Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1925 — Page 1

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ft. MG CORMIGK, If ILLINOIS. DIES SUDDENLY TODAY fastric Hemorrhage (auses Death of Prominent Sen.,[or At Washington F OIIND DEAD IN BED Wife Summoned From Chi-1 ; Ago; Term Would Have Expired Soon (iWTEn Pi:»:S« SEHVK'in Washington. I«b. 2">. — (Spe*llo D.-lv Demoemt) - Seimtor M.dill McCormick ol Ilhnok died suddenly lu re today fllbs hotel ol gastric htntorMcCormick. apparently in good health when he arose this ' flwiiiiu>. was suddenly seized sbuiil T. 30 and expired almost ipiuedialely. < Mrs. McCormick has beenKBDiiHoued from Chicago and $ on her way here. , MfCoimiik's b-nii would have ex-) ftirHl a week ftom today as he was; ' iiMieil for ro nomination last fall, h Charles Deneen He hail recent-; I]i been prominently mentioned for, i ftfoiatmwit as ambassador to Gerbuy McCormick entertained a few, friends in his rooms last night after fe air'd session of the senate, ac ! wiilnf. to .he hotel manager, W. A 'Jtmix He arose as usual abont S| ■ 18., the hotel maids reported to the. I usurer. Stertly after 9 a.tn. Rrcse said, no: unanswered the phone in Mc.Cgt art's room and he went up to see if anything was wrong. He found McCormick dead in bed, with evitace that death had stricken him, Mddenly. Btrse summoned a doctor who said | the senator apparently had been dead : about an hour. The doctor gave gas- ■ tr!.‘ hemorrhage as the cause of, death There were some evidences ol hemorrhage in the room. Representative Nicholas Long-! worth. republican floor leader, was one of the first of McCormick’s fri-nds to reach the hotel. No announcement of McCormick’s tath was made on the floor of eith- ' or house for some time tn order to allow ample time for Mr. McCormick's friends to notify Mrs. McCorI mirk, who was in Chicago with Mrs. ; Alice Roosevelt Longworth. After an investigation at the hotel Detective Bernard Thompson of head- • quarters, announced there were “no suspicious circumstances,” and the coroner issued a certificate of death, due to natural causes.” The body will remain at the hotel until Mrs. McCormick arrives to take charge of it McCormick was the senior senator ! from Illinois. He was born in Chicai w if 1877. the son of Robert S. McI ormi <’k and Katherine Medill McCormick. After graduating from Yale ™ IS’tt) he returned to Chicago to ' ’’come affiliated with the Chicago '■‘Dune, a family property. His poF “tical life included the vice chairBanship of the progressive national «®mittee from 1912 to 1914, two ’nos in th e H]j nO j g general assembly tn one term in the national house representatives, 1917-1919. He was « ,p 'l senator from Illinois in 1919. • totmick married the daughter De late Senator Mark Hanna of ‘n IM3. They have three chib Peh ' 25 --(Special to ' ■ Democrat)—( n a state bordor . nilek ” ™ llapsp ' Mrs - Medill McCorCoim r <OW Os Sppator Medill Metho PnßaKP< l accommodation for where ", n ° on ,rain for Washington,,akP Charß ° ° f the dl «anc e M nh“ rmiCk received ,wo lonß ,or yester day ae^ a “ S frOm the Bena ‘ senator smA In the 9econd cal ‘ the Co rnilck 1 T ,U ’ and Mrs ' Mc ‘ new spsr ' pgTa P hpd a Washington friend of the ; or !, esponden ‘. close StOf. The am ' t 0 ViSlt th ® Sen ' announcem . ‘ word before Wray’s last night en . ° f thC came ."as keeping ' npr that thp senator

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iGov. .lacksoil Signs Three More Measures (VNiTt-.n prints* servicr, Indianapolis. Feh. 25. - Governor I Jackson late Tuesday signed three b'ils, Which Representative Low* I tponsored In the house. One authorizes the issuance of I gravel road bonds for a road in MontI gomery county, and the other two are amepdments to the law on notary fees. ROTARIANS HOME FROM CONFERENCE Decatur Club Represented By Large Delegation At South Bend The Decatur Rotarians and their I wives returned last night from South Bend whore they attended the eighth annual Rotary conference of the Twentieth district of Rotary International. The Decatur Rotarians mo- , tored to South Bend Monday and Tuesday morning. The local delega- . tionwas one of the largest of the smaller cities representated. there being 25 men and women present. (Twenty-one members of the local i lull attended the conference. The conference sessions were held at the Palais Royaie building and on Monday night the Governor's ball was held there, lien sherwood. of Bedford, was elected governor of the twentieth' district without opposition, and Hon. Arthur Sapp, of Huntington,. former ‘district governor in this state, was endorsed as a director of the Indinational council. _ A*’movement was ■ tarted to hold the next state conference at French Lick or West Baden next year and Fort Wayne was assured the conference In 1927.