Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1925 — Page 1

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STOCKHOLDERS VOTE TO REOPEN bank at geneva Majority In Favor Os Liquidating Bad Accounts And Re-opening MAY open this week State Bank Examiner Still In Charge; Formal Statement Forthcoming Geneva. Ind.. March 17.— (Special to Daily Democrat.) — The Farmers and Merchants \itate Bank of Geneva, which was closed March 6. pending liquidation of its assets or adjustments of accounts, will reopen for business, according to present plans. At a meeting of the stockholders held Monday afternoon pt the bank building, it was voted to re-open the bank as soon as possible. J. Clark Mills, state bank examiner ilia has been in charge of the hank since it was closed, gave out the (.rowing statement; ‘‘The stockholders nut yesterday afternoon, a majorliy being present and plans were made for re-opening the bank. It is hoped to have the bank re-opened within a very short time, possibly by the end of this week. Ot’ the 350 itaros represented in the bank’s capita! of $35,060.00, a total of 277 share- was voted at the stockholders meeting. It was the concensus of opinion among the stockholders that the bank should be reopened and that all demands of the state banking department be met so that the hank could resume business.” Mr. Mills is still in charge of the hank. He is assisted by Mr. Palmer Ice, state hank examiner, and tlie officers of the hank who are assisting him in carrying out the details. The hank has more than $170,000 in deposits and eertiflicalcs of deposit and the stockholders are working towards the end of putting the bank on a sound business basis and hope : tn resume business in a few days. Mr. Mills stated this morning that a formal statement would bo issued hy the stockholders and officers before the bank opened for business. o CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: May $1.53% ;July $1.39%; Sept. $1.31. Corn: May $1.16%; July $1.19'4; Sept. $1.19. Oats: May «%c; July 44%c; Sept. 44%c. WHEAT PRICE TAKES TUMBLE Overloading Os European Market Causes Sensational Drop Today Chicago, Mar. 17.—(United Press.) —May wheat today recorded one of the most sensational drops in the hislOry of the Chicago board of trade "hen opening prices ranged from $1.61 to $1.55 a bushel, compared with 'he previous close of $1.65. The price then fell off to $1.54, a loss of eleven lints from yesterday’s close. July wheat dropped 5 1-2 cents and September wheat 3 1-2 cents. fraders dumped their holding over1011'I following report that Europe ''■tf glutted with breadsttiffs and that H| ge quantities of wheat shipped "'nt this country find no market and *'<« being dumped back to its owners. 1 he wheat pit was a veritable madonse of frenzied brokers’ agents . ose only aim was to execute selln * orders at any price. The terrific wash i n priceg la the flrgt flve mJn 01 tra ding wiped out scores of sni all traders. minutes lat er May wheat a httie, going to $1.56 1-4. of i. - fißl,re showed a drop of s■> - » <en,s from the higlt point i- ti ,-8 about two months ago. p ; . ’ ** .. ■■ -* ' f

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Bandits Get Big Haul In Chicago Robberies (United Press S.r. I< < t Chicago, Marell 17 (Special to I Daily Democrat) Bandits engineered two nolditp.i Into today, securing i between S2O,(UM) and s's 000. Two IbumUfs I eld up ths Morris I.ipkin j< we iy .