Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1924 — Page 1

iunie XXII. Number 258.

rwo BIG FIRES CAUSE LOSS OF $44,000

■ice house ■ AT PETERSON I IS DESTROYED H)nie Os Miss Jane Brown I Burns At Loss Os I Nearly $4,000 ■origin is mystery l ire Department t I Called To Help Fight t The Flames [Wlhe Lii-nc house, including a HLiiut kitchen, owned and ■tipi.il by Miss Jane Brown.j Peterson. located on the Kst side of the road, was' to the ground at about ' tvfo o'clock this morning, enHiling a loss of approximately] to SI,OOO. It could not ■ learned how much insur-] HKik if any. was carried on the the origin of the fire 1 a mystery. ■'flu lire started in the sumHer kitchen, back of the house. walk separated the two build.Mi Brown who occupied th during the uay, had gone as 1 ■u.d to the heme of her brother, Brown, who lives only a short Mstanee south, to spend the night. -ently. she had not stayed in tlie at night. Sh? stated that she Hid not had a fire in the stove for a 1 Mei k. A fire had not been built in ■n summer kitchen stole for severM weeks and the neighborhood is at H loss in accounting for the origin ■ the blaze. ■ Jack Freidt. captain of the Deca-' Mir fire department, was oft duty at Mie department and received the Mil at two o'clock to come to PeterMin with the pumper. He first drove ■> the Irvin Elzey home on Indiana' awakened him and * within Mirteen minutes after receiving the ■all was at the scene of the fire. The ■Hp was six miles. I The fire was noticed by Mrs. W. ■ Straub, who lives next door of ■he Brown home. She awakened and ■aw the sky lighted up and felt the ■eat through 'tier window Mr. ■traub and members of the family ■ere awakened and the alarm was ■iven in the neighborhood and volinteer crowds aided in getting ail :he furniture out from the first Hoor. with the exception of the range and furniture in the kitchen. The furniture and bed clothing on he second floor was consumed in he fire. The fire had gained such headway >y the time that the Decatur fire ruck arrived that it was useless to ry to fight it. Their efforts were devoted in saving the Straub home and (Continued on page two! o — BRAKEMAN IS HURT AT GENEVA Pennsylvania Brakeman Suffers Broken Leg; Hit By Car Door H. Bair, 291:1 Indiana avenue. Tort Wayne, a brakeman on the I ennsylvania rilroad. suffered a brokPn leg and other less serious injuries •’hout it o'clock yesterday morning "hen a car door fell off a freight car near the station in Geneva, and struck him. The injured man was ’•'ken to the Methodist hospital in Forl Wayne in the Wells Brothers bulance. Hair and other trainmen had ’"nipleted unloading freight at the ■' neva station and were coupling the '•'in together preparatory to leaving 1H town when the accident happened ■ r Bair a left leg was broken just >0 ' f the knee, and the fracture was ' p iy serious one, the bone penetrat("K ,llro ”Kh the flesh. Dr. C. P. Winchga'\ ° f G eneva> Wils called and he v " f| rst aid attention to the man's "”ies. T| le f racture S et a t the l ’°«Pital in Fort Wayne.

