Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1925 — Page 1

Koi. XXIII- Number 101.

GERMAN COMMUNISTS CALL A STRIKE

Joys in charge | OF GOVERNMENT I OF CITY TODAY »ov Officials “Run” City In ■ Connection With Boys’ Week Program ■APPOINTMENTS MADE ■hv Council Holds Meeting This Afternoon; Athletics Tomorrow ■ '11,.. boys wro 'Tunning" the city afternoon. in connec .'on with tin: of Hoys' wook, today being day. ■ Frederick S< -hater, boy mayor and ■.mbers of his council, who were ■e,c-<l on the lied ticket last ThltrsMay. met at the office of Henry It. »■ Iler last evening and made their appointments. These boys to■ether with those who were elected Hi Id the reins of city govrnment toHay and at 3:30 this afternoon he d H session of the council. ■ Following the official duties of the] ■ay or. appointments were made by i rii k Sehafi r as folows: City Marshall Robert J tollhouse Night Policeman A Edward Musser Street Commissioner Tad A mold City Engineer David Heller Fire Chief Daniel Schafer I The mayor also apojnted the following committees on the council: Bhtrks and playgrounds. Uotu-ia.. Kiting, ■hairman. Toni Ilaubold. James Burk; ■htblic improvements. Tom Haubold. •hairman. James Burk and Harry ■tuumgartner; Electric light. James ■lurk, chairman, Harry Baumgartner, ■taymond Ease; Water works; Harry ■Janmgartner, chairman, Raymond (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) k 0 NORTH MILL WILL BE RAZED ■William Murphy. Who i Bought It. Will Remove ( It At Once ■ The old Gillig Mill, located at the ■nd of North Second street, where the froad curves north toward Fort ■Wayne, for many years causing u Buzzard for motorists both leaving fend arriving in this city, has been bold, it was announced this morning kt the Fred T. Schurger Abstract of■Hee. I William Murphy has bought the jmiil from Herman Gillig and will ktart at once, tearing it down, it is j beported. The lumber of the mill will |be used by Mr. Murphy in other conIstructions, he said. I The building, commonly known as [the north mill, has stood for many [years as a hazardous object for tourlists. It is located in such u manner j | us to obstruct the view from both [directions along state road ntitrbc: [-1 The inte.urb.in line also curves i | at this particular point and in order to make the curve, the autoists are compelled to swing across the car packs without viewing the approach. Considerable comment bus been instigated at various times in regards i to razing the building, because the mill was discontinued several years l a ß°, but no action has ever been takjen until yesterday when the building l w as sold. .Mr. Murphy, who resides in this city, did not buy the ground, so it will be ueccessary for him to remove the buildingat once At present the lot will remain vacant, and the view from both ends of the road will be clear. The mill, which formerly manufactured flour, has stood idle for several years and Persons living near it have feared a Are fo r a ] ong time, owing to the dryness O s the Interior of the building.

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Three Drunks Fined At Geneva Yesterday (Special to Daily Democrat I | Geneva, April 28. L.r and John I Ford, of Geneva, were locked in the, I town jaft. Sunday night on u chiry< ; of public intoxication, 'liny were; arraigned in court before a loyal jus | , tire of the peace Monday afternoon, j upon the arrival of John T. Kelly, 1 1 prosecuting attorney, from Decatur, and each entered a plea of guilty, j They were fned $1 and costs, amounting to $9.50 each. At the same time, i Charles Burris, anoHur Geneva man. was brought up for trial on the same J charge and he was fined the same amount. EVANGELICALS IN CONFERENCE Annual Conference Os Church Opens At Fort Wayne Last Night 1 —— * The Reverend D. O. Wise, of! Celina. Ohio, president of the hoard' of examiners of the Evangelical j ■ churches, opmied the annual week'.;’ i conference of the Indiana Evangelical churches at the Crescent Avenue Evange.lcal church at Fort Wayne, last night. The session will last all neo!:. *vlth extensive programs each' day. The meetings will be held at | both the Crescent Avenue and First . Evangelical churches. Most of the delegates ami pastors arrived in Fort Wayne yesterday for' the meeting. Bishop I, H. Seager. of La Mar. lowa, president of the conference, reached the convention city yesterday afternoon. It is expeered. that about 30ft delegates.will be in Fort Wayne by the beginning of tonight's program. Tonight will lie observed as educational night and L. (’. Ward, superintendent of the Fort Wayne schools, will deliver an address on “Religious Education in Indiana.” This afternoon. an examination for junior pastors was held by Reverend Wise.! The Crescent Avenne choir will render several specially selected programs at various times during the week. i The first business session of the' conference will be held Wednesday afternoon. The Ihdiana Conference . I Missionary Society will hold its anWednesday morning at j ten o'clock at which time officers for the year will be selected and other j business will be transacted. Lectures by conference officers will be delivered at the night sessions and most of the business sessions will be held in the afternoons. Other branches of the church activities. such as the missionary societies and junior departments will hold their business meetings in the afternoons also. The session will close next Saturday night Several persons from the Decatur Evangelical church have signified their intentions of attending part of Ute meetings, and it is probable that several motor parties will attend the ■evening sessions from this city. o TWO ABSENT VOTERS VOTE Two Ballots Received So Far; Votes May Be Cast All This Week Only two persons have cast an absent voters’ ballot at the city clerk’s office in the city hall, .Mrs. Catherine Kauffman, city clerk stated Monday. Those voters who will be out of the city next Tuesday. May 5, primary election day, can, by appearing at the clerk’s office, cast their ballot before that date. John Teeple, student at Purdue university, was the first man to cast his balot. Israel Stoneburner cast the second ballot. Voters have until next Saturday to vote in person at the clerk’s office and those who have taken applications for a ballot must get them back to the clerk's office in time so that the ballots can be mailed and returned to the clerk not later than Monday before the election.

GREAT BRITAIN RETURNS TO COLS | STANDARDW Winston Churchill Introduces Budget For Coming Fiscal Year PROVIDE FOR DEBTS Plan Made To Use Bond To Pay Debt To United States By Floyd Allen, (11. P. Staff Correspondent) London, April 28. Great Britain returned to a gold standard today, Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the house of commons, where lie introduced the budget for the coming of the fiscal year. • Addressing n house lu which every I seat was tilled, the galleries being ' crowded with distinguished visitors I and peers, while the entire country waited for details of the budget, Churchill added that the government had decided to allow the Bank of England to export bullion, starting today. The chancellor of the exchequer announced that the dominions also are returning to the gold standard. I “Austrialia is acting today.” he told the house. Churchill's budget calls for expenditures estimated at Tli.l.tmit.ooo pounds. The prospective revenue is estimated at 826.000,000. Reduction of the imome tax by 2*2 ' per .cent.,»rr ijxjieuxc in the pound was recommended by Churchill. When the chancellof announced that the income tax would be reduced, even though the reduction was only six pence instead of the shilling many had hoped for. he brought joy |to millions who were following his j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PLAINTIFF WINS ; IN TYPHOID SUIT I Jury Returns Verdict For $9,000 In Fort Wayne Damage Suit I A verdict in favor of the plaintiff against both defendants for $9,000 was returned at 4 o’clock this afternoon, in the case of the Lincoln Trust company, administrator of the estate of Herman Bauermeister, against the Pennsylvania Railroad company and the City of Fort Wayne. The jury deliberated for four and one-half hours. The case of lite Lincoln Trust Company, administrator of the estate of Herman Bauermeister, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company anil the City of Fort Wayne, which has been on trial in the Adams circuit court here for the past month, ami in which judgment for SIO,OOO for the death of Mr. Biuermeister, alleged to be <lue to typhoid fever developed from germs in the city water, wont to the jury at 10:35 o'clock this, mottling. At 3 o’clock this afternoon, the jury had not returned a verdict. The arguments of the attorney's was completed at 6 o'clock Monday evening but the court did not instruct th” jury until this morning. Mrs. Bauermeister and her three young children is remaining in the court room witli a few attorneys. Judge Sutton and a few other court attaches while the jury deliberates. 0 Detroit Mayor Likely To Suspend More Officials Detroit. April 28 —(United Press) - Indications today were that more city officials would be suspended from their positions in connection with the grand jury report which Judge Frank Murphy presented Saturday naming 19 men.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 28, 1925,

BOY MAYOR - ■ - SI Frederick Schafer Decatur was governed by boys from 2:3t) to 3:;!t) o’clock this afternoon. Frederick Schafer, son of C. Schafer .was mayor, he am! the other “city officers," having been elected on the Red ticket in the junior city election In Id last week. MERMAN ON TRIAL TODAY On Trial At Van Wert For Aiding In Robbery Os Mrs. John Harmon Van Wett, Ohio. April 2S Harry Zimmerman was scheduled to go on trial here today on an indictment charging his wih participation in the robery of Mrs. John Harmon. of near Wren, a year ago. This is the second man to be tried in connection with the Harmon robbery. Roy F. Comer having been tried and acquitted of the charge. Two prosecutor.-, will handle th ■ ease of the state against Zimmerman, who has intermittently been in the public eye in tjiis county for several months. Two grand juries consider xffr .alb ..tt< ignoring th case against him after lie had appeared personally before that body. Zimmerman tlmn went back to Indiana, but another jury indicted hint. He was locked up in the county jail at Huntington. Ind., and local uuthori: ties sought to extradite him. which action he fought. After he lost on habeas corpus proceedings his attorney appealed to the supreme court of Indianapolis and failure to provide s2(to costs for the appeal delivered him to the hands of Deputy Sheriff A. N. Jones, who brought him here, where he entered a plea of not guilty alter attempts to set aside the indictment ami to secure rob a e by habeas corpus. Witnesses Selected Prosecuting Attorney John I. Miller and Attorney Clem V. Hoke will represent the state at the trial and William Fostnii’.ght will defend Zimmerman. Judge 11. W. Dlachly will presid". Witnesie subpoenaed for the state are: Joh-t Byers. Fort Wayne; Chatles Eisenhaut. Fort Wayne: State i Representative c. Clyde Joins; John Harmon and Mrs. Eliza Jane Harmon. Witnesses: lor the defense are Bert C. Bowen of near Wren; Ora I furies and Clarence Hnr ess. of near Wren; Thane Spahr, of near Wren: Ex-Sheriff E. E. Terry and Gracia Compa retie. o— — Wealthy Sports Woman Is Shot By Own Gun Brooklyn. N. Y„ April 28—H’niteii j Press)—With u bullet from her own big game rifle in her breast. Mrs. Gloria Bryon. wealthy sports woman, was found in her apartment in fashionable Bruce Bridge hall today. The woman was unconscious when other residents of the house, alarmed by the shot, discovered her. She was taken to a hospital, where it wa ieported she might recover.

MINERS'STRIKE IN WEST VIRGINIA GROWING SERIOUS [Mine Tipples Burned And One Mine Dynamited By Strikers STATE POLICE READY Police Held In Readiness To Quell Any Disturbances (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Morgantown. W. Va , April 28 ■ (Special to Daily Democrat) —State police were held in readiness today lo quell any disturbances in the strike area of northern West Virginia following tile burning of three mine tipples near here, the dynamiting of a mine near Grafton and an automobile parade of tiott striking union miners at Fairmont. Three mine tipples of the GilbertDagen coal company were burned last night witli a loss of s2oo,obt). Tile Sand Lick mine of the Grafton coal ami coke company near Grafton which' was to reopen today on open shop basis after being closed for two years was dynamited last night. Damage was limited to SSOO tint, the delayed opening ci the workings. Accompanied by a band Goo union miners in autos paraded to the Dakota mine of the Bethlehem Steel i onipany caxb tuday where they stag cd a demonstration until the day shift had gone into the mine to work Tlie parading miners made no attempt at violence.

NEW PASTOR IS WELCOMED Methodist Also Bid Farewell To Rev. Bridge At Reception The Sunday School room of the First Methodist church wa < liAvdi last night by members and friends ot the church who gathered to welcomi their new minister, the Rev. Somervile Light, and to hid farewell to their retiring pastor, the Rev. U. S. A. Bridge. The evening was an enjoyable one for all present. Mrs. John i’arrisli. representing the ladies aid society of the church, presided at the meting. The Rev. R. W. Loose, pastor of the Evangelical chlfch. spoke in Ix’ha.f of the mln isterial association. The next speak er was Attorney ('. L. Walters, who spoke in behalf of the church congregation. Rev. Bridge and Rev. Light each gave interesting talks. Intersper sed through Lite program were songs I by tlie audience, a vocal solo by' Helen i Catherine Christman ami a piano so i 'lo by Mary Jane DeVor. Refreshments were served at the close of the program. o — School Fund Payments To I Be Paid At Bank In Future The speci il monthly collections which have beeu taken up at tlie St. Marys Catholic church for the past few years for the new school fund, will not be collected at the churc'i any more. Father J. A. Seimetz, announced Sunday. Those who contributed towards the school fund are asked to take their envelope to the Old Adams County Bank. This change is made for fear that the collectors might be held up by bandits or thugs while taking up the collec- ' tion. The collection totals a thousand dollars or more every month and the trustees deemed it advisable to have , the money paid at the Old Adams County bank. Weather Mostly fair tonight, probably followed by showers Wednesday or Wednesday' night. Continued cool.

Taxpayers Begin Their Last Week Rush Today 't'hr llnnl last w-ek ru h at the i county treasurer's offi« is in piogfi s' l;:x payers are paying tii ir .prim-, L ' imitalhnent of tax v . whi. li. alter i Monday, May -I. )>c. ome <b I'tiqm nt I land a ten per cent penalty will bo | added. Hi- t Saturday, bet ween slß,ooo' ami $lll,OOO was collect il. The bunk < j I in the south part of the county have ■ I sent in their payments and it is estl-l l mated that mote than $|()0,0OU of the i ' total has already been paid in. Conn-! I ty Treasurer Louies Kleine ami Ids I ;|'b-puiy. Mis. Anna Smith, are tukitigl care of the ru-li. EVERT CITIZEN MUST COOPERATE Civic Section Urges Everyone To Join City Cleanup Work (By the Civic Section) This task of getting our town clean ed up and made to look beautiful is a big one, ami unless every citizen of Decatur helps in the effort, it will he a hopeless one. But we have faith in our people to believe they are going to clean up their back yards, alleys and vacant lots, burn up any trash and old dead weeds, then gather up all old tin cans and rubbish, put them in recepticals in the alley ami next Monday. May I. the city trucks will take it away, free of charge. Every public spirited citizen, and every one who loves the "old home town," should go out of his way. if needs be. to help in the things that will make our fair little city, a cleaner ami more healthful place to live, ami to do this we must keep it clean and free from germ breeding places. Surely there is not one citizen who would prevent next week being a leg

