Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1925 — Page 1

ajLi XXIII. Number 119.

PROBE DEATH OF 1 AN ATEASTHAVEJ

■CLAIM FORTUNE ■SMAIN ISSUE ■ inwcase Defense In Shepherd Trial ■’lans To Show Fortune | Cause of I’rosculion WITNESS IS MISSING ■mortant Witness For ■Prosecution Disappears F At Opening Os Trial ■ <>. May 19 Efforts will ).< by Illi' «;« >• 11-■ Hie Sir phet ■n muni't trial to prove that Gio in the pto3'cut W I). .Sltethi itl of the fcrutno him !>.' Hi'ly McClintock. W. S. defense i.uide known today while question jur Stewart ask'd whethoi the v--1 hnwii would take into consideraj motives for the prosecution as I as motives for the alleged murof Billy. lie then indicated he posed to show that Harry Oleson of municipal court and the northtni't co., of Illinois depository of McClintock fortune were the prinpipes in tin* prosecution in thehope ing Shepherd of the esti.t •. attorney I:, li. Crowe object jw|H Io the ictnarks. hut was overruled. M’hicago. May It; (United l'r." Attempts to convict Wil'iam 1> Sitep herd of murdering Hilly McClintock were dealt a severe blow' today by of one of the M.lie's t important witnesses. K.lusl as comt opened today and thselecting of jurors was resuniAssistant State's Attorney George ■ man announced that Robert White. on of his mainstay witnesses, could |»< be found. His whereabouts were ■known at his place of business and Vesligulioii disclosed that he had moved his family from the south side ■L\ squad of detectives were order|Kl out to hunt the missing witness, man announced. "If we fail to find White our case will be material!' ■wakened.” Gorman said. 'We w ill use ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) otfnCQUMNTED WITH ■YOUNG cavalier ■5-Year-Old Boy Sentenced I To Die Worked In Bluff - ton Last Summer I William Cavalier, the Pottsville, youth, 15 years of age. Hnrho was sentenced to die yesterday Judge Koch at Pottsville, for the ■piurder of his aged grandmother with ■■tent to rob. worked in Bluffton last ■manner. according to word received tn this city. ■ The young boy came to Bluflton ■About the middle of last summer and work at the Bay piano fuc■bory. He had no money when he and the employes of the piano ■factory took up a collection tor the ■boy. which amounted to $25. After ■several days he secured work at the ■factory. He remained in Bluffton for Hyome time. I In the ealy fall Cavalier left Bluff■ton and was not heard of until he was ■arrested for the murder. His case ■has been causing considerable com■ment. in Pennsylvania because of ■his age. Counsel for the convicted ■boy are appealing his case to the sti■preme court in an effort to save his ■life. The Pennsylvania governor has ■declined to commute the sentence ■unless it goes through the pardon ■board. I Cavalier was not known to have a ■bad record in this part of the coung try. according to Blucton dispatches ■and because of his age he made many ■friends while working in Wells conn■t.y. He says that he does not fear goBing to the chair for the crime-,, be-, ■cause “I've got plenty of friends that | ■will use their influence to get me ■ out."

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

City Os Elkhart Wants To Own City Water Works Indianapolis, May I!) Another pro pond municipal utility venture wabefore the state public •.ervlee com mission today. A petition from the city of E.khau sought to purchase the Elkhart waler I company at $765,000 to insure the city I an adequate supply of water at low rates. The petition points out that with two exceptions Elkhart is the only city in the state with a population of more than 5.00(1 which has not had a water rate increase in the past twelve years. IMPROVEMENT AT SUGAR FACTORY Outfit To Keep Poisonous Water Out Os River Being Installed As a further stop towards keeping the polluted water from entering the ],St. Marys river, the Holland-St. Louis I Sugar company of this city, is conj strueting a large concrete pit to reice ve all the sewage or poisonous * water after the beets are washed and (are instilling the Dorr thickner pro- | cess, which will filter and purify the water to a cleanliness above river water. The pit, 11)0 feet in diameter and 12 feet deep, of concave shape, is being constructed northwest of the mill and the work of excavating started tTiD morning. Thb tut will have’a capacity of about three milion gallons of water, which can be purified every 24 hours. The water is then used again in the mill, all the corruptions, solids and malignant matter being removed. The surplus water is drained into the river from the pit. All the solids and malignant matter are reduced to the bottom of the pit w’th lime and other chemicals and then this sediment is pumped out and carried out to the settling pond, southeast of the sttgar factory. This does not enter the river. Through this, process none of the solids enters the i river and tests have shown that the water which enters the pit after it is treated, is much purer than rivetwater. Several years ago the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company constructed the settling basin southeast of the factory and the water has been treated before it entered the river. The state conservation department recommends the new process which is being installed and the company, very desirous of correcting any chance of poisonous water entering the river, is going to considerable trouble and expense in installing the pit and the Dorr thickner process. The company’s action in the matter is done purely for the sake of keeping any. injurious water from entering the river. Not one cent of financial return will be obtained by the company and the action of this splendid concern should be appreciated by all who have in anyway objected to the sewage ♦water entering the river. Laying New Water Line Otte thousand feet of 12-inch cast iron pipe 1h being laid along of the west side of the sugar factory, which comprises the water line to the factory. The pipe is being laid underground. Fifty-eight persons were working at the factory today, overhauling the old machinery and replacing worn-out parts with new ones. o Urges Union Township Persons To Pay Dog Tax J. IS. Ulman, assessor of Union township,, stated today that several persons in his township have not paid their dog tax yet. Mr. Ulman will have the receipt book tor two or three weeks yet. and presons who have not paid their dog tax may do so by seeing him. By paying the tax at once, j the dog owners will save themselves considerable money, as a per cent will be added if it is necessary to collect the tax through court action.

