Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1925 — Page 1

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pHHIANS TO 6HHERHERE THIS EVENING ' ssssr ing Tonight T 0 INITIATE CLASS Decatur Dramatic Team To Exemplify Story Os Damon And Pythias Th( > Knights of Pythias home in ■ |b; . city will bo the scene, this evenlnV. of a large gathering of Knights ’ c ( Pythias from Wabash. Weils., Hn .t:ngton, Blackford. Grant and items counties, the occasion being a mating of lodges of the eleventh K. .of p. district. A , least three state officers, be-| r<l s Bore B. Erwin of this city, who ( 1 | 8 grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias in Indiana and the district (lAI , u <y will attend the‘meeting tonight. At six o’clock this evening the rt» e officers, namely Car) Mitchell, of ludianapolis. grand keeper of record! and seals; Nathan Unef grand ; r jH-hani.-Ihir; Harry Wa<>, Indi-1 aMPolts chairman of the Pythian | bun'.,- committee; Frank Roberts, of UPentainr district deputy; James Bain local lodge deputy, and W. G. Perse, county deputy will be the j-ucsis cf Mr. and Mrs. Erwin at their homo on North Second street at din-| n«To Hold Initiation Al seven o’clock this evening the| F-te rank will be conferred on a fag six fr. ”i Decatur; eight from Os-1 class of about 25 candidates, inc)ud-| sian; three from Geneva, several from Bluffton and others from cities in ihe district. Following the initta-, .ion. the local dramatic team will exemplify the lesson of Friendship is told in the beautiful story of Damon and Pythias. The local team, headed by Roy Mumma of this city, gave the work at Wabash last evening and it was one of the most successful demonstrations ever seen. A class of thirty candidates were | initiated at Wabash last evening and approximately 500 Knights attended, the meeting, including about 30 from; Decatur, and Mr. Erwin. The Knights were greatly impressed with the work of the Decatur teanr and the members gained for themselves an enviable reputation. The Decatur team is one of the fine ones in the state. Following the initiation and Friendthip exemplification, an interesting program will be given, it including talks and addresses by state and district officers. The program is as follows: Opening Ode. Roll call of Lodges. Pythian Quartet Remarks by F. H. Roberts, D. D(Continued on Page Seven) o_______ 0 _______ RECEIVES FEW CHARITY CALLS Board Os United Charities Receives Onlyl 3 Calls So Far This Winter l ower appeals for charity were received during the winter of 1924-25 by the United Charities board of Decatur. C. E. Peterson, secretary of the board, stated this morning. I p-to-date, 13 calls for charity work have been received by the board. Mr. eterson stated, and these cases were fur minor aid, such as coal and a few " tlc1 ® 9 ot clothing. The United ■arities board is supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Decatur People and church societies. About ve years ago the charity organization organized in this city and each . nr it comes to the aid of the needy. ! ontributions have been large enough , support the organization and trough contributions received from ’ yes church societlea and indivld . e Orßan zatl °n is kept alive. _ c ® rs ot the organization who I ' e ' ,ecl w hen it was first organ- ' ' lVe been changed. They «' h ’ v , meon Foryce - President; Dan .nd r C ' E - Peterson ' secretary * n<l G - T. Burk, treasurer.

