Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1924 — Page 1

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Bughdepenos ■on decision ■ IN HILL CASE I Li,ion In Case Against K K■|,n« r i , (“sman May Ailed I Volstead Act ■ |])i;( ISION TONIGHT IBeiieweil Efforts Bv Dr\s K ■ !n Next Session Os I Congress Forseen HR Bulletin Hj| , 1 it< <1 P.ess Service) ■l Mi!.. Nov. 12 Judge |H, \ sop-r. in < liiii-RiiiK Hie jut Congressman .lolm K Hill. United States iiisH rl | i(iila' . instructed the jure|H,„ ~, verdict of not ri .ty K counts of the iitdit He 0,1,1 Ifi.-m that in the other niitintfat tare and |H. of intoxicating wine and question for them . v,. iiaioxieatinp “in fact." I Ic told the jury that the <!>- H|„!c i milled to all "reasonable that the lmrden of proof on the prosecution. ■Hire . ;,i■ the conclusion o: intent was hepun by 1 axx>"is. it wi- understood that |. -:,!•■ will take about an hour in indicatinp the case may i > the jury early this afternoon. m ■Baltimore. Mil.. Nov. 12 —(Special IHi 1 icily Democrat I rase of Cop■Hi in.hi .lohn I’. Hill, ( harped xx i h of the Volstead act. for I of cider and xvi.ne eonin excess of one-half of one ■ rent of alcohol, probably evil! he in United States district tonight. I I tin t l ," decision may depend wideI Ho. effect on the prohibition law IHnil tlie necessity for revision. I ■At the start of proceedings today I Bifil was elated over the statement jHf Roy A. Haynes, United States I ion commissioner, who def H ,aml it was legal to ferment fruit ami cider and use in the home I Hrm ided tHe beverages do not contHtin more than one-haif of one per [ alcohol. I ■ This statement supported an opinm Judge Soper earlier in the kMiliii. TV uii it was coupled the dec.1...: ihb'facvcrage must oe fag eating. I I Ilavnes was asked at what per(Bßentage of alcoholic content fruit became intoxicating. He re- | that he was unable to establish i ESpis percentage and said it was the | Hfitestion involved in Hill’s trial. Nov. 12—(Special to I (Continued «n Page Fleet ROSAN STREIT B DIES 111 OHIO Hornier Resident Os This Fitv Dies; Burial In This City | ■ The body of Mrs. Rosan Streit. ‘titont 75. wife of the late Frederf Strait, formerly of this city. Hvliose death occurred Monday, xx-ill B* e brought here from Dayton, Ohio. ■Thursday morning and burial will lie in the Decatur cemetery. I Arthur Streit., a son of Mrs. Streit. ■'aa in the city yesterday making ■funeral, arrangements. Mrs, Streit ■hile a resident of this city, was a ■member of the Reformed church here jpnd Mr. Streit at one time owned a Jg‘‘ Te and ten cefit store. Rev. C. W. ■ ■ Sauerwein of the Reformed ■church at Berne will conduct the ■services at the grave. I Mr ’ ail(i Mrs,. Streit left Decatur ■ at) out 1899 an ,i moved t 0 p a yton, at ■whith place they have resided for ■ te last 25 years. Five children surB ',.\ Ve ' they bei ng. Arthur, Flora and ■ -‘ura, ot Dayton, and John and Al■Jf ® treit > of Oklahoma City, Okla. ■ ® husband died several years ago. ■h? i t<W ° daug kters, Emma and Mary, ■ *' While the family lived in this ■' ' ' l 110 tr 'P from Dayton to De ■ * u ‘ will be made by auto and it is ■ - Petted that the cortege will arrive ■ *>p about 11:30 Thursday morning.