‘The Fort Wayne club Is already making plans to entertain the Indiana Rotarians in 1927. The Decatur Rotarians and their - wives who attended the conference : were: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Suttles, I Mr. atidMrs. T. J. Durkin. Mr. and Mrs 'James Elberson. Mr. and Mrs. E W. Johnson. M. F. Worthman. James Cowan, Dan Beery, C. K. Bell. W. A. Lower, W. A. Klepper, John Carmody, 1 C. J. Voglewede, A. R. Houthouse C. N. Christen, fl. F. Ehlnger, Eno Lankenau, James Arnold, Wai Wemhoff, R. J Harting. Will O’Brien. o ASSESSORS GET SUPPLIES SOON * 1 Meet Here Saturday Morning To Get Final Instructions And Supplies The township assessors and their deputies will meet ut the court house 011 Saturday mo.-ning. February 28. ! at which time final instructions will 1 be given to their, by County Assessor 1 William Zimmerman nnd the tu-iplies ffistributed. The appointment of two men to assess real estate in Decatur has not ' yet been made. It has been difficult to secure the kind of person waited. ! one who is a good Judge of real ’ estate \alites and who is competent ’ to do the work. The law allows onlj' t 23 00 a day for deputy assessors. The assessing of personal property in Decatur will be done by A. R. Bell and Ben Schrank, who are well > acquainted with the work, having . done it for several years. George . Dellinger will assess personal property - assessor in Washington township by • Township Assessor Jay Cline. Mr. Dellinger will asses peronal property i and real state outside of the city. Mr. Cline will assess local business : houses and look after the details per- ■ taining to his office. 1 The real estate blanks this year ■ have space on the reverse side of the 1 blank for additional information per--1 taining to the real estate and ini- • provomenta thereon. The size of the 1 building, the number of rot-ms, the » material built of, style of building, ■ heating plant and ojher additional information must be given this year.

PLAN 10 OBTAIN A RADIO SET FOR COUNTYINFIRMARV Farmers Plan Benefit Baskethall Game To Raise Necessary Fund BLIND RECEIVE SETS Blind Residents Os City Enjoying Sets Purchased By Local Citizens I Farmers from Washington and I Root, townships will play a benefit basketball game at the new high , school gymnasium here next Tuesday night, March 3. the entire proceeds to go to the radio fund for the purpose of purchasing a receiving set and loud speakers for the inmates of the Adams county infirmary. W. A. Fonner. captain of the Root township farmers, who challenged the Wash- . inglon township team after the latter , defeated the Kirkland township fanners recently, today announced that he had completed all arrangements for the game. I There is some money left from the fund raised here recently for purchaising sets for the blind residents of Decatur and immediate vicinity. , and that will be applied to the fund for installing a set at the infirmary. Two loud speakers will be purchased for the set at the infirmary, one to ’ be used in the men’s ward and the other in the women's ward. Ten sets have been purchased for blind residents of the city and vicin-hav-'-U-en installed at the homes of Miss Grace Hurst. Perry 1 Elzey. Luther Wolford. James Ton 1 hey. and Anthouy Wertzberger in this city, and Oral Davidson, of ’ Berne, the latter having lost his eye--1 sight in an accident at the Decatur Castings company's plant in this city several months ago. A set was being ‘ installed at the home of Frank Par- > rlsh today, and sets have been pur- ! chased for William and Rufus Brodbeck of Boho, Reginald Cliffton. of ’ this city, who at present is a student - in the school for the blind at Indi- ■ anapolis; and T. J. Rayl, of Monroe. . father of Dr. C. Rayl of this city. • Wherg the sets are installed, the . blind people are enjoying entertainment that they had never dreamed of before, and they are very gratful. Tickets for the benefit game will se.l for ten and twenty-five cents Two games will be played, one for I farmers thirty years