Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1925 — Page 1

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CHICAGO BOOZE RUNNERS FINED AND SEHT'iNGED tbtpS? an U oral Court LOOTED A WAREHOUSE | John Torrio, Lord Os UhiJ °"l Vice World, Included In Group ' Jan' 1 t"'(to Pally! rh Thirteen Chicago boo*.) JSrL-h. John Torrio, on*| notorious O'Donnell brothers., (| , of crime lonls who con- 1 a '" lanlK (touted tbe prohibition act t S ',‘,o'vcars«-oro find or sentenced! tftjai | terms in the federal court by, Judge Adam C. Cllffe today. involved were implicated in| .pnsational Siebett warehouse Lhberv of last April in which a powirfttl Chicago crime syndicate looted goverwVnt bonded warehouse oU bore than PW.OOO in lhfuor | John Torrio. over lord of Chicago vice world, was sentenced to nine Booths in Cook county jail and fined CIM ami costs, it Is the first time in Chicago's history that Torrio. who . i ito claimml lias been behind every! ;, 1K robbery which lias occurred here ~ rifM it years, was ordered to serve t me - Van Orm;i'i Is.Strone On Following Rules iI'NITEP PRESS SERVICE) iwiuiiianolis, .lan. 17. —Rule books i ia the senate chamber v. iil be well | thumbed lie fore the session ends in , MarchLieutnant Governor Van Orman, presiding officer of the F-rw**, -*» n 1 stickler for rules and has frequently ! railed attention to the rule book In th- deliberations of the senate. “What's the use of having rules If they are not used?" Van Orman asked. Let's follow them as long as we have them." o Cross Word Puzzles Invade Legislature i UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Jefferson City. Mo., Jan. 17 —Cross wo’d puzzles have even invaded the legislative halls. Representative Dewey P. Thatch, introduced a resolution instructing the thief clerk to purchase not less than 100 nor more than 150 dictionaries to be left about the hall and lounge for benefit of cross .word puzzle addicts. Speaker Parker ruled the matter should be laid before the committee on eleemosynary institutions. o — Tin Plate King Dies New York. Jan. 17—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Daniel G. Reid, •he tin plate king, formerly of Muu•ie. Ind., died at his home here. R»id, who was 67, has been ill for several days of pneumonia. MO! SCHWARTZ SIED YESTERDAY Prominent Retired Farmer I'ied At Home in Monroe Township funeral services for Jacob Schwartz, “ ' Monroe township,, age 82, one of , farmers in the south Urt of the county, whose death oc-urred-Friday morning, of infirmities, "‘beheld Sunday afternoon. Serti,?! u'" 1)6 lle at one o’clock from frnn " artz borne and at two o’clock cfl , tf,e Defenseless Mennonite be m I WBBt ° f Berne ' Dnftal will ... a e ' n the church cemetery. health ,IWart * !la(i be en in poor ~a , . , tor 80m etime and little hope Sn h , f ° r W 8 recover y- He Schwartz T f ° r , soveral weeks - Mr. Rev t survived by three sons, the i n T, J Schwartz . a minister of and c hUrCh: David Schwartz, * »ne danwiii Schwart,> o{ Berne, and Be rne er ’ rs - Dan Mazelin, of

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More Than 1,000 llavo Purchased Auto Licenses Between 1,000 and 1,100 automobile jowners have secured their 1025 licenses and number plates from the j local office of the state automobile I department, located in the Graham j A Walters building. It is estimated that more than R.oOo plates will he InI sited this year. February 15 has been I set an ‘dead line” for securing the I licenses and automobile owners are_ ! urged to get their licenses and new i number plutcs as soon os possible. COMER DENIES ROBBERY CHARGE Man Held For Robbing Mr. And Mrs. John Harmon Pleads Not Guilty Van Wert. Ohio, Jan. 17.—Roy F. • Comer, evasive young man who was identified by both Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon as one of four men who • bound them with adhesive tape and and looted their home of more than $1,200 yesterday looked across the table at Squire A. C. Gilpin and heard inn affidavit read charging him with 1 the Harmon robbery. “Not guilty” replied Comer, answerling the charge. The accused man, seemed to I<e in a thoughful, wordchoosing mood as his hearing, which was set for 9 o’clock Monday morning was being arranged. He said he had no arrangements for an attorney i hut wuqld select his own counsel. I Asked if he could he ready for his ! hearing Saturday morning, he replied in the affirmative. Then Squire Gilpin recalled tha* Saturday might be an [ inecuvenieut day offering Comer an extension until Monday. Comer was silent a minute or more before lie accepted the change. No dobut ex-deputy Sheriff Holey felt a hit triumphant as he directed , the qian who fur several moDtbs has j been his quarry, before the magi:. ; trate. Boley’s services were retained temporarily by Sheriff John, who in speaking of Comer, said "He’s Boley’s man,” Boley brought him back, arriving here about 10 o’clock Thursday i night from Marlon. Ind. For several months Boley has been chasing Comer, whose home was once in Fort Wayne, the trail leading through many parts of the United States and even to South America —the bunted man worked awhile on a steamer plying between these continents. Rarly this winter Doley was ready to go to Marion to get Comer where lie was in jail, but the quarry bought himself a Stutz automobi’o while behind the bars and escaped through the basement, by riding a dumb waiter. it was reported. A few days ago Comer’s wanderings again brought him to Marion and Boley was there for him before any dumb waiter or prisoners' device liberated him. o Wells County Purchases Two New Highway Trucks Bluffton, Jan. 17.