Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1924 — Page 1

Volume XXII. Number 302.

SUB - ZERO WEATHER CLAIMS 21 LIVES

■WHER OLD I ME WEEK IS I IHKOFMffI ■ I Old Board Os Managers ■ Willing To Stage Sim- ■ ilar Event Here II EVENT HELD IN 1912 ■ I Committee Wants ■ Os Public Regarding ■ Repetition Os Even! Jg I- | Shirmeyor. who serv-a- ■■ ~j. .:-: u „n <>f the. board ol man:i:.. r HBfcr th- famous Old Homo We-: B 9 rir.'. , ailed this morning in r.-I’-a-1,1 ,i. Indianapolis booster who v. < HI ;o, ■ ...r a repetition of tlie ■I Ifr'.;. ami said that lie agreed with M -Did Timer" said, that it v a ■M t'. • most delightful occasion in thMM 1,;.y of'this community ami i. tin HH p,.,- desire it ami the board v.'e.aMB sisted him are willing, he will Kindly Rm.: hi- hit. The old board has mmi Rm ,id Sanded and Mr. Sehirmeyer will BH call lb."in together shortly after || Christmas and discuss the id-a. HE Tiie 1912 board included th- follow- ■ I in-: F. 11. Hubbard, Morton Sinhs, || 11. 11. MoltZ, (’. N. Chirsten. C. C. IB S.hnfer, 11. Yager. E. X. Exhingcr. Bl i' A- rmgan, W. P. S-lire 1. I'u H Oniun. F. M. Sehirmeyer and .1. 11. M Hitler. They organized June H ami |H th«‘ event was held October 12 to 17 Hi It is claimed that every •: .!» :• o’ H| tin’ board attended practically ev. r\ ■| meeting including a session once ■ I . : week until the l.i J n a:'! B 9 they met several times each week. ■ I The event cost $2,850.76. a report fib I ed at the close showing where ea< h I dollar came from and where it went | One cf the features of the we-k was ■ th- opening and dedication of the | new Holland-St. Louis sugar plant. | The program included many social I events for the home-comers, parad-s! I of various kinds, baloon races, a wire I feature, many concessions and closed j I with a "Home, Sweet Home" parade I on Saturday evening, that day 1» ing I added because of the great interest I manifested. While there are many happy mem I cries of the occasion perhaps the I most outstanding thing was the great I interest shown by those away from I home. Several thousand letters were I received and published during the I summer and more than a thousand ■ returned to mingle with the folks, j I Your desires and opinions will be I appreciated by the committee. o Moose Buy Ten Dollar Health Bond Today I W. Guy Brown, county chairman in I I charge of the Christmas Seal sale. | I today received a check from the De- | I catur Moose lodge for $lO in payment I I for a Health Bond. Several of the g lodges and clubs have purchased [ I Health Bonds already and more are [ I expected to purchase them soon I 0 - | SUNDAY SCHOOL I TO GIVE PABEANT | “The Bethlehem Inn” To Be Given At Evangelical Church Sunday Sunday evening at 7:00 o'clock nt' young people of the Evangelical SunI day School will render a Christmas pageant, entitled "The Bethlehem Inn.” It is in harmony with the ! White Gift Christmas program which was carried out so successfully last [ year. The pageant is very realistic and portrays vividly the spirit of Hie ■ times of the nativity. The rendition requires over un hour. Following is the cast of characters: Spirit of Christmas— Mary Macy Hanna (A blind beggar-maid)—Ma; y Fuhrman Salla (A Roman inn-keeper)—L. b (Continued On Page Five)

