Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1925 — Page 1

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ME Os MINE lIISWEMSKEII I |» SMNB JURY K Body H Necessary \h bodies Ipodifi" Os Victims 01 Mine ■ Horror M Sullivan ■ Taken To Homes M ■M , |). r : ... -Esmond that ■ . ■ ter ,I|p rif y ■fl.. «i.. h ■ ain.' d -I lives M- . .. was made ■fl ■ . - !> j" rv ■fl' - ;i> , , f ).,| with Norral ■fly.-.;- prosecutor. ■■ »•„. ~p.>ri ru|H'-ted Harris to fll i,lrv if ‘ ’iniinal ■■ w ’, K .. r ,1’.ii:..l I" i'o r.-spoil-flfl^.Oi l-i.i ’ and i-ooiiinp-ioled ■fl-,.. ■ ... Ui f,>rr; ".on ohfaiivd in the ■fl:,’.. h- i:-oi io amend th" to provent rep.-ti-■fl„r u i mil tataslrophies. r-It - (Special to ■H p di \ p, in < :a'' - Allv-rl ( Dally, f1f1.,. announced to- ■■ j ! ... ■;! I I-I- h I. - oflic ial prom ■ ■ ■ — dfs.is’er toino- ■■ ; Indianapolis lain HI Sula. ..UH- ..l iinc ill r iiiovn) of ®bß p,-. ,n-- I- ><fi. s from the c ity |HH ra>: mine. flB r. ...nt ip : .Coil of the Ida-t. fll L.. |..f,-..d -io. u-i theories as ■gß » the <2lll° of tile explosion fIH Snllii.tr. P.-i Feb. 23.— (Special HB ' . the world BMB s ' bn’- t■ wi.i ■ pr.-baldy is beginning SB h,. ■la a I’ll.lay'- disaster at the |HB tit iia'.-- th-- 'own and county of ■BB W-i’ati ; ---I awakened to a ■fl ' nt of llieir ■fl t---'- Th- !-art breaking climax ■■ - e-; bo!-.- the lasi of |H th- .’I dead. \i. tints of the mine MB l■” .-- ' - the homes of ■Mtb’ ’ mili.-s preparatory to the ■| Slit, si ti- in ’'.-ctors who went ■■ 'i-' tn-'- early Sunday morn ■■ Us f’ i!" las: boily was hoisted t< ■B l! - '"l’ in an /.official statement flB 'Jt-’l C-- ...1 the miners (Continued on page two) Latin Instructor fl In Local High School BB f ’’ I Thorp, ~f Herbst. Indiana. BB W - ! " tal > hi- duties instructor l- u.'i in beeatur high school, sueMiss Glenn Jackson, who rj ' l"t'<e<l to resign two weeks ago ■H h'ale- care of her parents who are ill. ,\ir Thorp is a gradu|fl ' -i '-'ab.ish college and comes here ■■ * ell ’■’•rommendod. Mrs. Maurice K®'*' l !' has ).. -n teaching the Latin ■fl ’ inrp Miss Jackson resigned. 11ENT BEGINS I ON WEDNESDAY fl Lenten Regulations Read 1 Sunday At St. Marys fl Catholic Church 01 ,Pas, >n nt Lent opens with Ash H lai nes<la> ’ F ' ebr,lar y 25, and specfl| ‘ serv will be held at the St. ■ »o?- CathQlic churcl > during the tim. SIX weelfs - The Lenten regulaH stina Pertai " ing ,0 'he fast and abH (lav ™ 6 n ‘ leS W6re read at the Sun ’ ■B ami n '. aSS^ s at the St. Marys church U s-e 4 , ,he ear] y mass, Rev. J. A. BB son 6 Z arged ,he members of the Isl Um J’ ,On ,0 enter the season °f M act ‘ , Hh the Proper spirit and to do give up certain Isl *ill I Wedne3llay a high maas H ’rihut’on e r blated at 7:30 and the dis - I 'Wng Mhes wi » take plgee folfl held on t maSß ’ Servit 'es will' be fl '■’erv «-»<>b e - day an<l Frida y evenings BB On Frirto Ur ' ng <he I-« n t p n season, fl ronsist nt ,® Vening the services will fl Prediction ? , Way ° f the Cross and fl l>e'a P( , r ,„ n< on T uesday there will fl Passed «° n and Benedic Uon of the I Program The com P lete B “inouticnri nlen servi ces Will be W etz stMei next Sl mday. Father Seim-