of age and over and one for farmers sixty years of age and older. , 0 Revision Os State Mining "Laws Appears Unlikely Now (CNITICD PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Feb.’ 25. —Drastic rer vision of the state mining laws as i> an aftermath of the Sullivan disaster i, appeared today to be unlikely'at the I present session of the legislature, r Representatives of miners and opers ators appeared before the house mines committee last night to discuss revis--0 ion of the law. t Both operators and miners agreed t that the present safety laws are I, adequate. ; 0 — : 1 New Hotel Proposed For Indianapolis Indianapolis, Feb., 25. — The city ' plan commission today was consider- ' ing the proposal to construct a 1.000- ' I room hotel costing 3,500,000 on North p | Meridian stret Tn the vicinity of Fall ‘ Creek. y The hotel would be an exclusive ’■ home hotel, George J. Harott and E. ‘ G. Spink, local capitalists, are behind ’ the project. 9 0 Russo-Japanese Treaty r Is Ratified By Japan B BULLETIN —— B Chaka, Japan, Feb. 25, — (United ? Press.) —Japan has ratified the Japanese treaty and formal exchange 1 of ratifications will take place to- . morrow at Peking.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 25, 1925.

Five Sentenced For Robbing Payroll Clerk i (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Connersville. Ind., Feb. 25. Carl Hackleinan. Jtweler, and Fred Swift. I patrolman, were to be taken to the state reformatory at Michigan City today to start sentences of two to fourteen years. Cyril Johnson, Howard Thomas and George Alien were to bo taken to the Pendleton reformatory to start a like sentence. ' The (Ivo men pleaded guilty to I robbing the payroll clerk of the Indi1' ana Lump company of K.AOb last December. i RELIEF FUND NOW TOTALS $25,000 ‘ * — Every Mail Brings Contributions For Relief Os Miners’ Families I Sullivan. Ind, Feb. 25. — (Special to I'ariy Democrat) —The state-wide: ’ relief fund for relatives of miners! ! killed in the city nine explosion was estimated by Red Cross workers to- ' day at between $20,000 and $25,000, 1 including the SIO,OOO appropriation of H e state legislature. Every mail brought additional ! contributions and scores of other conn ibutions were sent by telegram. * The international organisation ofj ’ the United Mine Workers wired 1 SI,OOO for the relief fund. Every effort of Red Cross workers 1 I headed by Henry Baker, national 1 director of disaster relief work, and the local relief committee was directed today toward raising the fund to r the SIOO,OOO quota. Will IL Hays, burner Sullivan p resident and "czar" of the movies, ‘ joined in the relief work today. Hays 1 hastened to Sullivan from Gallup. N. 1 Mex., upon hearing of the disaster, f Community memorial services will be held this afternoon on the court r house square for the fifty-one miners ‘ killed ill the explosion. R The investigation into the cause of the blast will be resumed Trursday by Thomas Dally, state ining 1 inspector. ’ Charged With Heavy Hauling Over Highway An affidavit was tiled against Lewis p Gilllom, driver of a milk truck yesl ’ terday. bv James A. Hower, road isuperintendent, charging Gillium witlt violation of the state road law by d hauling a load in excess of 3,000 ’’ pounds while the roads were soft. It r is charged in the affidavit that Gilr liom hauled a heavy load over the ls Otto Reppert macadam road. A hear ing will be held on March 5. ! HDOSIER POET GIVES PROGRAM 8 r p William Herschel! Pleases Audience Here With His s Poems And Stories William Hershell, popular Hoosier -) pout, of Indianapolis, entertained an e audience of a few hundred people at the high school auditorium for an hour last night and when be had finished every one of his listeners de , dared that the evening had been one of the most enjoyable they had had for a long time. The poet who writes . for the Indianapolis News, intermingl- ( ed several jokes nnd humorous stories t with his choice poems and a generous I round of applause greeted each numtier. B Mrs. J. W. Tyndall vice-president of ; the Decatur Women’s Club, sponsors ,] of the program, presided at the meeting and introduced Mr. Herschell. Preceding Mr. Herschell’s entertainment, Mrs. Dan Tyudall sang a group of three songs, w hich pleased the ' audience immensley. _ — r i Weather e Cloudy and unsettled tonight fol- :■ lowed by generally fair Tuesday; decidedly colder.

