Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1925 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

XXIII. Number 27.

EIGHT DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE THIS MORNING Os City siasy akk injured Mephone Girls And Col|ege Students Display Heroism (i-vited press sunvicnt rh Lo Jan. <« r)nl ” r strati- Eit'h. known dead was * l 3tPPt count today by firemen in t Maze which “wept a 36 apart- * t building on the south si.fo p v( . Indies have been recovered. are visible In the smoking uin . and it is believed two or more bodies an- buried tinder ibf mass of debris. jUirty persons were injured. Five din. But quick thinking of two Miboiu- girN and the heroism ot ifvrral college students and firemen ®1 police kept tho casualties from being much higher. Rose Baker and Margaret Locke, tolephone girls at tho Del Prado jrtPl. adjoining tho apartment buildin’ saved four persons from what Mfmed like sure death. The girls en two men, a woman and a boy on the fourth floor of the structure, Ibcir escape cut off by the flames. Running to tho fourth floor of the intel, the girls shouted for the. four t # be culm. The girls secured a long ironing ixiard. ran it from their window across the eight foot area war mJ the four era wled to safety. An unidentified woman, also trapped by the flames on the fourth and top floor, leaped from her window. Bv. her clothing caught on tj .projecting rod from the third floor winfw. Shrieking with pain and fright ns long tongues of fire whirled wound her, she dangled 30 feet above the pavement. Several University of Chicago students saw her plight They wared ladders and two of them scrambled to the rescue through the Hames and brought the woman to safety. She was not badly hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Olive Hardy, and their nine months old daughter were trapped in their fourth floor apartwrit Unable to penetrate the fire and, smoke and apparently crazed with fright, they leaped to the street ad were killed. Their child. Doris, * a ’ found burned to death in the iputuient. Miss Loreatta Frayer, 16 ’as burned to death while fighting ta way along the blazing hallway «t the third floor. The body of an unidentified woman was taken from the top floor. Steven Cotton and his wife and *M!d were trapped in their fourth "tor apartment. Unable to make Wr escape down the hallway, they a window and stood poised (Continued On Page Five) —— — o RADIO FUND IS PAST SSOO MARK Total Os $507.26 Raised To Provide Sets For Blind Citizens The total of the fund being raised w the purpose of purchasing radio * '* n b' 3e ts for the blind residents catur and the immediate vicin- - 1 , 0 passet * the SSOO mark. The »rlbutions reported today by ] Colter and R. J. Harting. rs of the movement, boosted the ’taid total to $507.26. an } ount baß now reached a for nil* I assures a receiving set tit- J ths blind resid e ct s of the money" n ViC ! n i ty ' althou * h more Maaes mJ ‘° “ n "’ lete the tee kt' be purc hasing commitWlll be ap P°*ted early bli/' and before many days the ens WIU be listening in and \ V V 1 enj °v me nt out of life. % contributors are: John E. y ,7 100 Margaret ti 100 ‘S*””- 8 ' i« ■ t oo ,c °ntiuied On Page Five)

Herman Myers Finishes Work at Indiana University Herman II My»-r., on of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers, of this city, has returned from Indiana university, at Bloomington. aftejr having complet • d Ida course in the school of Liberal Arts (it tho of the first semester. Mr. Myers will receive an A. B. degree at the commencement next June. 1 He will not return to school for the second semester, but will enter business in his father's clothing Store here. Mr- Myers was popular while a student at Indiana, being a member of many honorary organizations on the campus. He was yell leader during tiie first semester this year. GROUND HOG DAY MONDAY Everybody Hoping Ground Hog Will Not See His Shadow Everybody concerned with the weather -and most people are —are anticipating what the old "Ground Hog" is going to do next Monday. February 2. officially known and designated on the calendar as “Ground Hog Day." They are wondering if this hibernating animals is going to come out of his hiding place and if he does, whether or not he’ll see his shadow. After six or seven weeks ot real old-fashioned winter, during which time the ground has been covered with snow and ice, many are hopng that Ground Hog day will be so Hark that the old fellow cannot see his shadow. According to an old supersitition. if the sun shines bright enough for th? ground hog to see hit: shadow on February 2, be will become frighteneil and scamper back to his hole for another six weeks of winter weather. If the old fellow does not see his shadow he >A not perturbed, re , mains our of his hibernation, and spring, indeed, has come, as the old tale runs. But it seems we have a motley season in this broad land of ours, along about this time of year — six weeks more of winter in some localities, spring-like days from now on in other communities, and some of both in other places. The truth is, of course, ground hogs are no more likely to come out of their holes to "look around" tor the first time, on February 2, than on the* following day. or any other