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Gloria Swanson Is In A Serious Condition Paris, reh. 23. l (l’nlted Press.) — For the fir t time physicians attend Jng Gloria Swanson admitted toilpy I that her condition Is serious as a ie suit of infection sitting In following lu-r recent operation Dr. Uaudestul. in charge of the ease, says he hopes, however, to save tbo movie star’s •life. Other speeialist-i are'understood to have been called in for consultation. WANT RO A D BUILT > I EAST FROM BERNE - — ' Petition Ashing For Hard ' Surf ace Road Being Circulated Today fj James Foreman, of Blue Creek ’ I township, and Messers Habbegger, ißay an<L Winteregg. of Herne, were ( here today circulating petitions askL Ing for the construction of a mail -from Berne east to the state line, a I distance or seven and a half miles, ' approximately. It is necessary, under the law. to have at least fifteen signatures from a majority of the townships and it was expected the work of se- , curirfg these wotilu bo completed today in time to file the petition with . the county auditor. It will he taken up by the board of commissioners at the March meeting. Th petition asks for a hard surface > road, but those interestd say they will f only ask the commissioners for a bituminous road which is considerably 1 cheaper in cost of construction and .'easier to maintain. Efforts are also » being made for a similar road to be 'built from Decatur south east to the (Ohio line just this side of Willshire. 1 Both this road and the road east from I Berne are subject to heavy Traffic : and must soon have some attention ’ and .the better road boosters believe fi the wisest course to pursue is the con--1 struction of better roads. It is claimr ert that a stxty-foot right of way cart c | be secured on the Willshire road and f if this is improved the road will be- ' I come a very popular one for travelers 1 and will connect the Dayton and Ft. Wayne hard surface road. Under the county unit law the road can be built ' by petition and paid for by the issuance of bonds the same as macadam road. So far as is known there is no 1 objection to the pkm or the project * as petitioned for. Posed As Dead World War Hero For A Year Minneapolis. Feb, 23. —- (United Press.) —Arthur Lopez, the crippled r Mexican youth who posed for more - than a year as a dead Indian World 3 War hero, toduy awaited action in > Washington on his case. » Telegrams were sent to the veterans - bureau headquarters telling of Lopez’ j confessed duplicity. » Lopez presented veterans bureau 1 officials with more than fifty affi- . davits to the effect that he was Arthur Frazier, South Dakota Indiana, reported to have lrt>en killed in World War. Lopez had. such success with his story that officials were almost j forced to believe him. because of public opinion. M. J. Johonnes, veteran police official of the nOtthwest. and now rep- . resentative of the secret service of ‘ the United States department of justice, finally broke Lopez's story. The boy confessed his fraud. He may be held on an attempt to defraud the i government, or he may go free. '———o Rotarians Leave For Meeting At South Bend About fifteen Rotarians left this morning for South Bend where they 1 will attend the state Rotary Conference today and Tuesday. Several of the wives accompanied their husbands j to the convention city. Between twelve ( and fifteen Rotarians are planning to 1 go to South Bend in the morning to attend the conference. 3 0 Washington’s Birthday » Anniversary Observed s . The Decatur banks and postoffice 1 were closed today in observance of 1 the 193rd anniversary of George 1 Washington’s birthday No other j business houses were closed. Flags 5 were displayed in front of the busti ness houses during the day and ■ patriotic programs were held in the schools.

RELATIVES SEEK TO IDENTIFY DEAD MINERS

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The above pl.oto shows relatives of victims in the mine disaster at Sullivan. Indiana, seeking to identify their dead among the first sixteen bodies brought up from the mine. The task of identifying the victims is made extremely difficult on account of th«‘ charred condition of the bodies. An explosion of gas wrecked the mine and entombed. fifty-one miners, all of whom wen- killed, last Friday, February 20.

