Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1925 — Page 1

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FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING SLOWLY

JGIRL SLAYER I MH BE UNABLE | TO FINISH TRIAL B|)orothv Ellingson Sutlers R lourth Collapse Since ■ Start Os Trial ■ INURED IN FALL ■ Doctors Ceai Injuries May 9 Prevent Her Krom Go9 injj Through Trial ■ San l-’tan.-i ?<>. March 25-Sixteen ■ ~,,r nl.l II.In Ellingson matricide -ufT- r.-d a fourth collapse since ■ thy start of >" r ,ria ’- H Walking uii'lisnlily from the court ■ tonm at noon hour recess the girl B fumtilcil to the corridor floor tinH rotisrious. H She struck her head on the stone 9 IsMiil ami was dangerously in--9 jnred physicians feared. 9 Artendants rushed her to the jury B »- m white ductors gathered around H hor am! attempted to revive her. ■ It was several minutes before life B came haik to the unconscious form B iii’hi' ’‘jazz girl" and she lay on the B table moaning and quivering. ■ Joseph Ellingson Dorothy’s father, B and Earl, her brother, rushed to her H side and gathered her in their arms. | H They sought to t omfort her but their ■ i solace met with little response. K Physicians doubted whether DoroI thy will be able to go through the I i trial. ■ San Francisco. March Sil.—(United I Press)—.Dorothy Ellingson may’ reuI lite her wish to have a jury of men I decide her fate. 8 When court opened today for the I third session of her trial on a charge II of murdering Anne Ellingson, her I mother, who objected to 1G year old I i Itorothy's career as a -jazz baby," eleven jurors were in the box, passed temporarily, and only three of them were women. The defense still has left a sufficient number of challenges to remove these three and leave a reasonable chance of challenging enough additional women to get all men on the jury. “That’s what I want--- to be tried before men", Dorothy reiterated. Men will come nearer to understanding and will not be prejudiced. It was pointed that in almost every case where women have been asked whether they would hold it more i serious for Dorothy to have murdered her mother than some one else they have answered in the affirmative. Defense attorneys indicatad today that Joseph Ellingson, the stolid. Norwegian tailor who is Dorothy’s (Continued on page three)

GENERAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION important Business Up For Action In Industrial Association Monday A general meeting of the members of the Decatur Industrial Association "ill be held Monday evening at 7:30 Mjhe Industrial rooms. ■iVuu Burk, prekident of the Associatlon, urges every member to tie Present as he end the board of direrlors wish to discuss several matters importance with the members, ‘“'oral propositions of interest to ’ ll members of the Association will e Presented and action is desired 011 some of them. A* the annual meeting of the AssoPratinn, held in January, the memberyi> voted to back the Junior farm 'm work in this county. Plans will 6 made Monday evening for making “ nnu al campaign for renewal of ( >. ni . )er at the same time raise ?’ midget funds. Other projects of " c interest which the directors the* adopte<l wi " he presented to - “oard and every member is urged to attend,