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Neighbors Cut Corn For Mrs. Geo. Steiner Fiftoy-one neighbors of Mrs. George Steiner, of near Linn Grove, assembled at her home Monday and in two hours ent a field of twenty acres of corn. Just as a neighborly act. Mrs. Steiner's husband was accidently killed ten days ago by the discharge of a shot gun which he had just leaned against a wagon in the barn yard at his home. LINEMAN HURT IN FALL FROM POLE Falls 20 Feet When Electrici Current Passes Through Body Charles C. Shelley, of Fort Wayne, a lineman employed by the Indiana Service Corporation, suffered a broken leg. sprained back and numerous bruises in a 20-foot fall from a trolley po'.e on the Decatur Fort Wayne Trabtion line a few miles north of this city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when he came in cntact with a wire charged with electricity. He was brought to this city on a traction car and taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital, where it is said he will recover Shelley was working on a work car with other linemen. He climbed one of the trolley poles and had a brace and bit attached to his belt. When he reached the top of th<l pole his shouMer touched the charged wire and the brace and bit came into contact with the ground wire on the pole, causing a circuit and the force of the current which passed through his body hurled him from the pole, in the fall his right leg was broken between the knee and ankle, his back was sprained and a few teeth wore knocked loose. He did not suffer any serious burns from the electricity. Mr. Shelley is a married man and ' has one child. His wife, mother and one sster were at the hospital last night, but returned to Fort Wayne after the injuries had been dressed. The attending physician stated today that Mr. Shelley appeared to be resting very well, outside of pain in his back and indications are that he will get along all right. _ o New Ruling Made On Teachers’ Licenses County Superintendent E. S. Christen has furnished some interesting information on a bulletin issued by the state hoard of education relative to teachers' training courses and teachers’ licenses. Some new rulings have been made in order to provide teachers for one-room schools and to give a broader scope of training courses. Announcements are as follows: Any student completing the first year of the Hural School Teachers. Course shall receive a second grade license, valid in any elementary school of the state. That year of training will give credit on any other elementary teacher's course. Any one taking the primary, intermediate. or grammer grade course between September 1. 1924 and September. 1. 1925 shall be given a license valid for teaching in any one-teacher school for the school year 1925-1926. _______ o Many Apply For Absent Voter’s Ballots Here At noon today a total of 193 persons had applied for an absent voter's ballot and of this number. 105 ballots have been voted. Next Saturday is the last day on which a voter who will be absent from the county on election day can vote at the county clerk's office. Applications can be made up until Saturday and Absent Voters' ballot will be received by County Clerk John E. Nelson up to Monday afternoon, in time s° that they can be delivered to the different precincts. The county ballots have been printed and next Saturday the election inspectors will call at the clerk's office for their supplies.

ALFO PRODUCTS PROPERTY M O TO FRANK HEIMAN Building And Real Estate Are Purchased For $1,500 — EQUIPMENT SOLI) ALSO Office Supplies Purchased By Detroit Man For SI,OOO The Also Products company buildIng. north of Monroe, was sold by the Receiver. W. A. Lower, tills morning to Frank Heiman, one of the interested stickholders, fbr 11.500. Machinery, office equipment and other material in the building were sold to Mr. Heiman for $583. An acre of ground also was included in the sale of the building to Mr. Heiman The receiver also soid equipment I and supplies owned by the defunct Also Products commpnny at Detroit' and Fort Wayne to O. C. Ricbardot, of Detroit, for SI,OOO. The sales were made on the value of the appraisement. The building at Monroe is a threestory. brick and tile block structure and was erected several years ago by the Also Poducts company, at that! time under the management of! Menno Leichty. It was used but a short time. The Also Products company was the manufacturer of a soft drink called “Lucerno." It could not be learned what "Mr. FTefrhan intends to do with the building, but it was thought that be purchased it with the idea of selling it later. The building and ground at Monroe ’ originally cost, between SB,OOO and i $9,000. it was stated. The receiver hid not know *he amount of common stock sold in the company, but said that the stockholders would lose every cent they had Fnvested. A mortgage of $3,500 was held against the building by several men. They will receive their share of $3,083.00 paid tor the building and plant equipment. after expenses of the sale and the receivership suit are deducted The court has already approved the sale of the contents, equipment and supplies owned by the company. The Also Products company was formerly located in this city and operated here for two years in the building now occupied by the Deca tur Castings Company Considerable money has been lost by local and out-of-town investors in the former soft drink establishment. LUTHERANS TO HEAR PROGRAM To Receive Radio Program To Be Broadcasted In Chicago Arrangements have been made by the congregation of the Zion Lutheran church in this city to receive in the church the program to be broadcast over the radio station. KYW. Chicago, from the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel Thursday evening. October 30. The program will start at 8:20 p. ni., Central Strandard time. The Chicago station broadcasts on a wave length of 536 meters. A cordial welcome is extended to the public to be present at the Lutheran church and hear the program. Following is the program to be broadcasted: Announcements by chairman. Mrs. Charles F. Lorenzen. Address of Welcome, Rev. O. A. Geisemann. Tenor solo. Fourth Psalm, Mr. O. B. Gash. Address, "The Lutheran Church and Democracy," Rev. H. H Hemniter, D. D. Address preceding unveiling of Luther painting, Rev. H. W. Prange. A Mighty Fortress, (a) trumpeters; (b) Harmony Male Chorus. Oak Park! (c) trumpeters and chorus.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 29,1924.