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Official ( ouni Shows Brook hart Has Lead 1 1'lilted Press Service 1 Do-, Moines, la., Nov, 12 With on,v -4 counties vet lo lie eanvnssed ■ h> iKtiirils o( uipervlsors h(>fore the ’ result of lowa's senatorial election is definitely known, Senator Brook hurl s lead over his democratic oppontenl, Daniel Stock, stood tit t;o4 votes today. | Including unofficial figures with of-' returns, the vote noxv slands: j I'rookl’iirt 447,258; Sleek 446.754. .BRYANT WOMAN DIES OF BORNS I . jMrs. Lydia M. (’ox Fatally Burned When Coal Oil 1 Explodes Mrs. I .yd In M. Cox. 41. wife of the C yde Cox. of Bryant, south of -1 here, died at 2:20 o'clock Tuesday' {morning of frightful burns received Monday evening when coal oil which j she was using to build a fire in the 1 I kitchen stork*. exploded, enveloping i her body in flames. The deceased ■ was conscious up until midnight. Her/ entire body xvas horribly cooked by ■ the flames. Mrs. Cox is the fourth ■ person burned to death in Jay conn-1 ; ty in the past several months. The accident, which resulted in • ( tragedy, occurred about 6:30 or 7. ■ o'clock Monday evening. Mrs. Cox' ! went to the kitchen of hpr home to , : prepare the evening meal. Her small , son. Un-dll. was with her at the t me. When she attempted to pour f the contents of a coal oil can on some 1 burning embers in the kitchen \stove • there followed an explosion, xvhich i subsequently caused the can held in r her hand to explode and drench heri - with the burning oil. The small son j , fled from the kitchen at the sound of. the explosion. Bert Juday, who| (works in a filling station, across the ' street from the Cox home, was tTie first to reach the buiim* xvmaaa. anil xvith the aid of another man. suc- ■’ ceeded in pulling some of the burning garments from the woman's body. J However, she was so badly burned ltv 1 this time that she was beyond medi- * cal attention, having inhaled the •i flames. The house was set on fire, t but was soon After 1 the flames hail been extinguished, the unfortunate woman wag taken to the f home of neighbors and medical attention summoned. Despite her aw- • fill burns, site remained conscious 1 until mluniyhC. suffering great agony. The deceased xvas horn in Jay eoun- ‘ ty in ISSB. daughter of Lemuel and j Anna Engle. She was united in inftT- - riage in 1902 to Clyde Cox. who pret ceded iter in death eight years ago. •j She is survived by four childrefi, i Garnet, Edith, Bernadine and Russell ; Cox, all at home; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Montgomery and Pearl and Mabel Engle, of Bryant. The mother. ’ Mrs. Anna Engle, also survives. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of the decedent's mother at Bryant. Rev. M. A. Glentzer in charge. Interment will be made in Gravel Hill I cemetery. Ft. Wavne Man Killed In Hunting Accident 5 (United Press Service) Fori Wayne, lnd.. Nov. 12. Jerry Lynch, 24, of this city, died at a hospital at Coldwater, Mich, last night , 0 f gunshot wounds accidentally in- • flitted while he was hunting yester- • |day. While Lynch climbed into a Tjhay mow to rest his gun xvas discharg- ■ ed and the shot entered his abdomen. ((Start Serving Sentences For Manslaughter Today M’nitPj Press Service) *1 Pendleton, lnd.. Nov. 12 Bert S Stanton and Tom Julian were brought 1 here today front Boonville to start ' serving sentences of two to txventy 1 one years for manslaughter. _ They were convicted of killing Wesley Rogers, a non-union coal miner during labor troubles at Boonville. • Want New Trial For i Convicted C.unman it. (United Press Service) , Gary, lnd., Nov. 12-Attorneys for John O. Reilly, alleged Chicago guns man, were preparing today to file a motion for a new trial following s O’Reilly's conviction on a rhar *® 0 0 manslaughter for the killing of Thud (.'rancher, Crown Point attorney. I

