Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XXIII. Number 128.

FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS INDICTED

ROTARIANS HEAP ADDRESS GIVEN BY YOUNG ORATOR Francis Corbett, Former Decatur Boy, Sneaks On (J. S. Constitution CLUB NAMES DELEGATE Delegate To International Rotary Convention At (leveland Named • - - ■ —- Tiii Rotariann and their flWsts had the piAaflurt) of listening to Francis E. t’orhett, of Fort Wayne formerly <.f thin city, and state winner in the Indiana oratorical contest, delivi r his interesting and Instructive address on the Constitution of the I'nited States, at the. luncheon meeting of the club held last t venin" at the Industrial rooms. Mr. Corbett, who is gifted with oratorical ability and a pleasing personality, thrilled his audience with )n wonderful addless on the Constitution and rekindled in the hearts of those who heard him the love and reverence they hold for the greatest ■ document ever jienned by man. Mr. Corbett is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Corbett of Fort Wayne, former Decatur residents, and In the city county, district and state eoni tests, h.ld recently, he carried off first hr north He represented Indiana in the mid-west contest held al Indianapolis several weeks ago and his address and argument for the Cbnslltution gained for him a reputation as I an orator and honor for (lie state. He paid a tribute to Decatur and_jttated 1 that he always wanted to call this city his homo. In beginning his address, Mr. Corbett declared that ‘‘The government established by the American const!i union is the only one on earth dediI ealed to the sacred rights of humani ity." lUr address follows: "The government established by the American const it til ion/is tile only one un earth dedicated to the sacred rights of humanity. The ancient mon I art-hist refused to recognize or con ; sider the inalienable rights of man. The. glory of Greece sprang from the minds of a brilliant few and left tin touched the poverty and subjection of the many. The power of ItAnie (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) FREES OB.ROSS OF ANY BLAME / - I • — --»• Committee Os Board 01 State Charities Probes L. Jackson’s Death Indianapolis, May 29 —The death. May 17, of Lattdy S. Jackson, age 36, ot Adams county, a patient at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, was title to no fault of Dr. L. F. Ross, superintendent of the institution, in the opinion of a committee of the board of state charities which investigated the case. The committee returned to Indianapolis front Riclt-J mond Wednesday. The report of the committee, made by John A. Brown, secretary of the board, says that Jackson died of scalding burns and charges Claude Williams, an attendant, with negligence. Dr. E. Edgar Bond, coroner, of Wayne county, said in his official report of the case that Jackson died as a result of the criminal carelessless of an attendant. Claude Williams; that Williams was inadvisedly dismissed by the bead of the institution and could not be found to give tertimony, and that the heads of the institution “can be blamed only for lack of care in employing proper help with their means at hand and rigid enforcement of what appears to the coroner to be ajnple rules for government.” Mr. Brown said that the committee felt that Dr. Ross had exercised great I care in attempting to obtain respon , sihle attendants and that negligence | could not be charged to him. I

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l! SHOP TONIGHT •| All stores In Decatur will ho * closed all day tomorrow, Saturday, I May :;u m <dmarvan<* of m< ntorial Day. Hundreds of "hopper:! visited a I H"* stores today and attended the J gift di trlbullon 'Hi.- merchants I will keep their store-, up. n until late ’bi.. evening ol aceom. t,. Hie l u|.|u r . Many ;p. < ial gin day ’• baigain. w.-ri-uj.-rril by the stores today. Shoppers are r< minded of the closing rule for tomorrow ami to do their week end shopping Io night, if they, pave not chopped J . already. I

