Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XMIL Number 115.

OFFICERS ON TRAIL OF BICYCLE BANDIT

START DRIVE FOR MEMBERS NEXT MONDAY industrial Association Is Launching Annual Membership Campaign WANT 300 MEMBERS Organization Is Sponsoring Ma/iv Worth v Projects This Year William Li.in. ‘linlrmna of tlte membership committer 1 of the Delatin' Industrial Associat on. tinitoune ed this morning that the annual campaign for new members anti the renewal of the old memberships in the is .Delation will open next Monday. The mi mbbrship drive has been delated a little this year, due to the fact that the new plates and year dales for them were not received until this week. Each member is provided with one of these plates for b's office or place < f business. The Decatur Industrial Association had a paidup membership of 186 on January 1. 1925, anti an effort will be made to renew everyone of these and increase the roster lo more than two hundred. Mr. I.inti stated that the goal wa set al 3mt this year ami that he believed many ntemliers would be s<curetl in view of the fact that the Decatur Industrial Association was a city and comniiinity organization anil that it was trying to he-of service both lo the farmer ami the person living in the city. The association this year Is sponsoring the junior farm clubs in Adams county. The dubs are the dairy and calf club, the corn ami sugar beet clubs and more than 150 boys and girls are enrolled in the three clubs. Other projects are being sponsored by the Associal'on and it is the object and purpose of the membership to help build a better and bigger community anil to be of assistance whereever possible. The program this year (CONTINI ED ON PAGE FOUR) FIRE DESTROYS RESIDENCE HERE House Occupied By George Raver Destroyed At 10 O’clock Last Night Eire at 10 o'clock last night destroyed the George Raver home in the west part of the city. The property belonged to the late Elizabeth Kern estate and was located between Twelfth anil Thirteenth streets, just south of the Erie tracks. Damage will amount it' about SBOO. An overheated stove in the front room exploded, it is thought, ami threw flumes that set the house on fire. A neighbor turned in the alarm end an emergency brigade saved part of the, furniture. Mr. and Mrs. Raver were not at home when the tire occurred. The tire truck was misguided when 'he alarm was turned in anti made the tun south on Winchester street. This delay gave the flames a chance to spread and when the apparatus arrived on the scene the entire house was in flames. The chemical hose was first used in an effort to extinguish the fire hut later the water pressure hose was laid, it being necessary to lay the hose a long distance. Failure of the pump to work prop erly further delayed the firemen and tvhen the proper pressure was obtained the house hail been gutted by the flames. The firemen soon got control of the flames, hut were unable to save the house. Not other houses are located nea, the scene of the fire and at no time was there any danger of the flames spreading. It is not thought that there 'r. any insurance carried on either the property or the furnishings. The property loss is estimated at about S7OO and the furnishings at S2OO or S3OO. The house waa a frame structure.