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j Harry Quinn Visits In This City Today flurry Quinn, of New York City, clothing buyer for one of the largest mail order houses in the country, i stopped off in Decatur this morning | tor a few hour*, visit with his brother, ■ French Quinn. Mr. Quinn returned recently from England where he looked after business for his company and is pl inning to make another trip abroad in the near future, lie met i many of his old friends here today i and is looking and feeling fine. OBED SCHWARTZ IS IMPROVING Man Who Attempted To Burn Self To Death Expected To Recover Although considerable improvement is shown in the condition of Obed Schwartz, of near Vera Cruz, who attempted suicide by burning himself to death early last Monday morning, the man refuses to talk concerning the motive for his rash act. His burns are improving and his lungs are .clear, indicating that there is no danger of pneumonia at present. Nephritis set in Monday night due to faulty respiration, but this has subsided. and his recovery is predicted. Relating in detail how he planned his death. Schwartz was silent as to the motive for his actions. He saiu he lay down on the burning rail but the heat drove him away. He at first had the idea that as soon as the heat engulfed him ho would become unconscious and would be insensible to pain. After being'' driven off the burning rails the first time, Schwartz said ho climbed back onto it a second time. His clothing caught first and the burns were painful. loosing all desire to die such a painful death Schwartz said he leaped from the fire, and began tearing the burning clothing from his body. He was slightly burned about (he head as he pulled his shirt off. His clothing was not afire to the extent | that he was enveloped in flames, but I they blistered the flesh. Schwartz said he at first started for the house, but got only fifty rods from the fire and then sank down in a fence corner. There Will Kipfer and his sons found him. Mayor Os Bicknell On Trial At Indianapolis (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Indianapolis, Mai’. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Damaging testimony was given in federal court today by Harry Pope of Linton. Ind., a government witness in the trial of William Callahan, mayor of Bicknell, Otis Thriey. chief of police and five others on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. Pope testified that from 25 to 50 gallons of moonshine whiskey were made each week on a farm near Bicknell and delivered under the protection of Mayor Callahan to the Moose and Eagles lo'lge rooms in Bicknell. Mayor Callahhn received $4 on every gallon Pope testified. At one time he slipped S3OO into the mayor's pocket while they were together in a restaurant at Bicknell, Pope said. Sam Lynn, custodian of the Moose lodge testified that liquor was delivered direct to members of the house committee and was sold at the lodge rooms. Shepherd’s Fight For Bail Enters Fourth Day (United Press Service) Chicago, Mar. 25—(Special to DailyDemocrat) — William D. Shepherds attempt to be released on bail—already stamped as the greatest fight of its kind in the history of the criminal court—entered its fourth day today. If the states attorney, whose arguments are heard today, do not talk too long, the man who is accused of murdering his millionaire ward, Billy McClintock, will know by night whether he will have his freedom pending the trial or whether he will have to occupy one of the cells in “Murderers Row’’ at the county jail

WE MAKES APPOINTMENTS Names Members Os Board Os Charities And Board Os Guardians Judge Jesse C. Sutton, judge of the Adams circuit court, yesterday i afternoon appointed two members of the board of charities and corrections and two members of the board of childrens’ guardians. Each of the numbers appointed were selected for la term of three years and will hold the office until their successors are i appointed and qualified. Mrs. Nora Linn and Mr. D. K.t Shackley were appointed members of j the board of charities and corrections | Both are members of the board at j present. Mrs. Minnie Niblick and Mr. W. Guy Brown were re-appointed , to membership on the board of childrens' guardians. o Mrs. Frank Alwein Is Painfully Hurt — Word received this afternoon said that Mrs. Frank Alwein. of Shelby, Ohio, had been painfully injured as the result of a fall in which several ribs were broken and one arm badly hurt. Mrs. W. A. Lower left at once to be with her sister who was formerly Miss Grace Peterson, of this city. The Alweins visited here a day last week. n — Basketball Trophy On Display In Store Window The brorme- tee->kctb»l) trophy won by the Catholic high school basketball team at the national tournament at Ixiyola University, Chicago, last week, is on display in the show- windows of the Voglewede Shoe Store on North Second street. The trophy is attracting much attention. SEND SIOO TO RELIEFWORKERS Local Red Cross Makes First Donation Os Money And Clothing The first SIOO contribution and the ftrst .shipment of (Jothes and bed clothing for the tornado sufferers in the southern part of Indiana, was sent today to state headquarters by Miss Anna Winnes. secretary of the Local Red Cross chapter. A total of $105.96 has been contributed to the fund and of this amount SIOO was sent to the storm stricken people in the tornado area, because of the urgent need for funds. Four boxes of clothes and bed clothing will be packed today and sent to the storm victims. The clothes have been received at the city hall by the firemen. Miss Winnes stated the campaign for funds and clothing would be continued for sometime yet, as state headquarters had urged all the help possible should be given the hoeniless and suffering people. Contribution to the fund follows: Previous total $85.26 I. Bernstien $3.00 Mrs. John Niblick $5.00 Friend from Monroe SI.OO Mrs Ben Schroyer and Miss Mutschler, ...’ $1.50 A Friend $2.00 Mrs. Louise Haine, SI.OO Fred Plothe $2.00 A Friend SI.OO ,T. F. Arnold SI.OO S. E. Black SI.OO C. C. Rayl SI.OO Change in boxes, $1.20 Total j $105.96 The boxes for receiving funds are located in the three banks, the Winnes Shoe Store and at the Daily Democrat office. Only voluntary epntribuHons’ are ‘ solicited and those tMvoj wish to give are asked to contribute now. There is great need for clothing. Miss Winnes stated.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 25, 1925.