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Radio Committee Will Meet Friday Evening Rev. 11. W. Thompson, chairman of the committee appointed yesterday to purchase the radio receiving sets tor the blind residents of Decatur and I immediate vicinity, with the fund I raided by local citizens, today called •a meeting of his committee for 7:00 o’clock Friday evening at h.'s home on West Adams street, the committee will lay the plans for purchasing the sets as soon as possible anil installing them at the homes of the blind residents. The meeting will not last long. Rev. Thompson stated and the members of the committet are requested to be prompt in arriving in order that the meeting of the committee will not interfere with other meetings which some of the men have sche'uled for later in the evening. The members of the committee, besides Rev” Thompson, are James Brown, George Wemhoff, Henry i Garber. James R. Blair, Charles H. Colter and R. J. Harting. — o MONROE FARMERS HOLD INSTITUTE Capacity Crowds Attend Ail Three Sessions At Monroe Yesterday Capacity crowds attended the ani nual Monroe farmers institute held ' yesterday ami last night. The forenoon and afternoon sessions were held in the Monroe high school building and the evening session was held i in the Methodist church at Monroe. I the school building being too small Ito accomodate the large audience j that gathered for the closing session. The state speakers at the forenoon ' ! and afternoon sessions ot the insti- | tute were V. V. Clarke, of Bristol. , Indiana, and Mrs. Morton Fordiee, of Russellville. The subject of Mr. I Clarke’s talk at the morning season | was “What Is Soil Fertility and How ' Is It Maintained?" Mrs. Fordice spoke on. '.Making Poultry Pay." during, the morning session. The Monroe school orchestra furnished music during the forenoon and Rev. S. I. Zechi iel had the invocation. Following a lunch served at noon by the Monroe ladies’ aid society, the | afternoon session started at 1:30 i o'clock with music by the Monroe or- , chestra. This was followed by a talk i .by Mr. Clarke on' "Alfalfa—How. When and Where.” Floyd Johnson gave a recitation which was greatly appreciated. Mrs. Fordice spoke on, "Bolding the Homes ot Tomorrow.” Thia was followed by the election of officers and committee reports. The old officers were re-elected, they being J. F. Rupert, president; Clarence Mitchell, vice-president; Mrs. E. W. Busche, secretary, and Henry Cook. ! treasurer. During the evening session the different schools of Monroe township held a contest in giving numbers and | the Winchester school, taught by Don Essex, won first prize. Joseph Gayle, of Indianapolis, gave a talk on "Soil Fertility,” during the evening, also, and K M. Busche, county agent, exhibited motion pictures on agricultural subjects. A feature of the institute was the show of corn, wheat, oats and domestic science products. All of the premium awards tfere not available today, but the prizes were awarded in the corn, wheat and oats show as follows: Boy's Ten Ears Yellow Corn Floyd Rupert, first; Glen Rupert, second; Leo McAhren, third; Russel Mitchel, fourth; Herbert Hawkins, fifth; Henry Busche, sixth; Ben Mazelin, seventh; Carl Noll, eighth; Floyd Johnson, ninth; and Albert Davison, tenth. Men's Ten Ears Yellow Corn William Rupert, first; Adolph Schamerloh, second; Israel Bender, third; J. F. Rupert, fourth; and Ed Andrews, fifth. Best Single Ear Glen Rupert, first; Adolph Schamerloh, second; Martin D. Habegger, third. s Wheat Exhibit Gail Cook, first; A. Schamerloh, second; E. W. Busche, third. Oats Exhibit Ora Durbin, first; Glen Cook, second; J. F. Rupert, third. Bread Price Is Boosted Milwaukee, Feb. 5. —(United Press) —'Holding the increasing cost of flour as the cause, one hundred Milwaukee retail bakers today increased the price on rolls from 2 to 3 cents a dozen and on pastry from one to two cents an article.

LOBBYISTS ARE ; TOLD TO STM : 00T OF SENATE ) • Lieutenant Governor Issues ' Orders For Doorkeepers To Bar Lobbyists BARKER BILL PASSED House Favors Bill To Prohibit Teachers Wearing Religious Garbs (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) i Indianapolis. Feb. s—(Special to i Daily Democrat)—Lieut. Gov. Van senate to “get out and stay out." Orman today told lobbyists in the issued a final order to senate doorkeepers to bar lobbyists from the floor of the senate stating that “if they don’t have the conscience to 'stay away wo will keep them out.” Van Orman declared the lobbyists had been bothering the senators and interfering in the aairs of the legislature. The senate today passed the I Barer bill requiring public utilities !to appeal their rate cases to state courts. The bill had failed to pass a f»w days ago because it lacked a constitutional majority. The vote for pussago today, however, was 30 to 9 The hill would prevent appeals of utilities on rate orders by the public service ccmmission direct to the federal court The Holmes eugenical sterilization bill was sent back to committee for minor amendments. By a vote of 64 to 27 the house accepted a minority report of the education committee favoring Passage of the Cooper bill prohibiting the wearing of any distinctive religious garb by public school teachers. The bill in regarded as a Ku Klux ; Klan Another so-Rilled ku klux klan 1 endorsed measure was introduced in tho house today by Representative Murden of I.ogansport. The bill would require the teaching of the 1 same courses of study in parochial schools as taught in the public ; school:- of the stateIi provides for regular inspection ' by officials of the state department | of public instruction to see that the parochial schools complied. o— CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat: May $1.92%; July $1.62%; Sept. $1.49%. Corn: May $1.35%; July $136%; Sept. $1.36%. Oats: '.May 61%c; July 62%c; Sept. 59%c. 0 MUCH WATER IS USED IN DECATUR City Water Works Pumps 125,130,000 Gallons During Year 1924 During the year 1924. as shown by the annual report of Orvpl Harruff. superintendent of the water department of the city light and power ' plant. 125 130,000 gallons of water ' was pumped at the local plant. The maximum number of gallons of water pumped in a single day was lon December 22, 1924. when 435,000 i were recorded- The lowest number i pumped was 225.000 gallons on Feb--1 ruary 10, 1924. \The daily average of water pumped during the year was 342.822. The month of December saw the largest number of gallons of water ’ pumped. The monthly totals are as follows: January, 9,960.000; February, 8,793,000; March, 9.498.000; April. 9,334.000; May, 10,906,000; June, 10,- ’ 682.000; July, 10,169,000; August, 11,627,000: September, 9,972,000; October, 11,040,000; November, lie ’ 283.000; December, 11,866,000. During the year the water department laid 2,653 feet of new mains and installed five new fire hydrants. The city now has 72.973 feet of water 'mains and 119 fire hydrants. The j capacity of the two reservoirs at the city plant is 349.000 gallons. During the year the water depart- . ment purchased $6,202 91 worth of > material and supplies used in repairl ing and keeping up the lines and had i on hands. January 1, 1925. $8,349.64 i worth of material.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 5, 1925.