OPPOSITION TO GRADE CROSSING BILL IS STRONG Fort W ayne And Gary Citizens Make Strong Fight Against Bill OTHER MEASURES UP Democrats Determined To Pevent Hasty Action On Appropriations By Raymond A. Bruner, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Indianapolis, Feb. 25. — The fight i on the Penrod grade crossing safety bill was to be carried before the house today with a divided committee report ready to be made- on the mens-! tire. The majority report will bo for in- ■ definite postponement and the m’nJ ority report for passage. Strong opposition, to advancing the bill to second reading is expected from the Lake and Allen county delegations. A delegation of Fort Wayne citizens. headed by Mayor Hosey, City, ■ Attorney Colerick and Robert Hanna. i appeared before a public hearing on ‘I the bill last night to voice vigorous 11 protest against it. Opposition to the bill is based on i the provision which would require ij cities to pay one-half cost of the raill|road elevation within their limits. ■I Mayor Johnson, of Gary, protested i against the bill on the ground that ■I Would take pov.er of grade regttla i tion I«om the rhies and place it In , the hands of the public service comt mission. Democrats in the senate today were determined to hold a hand on the I throttle to prevent hasty passage of L the general appropriation bill in that » body. The first indication of this was giv- • en when they held a caucus yesterr i day afternoon to discuss their plans , for action when tile senate considers I the bill. r It was also learned that they planned to bolt and leave the senate with- ’ out a quorum if the Penrod hill for realignment of the second and third t congressional districts is handed - down for passage. I Bus operators were elated today i over action of the house where the ■ Moorehead senate bill for public ser- > vice commission regulation of busses i passed second reading with amend- - ments. ‘ The principal amendment, endorsed by the operators, would prevent the commission from taking into account the service of railroads and traction lines in granting the operators certificates of convenience and necessity. I Some legislators were doubtful to- | day as to the advisability of continuj ing the investigation of the affairs of I the state highway commission. They j do not believe enough time is left for further legislative probing. In the meantime Representative Kissinger of Columbia City, declared he intended to press his bill for abolition of the road body. The bill 1 would create a non-partisan body of 1 four members. 1 The Kissinger “blue Sunday” bill was awaiting third reading in the house today following its revision on second reading late yesterday. Amend- ' ments offered by the author eliminat- * I • ed the section for the closing of ■ places for recreation and refresh- ‘ ment. • These and other amendments re- • vised the bill to make it practically the same ns the present “blue Sunf day" law but with little stronger pen- ’ alties. - i o Gloria Swanson Is Out j Os Danger, Physicians Say Paris, Feb. 25.—(United Press.) — , Gloria Swanson was pronounced absolutely out of danger by her physician in a bulletin issued at 10 a. m. The statement read: “Improvement continues. Patient - can be considered absolutely out of • danger. Temperature 37.2 (centrigrade). Pulse 72.”