HOOSIER POET HERETUESOAY I William Herschel! Scheduled To Give Lecture Al H. S. Auditorium William Herschel!, poet and feature ! writer for the Ind a.iapolis News, wdi . entertain Decatur citizens Tuesday ‘ evening in a popular lecture at the ■ high school auditorium. Mr. Her 1 rehcll will appear here under the auspices of the Decatur Woman’s Club- The public is invited to hear ' him. Mr. Herschell is one of the most popular poets in the state today. He f'ts a VTever" tWertaiffiST "and his lecI titres have never failed to please his ■ audience. Tickets for the lecture are 1 being sold by members of the club at twenty-five cents for children and - fifty cents for adults. The lecture will start at 8 o’clock. i o Two Reported Killed ' ■■ Cincinnati, Feb. 23. (United Press) —Two persons were reported killed and scores were reported injured when a Louisville & Nashville train. , Florida-bonnd. left (be rails today at Grants Bend, Ky., eighty miles smith I of here. o GIVE REPORT OBCROPS IN COUNTY Department Os Agriculture Gives Interesting Figures i i The value of farm crops grown in Adams county this year, as akimat- . ed by the United States department of agriculture in co-operation with the . Indiana Legislative Reference bureau, . was $2,792,000. ’ Corn was the leading crop in the . county, the crop having an estimated ■ value of $891,000. The value of the ■ different crops as given out by the ■ department of agriculture follow: Crop Bus. Value Wheat 326.000 $463,000 Rye 25,000 27.000 Corn 948,000 S9IJIOO [ Oats 1,558,000 ’ 748,000 Tame Hay 53,000 tons 663,000 Corn had the largest acreage, aecording to the report. The estimated acreage for the crops follows: Wheat, i 13,600; average yield, 24 bushels; rye. 1,000 acres, average yield 25 bushels 1 to acre; corn, 47,400 acres, average ' yield 20 bushels; oats, 38,000 acres. ' average yield 41 bushels; tame hay. ' 33,000 acres, average yield, 1.59 tons per acre. According to the report 14,400 acres of wheat and 1,200 acres of rve were sown for the 1925 harI vest. The estimated number of heads of > livestock on the farms in Adams f county on January 1, 1925, follows: > Horses, 8.500; mules, 200; milk cows, i 11.600; other cattle, 4.600; sheep, s 10,000 and swine, 40,800. The reports - were compiled by Miner M. Justin, I agricultural statistician for Indiana > and copies have been mailed out from Indianapolis.

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Moldup Men Shoot And Roh Street Car Motorman (UNITED PRESS StERVICRi Fort Waytie. Feb. 23. — (Special to j Daily Democrat)—-Two holdup men; «ho hot and robbed L. H. Hefner.' , !sir< rt enr motorman. here at the end of line Saturday night, discarded the street car fare box. containing! about SBO, on a road near the scene I ”f (he robbery after failing to open lit, Hefner was shot in the hip and is ' I not seriously wounded. The robbers ! f | obtained about $35 in cash. Hefner’s own funds o — NOAH GOTTSCHALK DIED YESTEROAYi Pneumonia Fatal To Aged t Man; Died At Home i Near Linn Grove » ■ Noah Gottschalk, age 70. wellj known in Adams county, died at his | home two and one-half miles west of ' Linn Grove late Sunday. Death was ! due to pneumonia, with which Mr. I j Gottschalk had suffered for seven I, days. i .! Mr. Gottschalk is survived by one son, Goldie, at home, ami the follow-j i ng brothers and sisters: Andrew, of Berne. Mathias, of Bunker Hill, Mrs. Sarah Betzner, of bunker Hill; ami .Miss Amanda Gottschalk, of Berne. Funeral services will be held from the Salem church at 10 o’clock Wed- , nesday mor.Jng. Burial in the cemetery near Salem. Nomination Os Judge Ward Favorably Reported (trNITFn PRESS SERVTCI-R Washington, Feb., 3—The senate iudiciarv committee today reported i favorably on the nomination of three U. S. attorneys including Albert Ward of Peru, Indiana. COMER WILL BE I TRIED MARCH 9 1 Will Fight Charge Os Par--1 ticipating In Harmon Robberv Near Wren > Van Wert, Ohio, Feb. 23.—Roy F. 1 Comer will be tried on Monday, ’ March 9, on a charge of participating • in the robbery of Eliza J. Harmon of near Wren last June. The date for ' the trial was set by Judge Blaehly in ' common pleas court Saturday. Comer ' came irfto court with Ills attorney. William Fostnaught. while Prosecutor John I. Miller was there to represent the state. Comer has made no move to secure his release from jail on bond which was fixed at $4,000 when he plead not guilty to the 1 charge. Weather i ! Indiana: Mostly cloudy tonight with i rain in northeast portion; colder. j Tuesday generally fair.

