Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1925 — Page 1

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BRYAN OPENS FIGHT AGAINST “EXPERTS”

MURRAY HOTEL 1$ PURCHASED BY J. W. RICE Former Decatur Man Buys Building And Business Here WELL-KNOWN HERE Announces That Beauty Parlor Will Be Added; Few Other Changes Through one of the largest real estate transactions which has occured in Decatur in recent years. J. W. Kice. of Columbus, Ohio, a former Decatur business man. becomes owner of the building and business of the Murray Hotel, located at the corner of Madison and Third streets The deal was closed today. Mr. Rice took immediate possession of the building and will take over the hotel business on August 1. The consideration paid for the building was not disclosed. The building was purchased from Mr Fred Freistoffer, of Fort Wayne, who has owned the building for several years, and the business was purchased from Dan W. Beery, who has operated the hotel for the last two years. Mr. Rice, the new owner, has been ereaged in the mercantile business in Columbus for the last several years. He was associated with the firm which owned the "Big Store." located on Second street in this city until the store was destroyed by fire several years ago. Mr. Rlee is acquainted With maqy Dacafur people and most of his relatives reside in Adams county. He stated today that he is coming back to Decatur with the intention of being “first, last and always for Decatur.” There will be a few changes in the hotel. Mr. Rice stated, but it will be conducted along the same general lines that it has been conducted in the past The name of “Murray Hotel" will be retained. A first class beauty parlor will be opened in the hotel soon, with Mrs. Rice in charge .Mrs Rice has taken a course in beauty parlor work in a school in Chicago and another in Columbus Mr Rice stated that he expects to enlarge the hotel later. There will be no change in the personnel of the working force at the hotel and the dining room will be operated as in the past. Mr. Rice plans to cater to the home people as well as the traveling public* He announces that the meals will be bigger and better than ever, and the service first class, Mr. Beery is undecided as to his future, he stated today. He and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BEET CROP IN GOOD CONDITION Crop Not Damaged By Recent Storm; Heavy Tonnage Predicted The beet crop in Adams county is In splendid condition, according to R. J. Frlckie, field man for this territory for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company. “The storm did no damage lo the crop.” said Mr. Frlckie today »nd tours over the territory show that, the fields are in splendid condition with the outlook for an early harvest And a heavy tonage.” The company has about four hundred laborers in the fields in this Bounty and they will conclude their work of thinning this week. Beets are further advanced now than at the fame time last year and several of those beets pulled for inspection yesterday weighed a pound and a half each. The company has 2500 acres in Adams county and about 8,000 acres Under cultivation in the district for the local factory. About 3,000 acres were lost during the recnt dry spell, but sufficient fields are under cultivation to assure a good tonage for the Boca! mill.