DDHENY PLANS TO ■APPEAL HIS CASE I- • —» Government Wins Decision i ‘ In Elk Hills Oil Reserve n Case p • | Los Angeles. May 29 — (United It Press) Plans were in preparation ’• today to appeal to the highest courts It tile so-called Elk Hills oil reserve i- case, in which the government was f yesterday awarded a decision against I E. L. Doheny and his Pan American t Oil company. 1 l> < i ion in the case was handed 1 down by Pau! J. McCormick in the k federal district court here after near- “ ly a year of deliberation. The decision holds that Doheny 1 must ret tun to the government title > to the Elk Hills reserve in California] • which lie secured through a lease ’ given liy Albert It. Fall, when Fall ■ was secretary of the interior. * The decision stamps as a “fraud" ‘ and as "against good morals and pub ] 1 lie policy” the “loan" of ’ which evidence at the trial showed Doheny made to Fall at the time of ' the lease. ’ Practically ail of the disputed ■ i points were decided in favor of the ’ government. The decision comments on the claim of the defense and of Admiral J K. Robinson of the navy that the I leasing negotiations wore kept secret lor military purposes as follows: I “The reason and purpose of said | agreement for secrecy was in order] the congress and ’he public should I not know what was being done and, nos for military reasons.” Tito court held: That the government is entitled to cancellation of the lease riven Dohenv on account of “fraud and conspiracy” and because lite lease was given under an illegal transfer of authority over the reserves from the navy to the interior department. That the payment of SIOO,OOO by Doheny to Fall constituted “a fraud upon the United States of America." That it is necessary to continue the receivership of the Elk Hills reserve and that a special master in chancery must be named to operate the oil | properties involved until final decision is made in the courts. Tlte government is directed to settle with Doheny for money ex-| pended in the construction of oil (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) THIRTY BODIES ARE RECOVERED Officials Believe 21 More Bodies Remain In North Carolina Mine (t'nltcd Press Service*) Sanford. N. C., May 29—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Thirty bodies have been removed from the shaft of the Carolina. Coal company's ’mine near hen* and all hope of rescuing alive the others trapped in the mine by Wednesday’s explosion has been abandoned. Mine officials belieVe probably 24 remain to be rescued. Tlte work of retrieving the bodies and bringing them to the surface is progressing swiftly under the direction of the federal mine rescue experts from Thomas, W. VaTwelve bodies were brought up during the night and mine officials believe the others will he removed I today. 1

MEMORIAL DAY TO BE OBSERVED ! HERE TOMORROW Memorial Services To Be Held At Cemetery At 10 O’Clock A. M. TO DECORATE GRAVES Business To Be At Standstill In Citv While Holiday Is Observed , J Memorial exercises will be held at > the Decatur cemetery tomorrow i ! morning at ten o'clock, for the sol- 1 I 'tiers of all wars who have answered I “taps", and the committee extends |an invitation to all persons in this 1 county to join in making the services a success. ' The Reverend Somerville I I Light, pastor of the Methodist ' church, will deliver a memorial ad 1 dress at the cemetery. ’ Veterans of all wars will taken | ‘ to the cemetery in ears provided by ’ the committee. The cars will meet 1 at the Old Adams County bank to--1 morrow morning. The following men have been asked by the committee I to either furnish their own car or ‘ have a substitute al the bank at nine • o'clock to take the soldiers to deco I rate the graves and attend the ser r vices: W. A. Lower. E. A. Heavers. ' Dr. J. M. Miller S. E. Black. Cal Peti erson. T. J. Durkin, E W. Johnson F. 'i E. Vail. Dr Burt Mangold, Dr Roy ( I Archhold. C. C. Pumphrey, C. b! Bell ( IJ. L. Gay. William Zwick, Lawrence ( 'I Kleinhenz. Dau (Sprang. Leo Kirsch, . ■ (’. D. Lewton. O. L. Vance, John T. ‘iMU'J't. Hwnrv .Suhulte. William Linn. v. || on Lee and E. F. Gaaa The graves of all deceased soldiers will be decorated before the memorI ial service is held. The public is ‘ cordially invited to lakf part in the which will be href. R. I). Myers is chairman of the committee in charge and has expressed his desire that everybody in the county he there who can possibly arrange to do SO. Business will he at a standstill in i ] the city tomorrow, as the holiday isj I appropriately observed. The post- ■ office will be closed and there will ho no rural or city free mail deliveries. There will be no issue of the Daily Democrat. Dieattir citizens will observe the day in different ways. Many will | take in the memorial services to be held here, some will go to the lakes, some will take motor trips and others will attend the automobile races at Indianapolis or Winchester.

