Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1925 — Page 1

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Receives Box From Friend In England; Mrs. Peter Conrad, of this city, today received n hot of food from Grace Aldridge, a friend in England. The box contained butter, tea and Jelly rolland everything was in excel lent condition. The box came front England in eighteen days. Although '.Mrs. Conrad and her British friend bare been corresponding for some time and feel that they are well acquainted, they have never met each other. The latter expects to visit this country in the near future. I .. , „ —I. — O - ■—■■■■■ I ■ SI—SOLE OWNER OF ABSTRACT OFFICE Fred T. Schurger Buys Half Interest Formerly Owned By His Father Fred T. Scharger has purchased the half interest formerly owned by his father, the late John Schurger. in the Schurger Abstract office in this city and is now the sole owner of the oldest abstract office in Adams county. Mr. Schurger •was associated with his father for about sixteen years, previous to the later’s death a year ago and is well acquainted with the deta'ls of the business. Eight years ago he purchased u half interest from his father and from that time on the business operated under the name of Schurger and Son Ate stract office. The Schurger Abstract office was established in 1575. when Mr. Schurger, who was then county recorder, prepared the first abstract ever compiled in Adams county. All the files and records of the past fifty years have been kept in the Schurger office and Mr. Schurger has prepared some of the contracts affecting the sale of many properties in Decatur erate the office under the name of the Schurger Abstract office and will be iflatT to be of service "to those who call on him. o William Jackson Dies At Home In Dunkirk Mrs. O. S. Fortney, of near Pleasant Mills, was called to Dunkirk yesterday on account of the death of her brother. William Jackson, 43, a son of Henry Jackson, former resident of near Pleasant Mills. Death was due to heart and kidney trouble. Mr. Jackson is survived by his wife and two grown sons, Orvil, of Zanesville, Ohio, and Lloyd at home. Two brothers. three sisters, a step-mother and two half-sisters, also sirvive. Funeral services will be held from the United Brthren church in Dunkirk Wednesday afternoon. — o Bluffton People See Leopold And Loeb Bluffton, Feb. 10 —Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, slayers of little Bobbie Franks, at Chicago, and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin. another inmate of the penitentiary at Joilet, 111., remembered as the woman who was convicted, along with Rev. Hight for poisoning her husband, were among the celebrities of the criminal world who were seen by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kunkel, Jr., of this eity, last Saturday when they were fortunate enough to be taken on a tour through the prison. Mr. and Mrs. Kunkel enjoyed their trip through the prison very much- Mr. Kunkel stated that Loeb was employed in the chair department but he quickly left the room when he saw the visitors. Leopold, however, was seen working at his trade in the furniture department. Mrs. Sweetin is employed in the laundry department of the prison. Wil! Winnes has arm sprained while working at Laundry, o Richmond Man Badly Burned By Electricity Richmond, Ind., Feb. 10. —Physicians today were hopeful for the recovery ' of A. C. Abelsperger, who was badly burned last night when 6,000 volts of . electricity passed through his body. o I. U. Summer Session To Open On June 12 , The opening of the 1925 summer i session at Indiana University has been ■ for Friday, June 12. Three sumi mer terms as now organized const!I tute a full year of work at the university.