LOCAL PEOPLE WERE VICTIMS , OF YOUNG FRYER Lost Money In Scheme Os Young Fort Wayne Promoter I WAS GETTING RICH Lafavette Man Arrested On Similar Charge; Had Gloves Made — At least a few residents of Adnnts ■ county wore included in the list of, .victims of Glenn I). Fryer, youthful promoter, who was arrested in Fort; .Wavne yesterday on a charge if nsI ing the mails to defrr.ml. A short, time ago, two ladies came lo the Daily Democrat office and told their story of how they had invested their money' 1 with the Fashion Embroiders, in I Lima, Ohio, anil bail followed in true-! ,tions, hot lost their money. The 1 Lima business was controlled by Fiver. also. | Fryer operated what was known as the Nile Art company, in Fori | Wayne. The scheme in brief was to I sell outfits for painting lamp shades, 'or for embroidering as the case might be, and the finished product xvas to (he bought by Fryer, providing they ; met certain standard.-. Although the customer bought the outfits and necessary material, their finished product xvas rejected on the grounds that Hie work was not satisfactory, the customer practically losing the entire price of the outfit, and the material, according to federal authorities. He I obtained customers by inserting adj vertisements in daily nexvspapers throughout the country. Fryer first organized his business on April 1. 1922. and since that time lie is estimated to have made net profits hgtxveeji Jijni.iiOn .and He is said to have started on a hare slno which he borrowed. Today he drives one of the most expensive auto \ mobiles on the market and his Im-i-; ness has expanses! to such an ex-! tent that last April to* set up a second office under the name of the Fashion Embroideries company, of Lima. O. Investigators say that his income j tias been at least SIOO,OOO for the I first in months of 1924. Fiver is only 21 years old. He was realesed yesterday under a 52(1.(Coniinucd oa-pago two) PLAN CHkISHAS SEAL SALE HERE W. Guy Brown Appointed Chairman Os Sale In Adams County Announcement was made here today of the appointment of VV. Guy Brown, of Decatur, as chairman of the annual sale of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals in Adams county, by the Adams County Tubercuosis association. v Mr. Brown has successfully served as chairman here for several years. I-ocal committees of outstanding citizens in the county already are being organized to assist the county association in the 1924 sale of seals, from the proceeds of which untituberculosis work is to be financed in 1925 . A billion Christmas seals are to he distributed this year throughout America by the National Tuberculosis association, with which the state association is /affiliated, in the fight to keep the death rate from the “white plague” going down. If these little stamps xvero laid end to end they would reach more than half way round the globe. Executives of the local association point out that the death rate from the disease throughout Indiana steadily has been declining for the last dozen years, since active tind organized anti-tuberculo-sis work was made possible by the first Christmas seal sale. A wider program for 1925 is in prospect. Citizens of the county were generous in their response to this appeal for health at our own hearthstones lost year and it is believed even wider support is in prospect tor the holiday period this year, when the little emblems are used on Christmas mail and Christmas packages)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 12, 1924.