day. They come out of their holes early in the season, however—when the sun begins to get higher in the heavens and the weather becomes milder. And they go back into their holes when the weather grows fierce —because they would starve to death if they did not do so. The ground hog will be out n'bbling at what he can find to eat every time he gets a chance, but if the snows come or the ice covers the ground, the animal very properly retires to his den for a few days or a few weeks more slumber. As for the weather, we are certain to have some of the very roughest sort before spring time. We always have had it, and we always will. There will be bright days, and warm ones, scattered along from today on, until the spring flowers bloom. And it is certain there will be considerable cold days between now and that time. But the ground bog lias nothing to do with it, and knows nothing about it. He doesn’t know as much about it as the weather man, and makes just as 'many mistakes. 0 Cold Wave Forecast For Sunday Evening (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Jan. 31—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A cold wave for Sunday night with temperature of from 10 to 15 degrees above zero was forecast today by the weather bur , eau- Another cold wave moving down on states tom the Canadian northwest will bring the drop in temperature late tomorrow, the weather bureau said. ——- o Gasoline Prices Goes Up Another Cent Today (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Jan. 31—(Special to Daily Democrat) —For the third time in eight days gasoline prices jumped one cent a gallon today. The increase announepd by the Standard Oil Co., of Indiana was followed by independent doncjprns.

MAN FOUND DEAD HERE IS BURIED Identity Not Learned; Rev. Covert Conducts Short Service The unidentified man who was found dead in a tile kiln at the KrickTyndall tile mill hero yesterday morning, was buried in tho Decatur cemetery at 1 o’clock this afternoon. Short services were counductod at the grave by tho Rev. 11. N. Covert, pastor of the Presbyterian church Owing to the partially decomposed condition of the man’s body, it was impossible to hold tho body any longer. No word regarding tho identity of the man was received before the body was buried. A call was received at noon today from Gaston, I Indiana, asking it the man had any | fingers n\issing on either hand, it was stated that a Gaston man was missing but he had part of his lingers amputated. As UTe man who died here had all of his fingers he was not the man wanted in Gaston. o— — Local Contractors Get Contract In Allen County P. L. Macklin anil Amos K. Stone burner were awarded the contract for the building of the Pepe stone road in Jackson township, Allen county, on their bid of $10,794. The awards were made by the Allen county commissioners. They were $6 00 under the next nearest bid. The proposed road improvement is about one and one-fourth miles long. Macklin and Stoneburner also submitted a bid for about ten miles of road in Marion township, Allen county, their bld being $90,886 as compared with the successful bid of $86,976, made by Peter Putman of New Haven. The roads will be costructed this spring —o—* Upward Trend In Price Os Wheat Appears Halted (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Chicago, Jan, 31 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The sensational upward movement of May wheat appears to be halted temporarily at least. There was comparatively little activity in today's short session, the market closing at $2.02% a bushel, one fourth of a cent under the opening price which in turn was seven-eighths under yesterday’s close. There was considerable profit taking. Trading also was slowed down by brokers who urged caution and insist on higher margins. o NEW PASTOSS IN LOCAL CHURCHES New Faces To Be Seen In Four Local Pulpits Tomorrow Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, newly selected pastor of the Zion Reformed church in this city will occupy the pulpit at the local church on Sunday. He will preach at the morning and evening services and h!s church announcements for Sunday are published in another column of this paper. Rev. Fledderpohann and familymoved here this week from Linton. Indiana. He succeeds Rev. R. R. Elliker, who accepted a charge as pastor ot the Reformed church at Robertsville, Ohio, leaving here about November Ist. Port. Lawerenz, of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, will occupy the pulpit at the Zion Lutheran church in this city at the Sunday morning services. Rev. A. W. Hinz, the pastor of the local church, was called to Cleveland the first of the week on account of the death of his wife's mother. He will not return to Decatur until the first of next week. Dr. P. B. Fitzwater, Dean of the Moody Bible Institute night school, of Chicago, will fill the pulpit at the Baptist church on Sunday in the absence of the regular pastor, Rev. F. D. Whitesell, who is conducting revival ervices at Piggott. Arkansas. Rev. E. A. Ball, who became pastor of the Church of God in this city a few weeks ago will conduct services at his church Sunday. In the other churches in the city the regular pastors will officiate.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 31, 1925.