ELKS GET DEED TO HOME TODAY C.C.Schafer Transfers Deed To Beautiful Residence To Lodge A warranty detKnnd guardian deed were transferred today to the Decatur lodge of the B. P- O. E- by C- C. Schafer who recently sold his home on North Second street to the Elks for their new lodge home. The Schaler property, which the Elks bought, has long been a show place in Adams county and will make one of the finest lodge homes in the middie west. The property includes inlots 23X, 239 240. 259, §6O and 2«1 and includes an entire half block. It is probable that the Elks will build mt addition to the rear of the home for a lodge room and dance room. The lodge will not occupy the home until sometime the latter part of the. summer. Mr. Schafer has bought hit) former home, now ocupied by Dr. ('. V. Connell, on West Monroe street, and will move there late this summer. Dr. Con nell has nat as yet decided where he will live, it was stated today.

Weather Indiana: Fair tonight and probably Saturday. Warmer Saturday-and in north portion tonight.

‘-K-- S rr ~- ■ — Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 29, 1925.

To Preach Here Rev. Earl 1,. Holliday, evangelist of Marion, Ohio, who will preach at the Baptist church next week, beginning .Monday evening. He preaches the old time Bibb theme' with tin and passion. Rev. L. (’. pastor «f the churches on the Decatur Met hod'st circuit, will preach tonight at the Baptist church, Rev. Whitesell being disabled on account of a severe cold and ore throat. o

WILIAM MYERS EXPIRED TODAY Civil War Veteran And Former Decatur Resident Dies At Ft. Wayne William 11. Myers, former resident of Decatur and a veteran of the Civil war. died at his home, 1511 Columbia avenue, in Fori Wayne at 5:15 o’clock this morning. Death was

li 1 isk x Bi W’ due to hardening of the heart and arteries. Mr. Myers had been in ill health for several months. Mr. Myers was born in Ohio. He came to Decatur many years ago. He was past seventy years of agt* and at the time of his death. He served in the army during the Civil war and was a member of the Sam Henry Post of the G. A. R. in this city. He serv’d as commander of the post : evernl terms. Mr. Myers movhd to Foil Wayne about two years ago He is survived by his wife. Funeral arrangements have not been made. —— l 0 — ■' -

Bishop Chartrand Accepts Arch bishopric Appointment Indianapolis, May 29. — (United Press.) Bishop Chartrand of Indianapolis today formally accepted the papal appointment to the archbishop.j'c of Cincinnati. o .— — .. Three Persons Killed In Texas Train Wreck Long View. Tex., May 29 (I'nited Press)- Three persons were dead and a score injured in the wreck of the Inlet national and Great Northern Special, Galveston to St. Louis, which left the tracks and piling ed down an embankment near here last night. The known dead: Lem Tarbutton. 65, Palestine. Eng. F. M. Griffith. 35, Palestine fireman. One negro, unidentifled. Tin* majority of tlie injured were negroelf. Eleven coaches yyere derailed