Daxives Loses His Pipe " i Chicago, Nov. 12 —.Charles G. j Dawes has lost his upside down pipe. This calamity In the life of Hie republican vice presidentelect wits caused by women. When surrounded by a bevy of chorus girls at the opera house he visited lo purchase tickets. Dawes git so excited he left the pipe lay ng on the press agent's desk The girls demt. tided a speech. Dawes said that all he could say xx ak that n 1 xvas surprised he "should have so many friends in the opera, especially lit the chorus." DENTON STILL SAINING VOTES I 1 Democrat Appears To Be Elected To Bench In ' Supreme Court (United Press Service) Indiiinnpolis, Nov. 12 (Spe-i ciitl to Daily Dcmon'iil) George Denton of Kvansville, | democratic candidate for justiee of the stale supreme court I'rnni the first district, received about 1 10 more voles in Mar-1 ion county than the unofficial count gave him according to. the canvas of official figures at j the state house today. While officials tabulating the results will make no announcement of results until the totals are reached it was believed that Denton will lead in the official canvas. Unofficial cotints gave Benjamin; Willoughby, republican candidate. | less than a 200 majority over Denton.; Already Howard county and Sullivan county officials have certified larger votes for Denton than the tin-1 official count gave hint. FARM CENSUS TQ ! BE TAKEN HERE Department Os Commerce To List Details Regarding Farms In County A farm census of the Adams Uoun- ( ty farms will he taken shortly after j vipv. nrh< r u •«*» are-usd 4fe» -Vxtt, /it. the year, according to an announce- j incut • Made yesterday hy WUJinrtl J McCauley .special agent of the depart mens of commerce, xvho has opened his headquarters in Ft. Wavne. It is expected that the crew of enumerators will work out of Fort Wayne in covering the census of the farms in northeastern Indiana. Adams County and other counties in this section of the state will be under the charge of McCauley, it xvas stated. Postmaster Harry Fritzinger lias! not yet been advised when the enumerators would work in litis county. It xvas stated yesterday that the work i would begin in Allen County about December l. and tliat it xvotlhl take about nine weeks to complete the task J of listing every farm, crop reports' and other detail required in the 1 census in that county. Statistics con- ' cerning the farm population and • every crop or rural industry will be gathered by the enumerators. The 1 farm census Is taken'every five years ■ by Hie department of commerce. 1 The local postmaster assists the de-1 partment in taking many census dur- ‘ ing the year, one listing the acreage of the different crops grown in the 1 county recently being taken by Postmaster Fritzlnger and the ten rural eat Tiers on* of the Decatur office. j -■ o — , Truck Driver Arrested r r Walia h. Ind., Nov. 12. Howard j Haupert. 20 a grocery truck driver, was held in jail today on a manslaugh ter charge . His truck struck and killed Anna Iconise Hoffman, 4. and seriously in- , jureil Edith Shivers, 3, as they were , crossing a street late yesterday. ; Weather t r Increasing cloudiness with probably / rain in southweat portion tonight and i - in west and south portions Tlmrs- j I day; not much change in temperature.

EXPECT OTHERS I TO RETIRE FROM CABINET POSTS Four More Members Os Coolidge’s Cabinet Expected To Retire HUGHES IS ONE Works And New Expected To Retire; Weeks. Wilbur And Stone May (I’nitoi! Press Service) Washington, Nov. 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Action of Secretary of Labor Davis in making it ; knoxvn that he will accept re-appoint-1 ! inent in President Uoolidge's new cabinet is expected to lie followed shortly by public statements of fourj cabinet members who intend to retire to private life March 4 next. Among the firs! of these it is an j t eipated will be that of Secretary of t 'state Hughes. j Others expected are from Sec re tarv of the Interior Works and Postmaster General Noxv. Secretary of War Weeks, Secretary of the Navy I j Wilbur and Attorney General Stone] likewise may choose to retire. Weeks is nor in particularxly good health 1 ] Wilbur will probably be given a liigbj I judgeship or appointment to an ambassadorship xvliile Stone looks with : considerable Longing to his former ( post as dean of Columbia University] (chool. ! Mexican Arrested After Automobile Collision | Leo Griskv. a Mexican beet worker.) 