KING’S ILLNESS ! ALARMS ENGLAND Physicians Advise King George To Take Rest In Southern Europe (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) By Lloyd Alien London, Feb.. 3—All England is tremendously stirred by the news that (King George has been advised by his j physician to take a rest in southern . Europe during convalescnce from the attack of bronchial influenza from ! which he has been suffering several i days. Throngs stood reverently in front of his majesty's palace today and [waited for the official bulletin on his [majesty's condition. No bulletin had been issued at 11 a. m. however. The king’s doctors declared it was uneeessary because of his favorable !condition. The United Press was informed by a reliable source that King Geot'ge passed a comfortable night and is much improved. j No date has been fixed for the king's departure, the United Press was informed at Buckingham palace this afternoon. It is expected the royal (Continued On Page Four) o COUNTY AGENT HAS ASSISTANT Miss Helen Beard Employed To Assist In Junior Farm Club Work ■— i Miss Helen Beard 'of this city, a graduate of the Decatur high school, has been selected by County Agent L M. Bttsche and the Decatur IndusI trial Association committee, tojte the 'assistant in Mr. Bttsche's office in | carrying out the work necessary for -the junior farm clubs in Adams t’oun|ty. Miss Beard started to work this morning and will have employment in the office until the end of the year or after the final awards are made in the jusior farmer's contests. I Upon recommendation of City School Superintendent M. F. Worth- | man, Mr. Bttsche and the Industrial committee, composed of George Krick and Avon Burk, president of the Association made the selection. Enrollments in the junior farm chibs will start March 1 and continue ..throughout the month, Mr. Bitsche stated. The rules amY regulations, for the junior farm clubs will be announced at Berne next Friday night and from that time on an effort will he made to enlist every boy and girl in Adams County in one of (he different clubs, namely the calf chibs, the corn clubs and the sugar beet clubs. I Prizes totaling nearly $700.00 will Ibe awarded by the Decatur Industrial Association, the hanks and other citizens throughout the county who are cooperating. Joseph D. Winteregg, of Berne, is chairman of the county organization and much interest has been already created |in the formation of the junior clubs.

Probe Million Dollar Fire At East Liverpool East Liverpool, 0., F<-b. 23. — Agents of the slate lire marshal's office came to East Liverpool today to Investigate the million dollar fire which threatened Hie business sections Sun day. At om lime the blase covey, d an area of 1(1 blocks breaking out sporadically In a s< ore of buildings and destroyed the five-story Milligan building and two small structures adjoining. —————-<j—— — . ... — TWO KILLED IN TRACTION WRECK . Investigation Os Wreck Near Freeport, 111., Is Begun Today (UNITED PP.ESS REP.VIPR) I, Freeport, 111., Feb. 23.—An investigation to determine, who, if anyone, is responsible for the crash of interurban cars on the Rockford and Interurban Electric line near Ridott, 111., Sunday noon in which two were killed and 11 injured, was to be started today at the company's offices in Rockford, 111., according to information received here this morning.' It is understood that road's running regulations require that west-bound cars stop on a switch track near the scene of the wreck to allow eastbound cars to pass. The reck occurred several hundred feet west of the side track, indicating the west-bound car either did not stop on Hie siding at all, or after stopping for a while 1 ‘proceeded on its way westward toward Freeport. Digging among the ruins of the burned cars Sunday evening Coroner E. A. Diestelmeier. of Stephenson county found what he believes to be a human heart, pelvic bone, a femur and fragrament of a spinal column. This seems to substantiate the theory of some of the passengers that a woman who is believed to have hoarded the car at Pecatonica, next station east of the scene of the wreck, perished in the fire. Near the bones Hie coroner found a small brooch, keys, golosh buckles and various metal trinkets, George Chapman, molorman of the east-bound car, was crushed to death in the vestibule of his car. Fred Rhodes, motorman of the other car. was dangerously hurl. The fire burned the cars down tn their trucks. Assessors’ Books Are “ Being Compiled Now Work was started this morning on ; compiling the county assessors books, listing tlie name of every real estate I owner in the county. The assessed i valuation, together with the descrip- i tion of the land, is listed in the books. The sheets are typewritten and the ’ books will be ready for use after March : 1. A meeting of the county assessors will be held in this city tomorrow, at which James Showalter, represetative l of the state tax board, will be here to Bddress the township accessors relative to the assessing of property next month. o — Thieves Steal Oranges ' From Display Window A portion of one of the front windows in the George Miller grocery, corner of Monroe and Seventh streets I parly Sunday evening and more than ( half of a crate of oranges, which were I in the show window, were stolen. Sev- I era! fancy apples on display in the 1 window were stolen] also. The rob- 1 »bery was discovered about 9:45 o’clock and Night Policeman Sephus 1 Melchi was called to make an invest!- 1 gation, but no clues have been found. The theives did not enter the store. o ■ — Fort Wayne Man Hurls Self In Front Os Train I Fort Wayne, Feb., 3 —The suicide of Mrs. Ida Saue.r, who threw herself in front of a Nickel Plate train here early Saturday nuirning. is believed , to have suggested a similar death to Lee Hemrick, 40, mail carrier. Hemrick’s body was found early I this morning on the Pennsylvania - railway tracks mangled. He has been in ill health for several years and was ' despondent. He commented on news . articles about Mrs. Sauer's death to i his family. Going for a walk Stftiday i night he failed to return home and had I been gone many hours when found nt daybreak today.

