Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1925 — Page 1

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COLLINS IS RESCUED; BELIEVED DEAD

I COMPENSATION I biliaovanceb I i(SENATETODAY ■ | Hill T<» increase W orkmen s I compensation Is Step ■ Nearer Passage | f . E NSION 811. l FAVORED! ■ Senate Acts On Old Age; I pension Bill: Ready For ■ Second Reading I n'MTi'i' rnrX'T sfiiiVh’Ri ■I hl .|iun.|.oli- l’"b- 1 ,: S( ' na "' >°- ■ IU adManiv,! the bill for increased] ■ worknans ( ornp"nsation a step near-1 ■er p.T<h'e 1J " " f l,i "' r I ■ , :a;l jiirity (oniinitHeo report for ’ ■ <>f Hi, bill with amendments was adopted. , ■ Ti.e measure introduced by Senator ■ Aid-, dg-- el Anderson would increase ■ the maximum compensation from sl3. B-WioJl' l '" weekly for the loss of ■ time II would also increase the maxi-j B mum indemnity from $5,000 to $16,500 | B .This hill is another running step | B on a pari of a certain clement of ornttized label Io drive another wedge! «, further intimidate industry. Sen’stor Inman, of Danville, who opposed tlm bill most bitterly, declared. I "It is another effort of labor to take - ow industry.” He said the vast majority of labor I which is unorganized was opposed to; the billOld uyv pensions were given favor’ahi.- action in the senate when it aili.yi'-d a committee report without 'tba.i n wln-it the I’resid.-nt wl «*r sraite ruled that a committee report without recommendation on the bill which was introduced by Senator Nedial meant passage. The bill is nowready for the second reading. 0 Two Boys Ran Away To Go To Sand Cave. Ky. Anderson, Ind.. Feb. 16. — Jacob (Minister, business man here, was on his way to Bellevue. Ky.. today to return Ids son, Harry. 15. and William Parks, la. located there after having been missing several days. The boys were on their way to Sand Cave where Floyd Collins is imprisoned. o — Gasoline Too High To Buy; Motorist Steals It Indianapolis, Iml., Feb. 16.—Enter—the gasoline thief. a small rubber tube, he < syphoned ten gallons of gas from a tank on the rear of Mrs. Ella Mahoney's automobile, presumably into an automobile parked alongside. Police attributed the theft to the Went increase in gasoline prices. — o- — CBNCERTHERE THURSDAY NIGHT Symphony Orchestra From lort Wayne Coming • I or Entertainment Tii kets are selling for the concert 0 be g,ven at the high school auditor- . in this city on Thursday evenp.g ’ Febr uary 19, by the Gibsonectruni Symphony orchestra of 25 1)1 3b pieces, from Fort Wayne. The '’’•chestra is coming to this city l!l,f r the auspices of the C. E. Soof the Evangelical church and excellent program has been arfor the entertainment. n ... WIH be eight numb ers on the .‘in including several sub-divis-i one ’oS the C ° nCm * S BUre t 0 P ro ’ e ■mtin th ? Mt enter taining ever givI sist nf h ' B C ty ' The program W >H con- ■ cludin ' ' ried musical numbers, inI 2 8 > Uitary “ ÜBic ‘ wading, man- ■ special n 08 l quartets and several I Th,' umbers by the ‘‘Banjo Band.” ■those wh° Bram ‘ 8 being Printed and ■entertain™ " iS '’ t 0 hear the muslcal Kekets n are t 0 S e t. their ■ ■as soon as possible.