I Oscar Holl man Likes His New Position A letter from our old friend. Oscar Hoffman, former Decatur architect arid now superintendent of construe lion for the W. I. Plow Company, Des Plaines, 111 , orders tho Daily Democrat ofr n year and tolls ns he Is getting started nicely and likes his work very well, although ho misses the greetings of friend t ns ho walks down town for ho says, - Decatur and Adarns county can give a fellow a hollo a llttlo better than any whore else iu lite world." His company alretady has eight, houses under construction, values s7,r>uo to $12,560 each, and from now on expects to start four each week. The ground is frozen two feet deep and they use dynamite to break the crust. The village of DesPlaines is growing rapidly and is expected to reach 60,000 population in the next few years. RECORDER DOES LESS BUSINESS 1924 Business Os County Recorder Shows Decrease Over 1923 There was a decrease in the amount I of business transacted in the County Recorder's office during 1924 as compared with 1923. The annual report of business in this office has been compiled and copies forwarded to the I Legislative Reference bureau of InI diana. Although more deeds were recordI ed in 1924 than in 1923, the value of lands and lots transferred was lower than a year ago. The number of mortgages filed during 1924 decreased nearly one-third as compared with the 1923 total. The amount of the mortgages filed last year was also lower than a year ago. • In the warranty and quit claim deeds totaled 505 and amounted to $940,557. In 1923 the deeds totaled 421, but the value of lands and propI erty transferred totaled $1,154,552. In 1924 three sheriff deeds were recorded. amounting to $6,194 as compared with four deeds and a value of $16,840 the year before. Auditor's dedes in 1924 totaled one with a value of $lB. while iu 1923, three deeds were recorded having a value of 20. The one-dollar transactions in 1924 totaled 174 ami in 1923, 175. Miscellaneous papers filed iu 1924 were 411 and in 1923, 537 In 1924 the mortgages on farms totaled 249 and amounted to $795,726, as compared with a total of 311 in 1923, having a value of $1,102,193. The mortgages on city and town lots and properties in 1924, totaled 140, with a value of $217,536, as compare dwith 172 in 1923, with a value of $248,511. School fund mortgages recorded in 1924 totaled 13 with a value of $12,345, as compared with 13 in 1923 and a value of $15,496. In 1924, 278 chattel mortgages were filed with a value of $134,059, as compared with 345 in 1923 and a value of $143,650. More liens were filed in 1924 than in 1923. I.ast year 58 liens having a value of $6,914 were filed, as compared with 54 liens and a value of $9,557 for the year before. In 1924 there were only 24 satisfaction of farm mortgages, having a value of $696,722 as compared with 372 satisfactions and a value of SL--110.087 for 1923. Satisfactions of mortgages on city properties filed during 1924 totaled 139 with a value of $168,331 as compared with 190 satisfact'ons, having a value of $178,617 for 1923. School fund releases in 1924 totaled six. the value being $6,370. as compared with 13 satisfactions and a value of $7,669 for 1923. In 1924 the chattel mortgages were more than in 1923. 198 chattels, with a value of $85,928 being recorded as compared with 187 chattels aud a value of $69,561 for 1923. The liens in 1924 also totaled more than they did in 1923. The number recorded last year was 46 with a value of $10,550, as compared with 28 and a value of $5,717 for 1923. S'nce the first of the year, Ed Green, who took office as county recorder on January 1, and Miss Alice Lenhart, deputy recorder, have been busy with the details of the office. Weather Unsettled tonight; Sunday generally fair. Decidedly colder Sunday and in west and north portions tonight; cold wave.