JUNIOR SENATOR TO BE SEIECTEO NEXTSATUROAT Delegates From Nine High Schools In County To Meet At Monroe TO GO TO CAPITOL Representative Chosen To Represent County In Junior Legislature Delegates to the junior convention to be held at. Monroe next Saturday afternoon for the purpose of selecting a representative from Adams county to the Junior state legislature to be’held at Indianapolis'daring the week of March 23, have been named | The delegates were, chosen from the | nine high schools in the county, two from each school being selected. These delegates will meet Saturday afternoon and elect a state senator to w th» junior legislature. Much interest centers in the n.'*m" Ing of a representative Jo the leg's | lature. The Adams county repre scntative will be a member of the upper house and Is classed as a s -naior. The delegates named to th<> <•'intv convention are: Kirkland high s-hooi Ralph Ernst and Genie! Jaberg: ’ion roe h-gh school, Harley Ehrsam and Clara Reppert; B< rne high school. Marie Schindler and Mcslin Ellenhi rg, t; Decatur high school. Man Macklin and Glsn leavers; Geneva high school. Eileen B'iss and Ge. igSevetaiice; Monmouth high school, Dorrthy Rabbitt and Miriam Myers; 1 lea mt Mills high school, Madge Davis and Harry Johnson; Hartford high school, Gordon Holloway and Vaughn Schlagenhauf; Jefferson high school. Ray Smith and Lamoille Fogell County Superintendent of Schools 1* S. cKrlstefi ;**Tfalpß Tyndall, of the Decatur high school, and W. A. Am stutz will be in charge of the convention. which will be at the Monroe high school Saturday afternoon ar the same time that the monthly teacher's institute is in session. The junior legislature will be in session one week and the expenses of the representative will be paid by the nine high schools in the county. Several of the school principals are contemplating taking a number of students to Indianapolis to see the I‘gislature ir. session. Negro Attacks Woman And Makes His Escape Hinsdale, 111., Feb. 10. —(United Press.) —Posses of citizens front Hinsdale and adjacent territory today hunted the countryside for the negro who last night attacked Mrs. George Friendly, 23, and escaped with several pieces of jewelry. The negro was seized in a local restaurant here by a constable shortly after Mrs. Friendly gave the alarm. But a short distance from the jail, the negro broke loose and escaped. Several shots fired by the officer missed their mark. 0 BULLETIN (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Washington. Feb. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house today passed the new postal pay and rate increase bill. The bill increases rates to raise $60,000,000 more a year and is approved by President Coolidge. o Woman And Son Go On Trial For Murder Today Rockport, Ind., Feb. 10.—Mrs. Nathilda Saunders and her son. Bert McAdams, went on trial today for the murder of James Sanders, 70, her brother-in-law. Sanders’ body was found in a creek last May with two bullet holes in the head. The prosecution charges he was shot as the culmination of a family .quarrel. —,— o Prominent Indiana Mason Buried At Capital Today Indianapolis, Feb. 10. —Four thirtythird degree Masons, the highest rank in the order, were to participate today in the funeral of Calvin Busch, commander-in-cheif of the Indiana consistory of the Scottish Rite.

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LEADS RES( UERS - BBBBFZZSSfe * ’ '■W' -"eaiiy '• LIEUT. GOV. H. H. DENIIARDT ('AVE CITY. Ky.—This picture in- . troduces Lieut- Gov. H. H. Denhardt of Kentucky, who is leading the attempt to rescue Floyd Collins. 1 Denhardt also is brigadier general > of the Kentucky National Guard. —— —T—• I SPELLING BEE 1 1 DATE SELECTED March 20 Is Chosen For Annual Adams County Spelling Match The annual Adams county spelling bee will start on Friday, March 20, the school principals at a meeting in this city last evening decided on the date. i< has also been decided the t-’Sta will be held by writing the words, instead of oral spelling as heretofore. The elimination contests in tlie schools throughout the county will begin on Friday, March 13 and the “spell down" will be held a week later. I This will bo the first time in the I school history of the county that , the spelling bee has been held in , writing. Judges will be appointed later and the rules of the contest , compiled by the committee appoint- , ed to work’ ont the plans. The prizes to the winners will be new Webster dictionaries- The , pupils in the schools throughout the county ore already brushing up on . their words and the contest will hold its usual interest among the pupils, ! their parents and the public. o i Sixty Barrels Os Wine Stolen From Freight House (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Chicago, Feb. 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Six bandits invaded the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight house here last night and ! worked until 6 a. m. today removing sixty barrels of California wine in a truck. One of the robbers covered the ■ engineer in charge of the building i with a gun and forced him to keep ■ firing the boiler in order to keep up • steam to run the elevator. o —— LINCOLN GETS LIFE SENTENCE Illinois Lawyer And Floriculturist Escapes Death For Murder ! Geneva, 111., Feb. 10.—Thankful to escape hanging, Warren J. Lincoln • 46. lawyer and floriculturist, today 1 prepared for removal to Joliet prison to serve life for killing his wife and her brother, burning their bod:es and imbedding the heads in a concrete block. The jury returned a verdict of ' guilty last night, but directed life imprisonment. Only two jurors wanted hanging. The jury found that Lincoln was insane when he committed the crime, but is sane now. Lincoln and his son burst into tears when the verdict was read. “I’m glad it wasn't hanging, Dad." ' the 21-year-old boy cried. Throughout the trial defense attorneys contended he was insane but Lincoln insisted he was sane. In an early confession Lincoln said he killed his victims because of certain intimate relations. Weather Unsetled tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain turning to snow; colder Wednesday.