- tore on the south s de and et<aped with SIO,OOO In diamonds ■ and other jewelry while four bandits '•leaned out the Joseph Levine loan bank on North, Clark street, taking jhetw'on SIO,OOO and $25,000 in jewel--Iry and money. PIANO RECITAL | NEXTTHURSDAY .1 Pupils Os Mrs. Carris Thomas Haubold Appear In Two Programs A treat is promised to music lovers of the city when the piano pupils of .Mrs. Carrie Thomas Haubold appear in a recital at the Masonic Hall Thursday afternoon and evening. Pupils of the intermediate classes will give the program in tile afternoon, while twelve of the more advanced pupils will present the program in the evening. The afternoon program will begin at 3:30 o'clock an<( the evening program will start at 8:15 o’clock. The l evening program will bo followed by dancing. The pupils who will participate in : the afternoon recital are Rosemary | Parsy Holthonse. Vera Porter. Minnie I Moyer, Margaret Kitson. Mary Maxine Brown. Isabel Hower. Mary Kathryn Tyndall. Ruth .Munro. Esther Munro. Gladys Thompson, Vivian Acker. Mary Madeline CoverdaJe. Louise Haubold. Helen Frances Christman, Agnes Schwartz, Ethel Emerick. Following is the program for the evening recital: Duet. Revel of the Goblins, Engletnann, —Mary Katherine Schug. The Sky Turk's Morning Song. Koelling—Monia Riitler. i Birdline and The Watchman's Song Greig,—Mary Macy. At Mom, Godard—Mildred Keller. Rapsodie Mignoninc. Koelling,— Helen Haubold. The Rosary, Nevin, — Hetty Erwin Castagnette Dance. Holier Nichols Harry Dailey. Air Varie. Dancla, Violin solo by Lloyd Munro, Miss Esther Munro at the piano. Staccato Etude in C, Rubinstein Mildred Muth. ■ Troissieme Ballade, Chopin,— Gladys Schindler. Hark, Hark, the Lark!, SchubertLiszt—Mary Katherine Schug. Duet, Flaming Stars. Norwood Dale Mildred Muth and Margaret Houghton o •St. Patrick’s Day 1 Is Observed Here Today was the feast of St. Patrick. 1 apostle of Erin. Those of Irish decent in this city were wearing the green and Shamrocks today and smiling all over. M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the f citv light plant, came down town - wearing a Shamrock and others who s have a strain of Irish blood in their t veins were observing the day. No t official program was held in Decatur > today. t — - o 1 Game Dardens Made 93 Arrests During January i ■ t Conservation department game I wardens made 93 arrests resulting I in 89 convictions for violations of . fish and game laws during January according to announcement today at . the office of Richard Lieber, director j Fines and costs for the month totall- . ed $1,653.60. ; Among the 17 different kinds of - violations listed, 31 were for hunting f or fishing without license; 15 for digging out fur animals; 9 for hunting t on Sunday; 8 for unlawful ice fiishing . 6 for possession of illegal seines: 4 > for spearing fish out of season, and t 3 for hunting without permission of the ladowner.

COUNTY SPELLING CONTEST AT H, S. •BUILDING FRIDAY — Teams From Different Tps. And Towns Meet Here In Contest _— CONTESTANTS NAMED Contest Is Written; Winners Get Banners And Pennants -• — ( The finals of the Adams county spelling contest will be held in the ’Decatur high school building next Friday evening, beginning at 6:4" o'clock. The teams to represent the different townships and the different school corporations were selected in preliminary contests held last Friday afternoon in eaeli township. Each team consists of two pupils in each of the three divisions. The high school spellers will meet in the high school auditorium. The i A team spellers, consisting of sixth. I seventh and eighth grade pupils, will •beet in Room 205, and the B team spellers, consisting of pupils below Hie sixth gride, will assemble in Room 2tio. The words will be p.-•■ nounced to the spellers hy annonners chosen by.the committee in charge and the contestants will write the words on paper. At the end of the contest, Hie papers will be graded and winners announced. The committee in charge of the county contest is composed of Paul Graham, principal of the Monmouth high school; Walter J. Krfck, prin dpi) of Hie Decatur high stool; ind Clifton Striker, principal of the Mon roe high school. To the school from which the winner in each of the three divisions comes, a large wall banner will be given. The banner will become the permanent possession of the school winning it two consecutive years. Small pennants will lie given to the individual winners. Each teacher in the county contributed twenty-five