—The county com-1 missioners have negotiated the pur- j chase of two new 3% tons Clydesdale I auto trucks, for the county highway department. They were bought this week at the factory at Clyde, Ohio. The purchase price is $ 1,736 and the two old trucks of the county are traded in to the Clydesdale firm on the two new trucks, an allowance of $2,500 being made for the old trucks. The new trucks will have a working capacity of 5 tons each. Training School Classes Will Meet Next Monday The Community Training School meets next Monday for the third session of the second semester. There has been some confusion as to the evenings the school meets, due to the fact part of the time it is on Monday and part on Tuesday. In order that every student may always know, It is suggested that the following dates for the sessions be cut out and preserved:—January 19, 27; February 2, 10, 16, 23; March 2, 10, 16, 24- Monday evening will be the last session at which students may enroll for credit this semester. It is hoped that still others will enroll. One church, the Pleasant Dale church of the Brethren, have enrolled eight students. They have a distance of atcut eight miles to come.

CRAWFORD LAUDS ROAD WORK HERE v - ■ - - -|| | Lauds Spirit Shown An Donating Right-Of-Way For Ft. Wayne Road In a letter to .1. II Ilellor, uckngfrledging receipt of the agreement for the donation of the right-of-way f or the improvement of the Deeatur-Fort I Wayne road from this city to the Allen county line, north of Decatur, I Earl Crawford, state highway commissioner lauds the fine spirit of unselfishness and public-spiritedness 1 shown by the abutting property owners, and the committee which secured die signatures of the farmem along the road. * Mr. Crawford in his letter stated that the agreements would be turned over to Mr. Kinkle, tlie state engineer, and that the letting of the contract for the improvement of the refad would he advertised in the very near future. Hig letter to Mr. Heller is as follows; “Dear Sir: ’ I have received your letter of the 15th containing the right-of-way agreements and I want to thank you for your hearty co-operation in this matter. it speaks mighty well for the : efficiency of your Good Roads Organization and the Industrial Association in your community. “I am suro that with such co-op-eration as this from your community, it is a pleasure to try and work out the ways and means to carry to - ward this work at the earliest possible moment artd in the least amount of time. “I have turned these right-of-way agreements over to Mr. Hinkle, our engineer in charge of the improvements in your locality, and they will help h'in in perfecting his plans for an early advertisement of his work. ‘ Yours truly, “State Highway Commission, ‘‘Earl Crawford,” ■ s "~fi—iil-j 1 *•»«* Commissioner. ! Seek Whereabouts Os Former Australian! ————-— Fort Wayne, Jan. 17. —Police here j are in receipt of a letter from the British consulate general, who seeks aid in locating Tasman Carey, who formerly lived, it is said at 646 Creighton avenue, and at tlie Palace hotel. Detectives were unable to find him at either address. The man's family lives in New South Wales*Australia, and his wife has not heard from him for nine months, the letter says. Mr. Carey visited in Decatur about a year ago. He claimed to be a character analyist and endeavored to form a class here, but without success. OLD OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED Security Company Holds Election; Herman Gillig New Manager At the annual election of officers of the American Security company, held at the company's office on Monroe street last evening, the old officers was re-elected and Herman Gillig was elected manager of the company, succeeding Fred Kolter, who will become active manager of the Adams County Auto company of this city. The old officers are, W. A. Kuebler, president: XV. A. Klepper, vice-presi-dent; L. C. Waring, treasurer and I Herman Gillig, secretary. Mr. Gillig jhas assumed his duties as manager !of the Security company and Mr. Kol- ! ter, who has been identified with the I Adams County Auto Company, local | Ford agency, since it was purchased Iby a new company composed of L. C. Waring, C. S. Niblick and Mr. Kolter, will assume the management of the | auto company on Monday. Mr. Kolter will have his office at I the garage and will be ready at all | times to serve the many patrons of the Ford agency. Mr. Kolter was manager of the American Security I company since it was organized in this city in March 1922. Mr. Gillig is | a well known citizen and for many ! years was one of the owners and genneral manager of the Fornax Milling company, whose mill was destroyed by fire last fall.

