Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1925 — Page 1

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RESCUE OF COLLINS EXPECTED SOON

I S CABINET I POSTS FILLED I BY PRESIDENT I Frank B. Kellogg Nominat-I I f d To Become Secretary I 01 State I si t't'EEDSC. E. HUGHES I William M. .lardinc, of Kas., I picked To Become Head I Os Agriculture I rici.ss siJtvicE)) | I Washing""- l<b. > ■ c hl Io Duilv Democrat)- PresiI (lent Coolidge today sent to the I Lde the nomination ot Frank ■ b K'Hogg. of Minnesota, now ■ hillist( ,- to Client Britain, to be | uW | a rv of state, succeeding ■ Chicles' Evans Hughes, after I March II Washington. Feb. 1-I—(Spc- ■ cial Io Dailv Democrat)-Ap- ■ ointment of William M. Jar- ■ .line of Kansas, to be secretary ■ of agriculture, was announced ■ a | |he white house today. The ■ nomination will lie sent to the ■ senate this afternoon. ■ Jardine is president of the I Kansas state agricultural col- ■ lege at Manhattan. Kansas. He | was silected bv the President I from a field of two hundred I candidates. ■ o - ■ Advantages Os Bee-keeping Pointed Out In Bulletin Tatayetie. Ind., Feb. 14. (Culled Ptm* i—The advantages of beekeeping are pointed out in a bulletin ismed by Prof .1 J. Davis, of the Pur ! ! due Pniverslty department of entomology. "Beekeeping is not only an industry for profit but in addition it provides) a food of merit —a product which would otherwise be lost," he says. "Bees are one of the governing factors in profitable agriculture in crosspollinating the flowers o? fruits, vegetables and many forage crops, and the honey bee is the only dependable agency in this important work." The nature and value of honey, the | importance of cross-pollination of trails amt flowers, and the conservation of the nectar of flowers in the form of honey are discussed in the bulletin. ID FOWL PEST IN THIS COUNIT Report, Cases Bl Diphtheria Roup In County, However Although several counties in the ■'.-’e are infected with the European fnal pest, local veterinarians stated •his morning that no cases of disease among the chickens in Adams county ave been reported. However, a few of diptheric roup among chick»s have been reported to local veter'•mrians and in some cases deaths ■ q >ig fowls from thi srisease have wi reported. The symptoms of diptheric roup are Keable in the form of ulcers in the yea. on the head and combs and in ■f* throat, veterinarians stated. Own."f chickens brought several of the mu <le<| fowls (o j ocal ve t er j nar j atls 'o be treated. tonX SPa . PerS at Fort,an ' l and BluffEurnn ° tate tllat no cases Os the -nropean fowl disease have been in Jay and We i lß counties M d s t ought that this disease will not connr UP ln t ’ 11 ” CoUnty Or ln nearb y foll '° B The chicken market in this ami / M b6en 81 °’’' for sveral weeks ? t 8 haVe b6en very 81ow " In iana s. tbe Btates ’ Eluding Ind- " Bhlp ments of chickens to the price n/ 6 . l>een barred - The highest market' "mT.' °. n tbe ' oca ' produce Pound. ay f 8 e tehteen cents per

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Three Children Burn To Death At Birthday Party (UNITED PRESS dERVIcT?) j Austin, Tex., Feb. 14. — A child's I birthday party was turned into trag ' uly near here Jate yesterday when | three small girls were burned to death in their hay barn playhouse. The dead: Frances Cullen, 6. Dorothy Cullen, 4. May Hardin, 6. Firemen were taking tbe bodies, i burned beyond recognition, from the blazing ruins when J. If. Cullen, father of two of the victims, reached home, unaware of the disaster and with his pockets filled with birthday presents for four-year-old Dorothy. 0 AUTOMOBILE SHOW BUILDING BURNS Loss In Fire At Kansas City Is §2,000,000; 350 New Cars Burn (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Kansas City, Feb. 14—One fireman was killed and more than two, miHion damage caused by fire which swept through the American Royal Livestock arena housing Kansas City’s annual automobille show, early today. Captain John Crane. 65. the oldest >captain of the fire department, was j crushed beneath falling walls. The fire, believed to have originated from defective wiring, started shortly after midnight, only a few minutes after the last of thousands | of motor show visitors had left. Three hundred and fifty automoI biles of the latest model were d>>|stroyed and only charred walls of the ,$60,000 arena, home of the annual I American Royal Livestock show, were I left standing this morning. The entire fire fighting force of (both Kansas Cities fought the flames | for seven hours. I The autohobile show’ was to have closed tonight. Flames shot hundreds of feet into I the air as gasoline tanks on many of | the cars exploded. Sirens on the burni cars shrieked as the insulation burned off. causing short circuits. A score of fire companies pumped streams of water on the blazing building but the fire had gained too much headway. Virtually all of the automobiles were fully insured, according to officials of the show. The American Royal building was considered one of the finest of its kind in the country. It was erected in 1923. The floor covered 7acres and the seating capacity was approximately 15,000 i - o Romance Started 30 Years Ago Ends In Marriage Attica, Ind., Feb. 14 —(United Press) —A romance started thirty years ago and ended in the marriage of Miss Grace Dale Merrill, of Portland, Ore., and Claude S. Earl, of Peru. Thirty years ago Earl published a letter, iu the "Bay Window,” a Methodist Sunday School paper. Miss Merrill endorsed the stand taken in the letter and wrote Earl, signing the name of a boy. A friendly correspondence was started and she wrote under the name of a boy until she grew to womanhood, when her parents insisted that she reveal her name. 1 ' The correspondence was kept up for thirty years. Last year, while on a visit east. Miss Merrill met Earl for the first time. The marriage occurred on the seventieth birthday anniversary of the groom’s mother, Mrs. Geneva ' Earl. r i i - o Murderer Hanged Today i Boulder, Mont., Feb. 14. — Roy i Walsh, 24 was hanged at 10:30 a. m. i today in the Jefferson county jail for . the murder of L. A. Johnson, aged , storekeeper of Renov, Mont. His last hours before the hanging were spent , in writing a long letter of advice to • young boys warning against thievery and other crimes.

OFFICERS FIND TWO STILLS IN RAIDS YESTERDAY Two Foreigners Arrested Near Monroe For Violation Os Liquor Law MEN ARE IN .LAIL Five And One-Half Gallons Os Whisky Found; Hearing On Monday A raid conducted late yesterday afternoon by Sheriff John Baker. Deputy Sheriff I). M. Hower, and Chief of Police Joel Reynolds, on the homes of two beet workers in the vicinity of Monroe, netted two whin j key stills, two barrels of mash and about five and one-half gallons of I moonshine whiskey. Two foreigners,) who claim to be natives of Poland ; were arrested and are being held ini the county jail under bond of SSOO. The names of the two prisoners.! who are about 40 years of ago. could not be learned, as no one could und erstand the language spoken by I them. The names of John Jones and John Brown were used in the affi davits filed against the men. The officers first went to the William Mitchell farm two miles oast of Monroe. There they found four or five men and a woman. After a short search, the officers found a still in the house. They also found 3L4 gallons of whiskey and about a barrel of mash. The stiil and whiskey were loaded into the officers car and they arrested the owner of the still. From the Mitchell farm, the officers went to the Joe Johnson farm where the other Polo lived. He had been at the Mitchell form when the officers arrived there and after he learned what they, were doing he hurriedly returned home and when the officers reached his house they found he had torn down his still and concealed the parts in various places A two-gallon jug filled with whiskey was found concealed behind a shed near the barn. Part of the still was in a sack hanging in the barn and pait of the mash had been poured out to the chickens. The owner of the still was arrested and the still and whiskey were brought to this city. The two prisoners were held in jail here last night and this morning were arraigned jn court before Judge Jesse C. Sutton. As the two men were unable to talk or understand the English language, the court entered a plea of not guilty to the charge against them and appointed Attorney J. Fred Fruchte to defend them. They were then returned to the jail. It is likely that they will have a hearing sometime Monday. Three counts are contained in the affidavit filed against the men. The first count charges possession of) liquor with intent to sell, barter or give away. The second count charges] manufacture of liquor with intent to | sell, barter oi give away. The third] count, which is the most serious of the three, charges the unlawful pos-' ■ session of a still. The penalty for' i conviction on either of the first two counts is a fine of not less than SIOO i noi* more than SSOO and imprisoni ment for not less than 30 days nor ■ more than six months.. The sentence : can not be suspended. The penalty for conviction on the third count is > a fine of not less than SIOO nor more i than SI,OOO and imprisonment for I from one to five years. The court has the power to suspend the sent- ! ence on the third count, providing ’ this is the first offense. i The men residing on the Johnson farm is said to have a wife and two young children. The other man is also married. o ■ Lorin' Shaw Gets A r Divorce At Bluffton r Lorin Shaw, former Decatur man. I was granted a divorce in the Wells t circuit court at Bluffton yesterday, t Mrs- Shaw, who is living in this city, ) offered no defense. Shaw charged r his wife with being intimate with other men.

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Berne Man injured When Kicked By Cow Berne, Feb. 14 The aped Alfred | Romey, living In the south part of town is confined to his home with a frr.( tilled right leg. The accident occurred al about 2 o’clock Thursday itiernoon at the Wilbur Stahley farm several miles southwest of Geneva, where Romey had gone with Eli Riesen to get a young bull which the after hud purchased. The fracture is not total it ib thought, and only on< bone is injured, the small bone below the knee. The Injury was inflicted (then one of the cows in the stable delivered a heavy kick, striking Romey above the knee. Severe injury was also caused beyond the breaking of the bone, in that several ligaments were torn loose on the in ner side of the leg above the knee, caused by the force of the blow that lie received. Romey is 77 years of age and despite his years, hedoes not seem to tie suffering severely, however be will be laid up for some time.—Adlams County Witness. TO CHECK UP ON DRIVE TONIGHT Knights of Pythias to Check Un On Contributions < For State Home A final checkup of the subscriptions of local members for building the proposed state Knights of Pythias home in Indiana, will be made tonight, Dore B. Erwin, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias in Indiana, stated today. It is thought that the donations of the Decatur lodge members will total at least $1,006, The response has been fine and when th© final totals are made up this evening the results will no doubt, be gratifying. Mr. Erwin will broadcast the results of the campaign from Indianapolis next Thursday and the local lodge is planning to install a radio in the K. of P. home to receive his speech. o Earthquake Shock Felt In Japan This Morning (UNITED PRESS SERVICE?) Tokio, Feb. 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — A severe earthquake shock at 9:40 a. m. today sent the inhabitants of Mayebashi dashing into tbe streets to avoid injury by falling structures. There were no casualties. In Tokio only a very slight tremor was feltMayebashi, a silk manufacturing center, is on the main island 70 miles northwest of Tokio. o THREE KILLED IN SHOOTING SCRAPE Two Negroes Helckln Texas For Shooting Three W hite Men (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Orange. Tex., Feb. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Three white men are dead and two negroes are hold in jail here in connection with the slaying, as the result of a wholesale shooting scrape which occurred today. The fight grew out of a campaign inaugurated by white merchants to Induce white people to trade with them. The dead aro: JOE PREJEAN. 40, proprietor of a moat, marketDALLAS MORRIS, 26, an employe of Prejean. BASIL STOKES, 27, deputy sheriff of Orange county. Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Slightly warmer tonight in north and i central pertions; colder Sunday in north portion.