cents toward the fund used in purchasing the banners and pennants. The members of the teams from (Continued on page two) WALTON LEAGUE TO MEET MONDAY Fort Wayne Man To Speak; Moving Pictures Will Be Shown Tlie Izaak Walton League of Decatur will hold a meeting next Monday, March 23, at the Decatur Industrial Asocial ion rooms, and four reels of interesting moving pictures will he shown. Charles Knapp, president, and Earl Colter, secretary of the local Walton League chapter, have completed arrangements for the meeting and have secured Harry Hilgeman, of Fort Wayne, president of the Ft. Wayne Walton ians, to deliver a talk to the men. No admission fee will be charged -and not only Waltonians but the public is invited to attend the meeting. The meeting is called for 7 o'clock. The films to be shown will deal with out of door life. One reel will be “Aday afield with dog and gun,” and another “Fishing for blackbass with liver bait." The other two reels deal with hunting and fishing. The local chapter of the Tzaak Walton League was organized here last fall. The charter has only 15 members but an effort will be made this spring to increase the membership to one hundred or more. The members of ■ the league are pledged to higli ideals in sportmanship and oppose any act not in keeping with good sportman- ' ship. Requisition For Fish - The officers of the local Walton league have made out a requi ition for several hundred baby fish with . which to stock the quarries. They have asked for bass, pike and perch ' and as soon as the fish are received they will be placed in the quarries. •

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 17, 1925.

TO SHARE $10,(100,000. | JMHIII II ■»! II I ——| I. Ml— —— — I wg .. I ww «» mYiL w • Princess Anita Braganza. San Francisco, Cal.—By the terms I of the will filled hero Tuesday, March i 10. the major part of the $40,000,000 estate of the late Mrs. Anne Armj strong de St. Cyr, who died at her home in Hillsborough on March 3. is left for life equally to William Rhine--1 lender Stewart, Jr., a son, and Princess Anita Braganza, a daughter by a former marriage, and Jean H. De St. Cyr. the youthful husband of the i late heiress. On the death of the three the es-1 I tate goes to Mrs. St. ('yr’s grand- | I children. ROBERT KRIGK ' LOSES A FINGER Two Men Burned And Shocked By Electricity Are Improving I — It was necessary to amputate the little linger on the right hand of Robert Krick, who received severe burns last Friday when a radio antenna wire which he was holding came into contact with a city electric light wire, while he and Heber Humbarger and Omer Peterson were erecting the antenna. The middle finger and little finger on the left hand are also severely burned, but it is hoped these two fingers can he saved. Mr. | Krick was resting fairly well today. The condition of Mr. Humbarger who was badly burned and shocked ! also, was reported as being fair today. It has not been necessary to remove any of his fingers, although his hand was severely burned. “Kid” McCoy Convicted On Charge Os Assault I .os Agoles, March 17 —After deliberating 73 hours a jury Monday night returned a verdict of guilty of assult with a deadly weapon anT assault with intent to kill, against “Kid" McCoy, former actor and prize fighter. The crimes for which McCoy was convicted call for a penalty of from throe to 38 years in prison. Bishop J. H. White Os 1 Episcopal Church Dies (United Press Service) South Bend. Ind.. March 17 —(Spee’al t& Daily Democrat) —The body of Bishop John Hazen White, for 30 years bishop of the Northern Indiana diocese of the Episcopal church, who died at See Breeze, Fla., Monday night, was enroute home today for funeral and burial here. He had been in failing health for several months before going to Florida for the winter. Bishop White was a thirty-third degree Mason and was born in Cincinnati in 1849. Weather Rain probable tonight or Wednesl day. Colder in north and central portions Wednesday.