REPORT FORDS ARE ENTERING WALL STREET Henry Anti Son Reported To Be Entering Banking Field In New York REPORT IS DENIED Officials Os Guardian Trust (’ompany Bank Say Report Is Absurd (United Press Service! Detroit. Mich . May 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Published reports in New York that Henry and Edsel Ford were entering the banking field of Wall street today were branded as absurd conjectures by officials of the Guardian Trust company of Detroit, mother concern of the Guardian Detroit company, operating in New York. This statement was verified to th'* United Press by high officials of the Ford company. The Guardian Trust company of Detroit actually does not begin to operate until June 1, Stewart Pittman. prospective vice president, said. At that time it is likely, however. Ihat Edsel Ford will be elected a director of the concern, he admitted. “Both Mr. Edsel Ford and Mr. Ernest Kansler. who is a director of the Guardian Detroit company in New York," Pittman said, “are merely very small minority stockholders. Their part on the directorates will be no other than any other director and their particip»(MMt wi4l hot in any sense put the Ford millions behind us.” Kansler is a vice-president of the Ford Motor company and brother-in-law of Edsel Ford. “This trust company has been organized for the purpose of inter esting out young men of influence who will be the great powers 30 and 40 years from today." Pittman continued. “Its main purpose is to see that managements of estates and trusts of Detroit and Michigan are kept in Michigan. Our subsidiary esthdishment, the Guardian Detroit company n New York takes over the operation of Kean, Higbie and company, brokers and will likewise represent the Guardian Trust company.” Kean, Higbie and company are the principal organizers of the Guardian Trust company of Detroit. “This branch was established in New York." Pittman said, “because the Michigan laws prevent a trust company from operating out side the state. It also will continue to handle municipal bonds as did Kean, Higbie and company. There will be no dynamic expansion or influence exerted.” MAY DECLINE TO BE ARCHBISHOP Bishop Chartrand Reluctant To Leave Indianapolis At Present Time Indianapolis, May 10- Reports gained strength today amoong friends of Bishop Chartrand of Indianapolis that he is seriously considering refusal of the appointment of Archbishop of Cincinnati. It was said lie was reluctant to leave Indianapolis with work on the St. Peter and Paul cathedral uncompleted. In the event the Cincinnati arch diocese is divided it was believed he would again be tendered an appointment as archbishop with headquarters in Indianapolis should he decline the present appointment. No official confirmation of reports of his contemplation refusal was forthcoming, however. Bishop Chartrand is in seclusion and will make no comment on the appointment until be has definitely decided to accept or reject it,.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 19, 1925.

Vermont Kidnapping Case Goes On Trial Today Middlebury, Vl„ May 19. t United Press.) The state took less than two hours today to present its case against Earl Woodward, accused of kidnaping 11-year-old Lucile Chuterton. Only three witnesses were called to testify against the man who a short time ago was hunted by a posse of 200 Vermont farmers under Instructions to "shoot hint on s'ght.” Lucille, her father and her mother were on the witness stand. Each told a seemingly perfunctory story of the kidnaping. Sympathy in the courtroom apparently was overwhelmingly in Woodward’s favor. When the state rested its ease ah adjournment was taken until afternoon. 0 STRANGE MAN IS QUESTIONED ———— Sheriff Questions Native Os Poland About Actions In This City Mike Sttysienviz. a native of Poland who ha i boon seen in the vicinity of the Sugar factory the last few days, was questioned this morning by officials. The man was brought to this city after a call had been sent to the sheriff that a man had been seen lying by the Pennsylvania tracks, and it was not known whether he was dead or asleep. Sheriff Baker answered the call and brought the man to Decatur. When questioned Mike said that he bad been working at odd jobs in this part of the state in an effort to get to Joliet. 111., where he hoped to find friends. Examination of the man's clothing found that he carried no weapons. About twenty lead pencils were found on his person, with some other small merchandise. It is thought that he is merely a workman unable to find employment. He spoke broken english and said that if the people here wore afraid of liitn he would leave at once. He was released anti ordered to get out of town as soon as possible, which he promised to do. BEBOUT DENIES: MAKING PROPOSAL Trial Os Sarah Ayers vs. Abe Bebout Nearing Close This Afternoon The case of Sarali Ayres vs. Abe Bebout, lor $5,000 damages for alleged breach of promise, was expected to go to the jury late this afternoon. The introduction of evidence was completed about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and shortly thereafter the attorneys began their arguments. Mr. Bebout occupied the witness stand much of the forenoon and about an hour this afternoon. He stoutly denied making a proposal of marriage to Mrs. Ayres and declared he did not make love to Iter, although he admitted that he called at her house on four different occasions. When questioned about the conversation which took place on the occasions of his visits, he declared the pain things discussed by Mrs. Ayres were her two former husbands. The dates upon which he said he visited Mrs. Ayres differed somewhat to the dates given by Mrs. Ayres, during her testimony yesterday. Mrst Ayres was recalled to the witness stand again this morning. There were several other witnesses for each side. Mr. Bebout was subjected to a rigid cross-examination this afternoon by R. C. Parrish, counsel for Mrs. Ayres. Another large crowd of spectators attended the trial today. Weather Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight and in east and south portions Wednesday.

STATE HIGHWAY BOARD WINS AN IMPORTANT POINT Has Right To Re-route State Roads At Is Wishes According To Ruling MAY CONDEMN LAND Victory Is Far-Reaching; Similar Case In Adams County (United Press Service) Anderson. May 111— (Special to! Daily Democrat) —The state highway] commission won a victory of fur| reaching importance in the Madison county court today when Judge Ellis found for the state in the suit of land owners to have the rerouting of state road 37. Judge Ellis overruled all i objections and decreed the highway commission has power to condemn land in rerouting the highway. The decision practically gives the commission the right to build new roads as it wishes, attorneys said. A similar condition arose recently when the state highway commission took steps to re-route state road 21 between this city and Monroe, south of here, in (Order to eliminate two dangerous railroad crossings, it was necessary to condemn land along the west side of the G. R. & I. railroad tracks for a distance of one mile north from Monroe The land was ordered condemned by the court upon petition by the highway commission. The condemnation order was not con tested here. The land was appraised and the benefits and damages ad Justed. Stephenson’s Suit Against Evans Is Dismissed Today Indianapolis, May 19. Judge Baltzell in federal court today dismissed the $125,000 damage suit of D. Stephenson against 11. W. Evans, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klttx Klan. The su't was dismissed after attorneys for Stephenson failed to appear when the case was called for trial. Stephenson, a former grand dragon of the Indiana klan, sought damages against Evans for the burning of his yacht at Toledo, O„ last summer. Stephenson and his two aides, Earl Kleltck and Earl Gentry, are in jail awaiting trial on June 2 for murder in connection with the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. o FRUITS NIPPED BY REAVY FROST Vegetable Crops Also Damaged By Frost Throughout Middlewest Chicago, May 19 —Following a frost which nipped fruit and vegetable crops throughout the corn belt rising temperature is due. the weather bureau announced. Orchard and truck crops in northern Illinois and Michigan received the greatest damage. From Nebraska to Ohio, fruit blossoms were dropping, w hile the tomato, bean and other crops were wilting. C. A. Donnell, forecasts at the weather bureau, reported that weather is sliding in rapidly and that the cold spell is on the wane. Light in Indiana Indianapolis, Ind., May 19 —A light frost In Indianapolis aud most sections of the state last night was reported to the weather bureau today. The frost was not severe enough to damage crops, according to the weather bureau Other cities reporting frosts were Terre Haute, Vincennes, Paoli, Farmland. Marlon and Royal Center.