'war arrested yesterday evening on. a charge of driving an lutomoblle It while intoxicated, following a collision between a lar driven by Griskv and one driven by Mrs. Harry Helm j Grisky -pleaded., nut. guiltg wlmn., j arraigned in court before Justice of j the Peace John W. Merrim tn at 9 ' o’c'oek this morning and his case I xvas sit for a hearing at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Griskv spent Hie night in jail but xva~- released on ! bond this morning. The collision occured on the Mud] Pike, about five miles south of the city, at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. .Mr. Helm was with his wife at the time of the collision. Both 1 cars xvere badly damaged. RELIC PRESENTED TO LOCAL MASONS Lodge Receives Old Newspaper As Gift From Mrs. B. W. Sholty A large number of Masons attended the meeting of the lodge last night at which time Mrs. It. W. Sholty presented to the lodge a copy of the Ulster County Gazette, published in Kingston. New 1 ork. on January 4. j 1800 .and which contained an account jof the death and burial of George I Washington. Special guests of the lodge last night were Mr. and Mrs. Sholty. Dr. I) S. Coverdale and Mrs. Dora More. Mr. Sholty and Dr. I Coverdale are charter members of the local lodge and Mrs. More’s hns|hand was a staunch worker in the lodge several years ago. | Following the regular lodge meeting the members remained in tlieit seats and the guests xvere invited into the lodge room. O. L. Vance, Wor shipful Master of the lodge, iutrodurl ■•d them. Mrs. Slmltv made a splendid j speech during which site presented the newspaper,»frained between glass, to tile lodge*. Mr. Vance made a speech of acceptance. Mr. Sholty was called upon lor n speech and he responded with a few words, Hr 1 Coverdale made a very interesting speech in xvhich lie recited the bis tory of the local lodge, telling of the struggles xvhich the early members were forced to go through. Dr Cover'dale was the first Worshipful Master of the loilge The members or the lQdge gave a rising vote of thanks of Mrs. Simlty , |for the gift- Tit** newspaper lias been in Mrs. Sholtys family since ISOO, and ! Mrs. Sholty decided to present it to I Hu* lodge, so that it would be propor'|y preserved. A social hour followfed the meeting last night. $

Allen County May Build Orphan’s Home Next Year (I'nlted Press Service) Fort Wayne, Nov. 12. The Allen county council Is to meet here Nov. 17 and is to pa s upon a proposed $175,000 bond Issue for the const mi - llion of a in xx orphans' home, it was 'announced today. If Hie issue Is approved the build-1 ling will la* constructed next year Tin* | construction of the building received, favorable consideration from the] council at Its annual meeting last , 1 September. FATHER AND SON j WEEK OBSERVED —' - - - j \ Rotarians Plan Special Program; Churches To Observe Event i This week Is known as “Father u ] ini Son Week." throughout the nation and in keeping with the ohserv* t j ance, the Rotarians will give a pro- I ] gram at the Rotary rooms oil Tlmrs- I ;day evening. Every Rotarfan is »x- 1, I pected to bring his son or some other a bov. in case lie does not have a boy ), of his own. to the meeting. ix j A program has been arranged for 1 I the meeting and in connection with; ( the Father and Son observance, and i , reference Will be made to Armistice < | Day John farmody will give a j j short talk on the "American Legion; land Armistice Day." and William | I Klepper will talk on the subject of , "Father and Son." Martin Mylott , xvill give a reading and U. f J. Voglo- . xvede xvill a’so be called upon for a ( short talk. James Arnold will act as , 'chairman of the meeting and there ] xvill be songs and mil si, and other (means of entertainment. j Father and Son week is being oh- , served bv several of the men's clubs t of Hie different churches. The Baptist church held a meetiug lasi week ( ! for the boys and the Evangelical and Methodist: churches will hold meet i *ings tit’s xveek The program at the Methodist church will be given this evening. Fort Wayne “Red” Has Returned To His Family (United Press Sc vice) 1 ( Fort Wavne. Did , N'ov. 12.--jflln | Schedel, xvho xvas deported to Her- , many in 1920 because of alleged ndieal ideas and affiliations with the ( ] ( ommunists, returned here yesterday from Chicago where lie is under bond | event! lays 5 xvhen lie xvas discovered at a reunion , of relatives Federal off Lists , h„rg. It* violated the law in returning to] the I’nlted States. With only one statement ‘1 fought for a lame cause." Schedel refused to comment upon his case. He is alleged to have slipped hack into the United States over the Mexican border. His family resides here. —o — — Chicago Underworld Pays Tribute To Beer Runner, Chicago, Nov. 12. Dean O'Banion ] Chicago's gentleman beer runner, lav in an undertaking parlor today ] amidst deep banks of flowers brought i as last tributes from his underworld I friends. O’Banion. xvho xvas -hot and killed Monday as a result of filed between ; his gang and a rival beer “syndicate." j xvas a florist. He met death In his i little shop on the near north side : And t lie flowers among which he 1 1 died were among those that xvere ( t brought to his bier. His tfiends re-1 x ntained loyal to O'ltaninn’s business,!, partner and bought their wreaths' * from the (million shop. I o j I “Canned Heat” Kills Man ' j» Kokomo, lnd.. Nov. 12 -Peter Clark, i 1 4f», ;i fruit pp(ldl<w. di<*d #*arlv today j from eating ‘canned heat" a prepara- 1 lion of 'alcohol and paraffin. The f ! man was found on a side street in a A semi-conscious condition and died a ' short time later. .> ' Mellon Not To Make Tax Recommendations Washington. Nov. 12 —Believing it I futile for the present congress to take up lax legislation against Secretary of the Treasury Mellon wil make no recommendation oil taxation in his annual report, he said today at the White House after calling on President Coolidgf*.