SWEEPING PROBE UF TRAIN RATES IS INAUGURATED Interstate Commerce Comniision Starts Investigation Os All Rates ALL LINES AFFECTED Changes And Adjustments To Correct Evils Is Purpose Os Probe (t nito.l Press Service) Washington, March 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — The interstate j commerce commission today an-j nounefcd the inauguration of a I - weeping investigation of all rates. ; including freight, express and pas I senger, charged by all common car-' riers for transportation in interstate commerce. The investigation, ordered by the Smith Hoch resolution passed hy the 68th congress, was urged by the administration as a (irincipal feature of the Coolidge farm relief program. All railroads, steamship companies and other common carriers subject to the interstate commerce act. were corespondents in the formal summons of the interstate commerce commission served today. Every railroad and the governor of every state was formally notified of beginning of the i probe. The object of the investigation I was announced by the commission as | follows: To determine to what extent and ■ to what manner, if any. the rates of I common carriers caused undue or | unreasonable advantage, preference lor prejudice, as between persons or localities in the interstate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce on the other hand. 1 or any undue, unreasonable or unjust discrimination against interstate or toreign commerce. "To make in accordance with law. such changes, adjustments and distributions of rates as may be found necessary to correct any evils found to exist.” “ The authorizing resolution direct(Continued On Page 1-Tve) MRS. ELZEY SELLS SHOE STORE HERE William Beineke And Son Purchase Well Known Shoe Store Today William Beineke, well known retired farmer of this city and his son Albert Beineke, this morning liecame the owners of the Elzey Shoe store, the store being purchased from Mrs. Charles Elzey, who has operated the store since the death of her husband five years ago. Mr. Beineke and son took posession of the store this morning. The new owners have retained the services of Mrs. Clem Kortenber. who has ben connected with the store for the last ten years. She is an expert shoefitter and will be glad to wait on the many customers of the store. Albert Beinke, who is employed at the G. E. plant, will begin work in the store Saturday and will have active charge of the business. He will he assisted hy his father, who intends to give part of his time to working in the store. Mrs. Elzey is yet undecided as to what she will do, but stated that in all probability she will move from Decatur. Mr. Elzey became the owner of the shoe store fourteen years ago and when lie died about five years ago. Mrs. Elzey took charge of the store. She Is grateful to the patrons i of the store for their patronage and also wishes to thank the other shoe competitors in this city wiio have been very Kind to her, she stated. The shoe store will operate under the name of William Beineke and Son and they will continue to carry the | same high grade shoes as has always I been the practice of the store. I

Y. W. C. A. Conference Opens At Marion Today M.i'iiui, Ind.. March 17. (United Press.)- A two-day educational conference of the V. W. ('. A. opened here today. Secretaries, board member:;, a:id i women interested in rural organize lion From the young Women’s Christian association at Indianapolis, Fort | Wayne, Richmond, Kokomo, Logans- j | port. Muneii' and Anderson were exi peeled to attend. The religions force in the rommun-1 ity is the main issue to be discussed. I SHEPHERD TO BE INDICTED —— — To Be Charged With Murder Os His Millionaire Ward, W. McClintock — (United PreMs Service) Chicago, March 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — An indictment charging William D. Shepherd with murdering William McClintock, his millionaire ward, was prepared today by the state's attorneys office. It will b“ executed formally when the grand jury returns its true hill some time during the day. The case against Shepherd was “clinched" State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe declared when Dr. C. G. Faiman, president of the National University of Science, “confessed" he gave Shepherd typhus bacilli and instructed him how to administer the germs to young McClintock to cause death. Faiman charged ShepI herd promised him a share of Blllys . $1,000,000 estate in exchange for the germs. i’ Faiman's “confession" —which was at the same time a direct accusation against Shepherd- came shortly after midnight as a result of (Constant grilling by Crowe and otlters. He was promised diminished penalty if lie confessed. o —• — Alleged Automobile Thief May Face Murder Charge I Terre Haute, Ind.. March 17.