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CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS The Daily Democrat wishes to | i print programs of the Christmas I services to be held in the differJ ent churches in the city and county. The rural church ani nouncement.s will be printed in Tuesday's edition and those for the churches of this city will be ■ printed on Wednesday. There will be no edition of the Daily Democrat on Thursday. Christmas Day. Pastors are urged to get the copy of their programs into the Daily Democrat office cn the day preced- | ing the day they are to be pubI lished in order to facilitate matters in this office. BERHETOOTHS - ARE ACqtJITTED Jury Finds Them Not Guilty Os Public Intoxication , Today A verdict of not guilty was return ed at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon by ihe jury in the case of the state against Melvin Hirschy and Albert Kirchofer, two Berne youths, charged with public intoxication. The jury deliberated for about two hours. The case went on trial Friday : morning. The two youths were charged with being drunk while attending I a box social at the schol house in 'district No. 2 in Wabash township a 'ear ago. A large number of witnesses testified iu,the trial. o Reduction In Taxes Costs Large Amount < EXITED PRESS SUP. VICE) Washington, Dec. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Reduction of income and war taxes by congress last spring cost the government nearly , $100,000,000 in revenue during the first five months of the operation of : the new law. the international rev- | enti > bureau reported today. Income taxes collected in the period July 1 to Dec. 1 totaled $453,758,-' 074. a decrease of $31,000,000 as com-' pared with the same period last' year. Miscellaneous taxes formally including many war time taxes which were abolished by the new law totaled $375,818,311, a decrease of $67,000,000. _Q Deposed Warden Os Penitentiary Indicted (t’Ni'i’ED PRESS SERVICE) Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The federal grand jury which indicted A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, former wardens at the, Atlanta penetentiary for alleged, . bribery was recessed today until! after the holidays. J Meanwhile secret service agents of j the department of justice continued .■their investigation of conditions at. the prison, promising more sensation-: al disclosures when the grand jury reconvenes early in January. Signal Bell For Traffic Control Device Is Erected The signal bell for the operation of the traffic sign at the corner of Monroe and Second streets has been erected on the pole at the southwest ! corner of the street. The bell rings when the lights in the signal change from red to green. The stop andl go signals hold for 37 seconds. The signal device was erected on approval and the council is considering pur- • chasing several signals like it , controls traffic from the four street i intersections. • —o John M. Blossom, Civil War Veteran, Is ill 1 T R Blossom is in receipt of a card front J C. Blossom, of Richmond informing him that his brother, John M Blossom. Civil war veteran, is con- j fined to the soldiers hospital at th soldier's, home, Dayton, Ohio Mr Blossom has suffered two strokest o : paralysis. He went to Dayton several years ago.

STATE CLOSES CASE ON FRIDAY Defense Starts Fight In James Fetters Trial At Celina, Ohio Celina, Ohio, Dee. 20—The stat® closed its case a( 11 o’clock Friday morning in the trial of James Fetter, local youth, who is charged with murder in connection with the killing of Eil Moyer, Mercer county farmer. in August, 1922. The defense then begun introduction of evidence. The defense called E. E. Jackson, attorney, from Rockford, who testified that he was called to the Moyer homo on the morning of August 23. 1922, and that he, as justice of the I peace, acted as coroner, viewed the body in rhe lane, also assisted Dr. M. L. Downing in holding autopsy, that J the wound in th? body was about the I size of a quarter or a half dollar. Al.so testified as to certain tracks. I footprints, shot in the smokehouse | and fence, and certain distances I from place to place on the farm. Sheriff Creeden was called as a witness on behalf of the state Friday morning and testified as to the manner and method of procuring the confessions from the defendant, as well as the other co-indictees. Also identified certain photographs as being a reenactment of the affair at the Moyer farm on the night of the J murder. The photographs were ruled out by the court. Frank Kloeb, the prosecuting attorney. was called, and gave in detail the finding of the body, shotgun shells, both empty and loaded, the Io action of the gun with reference to vibe body, certain footprints, a right 1 foot being deformed, the bullet hole jin the house, shot in the smokehouse door, garden fence, and also testified 1 with reference to the boys telling I heir stories of the murder. Jesse Smelzer testified as to meet ing Jim and George Fetters and Wilbur Fetters at Blossom’s pool room and leaving for Rockford to attend a band concert, when they arrived at Rockford found there was no banu concert, and George started to drive : on west from Rockford and they in(Continued on Pare six) LAST OF BEETS IN SUGAR MILL Slicing Finished; Factory Expected To Close Monday Or Tuesday The last of the 1924 crop of sugar Sheets were started through the mill of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar com- [ pany in this city at seven o’clock this morning and by Monday or Tues- ! day will have been made into fine granulated sugar. The mill finished i slicing the beets last night. The big sugar mill, which has been :in operation for the past seventy days, will close down about the middle of next week and the fires will be drawn from the boilers. The work of cleaning up the mill, repairing machinery and clearing the factory of the 70 day grind will then start. The mill opened on October 9th. The campaign just closing is the thirteenth annual run made by the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company since the mill was established here in 1912. The 1924 sugar-making campaign was one of the most successful ones in the point of production and factory operation. Although the tonage of raw beets was not as large as first anticipated, about 60,000 or 65,000 tons, the production of sugar has been larger than usual. The beets this year were of a high quality and tested high In sugar contents. During the campaign three hundred people were employpd in and about the mill, exclusive of those employed ■ at weigh stations and throughout the territory. During the campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars was expended for labor, sugar beets, freight coal, and other itmes required in the operation of the mill and the carrying on of the campaign.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 20, 1921