I CORUM WRECKS DEPALMA'S CAR AT SPEEDWAY • Driver Escapes Injury li First Accident At Indiaapolis Speedway CARS AWAIT STAR! Twenty-three And Possihlj More Cars Expected To Start In Race II Hutted I’re-s Service) J Indianapolis, May 29 (Special fi Daily Democrat)—L. I. Corum, drlv ing Ralph DePalnWi's car. had a nar , row escape from injury or death to I day on the first accident of the sea , son at tlie Indianapolis speedway. , Driving at a speed of more that I 100 miles an hour, Corum lost eon trol nf hi? car when it skidded on :i | turn. | Th" car crashed into a concrete telainlng wall and was bo badly dam , aged it will be out of tomorrow's race. Corum crawled unhurt from th< car. A.; a result of the accident Corum will drive the ear DePalma I was scheduled to pilot. DePalma will take the wheel of the front drive Miller Special entered by Benny Hill ] and the latter will take his old Miller Special which Ray Cariens was to , have driven. ....— * Indianapolis. May 29 Twenty-three , and possibly twenty-seven cars will stait tomorrow In the five hundred . .gii.w i>icn.')»k,nal- sweepstakes auto races at the Indianapolis motor speedway. Boh McDonough and 11. J. Skellev quallfierf their cars late yesterday btinging the list of certain starters up to 23 Four more ears will bo given a chance to qualify late today. McDonough qualified his Miller Special at 101.9 miles an hour and Skellcy's Ford Special made 99 7 miles an hour. The track was closed today to nil lint speedway officials, pilots and newspaper men as final preparations were made for the big race. The starting bomb will send the fit'll of racing cars on theii way at io o'clock tomorrow morning. If the winning car sets the pace of around l<m miles an hour that Is expected in the race this year, the first car will flash in front of the judges' stand at the eif't of the lust lap by o'clock. DIES AT HOME SOUTH OF CITY Mrs. Frank Carrier Dies At Age Os 75 Years After Long Illitiess Mrs. Frank Carrier, age 75 years, died at hdr home two ami one-half miles south of,Decatur, at 5:45 o’clock Thursday evening. Mrs. (‘a-rier hail been in ill health for the past year. Mrs. Carrier was born in Canada, bnt had resided in Adams county, Indiana, for the last twenty live or thirty years. She Is survived by her husband. Frank Carrier; two sous, Jo seph Palmer, of Decatur, and Jarno . Carrier, of Massilon, Ohio; and four daghters, Mrs. Delia May Boiko, M.i son City, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Arend, Woodland, Pa.; Mrs. Art Bollman. Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Roy Sammers, Woodland, Pa. Funeral services will be held from the home south of th" city at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Interment will be made in the St. Joseph Catholic eem etery, in this city. — — ..fr— — Railroad Brakeman Killed Newcastle, Ind., May 29—(United Press)—A week ago John Spencer railroad brakeman, was seriously in jilted on duty and was sent to the hospital. Claude Kling. 22, of Hart ford City, Ind, took his place. Kling was killed Thursday when he fel from a box car.

|Two Drunks Fined In City Court This Morning X'nte Haley and Dan Death appear id in mayor's court this mornlni’ to an wi r charges of public intoxication. / I le nth w is am -ii d at |;ii:iri.-, < a t id' I |Di caiur yenterilay tifti-r Shi t.n Buber and polio, oiari Meiclii hud b. ■ n called i to that town and Hale) was arrested i on the pickwA) Pike i-a tof tin* city ibis morning. Both men entered a plea of guilty. Death drew a Ilin- of sls and costs ainoiuiting to $45 and Haley was lined j' $25 and costs amounting to $55. Both men arranged to pay their lines. y HOME BUILDERS - ! HOLD ELECTION Vr- " Contract To Sell Property Os Association Is n Approved II | The Decatur Home Builder's A* oa elation bdil its annual meeting last i I evening at the offices of 11. S.Mlch n and. Reports of the manager, treas ' urer and secretary were read and up , , I proved, and an auditing committee., iconnist'iig of C. S. Niblick, isadore I Bernstein and ('. J. Voglewede, was I I named. The stockholder--, approved ti .' 11 , contract made with Austin F Stults. •* of Fort Wayne, forth., sale of the lots 'I , in tlie Hann addition. '' j The election resulted in choosing " the following board of directors: Carl r Pumphrey, (', N. t'litisten, W. A. Low- " er. 11. D. Hite, 11. S. Michaud. A. !». I llunsicker, and .1. 11. Heller. Thy - baord met immediately following the r session of tlie stockholders and or ' gauized, by re-electing the old officers: ' .1. 11. Heller, president; A. I), linn ° sicker. vice (.resident II D Iffl. i 1 secretary, and W. A. Lower, treasur er. Tile company Is in process of ' , liquidation and will try, during th. next few months, to d'spone of all the I S property. Reports showed the corn pany had earned a profit during the 1 vear. I <> I Two Pittsbuigh Children Are Brutally Murdered 1 Pittsburgh. Pa., .day 29—(I'nited I I’te.ss) l.ii ling Alexaiuler Sabol, 9 d and his sister, Helen, l’> with ice cteam cones and candy to a creek in the woods near Castle Shannon Ray- >’ mond Winters, 30, an interurban cont ductor, brutally attacked and murder ed the children, according to county I detectives today. Winti rs. llie ol't'ieier.. said, cons. :- j • ed that he killed the children by. ' I striking them on the head with a y rock dining a "tit of insunity.” Winters. ,i veteran of tlie world war who was gassed in France, is married and has one child Authorities say that his mind delights in the uii'ering of human beings. ’ "I was ;eizeil with an insane desire to kill the* children." lie is alleged to have told detectives “| hit one of l them on the head with a rock I I | don't know why I did it After that Imy recollection gets hazy I don't k now." WILL REMODEL ; STORE FRONT ' Grocery Store To Be Opened In Old Crystal Theater Building 1 J. G. Niblick this morning award ed the contract tor a new front in ' the building on North Second street ' recently occupied liy the Crystal theu- ’’ ter. ('. N. Christen A- Company got the job and will begin work Monday 1 morning. The new front will be a modern one, with entrance in the cen ' ter and three foot show window ;on I either s de. Tlie entrance will extend back three and u half feet. i The room lias been leased to the * Hoosier Grocery company, ot Fort d Wayne, who will open a store there r,'as near June 15 as possible. Tim com-. 1- pany has about twenty-five stores in e Fort Wayne and branches at Kenduii-1 t- ville, New Haven. Auburn, Lagrange g . Garrett and Monroeville and plans to II establish new stores at Decatur and | in several other towns in this section