GASOLINE TAX BILL ADVANCE!! IN LEGISLATURE Senate Advances Measure To Second Reading; Raises Tax 1 Cent VOTE IS 24 TO 19 House Decides To Take Up Chiropractic Bill Friday Afternoon (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Feb. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat) —In the face of strenuous opposition by Senators from the larger cities of the state the Cann bill providing for a one cent increase in the state gasoline tax was advanced to second reading in the senate today by a vote of 24 to 19. A minority report of the senate roads committee recommending approval of the bill with amendment to give cities and towns one-fourth of the additional one cent was adopted. The majority committee report recommended approval of the bill without amendments which would have given the additional cent of revenue to the county. Senator Nejdl of Whiting led the fight against the bill with a motion to postpone indefinitely after the two committee reports were submitted. The vote on the bill split, party lines. The Lake county delegation and the Marion county delegation voted against the bill supported chiefly by senators from districts containing large cities. After one of most hectic sessions of the house in years the Wright DeHaven chiropractic bill was made a special order of business for Friday afternoon. FuililU. Ju Jin attempt to restore the measure to its original provision, which would provide for the creation of the board of chiropractic examiners, Representative DeHaven of In-; dianapolis. led the fight to save the measure against a motion for indefinite postponment offered by Representative Gottschalk, of Berne. Today's fight was the second that has occured in the house on the bill. It came up when the committee on state medicine returned a divided! raport; the majority recompensing (Continued On Page Four) 0 WUHAN'S CLUB HOLDS ELECTION Mrs. John Parrish Elected President; Herschell Here February 24 The Woman's Club met last night at the Library in regular session. The annual election of officers was held and Mrs. John Parrish was unanimously elected president to succeed Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, who has served in that capacity for the past two years. Mrs. Parrish served as chairman of the literary department a year ago and much was accomplished under her able leadership. Mrs. Dore B. Erwin will succeed Mrs. John Tyndall as vice-presi-dent, and Mrs. France Confer will take up duties as secretary at the beginning of the new’ club year in October, succeeding Miss Marcella Kern. Mrs. Henry Heller will be succeeded by Mrs. Leigh Bowen as treasurer. The new offiers will begin duties at the first meeting in October. The Woman's Club will close its program with the meeting of April sixth, there being no meetings during the summer. The new club year will open next October. William Herschell, popular poet of Indiana, will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the Woman’s Club, Tuesday evening, February 24, at the high shool auditorium- Tickets are being sold and a capacity crowd, in all probability, will be present to hear Indiana’s most popular poet. The literature department had charge of the program at the meeting last night and a large crowd heard the very fine reading of “Abraham Lincoln” by Drinkwater, presented by Edgar Frazier, professor of Dramatic Art at Indiana University.

i Millionaire Leader Os Bootleggers Is In Jail Waukegan, 111., Feb. 10. — Johnny Torrlo, millionaire leader of beer run I ning in Chicago, is safely landed in jail here for nine months following conviction in federal court, Chicago, for participation in a huge liquor robbery. Torrlo, who was shot down In Chicago by unidentified assailants and though fatally hurt, came here late yesterday under guard of a flock of police. It was feared another attempt would be made on his life by rival gangsters. STUDENT HELD IN POISON CASE Canton, Ohio, Youth Ques- ' tioned In Poison Pill Case At Ohio State Columbus, 0., Feb. 10. — Expert physicians today 1 examined Ixiuis Fish, 19, to determine whether he is the distorted mind at the root of the strychnine poisonings at Ohio State University. Fish, a freshman from Canton, has admitted obtaining the pills which caused the death of David I. Puskin, a fellow student, but insists he did not know they contained strychnine. He was arrested late last night as Police Prosecutor John J. Chester was completing h’s examination of students in the pharmacy department where the poison capsules were known to have been given out. Fish, one of the first students questioned when the probe began following two deaths last week, was recalled by Chester in the belief he was holding back information about the mystery. o Muncie And Logansport Want State Pythian Home Muncie, Ind., Feb. 10.