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WYOMING GOVERNOR - ',l rtPrw-'K MRS. NELLIE TAYLOR ROSS A climax to more than fifty-five years of equal rights for women in Wyoming came Monday. Jan. 5, when M’-s. Nellie Taylor Ross formally took over her duties as governor of the state. Inaugural ceremonies, Spartan likp in their'severity and sraplicity, marked the induction into office of the ftrn woman governor of any commonwealth in the United States. With a pledge placing her mental ind physical faculties at the disposal cf the people for the administration of affairs of state and calling for “divine guidance’'’ to d'rect iter, a woman, dressed in mourning for her husband, tlie late Gov. William B. Ross, stepped into the place made vacant by his death less titan three months ago. Among telegrams received was one from Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, of Texas, who, after Jail. 20. will share with Mrs. Ross the distinction of being a woman governor. Rather singularly, the oath of office Mondty was administered to Mrs. Ross by one of the men —Chief Just’ce C. N. Potter, of the Wyoming! Supreme court —who on Sept. 30, IRS 9 drafted the clause granting equal rights to the women in the state. LEGISLATORS AT HOME TODAY Preparing; For Strenuous Session Next Week; Trv For Speed (UNITED TRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Jan. 17 —(Special td Daily Democrat) — With thpir first week's work completed, most of the members of the seventy-fourth gener-J al assembly were back home today; preparing for a strenuous session. next week. Heeding the admonitions of the incoming and outgoing administrations the legislators have attempted to speed up their work. Although the hoppers of the legislative mill! were jammed with a total of ninetyseven bills, quick action has been given them by committees and eleven have been reported out for second reading. Among the most important measures which is expected to go into second reading next week is the cooperative marketing bill. This was introduced in both houses Wednesday and committee has been considering it for the past three afternoons. A subcommittee was appointed Thursday and will make a report on any changes it sees fit to make in the bill in order that it would become w-orkable as a law. The sub-commit-tee completed its work late yesterday and is to report back to the full committee Monday. The full committee is then expected to make a report on houses on the bill either Wednesday or Thursday. Root Township Lady Spends Week At Purdue Miss Esther FXihnnan, president of the Root Township Home Economics Club, has returned from where she spent the entire week, representing her club at the annual Agricultural Conference held at Purdue University. IF gather Fair and colder Saturday; and Sunday fair and somewhat warmer.