— GOOD FELLOWS CLUB i Give Your Bit And Make Some Poor Child Happy On December 25 ' A total of $37.50 was added to the Good Fellows Club Christmas fund today when the donation boxes were opened, spending the grand total over • the s2ofl-mark. The largest donation ’ S2O, was made by the decode Club of . the General Electric company. The i Fred Mutchler Packing company • donated $lO also. The other dnoa- • tions were 50 cents and one dollar ‘ each. This makes a total of $200.64. • The total is expected to be increased • considerably when the money rals- ’ ed through (he sale of tags today by the Della Theta Tau sorority, spon- • sors of the Club, is added. The Good Fellows Club will close Tuesday of next wook and the money raised will be used in purchasing toys, candy, 1 clothing and other articles for the ‘ poor children of the city. The new .members of the Good Fellows Club ■ ar®: Previous total $163.14 ' G- eode Club of O. E. Co 20.00 A. T. Brown 1.00 1 E. F. Gass & Son 1.00 F. Mutschler Packing Co. ... 10.00 Anna Winnes 1.00 k A friend .50 ' a friend 1.00 i Motts STether 1.00 , J. W. Reynolds 1.00 IA friend 1.00 k I Total $200.64 :ZERO WEATHER : HAS ARRIVED k a ■—■ ■ ... i ■ 1 Temperature Falls To 3 Below Zero; River Still At High Stage i The cold wave arrived and the i thermometers fell from 32 above to t two and three below zero this morni ing. At about eight o’clock the tern- > Yerature stood at zero, but climbed - during the morning and at one-thirty ’ o’clock, street thermometers stood at 14 above. A light skift of snow start ed to fall about noon anil indications are that it will continue. The overflow water from the river is frozen and the boys and girlk were enjoying skating today. Ponds and ■ creeks were also frozen over. The main stream of the river was not frozen, the current being too strong r for ice to form. However, the river was filled with ice cakes and if the zero weather holds on the river will more than likely freeze over. The water has not receded to a great extent. I Ray Smith, rural mall carrier on route six, was forced to make a double trip over the route again this morning, covering the route over the southeast and the east roads. The j ice over the road near Pleasant Mills makes passage almost impossible. o 1 v Sister Os Mrs. Dora Laurent Died Fridav i " Mrs. Dora Laurent left today for ? Detroit, Michigan, where she was Y called on account of the death of her sister, Mrs. Emma Durbin. Mrs. Durbin died at 11:30 o’clock Friday b morning. Mrs. Frank Geary and 0 Mrs. Otto Barkenstein. of Ft. Wayne y are also sisters of the deceased, and 0 Joseph Sapp, also of Fort Wayne, is 4 a brother. ► ■ Catholic High School Begins Christmas Vacation s t The Catholic high school closed Frill day afternoon for the Chirstmas vacaI. tion. The grades will have school li Monday and the Christmas vacation I- will begin Monday afternoon. d t M —ill JdV5 tO □llCp e -’'S’V o 'i I I J I*4 1 L.