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Col. Reppert Returns From Trip To Florida Col. Fred Reppert returned last I night, from Florida where he has been Iconducting real estate sales. Col. Reppert reports that land is selling at a good price In Florida now. Col. | Carl Gartiu, of Greensburg, Indiana, , who is a member of the faculty of the ] Reppert Auction School, has been In Florida since the auction school ilosed here a month ago, conducting ‘ real estate sales. While in Florida I Col. Reppert saw several Decatur land Adams county people. PYTHIANS GIVE $822 FOR HOME Local Lodge Hopes To Increase Sum To SI,OOO Before Thursday 1 At the check-up of contributions front local members towards the proposed Knights of Pythias Home to b* built in this state, a total of $822.00! was reported nt the mooting and i those in charge of the campaign have ! set the goal of the local lodge at $1,000.00. It is thought that before! ! next Thursday the total contribution; lot local members will roach the one thousand dollar marl; and place the I Decatur lodge among those at the I top of the list Dore B. Erwin, grand chancellor, of I the Knights of Pythias in Indiana. I received word Saturday that the lodges at Rushville and at Andrews. Indiana, secured a one hundred per cent contribution or an average of $5.00 from each member. N*»t ulLuf thft, weAuUfeTs in thejocal lodge have been seen. Several of the local members gave as much as $25.00 towards the home and within the next two or three days the soliciting teams will make an effort ■ to call on every member and secure a donation from him- The Pythian Sisters will probably donate towards the fund and the SI,OOO goal will bo reached easily, those in charge of the campaign state. Mr. Erwin will go to Greencastle Wednesday and on Thursday' will be in Indianapolis, at which time the results of the campaign will be checked and the totals broadcast by radio from that place. o — Comer Pleads Not Guilty To Robbery Os Harmons Van Wert, Ohio., Fe. 16 —Roy F. Comer of Huntington. Ind., indicted by the last grand jury on a charge of participating in a robbery at the home of Eliza J. Harmon on June 14, 1924. pllead not guilty when brought into common pleas court before Judge Blachly Saturday. Bond was fixed at $4,000. While Fostnaught, Comer's attorney appeared with him and requested that the bond not be excessive. He cited that Comer came hack to Ohio without fighting extradition and that he had an opportunity. ‘‘Were’nt you the man who made a key ov«r there?” the judge asked. ‘‘No, sir," Comer answered. "I found that key which was made by one of the other mon in jail and gave it up of my own free will.” Prosecuting Attorney John J. Miller was not present. Word was received here today that Harry F. Zimmerman, who also was indicted in connection with the Harmon robbery, will fight extradition from Indiana at a hearing before the governor of the state Monday. , o Five Flocks Os Chickens In Deleware Co. Infected Indianapois, Feb. 1G —Five flocks of chickens in Delaware county have been found to be. infected with the European fowl pest, fatal chicken disease have been destroyed. Survey of all flocks in the nine counties in eastern Indiana in the quarantined area continued today in the government's fight to stamp out the malady. Veterinarians continued their sweep of the nine counties in an effort to find any new outbreaks and to check the spread by killing all chickens in the infected flocks.

KIRKLAND YOUTH ELECTED JUNIOR STATE SENATOR _ i Daniel Jaberg Elected To Represent County In I Junior Legislature — INTERESTING ELECTION Nine Ballots Required To Elect; Six Candidates Nominated i Daniel Jaberg, a pupil in the Kirk- 1 land township high school, was! elected Saturday to represent Adams ■ county high schools in the Junior General Assembly to be held in the state capitol, Indianapolis, during the week of March 23. The election was] i held at a meeting of the delegates | . from the. nine high schools in the , county, in the high school building Jat Monroe. Saturday afternoon. Th.p Adams county representative will I have the rank of a senator. I I j Jaberg was elected on the ninth I ballot. Ralph Tyndall, a teacher in ‘]the Decatur high school, presided at i the meeting as chairman. Superinten- , dent W. A. Amstutz, ot P.erne. ae.ed ; , as clerk. There were two delegates , from each high school. On the roll call, nominations were made and six f delegates were placed in nomination. These nominated were; Merlin Ellen- > berger, of Berne; Mary Macklin, of . Decatur; George Severance, of Geneva • Vaughn Schlagenhauf, of Hartford f township; Daniel Jaberg. of Kirkland township; and Harley Ehrsam. of I Mcutroe. Mnpmougi. Pleasant Mills and Jefferson township did not make i any nominations. i Vote Scattered At First “I Before the balloting begun the dele- . gates voted that a two- thirds majority ' would decide the