SURE SIGN OF SPRING The Groundhog may have failed to see his shadow and lost all claim us the harbinger of spring, but when you si-o boys "plumping,'’ spring cannot be far away. It’s a , sure sign.' Last, evening back of the Dally Democrat office, the carrier boys started tho annual , spring • tonic game of marbles About a dozen boys had their pockets full of "does", which they say, sell this year at twenty for a cent, about the same price they I were twenty years ago. A passer- I I by. no doubt the father of several > hoys, or once a "plumper" himself. remarked That "it is not yet muddy enough for good plumping.” GEORGE FETTERF GETS NEW TRIAL Youth Convicted Os Murder At Celina Gets Another Chance A new trial has been granted to George Fetters, Celina, Ohio, youth, ! who was convicted by a jury at Celina last summer on a charge of muider in connection with the death of Ed Moyer. Mercer county. Ohio, farmer, in August, 1922. Fetters was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio state penitentiary following the trial and has served several months in prison, already. The decision of the common pleas I erturt at Celina was reversed by the | Ohio court of appeals, yesterday. The tr'al was held last summer. The court of appeals found that there was a prejudicial error in the decision of the lower court. Four Cylina youths were arrested for the murder of Moyer, and they were indicted by the Mercer county grand jury. They were George. Dick and Jim Fetters and Jesse Smelser. George was the first to be tried, it I was brought out during the trial that j he fired the fatal shot from Moyer’s shotgun during a struggle which en>sucd when Moyer found the youths entering his meat house. George Fetters is reported to have confessed to ; firing the shot, also. Smelser and the other two Fetters boys pleaded ,gu !ty to a charge of manslaughter and were sentenced to serve short terms in the state penitentiary. Dick Fetters’ sentence was suspended recently on account of his and child. _________o MARK S. NOBLE HAS OPERATION Decatur Lad Undergoes Operation At Riley Hospital At Indianapolis Mark S'. Noble, 10-year-old son of , Mr. nad Mrs. Carl Noble, of thi 8 city, who was the first patient admitted to the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial hospital for Children, at Indianapolis underwent an operation at the hospital yesterday. The operation was ’ one of the steps taken by the hospital physicians and surgeons in their efforts to restore to Mark the use of hi g legs which have been useless to him since he was stricken with infantile paralysis several years ago. II ( Mr. and Mrs. Noble received word Tuesday that Mark was to undergo an operation yesterday and they mot- , ored to the capital city yesterday ( morning. The operation was performed at 12 o'clock and the lad's parents , were admitted to his room at 2:30 . o'clock. Mark withstood the operation , well and appeared to be in good spirits. He is in a Plaster of paris cast . from his hips to his ankles now. He . is restless but the surgeons believe . he is getting alon£ as well as can be expected. Before the operation Mark made , baskets at the hospital and was making splendid progress in his work at . the institution. While he is confined 1 to his bed, he will se moving pictures s in his room and every effort will be ■ made by the hospital attendants to 5 make him comfortable. Mr. and Mrs. ? Noble will visit Mark again next Sun- ■ . day. Weather 1 L_ I Fair tonight and probably Friday; moderate temperature.