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TRIAL OF CASE AGAINST HAWKINS COMPANY STARTS Federal Officials Not To Bargain With Hawkins For His Return TRIAL MOVES SLOWLY Portland Man On Stand Throughout Morning Session Today Indianapolis. Nov. 12. tSpecial to Daily Democrat) —Federal officalj. xx ill not bargain with Morton Hawkins, missing slar defendant in the Ilaxxkins Mortgage Company mail defraud case, to induce him to surrender Homer Elliotl, district attorney, announced today. "It is a case of unconditional surrender or nothing." Klliot said on learning that man giving his name as Beil a ltd saying he represented Haxv kins had presented a proposal to postal officials in Washington that Haxv kins would surrender if assured he xvoul/1 be td./cri] under "reasonable bond."’ The proposal that Hawkins surrender was made to Rush Simmons. Chief of Postal Inspectors at Washington. according to Klliot. Dawkins disappeared tli night before the case was originally to be called for trial here on ©ct 1. His |,on«l of $7,500 was ordered defaulted and a fruitless search of more than a month xvas made for him throughout the country. Todays session of the trial moved slowly. George CofTenherry. of Portland, lnd.. controller of the Hawkins t ompanv was on th/* stand throughout the morning. Defense attorneys submitted Coff enberry to a searching investigation. Attempts were made to draw from Ibe witness statements tltal Hawkins xvas the real head of the affiliated loan companies and that his word was law xv it It his employes and associates. , Ibis was taken as indications that the defendants will insist Hawkins ./lon** was responsible f( r :lie conduct of the business am! the alleged fraudlent methods charged in the indictments. Coffenberrv testified that for three months during 1923 In* was under in si ructions from Hawkins to pay Wil.ii.iiin M. Jones seyrej:/rx- nf it/,, r,, (Tiiifiii state board of acre ol* .re si;d .t v, />(‘k ter "adve- ; eerg pii j/oses (United Press Service) I Indiana polls, Nov. 12. Financial manipulations of the Hawkins Mortgage company, of Portland, lnd. and its affiliated loan societies were revealed by George CofTenherry. former controller of the concern, in testify(Continued on page two) MISSING HORSES ARE RECOVERED Jeff Liechty Finds His Team At Farm North of Berne The team of horses that had been missing from tin* farm of Jeff Liechty near .Monroe, since Sunday night, were found late yesterday afternoon, at the farm of Mrs. Rosaline Habegger, three and one-half miles north of Berne. Mrs. Hahegger had put the horses in her barn when they came up to tin* barnyard gat/*, and was bolding them until Hie owner could he found. How the horses got out of the pas- * tire* field remains a mystery as the fences were not torn down utnl the gates were closed. Mr. Liechty bail believed the horses stolen unlit they were found yesterday. The team was valued at about $250. Dunkards To Meet At Winona Lake Next June Winona Lake lud.. Nov. 12 —Representative Dunkards from several states in the Union xvill meet here next year June 2 to 12. according to word received here today. Several thousand person:) are exppcled to attend the meeting. i