i siie< >-s.s, ami we know that if on - ! yard is not cleaned up, it makes the | whole neighborhood look bad. It is very discouraging if you clean I up your yard and your neighbor does ; not. It mars Hie looks of Hie whole I neighborhood. Tear down any old fence, that i 1 naif drtwn and loog.s unsightly, old ; chicken coops, put some new trellis I tip to your broken down grape harbor. plant flowers uni! shrubs. (). "there are so many ways of improving ■ in looks of your properly. Now that prizes are being offered for the best looking back yards, surely each one will try to win the prize. We are sure the mayor will urge a systematic and thorough cleaning of the alleys and out of the way places that need (leaning up. Every one should see that their ashes are taken from their places. Strangers who come lo our city, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DELAY HEARING UNTIL FRIDAY Postpone Hearing On Plea For Bail For Stephenson And Pals — Indianapolis, April 2'- Special investigators, worling under the direction of Charles E. Cox, assistant pro - ecutor, today were building up evi deuce for the state on the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Funds raised by popular subscription In Irvington, where Miss Oberholtzer lived, were used to employ

the investigators to aid in the prosecution of D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry, charged with first degree murder for the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Through an agreement between attorneys In the case and Judge Collins in criminal court, bearing on the plea to release the three men on bail ' was deterred until Friday morning. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College and treasurer of ! the Oberholtzer prosecution funds, I said that subscriptions to aid In the I ■ tight to convict Stephenson and his • two aides are mounting to a substantial sum.

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ARE OPPOSED TO i INAUGURATION OF ' VON HINDENBURG I » # 'Communists Take Severe Rap At All Monarchists In Germany [MAKE MANY DEMANDS Socialists Also Warn Workers Against Hindenburg’s Program HTnlleil Press t-’.ei-vh .>) Berlin, April 2X (Specinl lo Daily Democrat) German communists took action lotlav against the inauguration of I’residi'iit-elecl Iliutlenburg. Proclaiming a general strike May *J the communists issued on inauguration day probably a set of demands as follows: Dissolution of the reichswehr, or safety police, and all monarchist and fascist organizations. Reorganization of the police along i less military lines. Disbandment of the “Teihunj'sche Nothi.fe.” or official government strike.-breal.ing organizations. Confiscation of all princely fortunes. Expulsion of all members of the former ruling houses of Germany, including the former crown prince and sons of the king of Saxony. Removal of all monarchistically inclined government officials. Release of proletarian political prisoners. An eight hour day. Itemotal of taxes burdensome to the proletariat,. Simultaneously, the socialists, while condemning the communist; i u

lot making possible llindenburg'.i ■lee. ion. warned workers against the i linden burg ‘‘program.’' PREBLE PUPILS VISIT DECATUR I Pupils Taken On Sight-See-ing Trio Throvirh City Bv Teachers i • Pupils of the primary and grammar grades of Preble township schools are making a visit to this city and vicinity today tinder the guidance of their teachers. Milton Werling. E. F. Juherg and Miss Frances Borne The visit today will close the school year for the pupils and serve as an award for the hard work spent for the last eight months in the school rooms. The tour started at the General Electric factory in the west part of the city, where the students came from their homes in cars furnished bv ,he teachers The pupils were the guest of the General Electric company for about an hour and from there they visited the Moses Greenhouse where they were shown how I flowers are grown in wholesale lots. The next stop was at the Waring Glove factory on Monroe street, where the pupilp were escorted through that plant. The court house, county jail and infirmary also were ■ taken in during the visit and the ■ pupils were taken through all the various departments of the county 1 legal and compensation departments. At two o’clock this afternoon. • Jesse Leßrun. manager and owner of ■ the Corf theater in this city, invited ' al! the pupils and their teachers as

special guests of the management to attend the show. The entire body at- | tended. After the show lie tour was completed by a trip through the office and composing rooms of the Daily Democrat where the party witnessed the publishing of the newspaper. Mr. Welling stated that it is probable that today’s trip will be made an annual affair He said ’hat today's I experiment bad proved highly educaI tion'af. because several of the pupils I had never been to many of the places visited. The party will leave about five o'clock for their homes after a day of now experiences.