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Terre Haute Federal Court Office Opened Tero Haute. Ind., May H (United Press) IjirttH Hail, clerk, today open ed offices of the Terre Haute branch of the federal district court. The office is locitloil on Hie third floor of the federal building. It is expe< ted that the local court will ho one of tie* hut- lest brunches of the federal court system in Indiana which was established under Ute Hie key bill passed by the last session of ci.tigress. —o — OFFICERS OF NEW CLUB ARE CHOSEN Election Held By Business And Professional Women’s Club The Decatur Business ami Professional Women's club met last night in the Assembly room of the Obi Adams County Hank for organization. The election of officers was held ami Dr. Elizabeth Burns was matte ipesident: Celia Mayer, vice-president; Effie Patton, recording secretary; Sally Kern, corresponding secretary, and Ruth Mayer, treasurer. The purpo e of the tilth is to promote the In tert'sls of business ami professional women and to bring the members iti to relations of mutual helpfulness, ami t<> stimulate local organization and co-operation. The meetings will be hebl twice monthly, the place of meeling to be announced later. Several ladies of the Portland organization attended the meeting last n ght and assisted in the organization. They were .Marie Scheib. Mrs. C. W. McLaughlin. Gladys Raiish, Mary Ann Poor, Mrs. Clara Flauding, Miss Be atrice Sauve. Florence Denney, Erma Reinhard, Harriett Wiley, Helen Smith. Florence Skinnet, Alice S. Hartley, Jannita Smith, and Jennie Rae llersch, who is district organizer. The active members of the local club are. Elizabeth Burns, physician; Effie Patton. Neva Brandyberry, Blanche McCrory, teachers; Celia Mayer. Rebecca Eady, clerks; Emilie C. Crist, hospital superintendent; Ada Stevens, telephone operator; Vera Eady, stenographer; Luella M. Huie ley, merchant; and the associate membership includes Mrs. Grace Lawless, Mrs. Glennys Kern anil Mrs. .Mabel Sargent. -- — Q Claire Windsor And Bert Lytell Married Hollywood, Cal., May 14 —(United Press)- -Claire Windson and Bert Lytell, film stars, were married in Jan rex, Mexico, at 9 a.m. today by a native magistrate, according to a telegram received by Hollywood friends. Immediately after the ceremony, the couple hoarded a special car tendered them by the Mexican government for a honeymoon ti p to .Mexico City. o — THRESHERS TO MEET MAY 23 Indianapolis Man To Address County Threshers Association A meeting of the Adams County Threshers' asociation has been called by the officers for May 23, at the Old Adams County bank lecture room. The meeting will be held at one o’clock ami all members are urged to attend. An interesting program is being arranged by Fred Zimmerman. Refreshments will be served during the session and cigars will he provided. A good speaker from Indianapolis has been contracted with to furnish the chief address. Interesting topics relative to threshing will be discussed and plans will be made for the annual campaign in this county. All members of the association are cordially invited to attend the se.-sion. Officers in charge say that the entire program will be beneficial to the members and attendance will he well worth while.

TO REORGANIZE Him CO, ST RICHMOND, IND. To Merge Subsidiaries In Hopes Os Salvaging Company’s Property TO EXCHANGE SHARES Shares In Old Company To Te Exchanged For Shares In New One Cincinnati, <)., May 14 (United Press ) Reorganization of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage Loan company which proposes to merge 25 sub sidiaries in six states, will start in Richmond, Ind., it was announced today. The concern, is to bo known as the United Mortgage company, eventual’y will make its headquarters in Cincinnati ;>ui i.- .lireciiiig nrs, effort: al Indiana, where most of the subsidiaries known ns the welfare loan societies, are located. 11. 11. Nienow, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been retained lo take charge of the work of rrhabililatirg the lirm.. Beginning with the Richmond branch, the lirm proposes to put each subsidiary in turn bail; on its feet. Merging of the firms will start immediately. Call will be sent out today for stockholders lo exchange shares, dollar for dollar, in the new firm. It was said the new united company has already control of the branches in Michigan i'ity. Ind., ami south Bend. Inti. Among the cities that will figure in the merger are: New Orleans. In., Louisville, Ky., Lancaster, Pa., Port Wayne, Vincinnes, Kokomo. Anderson and Evansville, lml„ besides many towns in Ohio which Include Cleveland and Cincinnati. The first plans to consolidate smaller branches milking about twenty companies which will operate on $60,000 to SBO,OOO capital each. Morton S. Hawkins, indicted when the original firm failed, has been fightng extradition from Cincinnati to Indianapolis for trial by the government for alleged misuse of the mails. A decision iu the district court of up(Continued From Page Three) WIFE OF REV. MOELLER DIES Wife Os Pastor Os St. Peters Lutheran Church Dies Os Cancer Mrs. Alfred Moeller, 54, wife of the Reverend Alfred Moeller, pastor of the St. Peters congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Root township, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon after an illness of about a year. Death was due to cancer. Mrs. Moeller was operated on about a year ago at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne, but never regained her health. Mrs. Moeller was born at Cleveland, Ohio, and was united in marrieg twenty-four years ago, to Alfred Moeller. To this union were born live children. One daughter, Frieda, preceded the mother in death fourteen years ago. Mrs. Moeller s survived by the husband, foifr brothers, four sisters and four children, Mrs. Theodore Reis and Hilda, Elanor and Margaret Moeller at home. Reverend Moeller and his family came to this county about t hree years ago from Lorrain. Ohio. Mrs. Moeller was active in the church societies until her health failed about a year ago. Funeral services will be held from the Root township church Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Reverend Truelsch, of St. Johns, will officiate. Burial will take place at Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of the deceased woman. A short service will be held at the cemetery in Cleveland.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 11, 1925.