MAN’S SCIENCE STILL FIGHTING TO SAVE COLLINS Rescuers Refuse To Give Up Battle To Save Man Entombed In Cave DRILL THROUGH STONE Start Drilling Through 60 Feet Os Sandstone To Reach Prisoner Father Asks For Prayers Cave City, Ky., Feb. s—(United Press) —"Ask the country to pray for my boy," Lee Collins, father of 'loyd Collins, entombed explorer bogged today. "I know the Lord is able to give my boy strength to last until the new shaft reaches him.” (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) At the Mouth of Sand Cave, Ky.— I Man’s science was racing today for the life of Floyd Collins in a last desperate battle at the cavern which for six days has held him prisoner. Rescuers against all reason resolutely refused to abandon hope. "But dead or alive we won't stop until we let him out,” said Ben L. Wells, leader in the last desperate dash to save the victim. "Floyd was alive the last time we could reach him and he’s alive until we reach him again, but the doctors say he's dead.” Wells asserted. With the last preparations completed to start drilling through the 60 feet of sand stone which lies between Collins and the sunlight, actual digging operations began at 1:30 p. m. Frogt had swelled the walls of Collins tomb sa .men could no longer pass through the slit that leads to the victim. As a last chance rescue crews will sink a shaft through 60 feet of sand stone at the stop where Collins lies. o -Well-Known Red Man 11l Noblesville, Ind.. Feb. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Judge Fred E. Hines, of the Hamilton circuit court, is seriously ill at his home here today with a complication of diseases. He is a former great sachem of the Red Men’s lodge of Indiana. o •— RIPLEY'S TALK IS INTERESTINC Consulting Engineer Os G. E. Company Tells of Airplane Trip In Europe About 150 people heard thr lecture g'ven by C. M. Ripley, consulting engineer of the General Electric company. at the high school auditorium ' in this city last evenirig. Mr. Ripley told of his 2,500-mile trip in an airplane over the European countries and his subject was one of great interest. Eno Lankenau, superintendent of the Decatur works of the General Electric company, presided as chairman at the meeting. Mr. Ripley, in telling of his interesting trip, said in part: "I have just returned from my first European trip — having spent six weeks in France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and England. “By farthe most Interesting feature ot my trip was the experience I had in European airplanes. I travelled over 6,000 miles on the ocean, 2,500 miles in eight different airplanes and only 800 miles by railroad train. ' "Europe is far ahead of us in the regular airplane service for passengers, baggage, mail, newspapers and i freight. Every day thousands of passengers fly between scores of Euro- ■ i pean cities at a speed of 80 to 105 I I m les an hour. “One of the greatest novelties was I my mountain flight over the Alps be-1 'tween Geneva and Zurich, Switzer-1 land. I have many photographs taken from airplanes, showing the Alps, (Continued on Page six)

Col. Forbes Prepares To Appeal To Higher Court (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Chicago. Feb. s—(Special to Dally Democrat) — Attorneys for Colonel Charles R. Forbes, erutwhile director of ihe veterans bureau, and John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor, today prepared their appeal to tho United States circuit court of appeals. Forbes and Thompson have 30 doyu for an a’ppeal before they are to start sentences of two years each in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. The two men. convicted of charges that they conspired to defraud tho government through illegal hospital contracts,, issued formal statements denying guilt and expressing confi dence that the judgment of the trial court will be reversed. "1 am innocent of this atrocious charge," Forbes statement said. "I have been made the victim of cir•umstsances.” 0 GOV. JACKSON REVIEWS BUDGET Bill Placed Before Governor Late Yesterday; Total Is $46,087,925 (UNITED PRESS' SERVICE) Indianapolis, Feb. 5. — Governor Jackson today reviewed the $46.078,■. 925 budget bill for expenses of state departments and institutions during the next two fiscal years. The bill was placed before the governor late yesterday by the legislative budget advisory committee and budget officials after weeks of toil in whittling down the appropriation requests of the departments and institutions. Governor Jackson expected to transmit the bill to the legislature with his recommendations before adjournment is taken for the week-end. For the first t'me in the history of state finances, the bill proposes to place all departments and institutions, including the state colleges and normal schools under budget control. Nearly $15,000,000 was slashed from the departmental and institutional requests to bring the figure down to $46,078,925 for the first two years, A continuance of the present tax rate of 28 cents is anticipated on the basis of the new budget/bill. In making drastic slashes in budget requests, the committee whittled the highway commission figures from $30,000,000 to $22,000,000, cut the