TEN DROWNED IN ~ WRECKED TRAIN Dining Car Falls Into River Near Chipewa Falls, Wisconsin (EXITED PRESS SEItVICE) Chippewa Falls, WiH., Doe. 20. Ten 'persons died today when i dining ear from tlie Souix 1 ,'ne train, number two, bound from Minneapolis to Chicago, fell Into the Chippewa river here shortly after noon today. 1 Chippewa Falls, Wis. —Several lives may have bee# lost at noon today when twenty-one persons were plunged in the Chippewa river ten miles from here, when the diner of the Souix train, number two, plunged off the bridge and into the water. Twenty-one persons were in the dinner at the time and so far only fourteen have been accounted for. 'These were rescued by boat. Railroad officials are making a check to • determine whether the other ten were drowned or got to shore unobserved. Jack Connelly To Be Returned To Baltimore (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Chicago, Dec. 20. —Jack Connolly, who made a daring escape from the Baltimore penitentiary where lie was serving from 15 years to life for a murder in Baltimore, will be taken back at noon today unless something unexpected intervenes. State's Attorney Crowe declared today. Two Baltimore officers are here to take Connelly, into custody. Crowe raid thaY Connelly had announced he would not fight extradition. “We shall do everything possible | to expedite Connelly's return,” Crowe ' said. "We hope to start him back at noon.” Connelly is held here for a $35,000 silk robbery from a Chicago garment plant. The charge will be pressed to enable the Baltimore authorities j free hand. Crowe said. COUNTY TAXES ARE DISTRIBUTED County Auditor Writing Checks For Different Taxing Units County Auditor Martin Jaberg has ' written the checks to the treasurers 1 of the different taxing units in the county arfd to the state, for the dis- ' tribution of the tax money collected last November. 1 The total of the distribution was 1 $449,559.48 and the money is divided ’ among the state, the county, town- ‘ ship, school city, and corporation ’ units, including the library. More ’ than sijety per cent of the money is used for schools and roads. The amounts as divided among the different taxing units are as follows: , Union township $ 4.211.65 Root 8,604.8® r ' Preble 5,700.98 ( Kirkland 5,828 03 .[Washington 6.041.77 j St. Marys 8,036 49 J Blue Creek 8,338.91 I ■ Monroe .. 11 634 02 , French 5,006 51 j | Hartford 9,737 6:, , I Wabash 6,661.72 Jefferson • 10.555.1.) . Berne schools . ■ 12.473.98 Geneva schools 4,266.53 Decatur schools ■ 40.374.14 Monroe town fit ’l 28 • Berne town 11.,40.64 • Geneva town 2,293.4 1 1 City of Decatur 25,000.17 i Decatur Library 1,796.47 State of Indiana 63,888.82 ! County, all funds . 57,912.01 The November taxes represent about half of the taxes collected in Adams county during 1924. The May taxes were a few thousand dollars higher than the November collection The distribution of tax money is made every six months. The money is divided among the different, funds for which a tax levy has been levied in the separate taxing unit.

THE PROBLEM SOLVED Where urn you going for Christnas? What are you going to have I for Christinas dinner, is the next [ question one housewife asks of | the other. To solve the Christmas . dinner problem, read Tuesday' Daily Democrat, which will contain the advertisements of local grocers and meat market proprietors. The up-to-date housewife first reads the ads and then makes , up her shopping list. Ixx'al grocery stores are stocked with the . many good things to eat and seasonable foods and Vegetables J will be on hand for the Christmas shoppers. Advertisers are' request- ■ ed to have copy of their ads in . the hands of the printer early Monday so that it can be published in Tuesday’s edition. Buy your artl/les for Christinas , i dinner from the stores who invite . | your patronage. AUTfIEXHAUST GAS KILLS THREE Overcome In Garage While Letting Engine Run To Keep Warm Holly, Mich., Dec. 20—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Carbon monoxide gas from an auto exhaust killed ' rhree men here today. The men were found in 3 garage whore they had apparently closed the iloors and ’ left the auto engine running to keep ’ warm. The dead: Harold Nuberville. 21. Fred Wagoner, 23 and William Brown ‘ 20. all of Holly. A. P. Nuberville. father of Harold broke into the garage this morning, when he discovered the men bad • [ been missing all night.’ 1 Samuel Gompers’ Will Is Probated TodaJ Washington. Dec. 20. —The will of , the late Samuel Gompers, labor leader, probated here today left the bulk I of his estate to his three sous and II alloted to his wife the minimum amount required by law The will was drawn November s. th s year t<» supercede the one made r in 1921 when ho married bls second wife, leaving the entire property to [ her. The amount of the estate wis not revealed. o — Red Troops Mutiny In Moscow, Russia il (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) J Berlin. Dec. 29.- Red troops sup j porting Leon Trotsky mutined at JMo’cow and arrested M. Stalin, secroi) tary general of the communist party. P Imprisoning hint in their barrn.ks x according to a dispatch to the Berliner Zeitung Am Nittag From its e Bucharest correspondent, who quotes : Odessa reports. 5 The troops, the reixjrt aid. were 0 ’engaged by soviet circulars brand 8 ing Trotsky as a .traitor. 2[ Premier Rykkov went to the bar 7 racks and sought unnteeessfully to 9 obtain Stalin's release which vra< 1 agreed to only upon condition that 2 Stalin resign the secretaryship of Die 1 [ communist party. 51 Loyal troops, according to the r<>2 port, then stormed the barracks and 3 .many wore killed in the fighting that 8 ensued. 3[ Two generals are said to have i come out publicity for Trotsky while s tlie latter's supporters occupied pul) lie buildings in many parts of Russia. * It is reported that supporters of Nijninovgorod and Kasan overwhelmed backers of Zinoviev. 2j ■ o J Bonlin? Named Secretary i Os State Tax Board Today V . s Indianapolis. Dm'. 20.— (Special to ! Daily Democrat) —O. S. Poling, of InR dianapolis was appointed Secretary ol y the State tax board today by Chair s man John Brown to succeed Wi'liam ][ Harrison who has tendered his re I signation effective January 1,