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U. S. TOURISTS HURT Bus Loaded With Americans Wrecked In England When Driver Tries To Dodge A Dog. Ixmdon, July 16 — Six women and the driver of a motor bus loaded with American tourists were seriously injured today when the car skidded, colliding with farm buildings at Langham, Rutland, and overturning, as the driver sought to avoid hitting a dog. The motor bus was wrecked. The wrecked machine was one of several carrying a party of fifty Americans scheduled to make a fortnight tour of Scotland DAYTON GAUSE DIED YESTERDAY Adams County Fanner Expired At His Home Near Pleasant Mills Dayton Gause, age 65, a resident of Adams county practically all of his life, died at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening, at his home, three miles southeast of Pleasant Mills, Death was due to complications. Mr. Gause having been bedfast for the last five weeks. He had ben. in poor health for several months. Mr. Gause was a son of Ohio and Nancy Gause, and was born in Ohio, July 19, 1860. He came to Adams county. Indiana, when a small boy and spent the remainder of his life here. He was a member of the Christian church at Willshire, Ohio. Surviving are the widow, Sarah Gause, and the following children: Mrs. Daisy Krick, of Convoy. Ohio, Ben Gause, of Willshire, Ohio; Mrs Gertrude tmutzenbelser of Peasant Mills; William Gause, of Spencerville Ohio; Daniel Gause, of Willshire; George Leo Gause, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Laura Agler and Mrs. Esther Hurless, both of Ohio City, Ohiq. Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church in Willshire, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning Burial will be made in the Willshire cemetery. NEW HIGHWAY IS PROPOSED Findlay, Ohio, Men Coming Friday To Explain Contemplated Route That Decatur is on the route of a proposed Transcontinental, direct east and west, highway is inferred from a letter received yesterday by Dick Boch, Adams county surveyor, from the chamber of commerce of Findlay, ■Ohio. The letter, written by the secretary of the organization, stated that a representative group of business men from Findlay are planning a joint meeting with Mr. Boch and the Ad ams county commissioners, to be held in the commissioners room at the court house, at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. “The purpose of the meeting." the letter states,” is to explain a transcontinental direct east and west highway project being fostered by Findlay organizations.” The name of the proposed highway and other information was not given in the letter. A year ago, the Harding highway, an east and west transcontinental route, was routed through this city. —o — This Man Must Be A Brother To Hard-Hearted Hannah Evansville, Ind., July 16. (United Press.)—C. O. Hatchett, 40, of Chand- ’ ler, has proof today that he is hardbeaded. ' He fell while working on a cistern i and landed head first on the soapstone i below. His head sank four inches ' into the stone, he said. i Hatchet cut out the stone to show . the dent to his doubting friends. “It gave me a 'crick' In the neck t but didn’t hurt my head much,” he declared.

FUGITIVE SLAYER RELIEVED SEEN NEAR PORTLAND Man Answering Description Os Philip Knapp Chased From Lima, Ohio MAKES HIS ESCAPE Traveling As A Disabled War Veteran; Police Certain Os Identity (United Press Service) Lima, O„ July 16 — Philip Knapp, sought throughout the *ast for the slaying of Louis Pattella at Mineola, N Y., was reported sighted near here during the night and escap< d early today near Portland, Ind., after a cha«e by three Lima policemen, the local representative of a national detective bureau ami a dozen newspap ermen. Police said they were certain of the identification. Knapp applied at the Lima licensing bureau for a certificate to operate a stand on the street selling cards. He came to town in a Ford truck with a prairie schooner body and told Miss Ruth Keating at the license bureau he was a disabled war veteran. Miss Keating promptly notified police department, telling him this was the custom. Whe he left for the police station, the man told Miss Keating he was going direct to the police department but he never showed up. Inquiries revealed that he had visited a garage but police arrived there a few minutes after he bad left for “*“**'** " Bernard Roney, Lima Policeman, then headed a j>osse, who took up the trail to the west. All along the way to Portland, Rooney said, the posse found reports that the men answering Knapp’s resciption had "Just driven by”. At Portland. Rooney said he turn ed his information over to police and returned to Lima. garage where the stranger stopped for oil and gasoline, Miss Keating, of the license bureau, .and Virgil Baker, a Lima newspaper, reporter said the man tallied perfectly with pictures of Knapp printed here. After following the trio as far as Portland, Ind., the Lima posse gave up and returned. The schooner bears numerous road signs and license plates, indicating it has been all over the middlewest. A number of small firearms decorate tile sides of the machine and on one fen(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o OLIVER WERST DIED LAST NIGHT Comrade Os Decatur Span-ish-American War Veteran Died At Dunkirk Oliver Werst, 48, a comrade of the Decatur veterans of the Spanish-Amer-ican war, died at his home in Dunkirk last night, according to word received in this cty tbs morning. Death was due to cancer of the mouth. Mr. Werst was a member of Company B, 160 Indiana Infantry in the Spanish-American war. the company to which the Decatur men belonged. Before his death, Mr. Werst requested that the following veterans serve as pall bearers at his funeral; R. D. Myers. John M- Lenhart. John B. Andrews, E. B. Macy, