Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COJ. H. Heller, Pres, and Geo Mgr A. R. Holthoune, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatm, Indiana, an second class matter. Subscription Rates: Singln copies 2 cento One week, by carrier.——lo cent* One Year, by carrier—l6.<W One month, by maLL—-35 cents Three months, by mail. 11.00 Six months, by msli 11 76 One year, by mail—s3.oo One year, at office33oo (Prices quoted are within tirst and| second zones. Additional postage added outside those tones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carpentier A Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. v — That we arc traveling rapidly these days is shown from the fact that even the stork which for several thousand years has had his own way 4n bringing babies to the homes la to have competition. In numerous parts ot the country physicians are now making their visits in airplanes. Time for filing as candidates for city offices will be up this evening ami the primary race will be on in earnest The selection of those who will conduct your city affairs is a very important one always and more so here just now because of the splendid business ot the city plant and because of our continued growth. The positions are responsible and most important. Will you go to church tomorrow? Surely in your busy life there is some

time to think of the years you won't be worrying about stocks, prices, good or bail times, sickness, health, pleasures. jobs or other things which after all are only a part of our selfish Meas, than wlfieh there are few greater sins. As we approach the Easter time every church will make a special effort to interest you in the things of greatest importance to yon—Life Eternal and you should join in that effort. Whatever your belief in religion. this is a good time to think about it and to consider where and how you arc fitting yourself for the years of eternity. The rules for drivers of autumn biles as amended by new acts of the recent legislature are designed to prevent accident ami will if followed ami they meet the approval of the people. But. it must be remembered that these rules and laws are of no account unless enforced. Officers should see that they arc and when drivers willfully violate the laws -after their attention is called, they should be promptly arrested. A few examples will d<> more towards obeyance of law than any thing else. We : hotild all desire to do those things which provide the greatest safety fol other drivers ami for pedestrains Ils tli<> only way to handle the traffic probbins. If requires a lot of nerve to enter a place of business at 8:30 in the evening and point a revolver, at the proprietor while his cash register is lobbed. Men who do that, have thoir minds made up to kill if necesar> In plain words they are murderers at heart. Every effort should be mid-' to capture the bandits who 1' t night held up the Wertxberger i nnfi-f ijonorv store in this city and "if taken they should be given the very limit of the law. In this age when null crime.'- are becoming quite’ common every one should use precaution. Ifon't keep a large amount of money in your Im loess place for when ttio ord"r comes to hold up ; our bands or deliver yotrr rath a4 (lie point of a revolver, ihere Is noth log nri-.h left to do. For eighteen years Murdock Brothers ready-to-wear store at Champaign. Illinois, wao the largest there and one "f the beat in the middle west, with a continuous growing business. Then they decided to stop advertising in the News Gazette, leading 'tally

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:— . ...... ■■ equalization, would mean a decided shrinkage in the volume of tax receipts. The budgets of public ex- ’ penditures have been made and great , •sums will bo needed to run the gov- . ernment units. Thus if valuations : shrink, tax rates will eventually go 1 up. unless expenditures are curtailed. Where farm land is assessed 100 high the assessment should be lowered. but any movement that contemplates a reduction throughout the state will mean less revenue and may 1 defeat the purpose for which it was started.—lndianapolis News. • TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ • Frem th* Deily Democrat Rise • • « ♦ 20 year* ego tble day ♦ April 1. Itms. Mayor Coffee issues onlers against throwing of paper on streets. Governor Hanley orders police boards of cities to stop law violations of saloon kepers. Cecil Melchi. aged one badly scalded while playing near wash tub at home on First street. City of Decalin has debt of sl2l. i mm. according to report of \V. J. Archbold, city treasurer. Ed Asbb.iuchcr opens barber shop in FriStoe Smoke House. Mr . Fled Schafer leaves for Los Angeles for several week's visit. Dr. I>. 11. Clark urges hospital for Decatur and Adams county. .lodge Edward Dunne, democrat, elected mayor of Chicago by majority of 25,000. 0 SBig Features Os RADIO Programs Today SATURDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright. 1925 by United Press) WJZ. New York, 454.3 M. 8:30 p.m. I EST) —Conceit of the New York Llederkranz society; WEAF. New York, 4915 M it pm. (EST)—Vincent Lopez and his or • *hestra. WRC Washington, 468.8 M, 10:30 ( pm. (EST) — Grandairs Saturday nighters. ' WLS, Chicago. 344 6 M. 7:20 to 11:15 p.m. (CBT)—WLS staff review. i WSAI. Cincinnati. 325.9 M, 12 p.m, (CST)— WSAI Midnight Entertainers I SUNDAY'S RADIO FEATURES ' WEAF. New Y'ork. 431.6-M; WEEI. - Boston. 476.9-M, 3:45 p. in. (E.B.T.) —

|>r. 8 Purks Cadman’s Sunday Men's conference. WEAF. New York 191.5 M. " EEL Hooten, 475.9-M; WCAP. Washington. •ViS oM; WJAR, Providence, 306 9-M, WWG, Detroit, 352.7-M; WCAE, Pittsburgh, 461.3-M: WCTB, Woncst-i., 207.7-M. 7:20 p. m. (E.8.T.) — Roxy and his gang. WPG, Atlantic City. 299 SM, 1" I' in. iE.S.T. » - Mendelssohn's "Si. Paul.* WCRD, Zion. 344.0-M, S p. m. '«'• S.T.l—f’nndny Evening concert. WOAW, Omaha, 526-M, 9 p. in. It'. S.T >—Musical chapel service. ——O —— — AN INVITATION ( onn- io Christ, all ye who labor. Weary, worn, by care oppressed; Take His yoke and burden on you.— Learn how Jesus gives man rest. Would you know real joy my brother. Would you win the true success. — Accept Christ, —in Him is given. | Heaven'S choicest, heaven's best. Come, ye thirsty ones who languish. To the fountain flowing free; Living waters. —soul refreshing, From the rock of Calvary. Come, all ye whose lives are wounded By tlte poisoned sword of sin; Christ will heal anti fully cleanse you Let His Holy Spirit In. - A. 11. Burkett. TWO UNMASKED MEN ROB LOCAL CONFECTIONARY (Continued from Page One) the Allen county Hue on the DecaturFort Wayne road, called Mr. Wertz berger and stated that he had found a bill book and papers belonging toj Mr. 'Wertzbergcr, lying alpng the mail near his Th rm. indicating that

the bandits had fled toward Fort, Wayne. Order Ice Cream Sodas The two men stepped to the soda fountain when they entered the store and ordered ice cream sodas. Mr.' Wertzherger started to prepare the 1 sodas and his son was engaged in' filling candy dishes in a show case on the opposite side of the room. Suddenly. one of the men stepped behind the soda, fountain and. flashing an automatic pistol at his hip. commanded Mr. Wertzherger to "stick 'em tip" At the same time he other man covered Charles behind the candy counter. The bandits ■nar< hed Mr. Wertzherger and his von into a rear room where one of the bandits went through their pock--ts while the other covered them with a gun. Locked In Rear Room After th" bandits had removed all noir y from the persons of Mr Wertzherger and his son. one of them went to the front of the confer tionary and rified Hie cash register ind desk, while the other kept the iroptfe'oi and his son covered with i gun. After ho had completed his work ii. 'he front of the store, the one bandit tailed to his comrade in •he rear room. The latter forced Mr. Wertzherger and his s on into another rear room ami locked the door. The two bandits then started to leave the store The entire proceedings had occupied not more than three or four minutes. As the bandi's were leaving the store, another.of Mr. Wertzbcrgcr’s sons, Richard, ago 11. entered the front hour. The men said nothing to the lad. but continued on their way out of the store. Shortly later a group of young people effTercd the confectionery. Police Notified In tin meantime. Mr Wertzherger and his son had escaped from the rr ary'room and entered the rear of th" Citizens Telephone company building adjoining the coqfectionary, Hid worked their way to a telephone, from where they called the police. Dick Smith, an employe of the telephone company, happened to pass the office just as Mr. Wertzherger and his son reached the front of the dllce ami ho unlocked the door and I‘el them out. The young Wertzherger boy, who ent red the store just as the bandits were leaving, said that he had passed the automobile which was parked on Ihe street corner near the confectionary. and that there was a man 'D the car and the ijjotor was runi ning Mr. Wertzherger stated that one of the men war fall, light complection > ed and was probably about 26 years . old. The (fther man was short, dark compleelioned and about 4o years old. Both were rough looking char aeters, be said. Earlier in the evening a strange’ , entered the confectionary. Mr Wertz - berger stated, and wanted a S2O bill

changed. Mr. Wertzberger refused, saying that he bad just banked and could not spare the change Two other local firms reported that a stranger entered their place of business yesterday afternoon and wanted ,i »2o bill changed. The man who i ntered Hie Wertzbergcr confectioni iv earlier In the evening was not one of the two who held up the store later. Mr. Wertzbergcr stated. However. it Is believed that he was the accomplice of the two bandits, who «as waiting outside the store In the autoniobllv. Automobile Stolen I A Dodge coupe belonging to Dr. (! R. Price, of Geneva, was stolen Hom its parking place in front of the doctors' office yesfferday evening It is thought that the bandits who staged flic holdup here last night stole Dr. Price’s car A Ford sedan, be longing to \V Lutber Kiger, of Bluffton, was stolen from Adams street near the Presbyterian church yesterday evening, while Mr. Kiger was atI tending church services nt that church, Miter it was found on South First street near the G. T. Burk residence. Residents of that street told i flicerk today that they had seen two men drive the Ford sedan up to the place whore it was found, abandon it and run across the street to a coupe, parked there. They got Into the coupe and drove north, rapidly. It is the supposition of the police that the men stole Dr. Price's car at Geneva. drove to Decatur and parked it on First street; then stole Mr. Kiger's car. drove to the Wertzbergcr . confectionary where they performed •the robbery and drove away in the Ford sedan io mislead tile officers? later abandoning the Ford and leaving the city in lhe Dodge coupe. Dr ( ‘Price's car was practically new. it was stated today. Dr. Price stated that he saw the thieves drive away with his car about T o'clock, and they started toward Decatur. He said there were two im n, one standing on the street cornci while the other got Into the car and drove it away. The men left an * old model Auburn car near Dr. • Price’s office. Two tires on that car i were fiat and the gasoline tank was empty.

V 1•1 J’l » . —— o “Poison Cottage” Likely j To Hide Secrets Forever London. April 4 (Special to Daily ( Democrat i —" Poison cottage" probably will forever hide its grim secrets The inquest into the mysterious deaths of Granville Cooke and Selwyn Foster, whoso pajama-clad bodies were found in a gas-flooded room, probably will be adjourned soon after formal evidence is submitted today. Police are inclined to thty theory I hat Cooke poisoned Foster. 21 year old son of a well to do family, ami then was accidentally asphyxiated when he tnrned on the gas while dragging Foster's body from a hed. preparatory to burying him under the floor. Meanwhile Scotland Yard continues to question residents of King's Cross, in which neighborhood the half acre enclosure containing a largf, disused house ami a small cottage at the rt ar. has laid bare tales of a degenerate mad man. ....,, . -o ■ ■■■ ■’ — ALL OVER INDIANA Bluffton Deputy Sheriff Noah ■Waugh who returned here from Indianapolis with Carl Cotton said he was told by Indianapolis police that Cotton was a member of a gang of crooks that made an unsuccessful attempt tn sell a hotel there to a wealthy Illinois woman o— FOR TEN YEARS DEPENDABLE I - r . -ar T. J. Durkin Comments on Motor Car Dependability "For ten years -dependable. These words express the successful attain men* of an ideal conceived in (he minds of the founders before the first ’ car bearing Dodg" Brothers name was placed in the hands of a purehas er late in 1914." pays Air. T. J. Durkin of the Modern GarjfEe. local dealer. In commenting mi Dodge Brothers latest advertisement "The word ‘Dependable.' when it apmared on the poster boards and in . the magazines and newspapers several years ago. focused public attention on oho basic charahteristlc to which. ’ more than any other, is due the good I name which Dodge Brothers Motor Car enjoys everywhere. “Having decided to produce a car 1 bearing their name. Dodge Brothers s kept ‘Dependability' constantly in i- mind while they Uerewiesigning tlie 1 units, selecting the materials and de termining the machining and assem bling processes and inspections. a “The four cylinder, tyne ot engine wag selected bejause it ha. always been known over great p p r iods of service, to be the most de pendable and free from needs of re ' pairs or adjustments. s “That, their judgment a decade age k was sound is evidenced clearly by the fact that over 76% of all passen ° ger cars today are powered by four r ’ cylinder engines and that last yeat | Dodge Brothers sales showed an in )r crease of over 25% against a lo s ol U% by the automobile industry as a whole. H • “Ijependability of the chassis it