Farmers Report That Chickens Are Stolen —— i Complaints have been made by farmers that thieve are stealing their I chickens and in some Instances farmers are getting thine ready to catch ' the thieves. Several farmers have placed watch dogs near their chicken chops and others are waiting for the chance to got the petty thieves with la load of buck-shot, it was stated. SPARKS CAUSE OF SMALL FIRE Sparks From Fire At Fornax Mill Cause Fire Few Blocks Away i Tlie second fire in Decatur and the third alarm to he answered by tlte Decatur firemen in less than ten hours this morning, was a small blaze on the roof of the barn, back of the ,0b! Dorwin property on North First street. It is thought that the blaze started from the sparks carried by 'the wind from Fornax Mill, as burnt pieces of wood and evidence on the nearby roofs could be seen. Irvin Elzey was on duty at the fire department and answered the call with the old tru. k. With the aid of the chemicals the blaze was put out. The pumper and other firemen came , from the Fornax Mill fire before the i blaze was extinguished and aided in putting out the blaze. 1 G.O.P. SPENDING RIG SUM IN STATE I Clvde A. Walh. Chairman Receives $29,715 From National Committee Press Service) Washington. Oct. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat! —Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman, has re- ' ceived $29,715 in campaign funds from the republican national committee the official records filed with the Borah eommittee show. The money was sent to Walb in thiec installments. On Sept. 3 Walb was sent $5,000, this item is recorded here as a “loan." On Sept. 24 'Walb was sent $4,715. This is recorded as a “return" meaning apparently that it is money contributed by Hoosiers and handled through the national committee. On Oct. 10 Walb was] sent $20,000. This is recorded as an “advance” toward the Indiana campaign. Additional contributions to the national republican campaign funds which have been listed in Hie official records include Byron H. Somers of Fort Wayne, A. H. Beardsley of Elk I hart ami the Elkhart Republican Central committee SSOO each. Blaine FT. Miller of Indianapolis S2OO, John F. Kittle of Indianapolis SSOO. Maurice Fox of Laporte SI,OOO. At least ten republican candidates for congress have received direct financial assistance from the national republican congressional committee. Washington. Oct. 29- Th-' charge that theatrical publicity, including “cracks and gags on the vaudeville stage." bad been offered for sale to tile Follette forces for $50,000 by a prominent theatrical agency was • laid before the senate eommittee in- ■ vestlgating campaign funds, today. Gilson Gardner. Washington newspaper man and supporter of La Follette, testified a representative of the McCutcheon-Curston syndicate a subsidiary of the Shubert Theatrical company, had told him his company was prepared to “sell political .publicity and would rather give it to him than to the two old parties." Gardner said he was told that for (Continued On Page Five! Weather Mostly fair tonight and Thursday but some cloudiness; slightly warmer tonight in north portion.