election. On the first l few- ballots the voting was scatered I among the six candidates. After five ' ballots had been taken with no apI parent progress toward a choice, a recess was taken, during which time ’ the delegates engaged in poilitical ' maneuvers in an effort to swing the ‘ election. There was little change on ‘ the sixth ballot, but on the seventh ' ballot tlte Decatur delegates switched their vote from their own candidate to Severance of Geneva. Then the (Continued On Page Four) TWO FINED FOR MAKING LIQUOR — Two Poles Arrested Friday Fined $100; Sentenced To 30 Days On Farm 1 A fine of SIOO and costs and a sentence of thirty days on the state penal farm was given this morning to each of the two men arrested near Monroe, 1 Friday evening following the discovery of a still and moonshine liquor at their 1 homes. The men entered plea of guilty r to the second count of the affidavit. 1 which charged them with manufacture of intoxicating liquor with intent to sell. The true names of the men. who : claim to be natives of Poland, are Fe- ' lix Chonaki and Stenley Kowaleni, it ’ was learned this morning. Chonaki ' lives on Joe Johnson farm north east of Monroe and Kowaleni lives on the William Mitchel farm two raies east of Monroe. The raids were conducted by SherI iff John Baker, Deputy Sheriff D. M. Hower and Chief of Police Joel Reynf olds. A still was found at each place ‘ and each had a rew gallons of > Te men were confined in the county t Jail here following their arrest until this morning when they were taken i into court. Attorney J. Fred Fruchte > was appointed by the court to defend i the men,-as they asked for an attornt 'ey. After they were fined and senl fenced on the second count of the afi fidavit. the other two counts were 1 dismissed. They charged the men 1 with possession of liquor and possession of a still.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 16, 1925.

'lndians Send Checks To Pay Accounts Here The firm of Vance A I.lnn. local clothiers, received checks today from sev.-ral of the Indians who were stranded in this city for several days following the close of the Northern | Indiana Fair last summer, in pay I m<-nt for clothing they purchased ] *hilc lu re. Two of the Indians were t unabe to write their name und their| | fingerprints were used for thoir sigI natures on the checks. , AIDS INCOME TAX PAYERS —— Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Here For Four Days This Week .1. O. Banks, deputy internal revenue coll-ctro. has opened headquarters in the Decatur Industrial Association rooms and will be there today. Tues. Wednesday and Thursday. He will a; sist local income taxpayers in filling out their income tax blanks and those who have blanks to fill out are invited to atail themselves of his services. Mr Hanks will be in his office from 1 8:30 to 12:00 in the mornings, from lone to five in the afternoon and from six to eight in the evening. Six taxpayers had their blanks filled out this morning and one taxpayer' payed a penalty for not filing a blank for the past two years, although he was not subject to any tax. but under the law was required to file a blank. —o Man Held At Fort Wayne On White Slavery Charge U NITED PP.ESS SEP-Virß) Fort Wayne. Ind.. Feb. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Robert Dawson. 21, pugilist, is held here on charges of white slavery and will be returned to Indianapolis or Louisville. Ky., for trial. Dawson was arrested at Monroeville on a charge of bringing Ruby Settle. 15, from Louisville. to Indiana. Officers say Dawson the girl, and her bfother were living near Monroeville. Fred W. Upham Is Dead Palm Beach. Fla.. Feb. 16. — The body of Fred W. Upham, republican] national committee for twenty years.] will be shipped today to his home in Chicago. Upham died here yesterday from the effects of a cerebral stroke. He was 64 years old. Upham came to Palm Beach last June shortly after he resigned as treasurer of the republican national | committee on account of ill health. 0 QUARTET WILL GIVE PROGRAM Fourth Number Os Pleasant Mills Lyceum Course To Be Given Tuesday The fourth number of the lyceum course being given at Pleasant Mills this winter under the auspices of the senior class of the Pleasant Mills high school, will be given in the high school building Tuesday evening. February 17. The. entertainment will be furnished by the Ambassador Quartet. The Ambassador Quartet is a splendid group of singers who have appeared in a transcontinental concert tour . with marked success during the past two years. Metropolitan audiences ■ and rural gatherings have given un- '■ qualified apprqval to their, singing. their knack of quartet music is interesting and their fine personalities, and general muscianship. Weather i Snow tonight. Considerably colder; Tuesday mostly fair, except prob- ■ ably snow in extreme south portion; colder in east and south portion.