State Will Demand The Death Penalty For Shaw! Martinsville, Ind., May 19. The state will demand the death penalty for John Thomas Shaw, negro, Prosecutor Remy announced today as the second trial of Shaw for the murder of Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchel, a white woman in Indianapolis, opened hero today. A spec al venire of 100 men and the regular Venire of forty men were available for selecting a jury. Homer Elliott, former federal district attorney und special assistant prosecutor in the Shaw ease, questioned prospective jurymen for the state. 0 _— PRESBYTERIANS ARE ASSEMBLING Struggle Between Fundamentalists And Modernists Looms At Assembly (United Press Service) Columbus. O. May 19—(Special to j Daily Democrat) —Rumblings of ini-( pending controversies within the Presbyterian church grew more dis- ■ linct today with ths arrival of addilioiKl delegates to the national assembly beginning here Thursday. Campaign headquarters were opened for half a dozen candidates for moderator, highest office in the denomination and election of which will bring the first test of strength between fundamentalist' and modernists. i The lundamqntalist group, those, who believe among other things that Cod made man of clay and then blew the br. ath of life into him. Issued a statement declaring that an important crisis has been reached in the affairs of the denomination and that now is the time to fight. The modernists, who deny the miracles of the bible and hold that man was evolved from lower animals, perhaps apes, asserted that what is , needed is more toleration in individ- . ual beliefs and less fighting. Thus far the fundamentalists have been the truly militant ones, especially in their attitude toward an elee- i tion of a moderator, and other controversial matters to come before the assembly. This attitude was expected to gain strength during the day , with the arrival of William J. Bryan, vice moderator, retiring, and "warhorse" of the fundamentalists. Bryan was to go into conference immediately with those supporting the candidacy of Dr. W. L. McEwen, Pittsburgh. described as a militant consecutive. Opposnig Dr. McEwen is Dr. Charles E. Erdman of Princeton., whose open toleration of modernists and their doctrines lias caused him to he branded as a modernist candidate tor moderator. Dr. Erdman, himself j however, declared he is running as a | "constitutional candidate.” He be lieves in settling all rows peaceably , and through the regular constitutional procedure. Arrivals today admit the moderator j'ight lies between Erdman and McEwen. In the event of a deadlock the assembly may swing to Dr. W. O. Thompson, liberal president of Ohio State university; Dr. Lapeley A. McAfee. Berkeley, Cal., fundamentalist. Dr, Frederick McMillan, Cincinnati, fundamentalist, or Dr. H H Rodgers. Kansas City, liberal. The fundamentalists will demand that all who do not believe unquestioningly in the miracles of the Bible such as the feeding of the multitude, be cut off from the denomination. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIN) International Labor Conference Opens Geneva, May 19. (United Press.) —Premier Benes of Czechoslovakia, was elected unanimously as president of the seventh international labor conference, instituted by the treaty of Versailles, which opened here today. Forty-three nations were represented. The United State-, aud Russia are the only Important tuitions not affiliated w'th the international labor bureau. Workmen’s compensation was the most important Item on the agenda.

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LAUDYJACKSON OF ADAMS COUNTY DIES OF BURNS Horribly Scalded When Attendant Leaves Him In Bath Tub PROBE IS STARTED Attendant Disappears After Beinjr Discharged; Body Returned Here Ari investigation was launched at Richmond this morning to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Laudy A. Jackson, 36 Adams county man, which occurred at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, at Richmond, late Monday afternoon. Mr. Jackson died of burns he received in a bath tub Sunday. His wife, who resides with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bigham, two and one-half miles northeast of Decatur, received word of her husband’s death at 6 o'clock yesterday evening, and the body was returned to this city last night. Mr. Jackson was horribly burn.’d from his feet to bls shoulder*. The attendant, who was earing for him and who started to give him a bath, was discharged Sunday ami has disappeared, it was reimited at RichI mond last night. The investigation will be carried out under the ilirm - 1 tion of Coroner Edgar Bond, of Wayne county. It is said that the attendant placed Mr. J.-i< kson m (T.A bath tub ami after turning on the hot water, left him alone, presumably to ilo another errand. When Mr. Jackson was found, the tub was nearly filled with scalding hot water. It is thought that he was strapped in the tah, as most of the patients are when receiving a bath. Mr. Jackson was afflicted with creeping paralysis, it is said, and it is possible that he did not have sufficient use of his limbs to get out of the bath tub himself, and was forced to endure the pain. The paralysis is said to have afflicted his mind and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WILL ENFORCE NEW MOTOR LAW State Police Will Enforce Dimmer And Tail Light Law To Letter Word has been received by Hal | Ayers, motor police chief of this disI trict, that more stringent effort ; will be made in the future to enforce the new automobile laws in this state. "You have been too lenient." the letter to Mr. Ayers reads. The dimmer law and the tail light law will be enforced to the letter, according to the state dispatch. A car must turn on its dimmers when going around a cur coming from the opposite direction, the new lu w points nut. ami ears must have tail-light when moving after dark Many arrests have been made in the state during the last few weeks, but they are not sufficient to satisfy the state motor police headquarters and it is probable that a law enforcement campaign will start at once. The warning time Is past, the letter says, and from now on all violators should be arrested. Policeman Ayers comes to this elty about once each month, and it is probable that his next trip will net several arrests if the local motorists continue to drive without dimming their lights and without tail-lights. The open muffler low also will be enforced Authority has been given to state motor police Io aid in capturing bunk ' bandits and they have been ordered to leave their other work when a robbery Is reported and help in catthing the bandits.