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LEGISLATURE GIVES RELIEF TO MINERS'FAMILIES Appropriates $19,000 For Relief Os Families Os 51 Victims NO DISSENTING VOTES Administration Appropriation Bill Ijd In House This Afternoon Indianapolis, Feb. 23.—Under suspension of rult s the legislature today rushed through a ! bill appropriating SIO,OOO for the l relief of relatives of the 51 minj ers killed in the explosion at 'Sullivan, Friday. The bill passed both houses without a dissenting vote. Both house and senate adopted resolutions of sympathy for the families of the blast victims. The bill provides that the $lO,. 000 shall be spent under supervision of Governor Jackson. The forty-six million dollar administration apporpriution bill after •striking repeated snags that kept it under consideration by the ways and means committee was to come up this afternoon before the house in committee of the hole tor second reading. Tlie items of 3250.000 for the Riley Memorial hospital and <125.000 on a new gymnasium at Terre Haute which had been added by tlie ways and means committee in final consideration of the bill Saturday were dropped from the bill after-a hurried consultation this morning. When Speaker Leslie heard of the committees action in adding the two Items it was reported that he “hit the ceiling" and refused to call down the bill in that form. It was predicted that these two items would be placed in the bill by amendments from the floor of the house. “If they give Indiana University $700,000 and Purdue University only $350,000, then I'm a piker." Leslie was reported as saying in a conference with other administration leaders today. Two Arrests Made In City During Week-End Two men were arrested and jailed here over the week end on charges of public intoxication. Lase Swigart was arrested bv Night Policeman Sephus Melchi Saturday night and a stranger, giving the name of Earl Harper, was jailed Sunday afternoon. Swigart was released Sunday morning and was to appear in court this morning, hut he failed to appear. Harper was ill at the jail today, it was reported, and was unable to appear in court. SIX BOYS TAKEN FROM ERIE TRAIN Had Run Away From Homes In Chicago To Go To Pennsylvania Six Chicago boys, four of them thirteen years old, one fourteen and one sixteen, were removed from the tender of the locomotive on the eastbound Erie passenger train. No. 8. due in this city at 2:57 a. m„ Sunday morning, by Night Policeman Sephus Melchi. after he had received a call from Huntington that the boys were on the train. The boys were locked in the county jail Sunday night and were held there until early this morning when parents of two of the boys arrived in an automobile to take the six youths back to their homes in Chicago. The boys told the officers here that they were going to Pennsylvania. They were riding on top of the coal and were covered with coal dust when taken from the train. They had run away from their homes in Chicago- They gave the names of: Robert Excell, age 16; Charles Milletto, age 13; Harry Sowa, age 14; James McMahan, age 13; Sam Barloxv. age 13. and Francis Welch, age 13. The father of one of the boys called local officers yesterday morning and asked for the names of the boys held here. After being informed. he told the officers to hold the youths until he arrived.