CITY BUILDINC BILL MAY APPLY TO THIS CITY Sen. Saunders Seeks To Include Decatur And Portland Under Bill BILL IS EXPLAINED —— Under Bill City Ctftild Use Light Plant Funds To Build City Hall I UNITED PRESS SEltVfi'Rl Indianapolis, Feb. 16. — Senator] I George L. Saunders, of Blufffon, announced today ho would seek to plaee Decatur and Portland under provisions of his bill which would permit | cities to erect city halls from profits of their municipal light and power plants. The bill as originally drafted would permit Bluffton to build a city hall from the proceeds and Senator Saunders will seek to amend the bill. The passage of the Saunders bill would make it possible for Decatur to divert any surplus or profits from the operation of the city light and power plant to building a municipal or community hall, if the voters desired it. According to the provisions of the bill, the question of appropriating the profits of the light and power plant for the building of a community building would have to be put to a vote ala general city election. DecuUif haA a good city hall, but is crowded for room for offices for the light and water plant. If such a building were erected a large gymnasium or auditorium could be placed on the second floor and the first floor 4ised as offices for the light and water department and council chambers if desired. At present the city is building up the power plant with the profits made from Hie business and as far as known I uo action has been taken along the ; lines of building a community buildI ing. but with the passage of the i Saunders bill such a program would i be possible if the local citizens desired it. o LICENSE BUREAU IS BUSY PLACE Motorists Make Eleventh Hour Rush for 1925 Auto License Plates The local office of the state auto license bureau was one of the busiest places in Decatur last Saturday and the rush was still in progress this morning. A total of 291 licenses were Issued last Saturday, an average of about 36 per hour, based on an eighthour day. However, the oftiie remained opened in the evening and accommodated those who called. A dead-line for getting the new auto licenses and number ulates was Saturday and. following instructions from the Secretary of State, local police will arrest all those who operate their cars without the new number plates. The rush continued this morning and at ten o'clock, when a representative of the Daily Democrat called at the Graham and Walters office, where the license bureau is located, eight men were standing in line waiting to get their plates and cards. Miss Nova Yost, in charge of the bureau, stated that the container cards were ready for those who did not get them in the rush Saturday, the plates being given them and the cards filled out later. Practically two-thirds of the total auto owners in the county have secured their 1925 licenses, between 2.300 and 2,400 plates haveing been issued since December 15, Miss Yost • stated. It is estimated that the to- • tai number of automobiles in the ; county, including trucks will be approximately 3.200. .

EXTRA At the mouth of Sand Cave. | Ky., Feb. Ki—(Special to Daily 1 Democrat)— Brigadier General I Kehoe, of the Kentucky Nation lal Guard, declared this afternoon that Floyd Collins is dead. General Kehoe said there was a ! strong odor about Collin’s ; body, buried in the rock crevice |and that decomposition had apparently set in. An official report from Dr. Francis and Dr. Hazlett declared that Collins died of exhaustion and exposure. 0 TON LITTER HOC CONTEST OPENS Trophy And Cash Prizes Offered; Must Enroll By March 1 Attention hog feeders! Here's a chance to show what you can do with your spring pig? and to prove to the neighbors that your talk about how fast you can make your pigs grow isn't all bragging. The doors are now open for the 1925 ton litter con-1 test in Adams county. The bars are ; down. —no restrictions as to breeding l of pigs, since they may be purebreds, crossbreds, hybreds. scrubs or “just hogs.” No limit on the kind or amount of feed, —give them commer- . eial feed, milk, corn, straw. - anything I you need to get results. There is ‘ one limit, however. —get your enroll-; ment to the county agent by March ! first. Here’s the plan. Join the Indiana ■ Livestock Breeders’ Association by ] March 1. (Fee fifty cents, taken fit] county agent's office). Earmark and; report all litters farrowed during Feb- 1 ruary, March and April. Cards are; furnished free. Nominate litters by June 30th., all those farrowed in above three months eligible. (The membership entitles you to nominate as many litters as you like. A record of feed is not required. The pigs will be weighed by a committee when the litter