HOUSE OPPOSES POSTAL MEASURE Com mi t tee Re co mme nds That Bill Be Returned < To Senate (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Washington. Jan. 31 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The house ways and means committee today reported out a resolution recommending that the house return the postal salary bill to the senate. The resolution declared the senate in originating the postal bill had “infringed" on tho constitutional right of tho house to originate revenue bills. Leaders are confident that tho resolution will be adopted when it is called up probably Tuesday and the postal bill returns to the senate. Tho post office now has before it the Page bill which is identical with original Moses postal bill but it is unlikely that any action will be taken on that measure according to leaders. The bill as passed by the senate is seme $22,000,000 short of raising the amount necessary for contemplated Increases in salaries, Senator Moses. New Hampshire republican, told the senate today. o Smoke From Burning Meat Causes Fire Scare The Decatur Fire department was called to the home of Mrs. L. K. Magley on Winchester street at about two-thirty this afternoon. Smoke was seen coming through the windows and it was thought that the house was on fire. Mr. and Mrs. Martz live in the flat on the second floor of the house and Mrs. Martz, before coming up town to rhe prize day event left a pan of meat on the stove. The meat burned and caused The smoke. No other damage was done. Large Crowd Attends Gift Distribution Today Decatur was a busy place today as hundreds of people from surrounding community came into town to attend the merchants’ monthly gift distribution. The prizes were awarded to the following persons: SIOO-eoupon book, Amos Youse; $10t)-coupon book. H. C. Shady; $75coupon book. HaroM Tilman; SSO- - book, Hobert Zerkle; $25coupon book. V. Hite; sls-coupon book, Mrs. D. D. Clark; $lO-coupon book. Mrs. Thomas Baltzell. $5 In currency each to G. M. Kovis, Rudolph Fuelling, Adolph Schamerloh, Frank Yahne and M. A. Welker. TWO HILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Ten Injured In Wrecks Over State Within Last 24 Hours (i;.\Ti'i:i) press .c rvice) Indianapolis, Jan. 31.—Two persons were killed and ten others were injured in auto accidents in Indiana during the past 24 hours. William Butt, 57, of Nacy, Ind., and his daughter-in-law. Mrs. Loren Butt. 20. of Dayton, Ky., were k’lled when their automobile was demolished by an interurban car fifteen miles north of Peru. An auto occupied by four persons returning to Indianapolis from the Martinsville - Shortridge basketball game at Martinsville was hit by an interurban near Maywood. The auto was hurled 150 feet aud the occupants were severely hurt. The Injured were Miss Virg'nia Reddick, 19; Arnold Lyness, 21; E. R. Harrison, 20; and John Conley, 21. Charles Edmondson, 30, was probably fatally Injured and his father Columbus Edmondson, 55, suffered serious injuries when their auto overturned at Terre Haute. Four men were injured in the collision of a gasoline hand car on the Nickle Plate railroad and an auto near Elwood. The injured are J. J. Tally. Roy Hood, Carl Talley, members of a section gang, and George Montgomery, of Anderson, driver the auto.

; Prosecutor Strikes Off Names Os Two Judges Bluffton, Jan. 31. —Prosecuting Attorney Elmore Sturgis this morning struck off the names of Judge Vie tor Simmons of Hartford City, and Judge Jesse Sutton, of Decatur, from tin- list of five jurists nominated by Judge Hamilton for special judge in the ijVergne Heche case, charging liquor law violations. This left W. N. Ballou.of Fort Wayne; Judge E. C. Vaughn, and T. V. Harsh, of Bluffton, from which list the defense will strike off two. the name remaining ,to be that of (he special judge. DELEGATES ARE NAMED FRIDAY High Schools Pick Delegates | To Elect Junior Legislator Delegates from the nine high schools in Adams county, including Decatur, were named yesterday to attend the Junior legislature convention to be held on February 14. for th? purpose of electing one representative or senator to attend the Junior legislature session to be held in Indianapolis during the week of March 22. County Superintendent of schools E S. Christen stated this morning that two delegates to the convention would be named, thus making the election of the junior state repre-j sentative more interesting. The convention. at which time the representative from Adams county will be named, will be iield in this city, it is thought. However definite pans have not yet been completed by the high school principals and Mr. Christen. The qualifications for a delegate to the Junior Legislature are: 1. All delegates to the convention must be students enrolled in classified high schools ot’ the state of, Indiana. 2. All candidates for the Junior i Legislature must have passing grades in at least three solid subjects for the previous semester and for the current semester. 