DIES SUDDENLY MISS AMY LOWELL Brookline. Mass. — Miss Amy Lowell,! the poet, and sister of President A. j I awrence Lowell of Harvard University, died suddenly at her home here] Tuesday, May 12. A paralytic stroke was the cause of death. Dr. Theodore Eastman ami Dr. Charles Allen Porter were summoned. and shortly afterward President Lowell arrived at his sister's home. Amy Lowell won recognition as perhaps the ih'cf practitioner ami exponent of ‘‘the new verse." She pub lished more than half a dozen vol nmes of poetry ami several volumes of prose criticism. Her recently published biography of the poet Keats, in two volumes, has lieen received among literary critics with marked respect. and was among the best sell-[ ers. She lectured frequently and has given public readings from her poetry. She delivered lecture courses at the Brookyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1917 amt 1918; wus the Francis Bergen foundat'on lecturer at Yale in 1921, and the Marshall Woods lecturer at Brown University in the same year. Miss Lowell was born in Brookline, in 1874, ami was educated in private schools there. She received the degree of doctor of letters from Baylor University in 1920, and in the same year received the Phi Beta Kappa key of scholarship from Columbia University. o Martin Lord Celebrates His' 88th Birthday Anniversary ■ ■ ~ Martin Ixird, of this city, formerly! of Monmouth, Civil war veteran and driver of one of the first stage coaches | operated between Decatur and Fort | Wayne in the early days, celebrated his 88th birthday anniversary today. Mr. Lord was the guest of Wesley Lawson at dinner. Recently, he has been making his home in this city with -his daughter, Mrs. Kurt, on North Eighth street. He is enjoying good health and is able to walk with the aid of a cane. His many friends extend congratulations to him anti wish for him many more happy ...rthrltiy.4. o Wedding Bells Ring For Granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller ( United Press Service) New York. May 14 Abby Rocke feller, vivacious heiress to perhaps the world's greatest fortune, is marrying the man of her choice at 4:30 this afternoon, the culmination of a real romance which all the untold millions of her father ami grandfather did not prevent. She who could have 1 a choice of dukes and earls ami such things as girlish dreams sometimes are made of elects to become Mrs. David Meriwether Milton, wife of a most personable young man who earns quite a modest livelihood. The wedding, in the Rockefeller mansion just off Fifth avenue will be as quiet and unostensious as is possible under the circumstances of such fabulous wealth as the very name of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Weather Fair tonight and Friday; Somewhat wanner Friday in north portion.