Elks To Hold Regular Meeting This Evening The regular meeting of the Elks lodge will be held at 7:30 prompt this evening. The meeting will be over by ef;:ht o’clock !r. time for the rno’nhers to attend the public recepiion to l»e held at the K. of C. hall for the Catholic high school basketball players. All members are urged to be prompt. TO OPEN NEW STORE HERE Sam Brooks, Os Bluffton, To Open Store On North Second Street Deca'i- have a new store in rhe n -a! ti’i. • Sam Brooks, of Bluhtot; h.i > used the store room < n North Second street, formerly occupied by the Morris Five and Ten Cent store, from Mrs. Wilhelmina D’erkes. and will open a store about the middle of April. Workmen started today to redecorate the interior and exterior of the room. Mr. Brooks owns the Boston store in Bluffton and also has a store in Dunkirk. He stated today that he will handle general merchandise in the store, but will not handle groceries. The store will be called the Economy Store, he stated. Mr. Brooks has operated the Boston store in Buffion for the last three years. o Four Killed In Wreck Near Paris Paris, March 25 —Four persons were killed and forty injured when the Bordeauv to Paris express train was derailed near Poitiere today. Among the dead is Senator Pedebidon. The locomotive and seven cars overturned, two of the cars being precipitated into the river. The cause of the accident has not been determined. Damon And Pythias Play Is Postponed The performance of the drama. ’ Damon and Pythias," which was to have been given at Berne Thursday night by the dramatic team from the Bluffton Knights of Pythias lodge, has been postponed on account of sickness in Berne, it was announced todav. BANQUET FOR CAGERS TONIGHT Public Reception For Catholic High Team At K. Os C. Hall Tonight A banquet will be held at the Knights of Columbus hall at 6:15 o'clock this evening for the members of the Catholic high school basketball team, their parents. Coach France Conter, and a number of invited guests. The banquet will be followed by a public reception at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend the reception at 8 o'clock. The banquet and reception are being given to show the appreciation of the home funs for the wonderful showing made by the team in the national Catholic interscholastic tournament at Loyola University, Chicago, last week, in which the Decatur eagers won fourth place out of a list of thirty-two teams. During the public reception, there will be music and speaking. Andrew Mylott, of Chicago, a brother of M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the Decatur Light and Power plant, will be present and sing a group of songs. There will be other musical numbers and talks will be given by leather J. A. Seimetz, French Quinn, Chalmer Schafer, C. J. Lutz, and John Carmody. Weather Fair tonight and probably Thursday; rising temperature Thursday and in north and central portions tonight.