3. All candidates (not delegates)! must have earned at least 16 credits in solid subjects In classified high schools of the state of Indiana. j 4 School citizenship of candidates and delegates must be certified to and approved by their principals. In counties having more than one member in the General Assembly, at ■ least one of these members shall represent the township high school. The purpose of sending a delegate to Indianapolis is explained as follows by 11. N. Sherwood, state superintendent of public instructions: 1. A practical course in civics, in citizenship, and in political ideals; 2. A course that will draw the attention of the hgih schools to the mechanics cf the work of the General Assembly and therefore to the subjects considered by that body; 3. An opportunity to see the political and industrial life of the state in a broader way than that in which | many high school pupils have opportunity of 4. Opportunity will be given the members of the Junior General Assembly to hear some of the most, notable speavers of the state; 5. The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives, directors of the Legislative Reference bureau and of! the State Library, have all indicated their pleasure in aiding the work of I this Junior body in bringing about! more' fundamental consideraltion of such topics as may be presented to it. o — Confident Os Acquittal Lafayette, Ind.. Jan- 31—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Defense attor neys in the case of Raymond Walsh, on trial in the Tippecanoe county court for murder, were confident today of acquittal. Four men took the witness stand; to establish an alibi 'or Walsh at yet-i lerday’s sessLin <>f • tie trial. W. ,sh is chtitgcd with the khlinaj of Earl Leathers in a battle between, two rum running gangs near here last fall. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat —May, $2.02 3-4; July, $1.70 3-4; Sept. $1.56 7-8. Corn — May. $1.35 1-4; July, $1.36 7-8; Sept. $1.37 1-4. Oats—May, 63 7-8 c; July, 64 3-8 c; Sept. 60 Me. ■ JiSMB

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FEDERAL PROBE OF STATE ROAD : BODY IS LIKELY Federal Grand Jury Expected To Make Investigation Next Month FACTS ARE DEMANDED Resolution Asking Federal Probe Is Considered In House (UNITED PRESS SERVICI?) Indianapolis, Jan. 31. — Investigation 1 by the federal grand jury which con- ' venes February 10 of charges of ir- ! regularities in the Indiana state highway commission today loomed as the | latest development in the attack on ' the highway body. Lawrence Carlson, representative from Huntington and chairman from the house committee in federal re lations, announced he is considering introduction of a resolution in thi house next week asking that tho probe be made by federal authorities immediately. "Tho charges against the department involve federal affairs as much or more than state affairs." Carlson said. The report of the state board of accounts alleges irregularities In i the disposal of army trucks and other i war material furnished the highway I commission by the federal govern- , ment. "This is a serious matter to the i people of the state who are demand--1 ing the facts and the federal court is big enough to conduct the probe and hand out any punishment necessary” Prosecutor Remy, of Marlon couni ty said today there was no alib' forth- , coming from (he county grand jury ' for failure to report on his investiga- ‘ tion of the highway department. Evidence contained in the accounts board report on the highway cornmis- - siun was turned over ta the county ■ grand jury last July. “The question is being handled with all poss ble speed," Remy said, I "but the grand jury has been swamp- ! ed with investigation of crime In InI dlanapulis. It has probed nearj- 20 murder cases alone since receiving I the information on the highway com- ! mission. Meanwhile leaders in the house were cons'dering methods or requiring the accounts board to transmit its report to the legislature without treading on the rights of the county ) grand jury. Originally reports of th« board of accounts are made public immediately but the report on the highway commission was withheld because it furnished the basis of the grand jury investigtaion. Bed Spread Set Is Won By Mrs. Butler The four-p'ece hand embroidered bed spread set given away by the Psi lota XI Sorority this afternoon was won by Mrs. Nora Butler, of Fort . Wayne. NOTED MINISTER TO PREACH HERE Dr. Fitzwater, Os Moody Bible Institute, To Be Here Sundav Dr. P. B. Fitzwater, Dean of th/ Moody Bible Institute Evening school will preach at the Baptist church Sunday morning and night, and also or Sunday, February 8. at both services Dr. Fitzwater is one of the deepest Bible students and strongest preachers in the land. He was formerly a professor at Manchester college. Indiana, but has been connected with the Moody Bible Inst.ittute for a number of years. In addition to having charge of the Evening ! school, he also is a full time proses- ! sor of English Bible, Ethics and i ! Psychology in the day school. He ‘lts the writer of the Sunday School i lerson comments w-hich are published in the Daily Democrat and in thousands of other papers throughout j the United States. He travles extenI sively throughout, the country in . Bible conference work. He is a member of the Buena Presbyterian church of Chicago. The public is cordially I invited to hear him.