FORD OFFERS TO j BUY 11. S. IDLE MERCHANT SHIPS Automobile King Willing To Buy 400 Vessels At Their Junk Value PLAN IS OPPOSED Members of Shipping Board Doubtful As To Approval Os Plan (I’nited Press Service) Detroit, Mich., May ]4 If given the right price, Henry Ford will purchase I 400 steel vessels i.f the United Stales j shipping board mat are now nt ting at their docks, junking the majority of them and hoping to salvage from ten to thirty for his own use. This statement was made by Font Wednesday evening following a visit earlier this week to Dearborn by T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the Shipping board. During the visit O'Connor broached the subject of the motor king taking a block of 2<)o ships from the fleet of more than 1'.200 which tiegovernment owns. As there are several difficulties confronting the sale it probably will be a matter of several months bft ore it is settled it was indicated. O'Connor told Ford in making the offer that he thought it would be a form of patriotism for the manufacturer o buy 21)1) vessels. Ford indicat ed that he thought a good way io spell patriotism was with "P-A-Y" and said ilue to the expense of a special much! fiery to junk them he could not "afford" lo buy 100 but he mi'.-ht lie interested in four hundred. In discussing the shipping proposi lion, in regarils to his entering the operation of a mammoth fleet upon the high seas. Ford said his idea in salvaging the vessels from the fleet at all was to handle his own foreign trade. "Yon know, we already have purchased three old shipping board vessels to pioneer with” For tlsaitl. Washington. May 14 — (United Press) Official Washington reserved i opinion today on the negotiations lietween Chairman O'Connor of the ship .ping board and Henry Ford for the -ale of the idle government merchant (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 — ELKS SECURING MANY MEMBERS Much Interest Created In Membership Campaign Being Made By Lodge Much interest is being created in | the campaign of the Elks lodge here and reports indicate a large increase in membership. Several were voted in last evening and twenty-three applications are now on file. A committee consisting of D. .51. Hensley. Raymond Harting anil Walter Wilkerson has been named to grange for a big affair to be held on Liberty Way the latter part of July or the first week of August. Plans for this event are now being formed and complete announcement will be made soon. Next Tuesday is to be Elgs Day in Decatur, at which time one hundred members of the local lodge will devote the entire day to the campaign to secure one hundred new members. The initiation fee at present is only twen-ty-live dollars. This Is to be increased soon and those who desire to become members should take advantage of the present low cost. Initiation of a large class will occur In two or three weeks and plans for that event are also being made now. The lodge expects to move into the new home recent y purchased from C. ’('. Schafer and will have one of the most pleasant homes in the state. Plans being made now include many features for the ladies and children.

Arrested For Beating Board Bill At Restaurant j Alvin Lawyer wus arrested by Chief of Police Reynolds uh he nr rived in the city tit 6:30 o'clock yesterday evening, on a charge of beatinc a board bill. The affidavit was' filed against Lawyer by Ross Lee J proprietor of the Blue Front restaur-1 ant on Monroe street. It was stated ' today that the bill has been settled by Lawyer Slice his arrest, but his case in city court has not been disposed of. LIQUOR TRIAL IS POSTPONED James Ginley Unable To Appear In Court; Bowman Fined $lO — The trial of James "Mickey" Ginley, who was arrested last Saturday night charged with illegal possession of liquor and who entered a plea of not guilty, was postponed from ten ' o'clock tliis morning tint 1 next Thursday morning at ten o'clock. The poslponment was made owing to the i Iness of Ginley. He suffered a breakdown shortly after his preliminary hearing last Monday morning and has been in a 1 serious condition at the Adams county jail since that time. Ginley was ; caught last Saturday night, on south First street with five half-pint hot-! lies of “moonshine" whiskey. Ginley is the first'tn in in this county ; to be arersted under the new Bone Dry law which went into effect the first of the month. Rudolph Rowman. who was arrested last Sunday charged with public intoxication and who entered a plea of not guilty at his preliminary hearing before Mayor De Voss last Monday, changed his plea to guilty