building request of the state reformatory from $1,000,000 to $256,000, and allowed the state college $925,000 of the $5,000,000 they had requested for new buildings. The bill specifies that all collections from the gasoline tax and the auto license fees shall go to the highway commission for road construction and maintenance. A total appropriation of $7,037,000 is recommended for the colleges and normals for the next two years in place of the present five per cent school tax levy. The annual recommendation for each institution gives Indiana and Purdue Universities $1,050,000 each, the Terre Haute Normal $305,000 and the Muncie Normal $267,EG0. The Terre Haute Normal’s building requests were denied but an increase of $50,000 in the appropriation for operating expenses was recommended. The bill includes an item of $250,000 for a new library and assembly hall at the Muncie Normal. The Southern Hospital for the insane at Evansville is recommended to receive $300,000 for new buildings. o Making Plans For Annual Firemen’s Convention The executibe board of the Northern Indiana Volunteer Firemen’s association of which L. C. Helm of this city is a member, held a meeting last evening at Hartford City for the purpose of planning for the Firemen’s convention this year. The date set for this convention was June 17 and 18, to be held at Hartford City. There were 9 meni- | bers on this executive board. F. G. Durite, ot Ft. Wayne is president. There are 29 different cities in the I state that are memebers in this ussojciation. which will all be represented at the convention at Hartford City jin June. It was rumored at the meeting last evening that Hartford City will have a new fire truck by the time of the convention in Ju»e.

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. PROBE “POISON : PILL" MYSTERY AT UNIVERSITY ’ Master Criminal Sought In Mystery At Ohio State i University L STRYCHNINE IS FOUND J Authorities Find 300 Grains 1 Os Deadly Poison On An Open Shelf ! (UNITED PRESS SERVICED ‘ Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 5. Investiga- ’ tion of Ohio State Universities "poison pill" mystery narrowed down this afternoon for a determined search for a master criminal. “A super intellectual" with a municipal desire to broadcast death regardless of the identity of his vict’ms is now believed responsible for the strychnine adulteration of dispensory drugs. A discovery of 300 grains of the dead poison in an open shelf gave the first tangible clew to the "poison pill” mystery today. “The bottle is entirely strange to ns,” said Dean C. A. Dye, of the pharmacy department, in announcing the discovery. “I never saw it before. It was different type than the ones used here. The bottle's capacity was 437 1-2 grains but all except 300 grains had I been taken out." Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 5. — All the scientific resources of Ohio State University were aimed today a* the “poison pill" mystery which has cast a shadow of death across the gaiety ' of campus life. The department of psychology, chemistry and pharmacy gave their best talents to penetrating the dark- ‘ ness enveloping events lead ng up to ' j the death of two students und the i serious Illness of three others. ' How the quantites of strychnine got , into the pharmacy departments disi pensary and how the deadly poison happened to be given to students on ': prescriptions calling for harmless drugs were two of the principal ques- ■ tions engaging the attention of ' I school and civil authorities. One theory is that a youthful in- ' tellectual within the school may have , adulterated the drugs through some J strange mental twist that gave him i a desire to kill. Loath to place credence in this theory but at the same time determined to let nothing go unnoticed < school and county officials today prepared to question students in the pharmacy department for possible clews in the mystery. o Miss Mildred Andrews, of Fort i Wayne, is spending several days here I with her father, C. C. Andrews, at ! his home in Mercer avenue. o REV, WYANDT TO I LEAVEHOAGLAND Lutheran Pastor To Become Pastor Os Church In Richmond, Ind. Hoagland, Ind., Feb. s.—The Rev. L. H. Wyandt, for the past two years pastor of the Hoagland parish of the . United Lutheran Church has resign--1 ed his work here, and has accepted a call to become pastor of the Second Lutheran Church, of Richmond, Ind. Rev. Mr. Wyandt will take up his new work at Richmond pn March 1. Rev. Wyandt began his work here early in 1923 while still a student at Hamnia Divinity School, in Spring ' field, Ohio. Under his administratio) ■ the churches of this parish have mad' ' steady and substantial progress ii * all lines of activity. His leaving the field here is the cause of nniversa. 1 regret, among not only his parishont ers, but among the c'tizens of this ■ community in general. I Rev. and Mrs. Wyandt are ■ both graduats of Wittenberg College. Rev. e Wyandt was a member of the widely - known "Fighting Nine” ot Witten--1 berg, the class of men who were coly lege and seminary classmates, all - veterans of the World War. who y graduated together, and were ordainb ed together into the Lutheran ministry.