behind the western schedule, the army world I flyers hopp' d off for Omaha at 9:11 a. I m. today. The distance is 440 ami I (Continued ou page three) |

LADY SHERIFF A. f u W J ' J 1 MRS. BAXTER LAMBERT Roby Tex—Texas has a woman sheriff, the first in the state am' probably th’ first in the United States. She is Mrs. Baxter Lambert ot Roby, Fisher county, appointed to the office made vacant by the death of her husband. Mrs. Lambert will divide her time between that job and the task of rearing her eight fatherless children. .Mrs. Lambert has been practically ■in invalid for fifteen years. DERNETOHAVr" LYCEUM COURSE Five High Class Numbers To Be Given During Coming Winter A lecture course, consisting of five high <lars entertainments, will $c given in Berne during the coming winter, according to announcement made by the Board of Mangers for Entertainment of the Community Auditorium Association. Three of tile numbers will be musical entertainments. one will be a lecture and the fifth will be given by a humorist and entertainer. The various numbers and the dates on which they will be given are as follows: November 29. — Harp Ensemble. December 4.—Edwin Whitely, humorist and entertainer. December 22. Apollo Duo. musical com pany. January 9. Henry Black Burns, lecturer. March 18. Normandy Singers and Bell Ringers. Kyrl's famous band will give two concerts in Berne on Saturday November 1. , CiT’gville Postoffice Will Not Be Abandoned Postmaster Frank Diehl, of Craigvllle has received word that the postoffice at Craigville would still be maintained. The postmaster general issued the decision because of petitions being presented in which it was asked that the Craigville route be inelud-| ed with routes out of either Bluffton’ or Tocsin. Many of the people living on the, Craigville route were opposed to the change to some other post office in their petition which no doubt resulted in the post office being kept at J Craigville. The proposition has been | a matter of much discussion for the' past three months. _o Legion Chooses Omaha For 1925 Convention (United Press Service) St. Paul. Sept. 17. —The American Legion convention goes to Omaha in 1925. according to the official vote taken today. I The official vote in the contest beI tween Fort. Worth. Texas and Omaha. I gave: | Omaha. 512; and Fort vorth, 411.

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TWELVE MEN DIG WAY OUT OF SIDE ENTRY Eleven Bodies Removed From Mine; Twelve Others Located In Tunnel TWELVE NOT LOCATED 'Explosion Occurs In Side Slone Where Crew Was “Shooting" — (United Press Service) Kemmerer. Wyo.. Sept. 17 — (Specitil to Daily Democrat) The twehe men who dug themselves out of a side entry fol- ) lowing the explosion which wrecked Sublet mine No. oi the Kemmerer Coal company, are believed the only survivors of the 17 who were in the mine, company headquarters said todav. Eleven bodies had been taken to the morgue in Kemmerer at 10 a. m. 12 others had been located in the main tunnel and entries, and twelve others had not yet been located in • the mine. All other bodies will probably bo removed before the end of the day. officials said. Belief prevails here that the explosion was in one of the side slopes where a small erwv was “shooting." ' It will be only a few days, company officials believe, until the mine can be c'sared out and work resumed. — ' Two Men Are Burned By , Lime At Sugar Factory — Two men were injured at the Hol- . land-St. Louis Sugar Company factory yesterday and today when lime from the kiln spashed into their faces. Forrest Lake, of this city, and Harry Essex, of Monroe, were the victims. The lime splashed into their eyes and they were removed to the Adams County Mepiorial hospital for treatment. Elmer Sorg of this city who was operated upon Sunday night for the . removal of the appendix is getting , along nicely, word from the hospital stated today. Detour Into Bluffton Is Necessary Again Bhifftpn, Sept. 17-North Main ■ street at the bridge was closed yesterday and will be closed until the 1 brick is laid on the street improvement. A detour to the White bridge , is now necessary. The laying of the brick will occupy the remainder of 1 the week. > CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat: Sept. SI.2G&: May. $1 31 7 s Corn: Sept. $1.14%: Dec. $1.07%; May $1.08',. Oats: Sept 47 3 4 c; Dec. j 5U‘. t <: May 56c. KEPTCHIBREN OUT OF SCHOOL ’ Charges Os Violation Os ]'■ School Law Filed Against Amos Z. Smith Amos Z. Smith, a farmer, residing south of the city in Washington I township, was brought into court to;<kiy on a charge of violation of the school law. It is charged that Mr. Smith kept his four children out of school. Mr. Smith was released on his own recognizance. I It is said that Mr. Smith welcomed the suit against him, as he wishes to stand trial in an effort to force the township trustee to furnish suitable transportation for hauling his ■ children to the schol house, which Is located nearly two miles from the - Smith home. The case has not been . set for trial. The affidavit was signed by Frank S. Armantrout, county attendance officer.