—Although wanted in Birmingham. Ala., on a charge of transporting a stolen ear across a state line, Curtis Lucas. 22, will never be returned there if local police can fasten on him the crime they informally accuse him of here—namely murder of Patrolman Herman Harins, following a robbery I with which Lucas is formally charged. According to advices to police here, Lucas and a man named Snow were captured with the stolen car at Jasper, Ala., last year, hut escaped from officers as they were being taken to Birmingham to face trial. — 0 Two Shot Firers Killed In Indiana Coal Mine Terre Haute. Ind.. March 17.—Rescue workers early today recovered bodies of James Gilmore and Arthur Pickett, shot firers at the Shirkie No. 1 coal mine, at* Shirkieville. 18 miles north of here, killed last night by a “windy” shot and dust explosion. The blast was the third similar one in 11 days in this pit. two men having been killed in the two previous blasts. o— Acquitted Os Murder Os Man Who Wrecked Home South Bend, Ind.. March 17. —Camiel Andries, 55, was at liberty today following his acquittal in St. Joseph county court last night of charges of killing Peter Devoes, whom he accused of wrecking his home. The jury found that Andries was ' temporarily insane because of brood- - ing over his domestic wrongs at the ! time he killed Devoes. i His nine-year-old daughter turned against her mother during tlie trial : and testified in her father’s defense ’ that she saw Mrs. Andries sitting on . Devoes' lap making love to him. The verdict was received with api plause by hundreds of persons from ) Mjshawaka, Devoe’s home, who had i waited during the evening for the jury’s report.

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PICKS VERMONT MAN FOR ATTY. I GENERAL POST President Nominates Old Personal Friend, John G. Sargent APPROVAL EXPECTED Warren Declines To Accept A Recess Appointment To The Office (UNITED PRESS SERVK'I'i Washington, March 17 (Special to Daily Deniocral) President Coolidge today nominated .John (1. Sargent of Ludlow, Vermont, an old personal friend and former attorney general of (he slale of Vermont to be attorney general in the place of his first choice. Charles Beecher Warren. who was twice rejected by the senate. Sargent is expected to receive the confirmation of the senate without opposition. The nomination of Sargent was sent to the senate shortly after the president bad announced Warren declined Io accept the offer of a recess nomination. Senators Curtis and Robinson, republican and democratic leaders. • called at the White House to inquire , of the President if he had any further business tp lay before the senate. : The President replied by dispatching » the nomination of Sargent, thus ending the hitter controversy waged for > the last week between tlie White House and the senate over the item- • ination of Warren. The senate is expected to adjourn tomorrow after a routine confirmation of Sargent's name. in itis letter to tlie President declining tlie recess appointment. Warren said he deeply appreciated the President's confidence, but felt his withdrawal now would ptove a puliI lie services. Tlie text of Warren’s letter follows : “Your confidence in me was deeply appreciated when you evidenced it by tendering me so important a place in your cabinet. “I am again indebted to you for your renewed expressions of confidence in your note of March 16, proposing to tender me a recess appointment as attorney general. “1 shall always like to remember that the political controversy wli'.h has arisen concerning this position ha snot in the least affected your (Continued on Page Six) o ELECTION BOARD MEMBER IS NAMED F. V. Mills Gets Appointment; H. F. Linn In Race For Councilman Dr. Burt Mangold. democratic city chairman, announced today that he had appointed Fred V. Mills, well known local grocer, as the democratic member of the city election board. Mrs. Catherine Kauffman, city clerk by virtue of her office, will act as (hairman of the board. The third member, a republican, will be appointed hy Erastus Fritzinger. city republican chairman. IT. Fred Linn, well known contractor and former city councilman, announced today that he was a can didate for the democratic nomination for city .councilman from the first • ward. Mr. Linn served four years as councilman during the Charles Yager adminiatratijon and was a member I of the electric light and water com- > mittees during his term of office. , i Mr. Linn is the first man to announce his candidacy for the first ward councilman’s post. E. A. Beavi ers, local furniture dealer, who is I now a member of the council from > that ward, stated yesterday that he was not a candidate for the place.