EXTRA SESSION IS NOT LIKELY Gov. Jackson Indicates That Legislature Will Not Be Called Indianapolis, Mar. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Governor Jackson indicated today that he will not call a special session of the state legislature to appropriate emergency! funds for rehabilitation in the tor-j nado disrlct of southwestern Indiana. The governor is of the opinion that the work is already well in hand under the supervision of the Red Cross. In the event state funds are needed. the governor said he would use! the emergency fund of $26,000 at his I disposal. ——o 11 1 Alcohol In Automobile Radiator Catches Fire Spring is here. It’s time to take the alcohol out of the automobile radiator. Last evening, about seven o’clock, while Delton Passwater had his Ford touring ear running in front of the Minnie Daniels home on North' Sixih street, the water hose connecting the radiator with the motor j sprung a leak and the alcohol caught i fire. The top was burned and the) cushions in front were also burned. | The fire department was called and, I with the aid of chemicals, the blaze] was extinguished. It will require a] new top and cushions and electric wiring to repair the damage done. —, o Prominent Railroad Magnate Dies Today New York. March 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Newman Erb. pres-i ident of the Ann Arbor railroad, for J nier vice president of the Pere Mar | quette raHroad. and identified with] nearly a dozen other lines, died early today at Roosevelt hospital in his 75th year, following an operation. 0 HOG SANITATION DISCUSSION HELD David Mettler Wins HogCalling Contest Held Yesterday Afternoon Due to the fact that conditions | were ideal on many farms yesterday | for preparation of the ground for seeding oats, a relatively small number of farmers attended the swine meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Kirchhofer place in Wabash town ship. J. 11. Wiley, of the extension department at Purdue was present and demonstrated a .general plan of hog sanitation, which is practical on any farm. He first showed how the “wolf teeth" of small pigs can he nipped with hut little labor, thereby eliminating danger of infectious sore mouths and other diseases with which small pigs are often afflicted. He also showed how sore mouths may be successfully treated with potasitim permanganate solution and iodine, stating however, that it is better to prevent than try to cure the disease. A discussion was also led on feeding the brood sow and litter, bringing out in detail methods to be used in preventing digestive disorders in the pigs. Mr. Wiley then demonstrated the cleaning of quarters to be used for brood sows by the use of hot water and lye. Although many farmers are skeptical of the practicability of this system, those present agreed that the benefit fcreaUy offsets the work involved. In the hog-caling contest David Mettler was adjudged as having the strongest and most persuasive voice when that particular work is involved. Accordingly, he was awarded the bottle of cough syrup with which to keep his vocal equipment lubricated. Frank Bauserman was awarded the mechanical hog-caller, due to the fact that he manifetsed the least suitable ability along that line.

’Sen. Holmes Out For Mayor’s Office At Gary Gary Ind., March 25. (United prees ■State Senator (’. Oliver Holmes, of Gury, has announced His candidacy today for republican nomination for Mayor of Gary Senator Holmes Is president of the South Side Trust and savings bank. He has also served as president of the Indiana Tuberculosis association ami the state conference of charities and corrections. _____— o —— CEMETERY IS BEING IMPROVED Catholic Cemetery West Os City Beinj? Beautified This Spring Improvements are being made at the Catholic cemetery west of the city and the plans which were begun last fall will be carried out this spring. The little lagoon, located west of the main driveway in the cemetery, wil be improved. The walls will be concreted and a concrete floor placed in the pond. The drainage water from the cemetery grounds will not drain into the lagoon, but a sewer wil) carry it away. Clean well water will be placed in the pond and it will be beautified with flowers and shrubbery. A suply tank of 100 gallon capacity has been erected at the cemetery This will furnish water for sprinkling purposes and give a reserve for the pond. Men are also busy in making other improvements about the-c.-metery and the driveways are being fixed up and trees and flowers planted. Germany Charged With Hiding Behind Dawes Plan London, March 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The league of nations council at its June meeting will consider Poland's charges that Germany is using the Dawes reparations plan as a pretext for avoiding obligations on Hie Versailles treaty. Poland charged that Germany is hiding behind the Dawes plan to I escape carrying out article 312 of the' Versailles treaty which provides fori Germany paying Poland six million gold marks in settlement of social insurance obligations. The payment vvas due in February and was not made. — o Decatur Catholics Are Interested In Pilgrimage Several Decatui people, members] of the St. Marys Catholic church.! have shown an interest in the proposed Pilgrimage to the Holy Laud next June. Last Sunday Father Michael Abraham of Michigan, delivered a short talk on the pftins being made for the pilgrimage and invited Decatur people to join. The memLeis of the party will sail from New York on Jun? 6 and w:ll visi’ His Holiness Pop° Pius XI. Several hundred people fr'...i all parts in the country will join the pilgrimace. —_____ - i ty "» Probe Os Bolshevism In Ohio Colleges Demanded Columbus, Ohio, March 25 — Demands for a sweeping, investigation of bolshevism in Ohio universities were prepared for presentation to the state legislature today. The resolution cites the names of organizations within the state colleges and universities and provides for a joint legislative probe. The schools under fire are Ohio state university, Ohio university and Miami university. Red Cross Relief Fund Reaches $42,000 Indianapolis, March 25 — Contributions to the relief fund for sufferers in the tornado stricken districts of Southern Indiana received at state hindquarters of the Red Cross here amounted t 6 $42,000 at noon today. All parts of the state were responding to the appeal report showed. The total is expected by Red Cross officials to be near the $50,000 mark by night.