CATHERINE PECK DIES AT HOSPITAL Well-Known Preble Township Lady Succumbs To Attack Os Diabetes Mrs. Catherine Kpeis Peek, age 68 years, well known resident of Preble township, died at the Adams County Memorial hospital at 4 o'clock this morning, following an illness of diabetes. Mrs. Peck was removed from her home near Mngley to the hospital more than two weeks ago. Mrs. Peck was a daughter of the lute Rev. and Mrs. William Speis and was horn in Detroit, Michigan, October 29. 1886. She rame to Adams county in 1867, at which time her father took charge of the Reformed church congregation at Magley. On January 23, 1872, tlie deceased was married to Frederick Peek, who survives. Six children were horn to Mr. and Mrs. Peck two of them having preceded their mother in death. Those surviving are August, at, home; Otto and Mrs. August Kruetzmann, of Preble townslii; Mrs. Otto Schlickman of Decatur. Mrs. Peek is survived by five sisters, also they being Mrs. Mary Reppert, of Magley; Mrs. Charles Miller, of near Preble; Mrs. Emma Vitz, of Indianapolis: Mrs. Matilda Hagen, of Californiaffi and Mrs. Huluda Diehl, of Lafayette. Funeral services will be held from the home at 1 o'clock and from the Magley Reformed church, of which Mrs. Peck was a member, at 1:30J o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. j Engleman. officiating. Burial will be made in the Magley cemetery. o Undergoes Operation To Remove Cataract From Eye V. W. Stewart, of Wrsi, Ohio, was in the city today, coming here from Fort Wayne where he accompanied I his son-in-law, Al Hoover, of Convoy, Ohio, to the St. Joseph hospital. Mr. w cover underwent an operation for the removal of a cataract on the eye. He is getltng along nicely and it is thought that the operation will restore his sight to him. Farmer Has Knee Hurt In Butchering Accident Charles A. Bowman. St. Marys town-! ship farmer, is recovering from a 1 painful injury suffered while butchering a hog four weeks ago. The hog made a lunge against Mr. Bowman's I left leg, tearing the ligaments loose in the knee. Mr. Bowman spent 1 four weeks in the house and today was the first time he was able to get away from home and visit the city, i j The injury is improving. PREBLE B A N K HAS ELECTION Old Directors Are Re-Elect-ed; Only One Change < In Officers No change was made in the board Bank at Preble and only one change was made in tlie staff of officers, at the annual election held at the bank on Thursday. The directors of the bank was re-elected are, Albert Reppert, William Meyer, John Hoffman, August Conrad, John Miller, Ben IJniger and Charles Arnold. Albert Reppert was re-elected presi. dent of the bank; William Meyer w-as elected vice-president, succeeding Jeff IClopfensteoin of Fort Wayne, who retired from the board. The other officers who were re-elected were C. R. Smith, cashier; John Hoffman, assistant cashier, and Noah Arnold, teller. The Farmers State Rank was organized in 1916. It has a paid up capital of $25,000 and $2,200 has been set aside in the surplus account. The bank enjoyed a healthy business during the year and the usual dividend was declared and paid. The Farmers State Bank was the scene of a hold-up on June 9, 1921 and Cashier Smith was shot In the chest by the bandits, who are now serving time in the state prison at Michigan City. Miss Edna Werling, who was employed as a bookkeeper at the bank, also was injured by the bullets which the bandits fired when Mr. Smith refused to give up the money they demanded.

Twenty-Four Have Paid 1924 Taxes Already Twenty-four taxpayers in Adums county have already paid their spring ‘ installment of the 1924 taxes. County Treasurer Louies Klelue stated this morning. The Lax receipts have been made up and Mr, Kleine and Ills deputy, Miss Anna Smith, are ready to receive payments any time property owners wish to make them. Tlie county treasurer's office issues about 10.000 receipts during the year and the taxes this year will total $954,000. INSTITUTE AT BORO WEDNESDAY Annual St. Marys Township Farmers Institute At Bobo School The annual St. Marys township farmers institute will be held at the Bobo school house next Wednesday. January 21. Three sessions will be held during the day and a splendid program lias been prepared for each session. The institute will open at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, with the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner." The afternoon session will open at 1:30 o'clock ami the evening session will begin at 7:30'. The principal addresses at the morning and afternoon sessions will be given by 11. R. Muller, of Cedar Grove, Indiana, ! and Mrs. Carl Tuttle, of Pleasant l Lake. A miscellaneous program has been arranged for the evening session, including moving-pictures, talks songs, recital and a review of the day by the county agent. Kermit F. Bower, is chairman of • the institute. Lunch will be served at j nocn by the Ladies Aid of the Bobo j ’ Methohdist church. Following is the j ! program for the entire day: Forenoon Se-sion —9:30 ’ Song “Star Spangled