VIOLENCE MARKS ELECTION DAY IN GREAT BRITAIN Hospitals Flooded With Election Fight Cases; One Child Killed ELECT PARLIAMENT Twenty Million Voters Go To Poles Following Short Campaign I London. Oct. 29 (Special to Daily ■ Democrat!. West l.mdon hospital was flooded today witli election tight I 1 cases, mostly black eyes and broken noses, many women being among the victims. There was trouble in Belfast and i Glasgow and feeling ran high in] other parts of the British Isles where 22.000.000 voters were electing a new] parliament. One child was killed and ten in-1 jured when a wagon advertising the conservative cause in the Bolton | division collapsed. Etxra police were stationed at ' many polling places for the campaign just closed had been the bitterest in British history. I London. Oct. 29.—The 21-day campaign came to an end with political j passions whipped to white heat by bitter partisan accusations, the storm I center being the "red letter "—the document attributed to Gregory Zinoviev, with whose name it is signed. which contains subversive suggestion to British communists. 1 "Vote early." was Ramsay Maci Donald's parting injunction to his fellows. He is believed sure of his seat by a narrow margin. ] So is former Premier H. 11. AsI qnith. while former Premier Lloyd G“orge and Baldwin are expected to win more early. ♦ Mrs. Ferguson Predicts She Will Win Easilv, i Dallas. Tex.. Oct. 28. Mrs Miriam I Ferguson, democratic nominee for] governor of Texas, today predicted her victory with a majority of 250.i 000 votes. “It is not a question of victory." i said Mrs. Ferguson from her home in ; Temple, "but that of majority. I would like to have a majority of 200.i 000 votes and I believe I shall re- ! ceive 250.000." II Dr. George Butte, republican : nominee, reiterated predictions that ■ he would succeed Governor Put Neff |by a majority of 50.000, •' o DECATUR MEN ] IN AUTO WRECK Ed Whitright And Jack Freidt Suffer Painful Injuries Ed. Whitright, local ice dealer, and •Talk Freidt. captain of the city fire department, were painfully but not seriously injured about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when tile intomobile in which they were riding ’ turned over on the Piqua road, about five miles east of this city. Mr. 1 Whitright suffered a painful laceration of his right arm and many small er cuts and bruises. Mr. Freidt suffered a deep cut on the right cheek, a liad cut on the rt'glit arm and many ’ smaller cuts and bruises. Both wore ‘ able to lie up town today. 1 The two men had been hunting and r were returning home. Mr. Whitright - 1 was driving his own car. He stated i that something went wrong witli the steering apparatus and he was un- ' able to keep the car in the road after " it started toward the side-dilili. The steering gear appeared to be locked. f The car turned over onto its top and on over again onto the wheels, spilling the two men out on the ground. The ear was badly damaged, tlte two wheels on the right side being smash- ■ ed. the top and windshield broken and the body more or less bent.

Marshall And Kern To Be In FL Wayne Saturday Fort Wayne. (),■•: 29 - The final big Democratic rally of the campaign will h- held Saturday nigh: at the Majestic theater. Thomas R. Marshall, former vicepresident of the United Stales, and John W. Kern. Democratic candidate for reporter of the supreme court, will be tlie speakers. An ex. client musical program will he provided. SENATOR GORE IS NOTEO MAN Speaker At Democratic Rally Here Has Remarkable Record I Senator T'lom is Pryor Gore, who | will speak at the (lemocratic rally !lure Saturday night, is one of the most remarkable men in the history Os America. Blind since childhood.' Ihe graduated from high school and i I from Cumberland university with high i honors. He is a brilliant lawyer. I served in the territorial legislature.] was a member of the rural credits I eommittee and served in the United States senate with great distinet'on for fourteen years A keen thinker] and with a wonderful voice, he is considered one of the most effective orators on the .political platform of the United States. The senator will speak at the court house immediately following the parade and torch'ight procession. Tlie program will open with a band concert in front of the court house at six o'clock, with the Geneva. Monroe. Decatur and Freiiiheim bands participating. The parade will start hort'y after seven o'c ock, line of march and format on to lie announced