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CHANGED WITH VIOLATION OF ; ANTI-TRUST ACT I k’ 263 Manufacturers And Several Individual Indicted By Grand Jury ACTION IS SWEEPING Price Fixing And Curtailment Os Production To Affect Price Charged i Cult..) Press ~ ■ i.-i ) C.ltieago, Muy 2'l (Special to Daily Democrat) - In the most I swi t pittm action of its kind t-ver taken, the May federal I grand jury here today relurni ed indictments against 263 furniture mmmfartiirei's on charges ■of violating the Sherman antii trust .‘tel. The indictments charge price {fixing ami curtailing of production to maintain high prices [and destroy competition. Besides indicting 263 individual manufacturers, the jury also itidielt d the six secretaries and assistant secretaries of the National Refrigerator Manufacturers’ association, the National Alliance of Furniture Manufacturers and the National Association of (.hair Manulactiircrs. The various organizations involved do an annual business of sll 11.000.1HN1, the indictments point' out. * Investigation of tile in<|il.try «:is Htart.'il i;e»eral months ago to deternrim- xvhw Oirtolur.- pr.e.-- are from lon Io 25it p.-i- vent hither than the fir.-war levels, ami how llu-y have been kept up in the fare of material deflation of pra.-es of oili.-r ...uirn-.di I ties. Approximately L'.tum furniture deal <-rs Were called'before the grand jury and books from score: of concerns were seized in the hunt for evidence to support chary, s th.it a Hu t existed. that pt ic.-s were fixed and competition stifled. The re frige ra lor and the T cuncern t , are ihatved with unlawful price:, fix 1 ing, ami the third group, mtinnfiuture< ers of case goods, radio cabinet.. < loci, cases, dining ami beilruo nifuriilitire. ' are charged with price lixim.’ .md the < iitrailtnent of production. The Is refrigerator concern? named 1 in tne indictment include; Bohn company, St. Paul; Challenge (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0- - VALUABLE EXHIBIT BOOKED FOR FAIR Exhibit Os (’. G. Conn Musical Instruments, Valued At $25,000, Booked A now attiaction has just boeti booked for the Nortliei'tt Indiana Fair to be held here Si ptember 15 to IS, by E. B. Williamson, siwn'tiiry and director of the (air. The attraction will he a display of valuable musical instruments manufaciured by tin* C <1 Conn. Ltd., of Elkhart. The display wlil include several instruments tbut are studded with diamonds and oilier precious stones, mid the value of the exhibit is placed at s2s.thin Several renowned artists will have charge of the exhibit, which is known as their Golden Jubilee exhibit. Instruinent.*. manufactured by Ihn C G Conn. Ltd., are endorsed by all the great soloists and band musters in the world and they have recruved gold medals, highest diplomas and tlie greatest honors at all leading exposit ions. Plans for the fair are progressing nicely, according to Mr. Williamson. The Great Decatur Fait Is being ad vertlsed efficiently through the colI umns ot “The Horseman." u maga ] zine published at Indianapolis, and j Mr. Williamson is receiving many nice letters from prominent fair men throughout the state, offering hearty cooperation for the succesß of th" local fair.