—An effort to have located in Muncie the proposed Indiana Pythian borne for aged members and for widows and orpiians of those affiliated with the order, will be ! made by Pythians of Delaware county. A fund of $500,000 for the erection and equipment of the home is being raised by Indiana Pythias, and it is hoped to have that sum by next Saturday. Logansport After Home The question of the location of the I home will not be taken up until the meeting of hte grand lodge during the first week of Octobr, and at that meeting ogers will be received from the cities seeking the home. A movement having for its object the obtaining of the ne w home is under way in Logansport, according to information received here, nad other cities will seek the home. 0 Indiana G. A. R. Lose 1,071 Members In 1924 Indianapolis, Feb., 10 — Each year the loss columns in the consolidated report or the posts of the Indiana department of the Grand Army of the Republic gives evidence that death is more and more invading the diminishing ranks of the veterans in blue. The report just completed for 1924 shows that 1,071 members have been dropped from the roster. Os this number 677 have gone to “take their places beside their brothers-in-arms that form that greater host of heroes.” Os the remaining number of those lost to the Indiana departments, many have transferred their affiliations to posts in climate better suited for their declining years. Twen-ty-two posts have surrendered their charters according to the report leaving 151 posts with a membership of 3,205 in the state department. One post has been mustered in the department at Gary, Indiana, and 152 names have been added to the gain column during the year. Jap Militarism Dying Militarism is on its last legs in Japan and the Japanese as a whole are not distrustful of the United States, said Alexander Paul, oriental secretary of the Christian church, in a recent address at Indiana university. BIRTH An eleven pound girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Noll, of Union township, last night. Mother and babe are getting along nicely.

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REPORTER SAYS HE TALKED WITH COLLINS IN CAVE Military Court Conducts Inquiry Into Rumors About Cave Mystery DIGGERS WORK ON Rescuers Expect To Reach Place Where Collins Is Held By Thursday Cave City, Ky., Feb. 10.— i “Floyd Collins told me he is in the only entrance to Sand Cave, i There is no way reaching him ! from the rear. I never did think we will get him out.” That was the testimony of William Burke Miller, newspaper reporter of Louisville, before the court marshall of inquiry today. The court marshall was called on orders from Governor W. J. Fields. Miller was the first witness summoned. He said he had conversed with (’.ollins while the latter lay in the grip of the boulder that has kept him prisoner for twelve days. The court opened here probably will adjourn to Sand Cave seven miles away to examine other witnesses. While the court called witnesses, diggers shoveled the way slowly into the shaft that leads toward Collins. They have dug about 3S of the 60 feet they must gouge to effect the release. Thfey expect to reach the explorer Thursday. “I am satisfied there is no fake to Collins’ imprisonment." Miller testified. “I heard him answer his brother Homer when the latter called down to him. I know that he was pinned so that he could not get out. I believe that all these rumors about it being a publicity stunt were unfounded.” By Foster Echer, At the Mouth of Sand Cave. Ky.. Feb. 10. —Still 22 feet from the cell where Floyd Collins lies, rescue crews entered their work today with the renewed conviction that the victim was alive. Repeated electrical tests through the night indicated that Collins lived. While the werkers bored on. a martial court of inquiry, under orders of Governor William J. Fields, was assembling here to probe conditions surrounding Collins’ imprisonment. Dr. W. H. Hazlett. Chicago specialist. asserted he was positive Collins still lives. Tests made through amplifiers attached to the light wire which illuminates the victim's prison recorded a regular sound which Hazlett was positive marked respiration of Collins. The test was made late yesterday and twice during the night with identical results. Hazlett judged from the frequency of the breathing that though suffering from his confinement, Collins was not a victim of pneumonia. Patients with this disease breathe about forty times a minute, he said. Collins’ breathing was recorded from 20 to 22 times. o ARE WORKING ON ORATIONS D. H. S. Orators Arc Preparing For Contests; Latin Contest Soon Miss June Ossenberg, Chemistry teacher in the Decatur high school, has been appointed local chairman of the state and national oratorical contest on tffie constitution. Several orators in the local high school have started work on their orations and are planning to tryout for the honor of representing- Decatur high school in the district contest, which will be 1 held preliminary to the state contest, s Howard Brumley won the local conl test last year and was entered in 1 the district contest at Richmond. i The annual Latin contest will be ’• held in the near future, also. A separate contest Is held for each of the four classes. A set of questions is prepared for each class and the coni testants write the answers in manu- , scripts which are graded and the i- winners determined. County, dis- ■. trict and state contests are held.