yesterday. Bowman received the minimum fine, it being $11) and costs under the new law. amounting to S4O. He arranged to pay the fine and was re- ( leased. He is the first person in this city to lie arrested for intoxi-' cation under the recenuly enacted Wright prohibition law. o Find Infant On Baby Farm Had Fractured Skull New York, May 14 A fractured ; 4kull caused the dentil of William I Winters, one month old baby hot'.rd- i er at Mrs. Helen Gei.sen-Volk's baby farm, Dr. Sliulze, medical expert who performed an autopsy on the body said today. The death certificate gave heart failure as the cause. Reports of the doctor again placed Mrs. Geisen Volk in serious charges. Forty-four babies entrusted to Iter care died, board of health records, showed. THREE TRAINMEN KILLED IN WRECK I Pennsylvania Train W recked Near Martinsville, Illinois, Today Marshall, 111., May 14—Three Terre i Haute men were killed and four others injured when a Pennsylvania train ■ No. (1, running from SI. Louis to New ' York, was wrecked near .Martinsville. | 111., this morning at 4:30. The accident scene is about 30 miles west of Terre Haute. Tlte dead: Daniel J. Walsh, engineer. George E. Muench, engineer. Edward Zimmerman. Fireman. The injured: J. T. Flory, mail clerk, Richmond, Ind.; J. T. Etter, mall clerk of Bradford, ().; S. J. Parkinson, mail clerk. Columbus, 0., and S. E. Harrd w'ck, express messenger of Indianapolis. The train was running as a double header. Both engines and six cars car piling on one of tlte engines, crashed over on their sires a mail crashed over on their sides, a small The wreck w as be'ieved to bo due. txt ti broken rail. No passengers were hurt.

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ARREST EXPECTED SOON IN DOUBLE MURDER MYSTERY Sheriff And Deputies On Trail Os Strange Bicyclist Near Warsaw SEEN AT LEESBURG 1,.,., Answers Description Os Man Suspected Os Killing Ft. Wayne Couple < I'llite I Cl S.-I-Vl, . ) Warsaw, Ind., .May 14.—Arrest of a suspect in connection with the slaying of Miss Kathr.vn Berbers and Howard Fisher . at Fort Wayne a week ago may be made within a few hours. Sheriff Maloy of Kosciusko county announced early this afternoon. 1 With three deputy sheriffs from Fort Wayne, Maloy is following the trial of a man answering the description of the | “bicycle bandit” wo is belit*ved by authorities to have committed the dual murders. The suspect was seen at leesburg, Inorth of Warsaw, last night and later I was observed near the farm home of Henry Defereese. a short distance I from Leesburg. The strange bit yd st, who is known to have spent 48 hours in Warsaw, answers in every way tlte description of tlte hunted man. according to information in the hands o( Malov Quakers Launch Movement For Assembly Grounds il'nileit t'ress Service I Marion May 14 A movement to establish a religious assi mbly ground at Luke DeWart in Kosciusko county i was launched at a meeting of the association of members of Friends church toiltiy. Tito resort w ill lie one of lite first quakin' institutions of its I kind. 0 GOES SOUTH TO STUDY DISEASES Dr. Luther M. Boyers Visits Parents Here Before Going South Dr. Luther s|. Boyers, of Berkley. California, stopped m Decatur twelve hours for a visit with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. J S. Boyers and friends, on his way to Ne w Orleans, where he will be met by two professors from the University of California. They have been doing research work on tropical diseases sot about seven years. Front New Orleans they will have lon the 16th inst. to gather material lat Havana. Cuba, and Colon, on the | Panama ('until, and from there will Igo to Santa Marta. South America, to | further the wotk They will spend sevictal weeks working c.n these invest!i gations and from there will return by : boat to Ne w York and will visit the ptilicipal eastern sett coast cities of Hite United States on thn same m'ssion.. I They are sent on this expedition by I the University of Californin and the United- Fruits Company in order that trot) cal dlseunes may be mure intelligently treated and overcome. Dr. Boyers is a physic an in litis work and the other two of the expedition party are scientific investigators. — o , i Used Flag To Protect Young Plants From Frost Warsaw, nd., May 11 — (United i Press) —John C. Peterson post of the < American Legion. Warsaw, has made 1 a request that persons who recently 1 have been using the Amer: an flag as 1 a protection of plant life aga'nst frost t discontinue flte practice, contending that their action is a descrution of the national emblem.