TWO MEASURES ARE SIGNED 8V GOVERNORTODAY Gov. Jackson Affixes Signature to Two Bills Passed By Legislature DRYS ARE CONFIDENT Backers Confident That “Bone Dry” Bill Will Pass In Senate (UNITED PRESS SERVICED Indianapolis, Feb. 14—-(Special to Daily Democrat) —Governor Jackson I today signed two senate bills and I three joint resolutions. The bills signed were the Simms bill, requiring school authorities to display American flags on the school buildings, and the Harrison bill) authorizing the ( state conservation I department to issue free hunting and , fishing license to honrably discharg ] ed soldiers, sailors and marines. Tne joint resolutions proposed three amendments to the state constitution. The proposals have been passed by two legislatures and will now be submitted to popular vote. The proposed amendments would prevent salary increases for public officials during the term for which they were elected, would count woman in apportioning the state for senatorial and representative districts and would require judges to be electad at separate elections. Indianapolis, Feb. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dry forces were confident today of final passage of the Wright “bone dry" prohibition bill in the senate early next week. The bill went to engrossment be fore the week end adjournment late' Friday after withstanding a dozen attempts to attach radical amendments. Only one arnnedment was adopted on second reading. The amendment strikes out thr' clause of the bill which sought to | make it. impossible to suppress evidence of liquor law violations obtained on improperly drawn search warrants. • i — o Berne Men Buy Lumber ' At Camp Knox, Kentucky (Special to the Daily Democrat) Berne, Ind., Feb. 14. — Jacob L. Liechty, Peter D. Schwartz, and Amos M. Schwartz, Adams county farmers and poultry raisers, have returned from a two days business trip to Camp Knox. Kentucky. The three men went to the military camp to look over»the lumber, which was used to build the barracks, and which have now been torn down since the close of the war. The men bought four ear loads of lumber. o ! Girl Born To Alice Roosevelt Longworth (UNITED PRESS SERVICE?) Chicago, Feb. 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A baby girl was born to Alice Roosevelt Longworth here today. The hospital announced both were in fine condition. The baby’s weight was given as 6 pounds 8% ounces. Mrs. Longworth, wifeoof Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, was still irr a state of coma at noon. Twilight sleep was used and when the effects of this wore off Dr. Joseph B. De Lee administered a hypodermic. The baby arrived ten days ahead of time., Dr. De Lee said. For this reason Longw-orth Was not here today for the event. Word was sent to him at Washington and Longworth immediately started for Chicago. Mrs. Longworth’s mother, Kermit Roosevelt and Mrs. Medill McCormick. wife of the senator from Illinois. were at the hospital when the bjiby arrived. "She looks like Teddy," Dr. De Lee remarked. “The child is very w-ell, active and I strong and she started yelling i lustily soon after coming into the world.” $

Influenza Continues To Take Toll in England (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Ixindoa, Feb. 14.-With 76 deaths | in Loudon alone as its toll for the week, the influenza epidemic eon i tinues to spread through England and Scotland. An interesting sidelight brought about by the recurrence of the disease, is the theory advanced by Commander L. Lindop in the British Medical Journal, that flu germs thrown into the air by coughing enter through the eyes of surrounding persons. I.Jndop advocates that all persons who travel in crowded conveyances use motor goggles. Even horn rimmed glasses, he says, help ward off the germs which are in the air when a person coughs. o OSSIAN PASTOR NAMED IN SUIT Merchant Alleges His Wife And Minister Held Intimate Relations Bluffton, Feb. 14. —"Indiscreet re- I lations” between his wife. Helen L. ! Wilson, and Rev. William T. Daly. ] pastor of the Ossian M. E. church, who recently resigned, is given as the cause for divorce by Carl C. Wilson, an Ossian merchant, in the circuit court here Friday. The complaint relates circumstances surrounding a visit of Rev. Daly at the Wilson home at Ossian on the night of February 5, during the ab- ] sence of Mr. Wilson. The following! day Mrs. Wilson loft Ossian and is re- , ported to have gone to the home of i her parents at Toledo. On the same I day Daly surrendered his pastorate j and left town. Itwas reported that I lie was at Indianapolis. Wilson alleges that a number of persons "discovered Rev. Daly at his home on February 5, 1925. after night with lights in the rear of the house extinguished, and that several peri sons saw Daly hurriedly depart I through the rear door.” The plaintiff claims that about two iyears ago he was informed of alleged: indiscretions of his wife and Rev. Daly by visits of the latter to his home during his absence. Mr. Wilson states that “believes that the promi-1 ses made” by his wife and ‘he pastor two years ago to discontinue meeting “were not kept" and alleges that they continued during the intervening period.’’ The merchant further states that “the defendant and said Daly both admitted to plaintiff and others the truth of the charges herein alleged." The minister's wife and a grown daughter by a former marriage are at Ossian residing at the Methodist parsonage. o I “Big Bill” Haywood Is Reported Back In U. S. Chicago, Feb. 14.—William D. ("Big Bill”) Haywood, leader of the I. W. I W.’s, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined SIO,OOO in 1918 on a charge of obstructing the government’s war activities, is being hunted in Chicago on a tip to federal agents that he has returned from Russia. Haywood was one of 92 wobblies seutenced by former Judge Landis. After a short time in jail, Haywood was released on band of $30,000 supplied by William Bross Lloyd, mil- . lionaire socialist, pending appeal on . the sentence. The sentence was held, but when officers tried to find t Haywood, they found he had gone to t Russia to serve as an agent for the soviet government. t o Boycott On Coffee » Warsaw. Ind., Feb. 14. — (United 3 Press.) —Warsaw coffee drinkers have rehelled against tire increases in price 1 and are abstaining from the use of the ; beverage, according to local retailers, s who report that sales have fallen off from one-third to one-halt’.

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SHAFT NEARING CAVERN WHICH IMPRISONS MAN Officials Order All Timbers In Shaft Anchorded To Prevent Fallinff SHAFT 55 FEET BEEP All Except Picked Men Removed From Shaft At 1 O’Clock Sand Cave, Ky., Feb. 14.— Rescue workers are expecting momentarily to break through i into a cavern that will lead to I Floyd Collins’ rock ceil. This was indicated when officials at 12:30 p. m. ordered anchoring of all timbers to prevent their falling into any opening that might be struck by the , shaft which now has penetrat- | ed fifty-five feet toward the livI ing tomb where Collins has laid ' fifteen days. Heavy cables were fastened j about the lower ends of the : timbering and secured to logs stretched across the seven-foot shaft opening. Workers had expected to strike i limestone before they had reached the present depth and continuation or the muck and stone material caused this precaution to be taken. Further auditory tests made in the choked passage down which Collins crawled, confirmed earlier estimates , of the distance. 1 This information was rontained iu : rhe official communique issued by I officials in charge at 12:30 p. tn. All expect picked men were removi ed from the shaft at 1 p. in. Report of some of these that side .drift toward Collins cell had been started secretly was denied by officials. Those in charge explained that the shaft now had reached a limestone edge. The inexperienced men would be unable to gauge the thickness of the ledge readily and it was feared a blunder might precipitate the whole force into the 80-foot canyon which Collins said was near. At the Mouth of Sand Cave. Ky., Feb. 11. —To reach Floyd Collins rescuers must go feet deeper, then 15 feet laterally. This should strike a point in Sand Cave’s original entrance between Collins and the point where the walls swelled shut. This is the latest strategy of H. T. Carmichael, superintendent. If workmen thus strike the open (Continued on page three) FRENCH QUINN TO DELIVER ADDRESS Local Man To Give Main Address At K. Os C. Anniversary Meeting French Quinn, of this city, has accepted the invitation to deliver the principle talk of the evening at the banquet and entertainment to be given by the Decatur Knights of Columbus next Wednesday evening. February 18. in observance of the twentieth anniversary of the local council. Mr. Quinn, who has the gift of expressing beautiful and inspiring thoughts in words, as well as in writing. will deliver the principal talk of the evening. District Deputy C. Byron Hayes and Attorney Stephen ‘ Callihan, former district deputy of Fcrt Wayne, will also give short talks at the meeting. A dinner will be served at six-thir-ty in the evening by the Catholic Ladies of Columbia Local Knights will also be called on for talks. The 1 Decatur Council. Number 864 of the s Knights of Columbus, was establish--3 ed in this city on February 26. 1905. 3 The late E. X. Ehir.ger was the first , grand knight of the council. Joseph f Laurent is the present Grand Knight of the council.