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TORNADO AREA STILL ISOLATED BY HIGH WATERS Roads Leading Into Griffin Are Impassible; Washouts Reported TAKE FIRE PRECAUTION Temporary Fire Headquarters Established To Protect Town (I'nilcd PrcH.i Service) Griffin. Ind.. March 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Flood waters of the Wabash and Black rivers, which threatened to add to the ruin wrought here by last Wednesday’s tornado, today were gradually receding. Due to the swollen state of the Ohio river below here, the fall was slight. All roads leading Into Griffin will be impassible today at least. Several washouts were reported on the Evansville road and traffic over this road cannot be resumed before Sunday. Temporary fire headquarters were established today by Evansville fire officials. Four stations were set up in different sections of (he town to guard against onthyeak of Hrs In the ruins.

Rvasville, Ind.. March 25. —(United Press)—Hood waters of the Wabash and Black rivers today were within a few hundred yards of the ruined villiage of Griffin. Ind., and the streams were still rising. A heavy downpour of rain in ibis section of the state during the night ended all hope for immediate relief from the menace of floods. The Ohio river continued to rise causing the waters of the Wabash to spread over the lowlands in the territory swept by tornado in the vicinity of Griffin a week ago. Another slight rise will send the waters pouring over the site of Griffin. Tornado injured marooned in farm houses wore being rescued In skiffs manned by militiamen and Red Cross workers. No immediate fear was felt for the refugees in Griffin as long as there is an avenue of escape for them over the tracks of the Illinois Central railroad in the event the town is inundated. Most of the seriously injured from Griffin had already been taken to hospitals in Evansville or New Harmony. Farmers living in the lowlands (C.ontiDUPd on page thixj o LARGE BALANCE IN DOC TAX FUND Less Than Half Os Amount Collected Paid Out For Losses Dog owners in Adams county paid $5,032.00 in dog taxes during 1924. as shown in the annual report prepared by County Auditor Martin Jaberg. It is estimated that there are between 1,500 and 1,600 dogs in the county on which the above tax was paid. Less than half of the tax collected was paid out for licenses to sheep cattle and fowls from dogs, the exact amount being $2,004 80. The balance of $3,129.70 was paid into the county treasury by the trustees and of this amount 5 per cent, is sent to the. state. The township trustees have all made their reports to County Auditor Jaberg, the new dog tax law providing that the trustees must turn over balances in the dog fund to the auditor. The new law also provided that all claims for losses must be filed with the county auditor, who in turn presents the claims to the county commissioners for allowance. The county commissioners at a meeting last Saturday fixed the county dog licenses taxe at $3.00 for males and $5 for females.