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RELIEF WITHIN NEXT THIRTY-SIX HOURSFORECAST Middlewest Struggling Under Demoralized Wire And Rail Service STORM SHIFTS TO OHIO Temperature Falls Ninety Degrees In Ohio During Last Night (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Chicago, Dec. 2<). Al least twentyone persons were killed as a result of tlie sub-zero weather centering . over tlie middlewest, according to data obtainable today. Four were killed in Milwaukee, three in Oklahoma, two In St. Louis, two in Chicago, two in Detroit, one near Kansas City. Mo., and one in Kansas. The deaths were-due to fires from over-heated stoves, falls, tratfic accidents ami exhaustion from the cold. , Polar weather should lift from thia territory within tlie next 36 hours, the weather bureau stated. hi the meantime the mlddlewojt is struggling with tlie gigantic- task of clearing up the tangle of broken telephone and telegraph wires and pok-s sprawling over tlie countryside, disI rupting communication and slowing 1 up railroad and interurban service. I Where sno>v and sleet covered rails * do not slow down service to a snail’s ■*[ pace, lack of wire facilities force) ex- > tri ’Jte < &Miion • The storm has shifted to Ohio 1 [ where the temperature dropped f>) [ degrees during the night. Neary all of Illinois, with th® ex- ’ ceptli n ol th® northern port! n. i practically isolated. Limited service is obtainable to St. Louis add other southeastern Missouri points. Several thousand persons are r ; stranded in St. Louis because of slow ! train service. Trains ar« running f from eight to twelve hours late. Neari'v all trains from the west are hours ■ 'ate, according to railroad dispatches 1 in Chicago. ’I Property damage will run into -lie millions of dollars, it was estimated. Kansas Citv. Dec. 20— With rail and ? wire communl'-ations still bmiiy d<L moralized a break in the sub-zero ” -weather that has prevailed over the | mlddkwest was due today, accords Ing to the weather bureau hero Temperatures were expected to go as high as 15 above In Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri I: many towns were conipletely i -olat' d by the storm. Three persons died in Oklahoma as -la result of the hitter eold: one man i [froze to death near Wathena. Kan., ■ 'and a 16 year old girl was killed hero . last night while coasting. In Texas, bandits took advantsge . of the ero weather and raided the . i town of Valley View, robbed two J banks of $12,000 and then set fire to | the buildings. Most of the business (Continued from Pago Ono) ... — t ,.. .... TWO BABIES ARE FATALLY BURNED Three Other ( hildren Seriously Burned In Fire In Detroit ” ' — (UNITED PRE (S SERVICE) Detroit. Mich.. Dec. 20- Two babies were burned to death and three cbil--1 dren of C. E. Whitman were seriously 1 burned in a fire, from an overheated stove that destroyed their home here early today. The dead: Mildred Whiteman. A. Johnson. 3. . Evelyn. 8; Emma. 12; and Clinton a 13- were taken to a hospital where ( . they were reported in a serious con- >( ditlon. Evelyn mat die, doctors saidr Eber Whitman. 40, qon of E. B. n Whitman and father of Mildred ro-> :>■ suced the rest of the family from the flames.