Banner” ’ Devotionals Rev. Murrey I .j ; Hogs and Better Hogs” -H. R. Muller. Cedar Grove, Ind. I Discussion | "Potter and Clay” Mrs. Carl Tuttle, Pleasant Lake. Ind. j Discussion Afternoon Session—l:3o : Song ‘‘America’’ ■ | Devotionals Rev. Murray “Some Problems In Rotation” .... H. R. Muller I Discussion “Life In a Rural Community" .. Mrs. Carl Tuttle Discussion Electio nos Officers. Evening Session —7:30 Song Calvary Male Quartette Devotionals Rev. Murray Moving Pictures County Agent L. M. Btische Song Methodist Mixed Quarette ' j Recitation Eldrecl Shifferly j Song Calvary Quartette j Talk O. L. Vance 1 Song Methodist Quartette Review of Day L. M. Busche o — 1 Letter Received From Jesse O. Sellemeyer A letter from our old friend J. O. Sellemeyer, now with the Southwestern Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles encloses a year’s subscription and! wishes for a big year. Jesse says it look ed for a time as though they might bo sent to Dayton. Ohio, by his company as a $5,000,000 plant is being built there, but that is settled now and he is to remain on the coast. He and Mrs. Sellemeyer and daughter saw the Notre Dame-Leland Stanford footboll game on New Year's Day and it was a real one in which the Indiana boys, much to their delight, won the contest because of their speed and ability to pass the bail behind the lines. o Extend I ife Os D»ht Funding Commission Washington. Jail. 17.— (Special to Daily Democratj-p-Without a record ■ vote of the house today, 'passed bill extending for two years the life of the debt funding commision. The commission is due to expire February 7. p During consideration of the mea- ‘ sure representative Fiseh, New York, • republican demanded that France - take official steps to refund its war obligations to this country.

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HOOVER SLATED TO RETAIN POST AT WASHINGTON President Coolidge Says No More Changes Likely Now CAPITAL GROWS QUIET Resignations And Replacements Have Kept Capital Wondering By William J. Losli, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 17. —The situI at lon in Washington was calmer today after official announcement from the White House that Secretary Herbert Hoover would continue as head of the department of commerce and that the President expected, for the time being, no further changes in important posts. The capital is Just ending one of the most unsettled weeks in history and its nerves are jumpy. Resignations and replacements kept it wondering what the fast moving man in the White House was going to do and what public official would be next to go. Latest developments were that Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes is slated to be replced as soon as congress votes on the Cramton bill to make an independent department out of the prohibition bureau and that General Frank T. Hines will resign as head of the veterans' bureau. Arthur Woods, of New York, was talked of as Hayne's successor, but j be denied the post had been offered. I Governor General Leonard Wood, who ; has talked of once before, was again | spoken of bur without much convic- | tion. , Theodore Roosevelt Jr., was ment'oned in connection with Haynes’ ; successor. Roosevelt is at present : available and the President's choice | may land on him. Secretary Hoover’s blunt statement I of his refusal to accept the agricul- | tural post was explained today by his : friends as planned to silence once and for all the talk of his being transferred. Hoover has many enemies in agricultural circles whom bis friends feared would seize upon the proposed move to open violent persona] attacks aga'bst him if he hesitated and they advised him to leave no doubt‘about his refusal. o Three Small Children Burn To Death In Home Keewatin. Minn.. Jan. 17.—Throe small children were burned to death late yesterday when their home was j destroyed by fire. The children, two daughter two and ‘four years, and a son six years old, !of Joseph Etmonich. a miner, were left alone to play while their mother went out to the barn and before she had returned the house was a mass of ruins. The house was a small, tar paper, three room shack and burned very rapidly. Origin of the fire is undetermined. AUCTIONEERS HOLD BANQUET Graduates And Instructors Os Auction School Enjoy Evening Students and instructors of the Reppert Auction School enjoyed a banquet at tbe Murray Hotel yesterday evening, marking the close of the tern Col. J. M. Bergquist, acting as toastmaster, was at his best and furnished plenty of entertainment. The guests all responded with after-dinner speeches and again prov- | ed that they are real orators. The commencement exercises were held in the school room yesterday afternoon. After short talks' from all | of the students and instructors, French Quinn, of this city, gave the •commencement address, which was a ‘ | masterpiece, filed with good, sound advice and was greatly appreciated by every one present. ’ The students left for their various home last night and today, ready to 1 Continued on nege throe)