the result of a well balanced design —of which r*d»r* Brothers Motnr Par is an outstanding example All units and compoimpt parts are designed aud manufactured to work together in smooth co-ordination- none overdeveloped at the expense of others •The well known policy of con slant development of a basic design as contrasted with the production ot radically different annual models gives the buyer complete assurance of dependability. Every year since the first Dodge Brothers Motor Car was built it has been made bettor by refinement of detail. "When ono million Dodge Broth ,< rs Motor-4««rs had been produced it i mh found that over 9O',> were still in active service. This fact affords ample endeneo of generous public

Notice I I have taken over the Acetylene Welding, Blacksmithing I and General Repair Work at the building formerly known as the I SCHMITZ & THICKER GARAGE and am now ready to do all work of this kind. Frank Schmitz CRMMO MARGARIN Creamo Margarin i» Churned in Pure Rich (ream—that's why it has that Fresh Creamy Flavor. No wonder Creamo Margarin is used in so many homes in Decatur—it's different because it's Churned in Pure Rich Cream. You'll like Creamo Margarin because of its Rich Creamy Flavor. If you are not acquainted with Creamo Margarin buy a pound with lhe understanding that your money will be refunded if you are not more than pleased—that's our guarantee. Order a pound of Creamo today. We want you to enjoy that Rich Creamy Flavor. You'll like Creamo Margarin as a spread for your bread, for cooking or for shortening because it's Churned in Pure Rich Cream. fit YOUR GROCERY OR MEAT MARKET

\ (frrLpr<ri>Qci FOR our depositors with checking accounts, we have installed thia new system of a checks known as the Protectu System, as an added improved service. To combat the numerous frauds caused by raising checks, ( I Jr'ct t system enables you to UOUr tcar n ff- y our check at amount OQYiefit desired [like a money order], 7 thereby insuring the amount of check from being raised should it get tost, or tall into dishonest hands gjjiliily4 B oup bank f - - I _ PROTECTIX/ | Check System ”i J If you are considering opening * / checking account, by all ®eans come in and see thia add it lonal improved service that we are giving tree to all our customers IQUALLY rFACTICALJO* DESK AND FAY » Ot L V« Old Adams County Bank W iM.WKInm I I * t

approvn) O s ih- K •*""> ■ BACKET ww■ M K.EUey,^ pleri|| ffl •fter long illnr™ ii,| n . in M On* set of Hpoon, given ■ amounting to onp dmi, r B 8. Elzey. or nwrt g M a— WB I SPECIAL SALt K Juat received a ncw ® g| of Hats. Reduced prii l ? Bl I hats Saturday. April X*” l B Mrs. Maud A.mX | =^— Decatur, | n d. , B