Slick To Begin Active Duty Early In Summer (UNITED PRESS SERVK'I.’) South Bend, Ind., Feb. 25,—Judge I Thomas W. Slick, the second federal judge for Indiana, will probably begin | active duty early in the summer In -Fort Wayne, it was indicated today. Judge Slick took the oath of office yesterday upon receipt of his comtmission front the department of jus‘tice al Washington. TIPS TO FARMERS ON BUYING SEEDS County Agent Urges Farmers To Examine Tags On Bags Before Buying Due to the fact that a number of i inquiries are being received at the ■ i County Agent's office practically every I day relative to the meaning of the in- ! formation on the seed law tags, it is I thought well to make some explana-; tion of them. In readin gthe tag which | the law requires he placed on every | bag of seeds sold the following sug , gestions are offered: 1. Re sure the name of the variety stated on the tag is the variety you , desire. 2. Goog clover, alfalfa and grass seed at least 98 per cent pure seed. 2. Good clover, alfalfa and grass should germinate at least 95 per cent, while good grass seed should garminatehetter than 80 percent. 4. Clover seed grown in the United States is preferable to seed grown in foreign countries. When the place of origin is marked unknown on the | label, you take a chance on winter killing If you purchase such seed. 5. The back of the label tells you the number of noxious weed seeds contained per pound in the seed you are buying. Good clover .alfalfa and grass seed may contain up to 300 weed seeds per pound, providing this does not include dodder. Canada thistle or (ptack grass. 6. Insist on a properly filled out label when purchasing seed - (you are entiled to it under the law) and study; the statements carefully before you part, with your money. ° Bloomington Has SIO,OOO Fire Early This Morning Bloomington. Ind.. Feb. 25. — Fire early today gutted the Boston store here with a loss estimated at $4(1.000. The blaze is believed to have been started by defective wiring. L9GAL BANKERS ATTEND RANOBET Attend Mid-Winter Banquet Os Fort Wayne Institute Os Banking Albert Scheumann and Kenneth Miller of the Old Adams County Rank, and Roscoe Glendenning and Theodore Graliker, of the First National Rank, of this city, attended the annual mid-winter banquet of the Ft. Waytie class of the National Institute of Banking. The banquet was hold in the Anthony hotel. The Decatur men -who attended the (banquet are members of the local: chapter of the National Institute of Banking. Stephen 1. Miller, Instructor of the National Institute, was the principal speaker at the banquet. He said in part: "Enthusiasm inspiration, call it what you please, maybe the power of vision, is the vital force in the world today. The man who goes over the top today must have the power of enthusiasm, thia internal ability to drive, a dream, if that is all, to al- ■ ways go ahead, in his heart, this ■ ability to enthuse.” i The banquet was atteiyjed by more titan 200 bankers and bank employes, many of them from neigh- ! boring cities- C. W. Dannenfelser I presided as toastmaster and several • other men gave talks during the evening.

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MAKE PROTEST TO GERRYMANDERING BILL OF G. 0. P. Democratic Senators Leave City To Escape Arrest This Afternoon BOTH PARTIES FIRM I Democrats Demand That Penrod Withdraw Bill: Republican Refuse (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Greenfield, Feb. 25. — A i bus bearing fifteen strik- | ing Democratic meinliers of the Indiana state senate speeded through here this afternoon headed for the Ohio state border. “We are going to Columbus to visit the Ohio legislature,” Senator Joseph Cravens, chief of the bolting Democrats, announced. “We expect to stay away until the Republicans withdraw their gerrymandering bill.” The party of striking senators included every Democratic member of the upper house with the exception of tii rec. Indianapblis, Feb. 25. Democratic members of the state senate tied from the city this afternoon to escape arrest for re- | fusal to attend the session. The Democrats charatered a motor bus and drove hurriedly away from Indianapolis for a destination that was kept secret. Republican senators met at the usual hour and adjourned for want of a quorum. Efforts were Joeing made to find the destination of the Democratic Hight so that steps could be instituted immediately to arrest them and return them to ! Indianapolis. The Democrats are “on strike” in protest against a Republican “gerrymandering” bill. Indianapolis, Feb. 25. Senator I Saunders, of Bluffton, today explained the attitude of Democratic senators in boiling the legislature over the Penrod "gerrymandering” bill. This is a deliberate attempt to steal a congressman and is the first political move in the senate this session." he said. "We have gone along nicely and have helped the majority in every way possible, but as representatives of the Democratic party we do not propose to stand by and see this thing put -over. If Mr. Penrod will withdraw bis bill there will be no further trouble He is attempting to make a Republican district for himself and will he the candidate in case the district is changed. Many Republicans ate against his move but the deadly caucus has tied them fast and the 32 Republican senators are bound to support the Penrod bill. They in themselves lack two votes of having a constitutional quorum. State Chairman Chambers is fully setting out the petition of the minority in a statement today. Indianapolis Feb. 25 — Republican , members of the state senate in caucus , early this afternoon voted to compel attendance of striking democratic ■ members at the session. From their r'endevous in a hotel , room the democrats sent back word L that they would not attend until the i Penrod “gerrymandering” bill jg t withdrawn. The striking democrats face arrest • by warrant for deliberately breaking r a quorum. r Republican leaders said the senate ) would go ahead with its work if they - had to lock the doors and bring in s the state militia men to keep the democrats in their seats. f They flatly refused to meet the ; democratic ultimatum demanding ■ withdrawals of the Penrod bill. r Business in the senate was at a ( complete standstill because a quorum e (Continued on page two)