or litters are 180 days old. All (ontestants feeding litters weighing a ton or more will receive gold medals from the Indiana Livestock Breeders Association, those feeding litters weighing 1.800 and less than one ton will receive silver medals; those feeding litters weighing more than 1,600 and less than 1,800, bronze medals. In addition to the medals the Schmitt trophy, a beautiful 12-inch ! silver loving cup will be awarded the Adams county contestant feeding the heaviest litter. This cup will have engraved upon it the name of the winner, the weight of the litter and the year in which it is won. The cup will remain in his possession until won by another contestant and will become permanent property if won twice in consecutive years. Otto Hoile, of Union township won the cup in 1924 and authentic information lias it he is out after it again in 1925. Cash prizes will be awarded as follows: second heaviest litter, $20.00 cash; third. $15.00 cas: fourth, SIO.OO cash; fifth, $5.00 cash. No restrictions are placed upon the weights of j the litters except that the cup will not be awarded for a littler weighing less than one tom All premiums listed above are furnished by the Schmitt Meat Market, of Decatur. Full enrollment may be obtained at the county agent’s office by mail or by calling in person. It is said several have already enrolled. o “Klan Temple” To Be Opened Friday Night .Don Teeple, secretary of the Adams County Ku Klux Klan orgauization. • announces that the ‘‘Klan Temple" at Monroe will be formally opened next Friday, with a chicken supper ■ and entertainment. Through a deal i made sometime ago, the klan has i leased one of the brick buildings at ; Monroe and it was stated that through ■ a sale of stock, the rooms on the secs ond floor were remodeled and made - into county headquarters for the organization.

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WORKMEN REACH CAVERN AT 2:45 THIS AFTERNOON Body Found Few Feet From Opening; Doctors Go Down Shaft MUCH EXCITEMENT Discovery Os Body Came Shortly After Announcement Os Delay (UNITED PHI -5S PKRVK'FD At Ihe Mouth of Sand | Cave, Ky., Feb. 16.—-Official |announccmenl al Hie mouth of Sand C.ave at 2:15 p. in., today said Floyd Collins had been found. The announcement said Collins was believed dead. Brig. General 11. 11. Den hart, E. S. Posey, IL T. Carmichael and Dr. \V. I). ' Fimkhonsen joined in making the announcement. No Doctor has as yet examined (’.ollins, it was announced. The said announcement coming a few moments after authorities indicated Collins would | not be reached before midnight brought terrific excitement to ! the crowds standing outside the ; lines of soldiers guarding the i shaft. Persons on the surface were ' informed that the workmen had crashed through the roof of the cavern and landed in a i passage way. They walked a few feet from there and found Collins, the report said. Carmichael went down the shaft to make an inspection. A few minutes later Carmichael returned to the surface and summoned three other men. They walked out on the track used by tram cars to carry away the dirt from the rescue shaft operations. After a few moment's conversation they walked back together to the mouth of the shaft and Carmichael said to reporters: ‘‘We have found Collins, and on preliminary examinartion believe he is dead.” Dr. C. E. Francis, of Bowling Green. Ky.. Dr. M. M. Moss of (he Kentucky state militia and Dr. Wm. Halelett will go down the shaft to examino Collins, it was stated. A few moments before this announcement Homer Collins, a brother of the entombed man. made an (Continued on page two) o CHRIST FUHRMAN DIED SATURDAY Lifelong Resident Os Preble Township Dies Near Freidheim Christ Fuhrman, age 75 years, well known resident of the Freidheim community in Preble township, died at the home of its brother. Andrew Fuhrman, near Freidheim. at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night. Death was due to a complication of diseases, Mr. Fuhrman having been in failing health for the past yearMr. Fuhrman was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fuhrman and was born ia Preble township, Adams county, I August 9. 1846. He spent his entire I life in Adams county. Mr. Fuhrman 11 never married. He was a travelling ■ merchant, selling linaments, extracts ' and the like. He is survived by two I brothers. Charles and Andrew, of ' near Freidheim. and one sister, Mrs. I Fred Hambruck, of Fort Wayne, t Funeral services wiil be held from 1 the home at 1 o’clock and from the i Freidheim Lutheran church, of - which the deceased was a member, ’ at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. • Burial will be made in the Freidheim cemetery.