tomorrow nr next day There will be nn old fashioned torchlight procession. red fire torches, floats, hauliers, features. You are invited to take part. Get up a delegation wth a feature and join in the big parade. I marking tlie close of the campaign. I “ ° : Farmer Runs Amuck \nd Kills Wife, Then Himself Caihi, 111.. Oct. 29.—(United Press). —After weeks *‘l broodim; over ill health and other trouldes. Phillip Martin. 30, farmer near Elco. 111., quarreled with his wife and ran amuck. He fired a shotgun into bis wife's back as she ran from the house, and then fired another charge into ills own head. The wife died in a few minutes Martin is dying. Six children were left orphans by the tragedy. o Remains Os George Fusselman Shipped Here i Tlie remains of George Fusselman. age 70, dieil at the home of Ills daotihter. Mrs. ('. A. Mitten, in Akron. Ohio, i Monday, arrived in this city over the Chicago & Erie railroad at 12:54 this afternoon, and were taken to the Prospect church near Ossian, where I funeral services were to lie held at s , 1 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Fusselt man was born in Wells county neat' k Zauesvlle and later moved to Hunt ington where lie lived until several { years ago when he went to live witli] t his daughter in Akron. He .vas a traveling salesman out of Huntington for several years. (i Scripps-Howard Papers To Publish 'Fax Payments ' (United Press Servtce! Cleveland, Oct. 29—(Special to I Dai'y D’lmarntl Announcement was made today on behalf .of the 25 Scripps Howard newspapers that • thev will continue publication of ■ income tax payments. Expressing ■ (he belief that publicity of income • tax payments is specifically called for by tlie latest legislation on the I subject, a statement issued by Rob ert P Scripps, editorial director. . (iecltires that the newspapers takt > their position "not because of anj - tendency or desire to defy the law i but on tin 1 contrary, because of i des're to serve, the law."

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FORNAX MILL BURNED EARLY THIS MORNING Believe That Spontaneous Combustion Caused $40,000 Blaze ABOUT HALF INSURED Flames Had Great Headway; Building Mav Be Rebuilt A Costly First Following is an estimate of the loss of the Fornax Milling Company fire. 2.000 bushels of wheat at $1.50, , $3,000 £0 tons midlings at $-10 2 400 15 tons of bran at $35 . . 525 10 tons of chick feed at S6O 600 ; 125 bbls, flour at $8 ... 1.000 500 bus. oats at 46 cents . . 230 [ Chop feed, flour and grain 2,250 ] Machinery, estimated, .... 20.000 Building, estimated 10,000 . ■ II • Total loss $40,000 i Insurance about S2O 000 Owners: Herman Gillig. Geo Shosenburg, C. G. Strickler, Dec | catur; Mrs. Barbara Bremerkamp. Fcrt Wayne; J. E. Limbacher. St. Marys .Ohio. . A lire, which is believed to have started from spontaneous ..'combustion on the third floor , labout six o'clock this morning, i 'totally deslroyetl the mill owni (i by the Fornax Milling coin-

. p;my. <rn South First . sin H. causin'.' a loss estimated todiv at nearly SIO,OOO. The , building and contents were injured for about $20,000. The fire was discovered at 6:311 o’clock this morning, by Herman 'Gillig. one of the owners of the mill i when he went to open the mill tor the I' day's business. The third floor was a I mass of flames at that time, and evidently the fire had started about 6 ' o'clock or perhaps earlier." Mr Gillig ’’ turned in the fire alarm and Captain "'jack Freidt and Irvin Elzey answered 11 the alarm with the new pumper truck. s latter a general alarm was sounded e and the volunteer firemen rushed to e the fire. The old fire truck was brought to the scene of the fire also. Fire Gained Headway Captain Freidt was injured in an |automobile accident yesterday afternoon ami it was with difficulty that he connected the hose with the water hydrant, as his right arm was injured. 2 Only a short delay was occasioned, whoever, and soon a stream of water i. was played on the blaze. However, he fire had gained such great head- .’ (Continued On Page Pour) GENEVA LABY BURIED TODAY Mrs. Nancy Martin, Age 74, Died At East Haven Sunday, Oct. 26 Funeral services were held at. 2 o’clo-k this afternoon from the United Brethren church in Geneva, for Mrs. Nancy Martin, age 74. who died , at the Eastern Hospital for the In- . sane at Richmond, at 2:30 o’clock , Sunday afternoon. Death was due to t infirmities. Burial was made in the C Riverside cemetery at Geneva. ■ ' Mrs. Martin formerly resided near ■ l.Ne w Corydon. Her husband died T about twenty-four years ago. She had e 1 been an immate of the Richmond in-i-istitution for about sixteen years. She . is survived by one daughter. Mrs. e Mamie Kelly, of southwest of New y.Corydon, and one son.. Clyde Martin, v.'ot Geneva. Wells Brothers. Geneva a Undertakers, brought the body i*<k | torn Richmond Sunday afternoon.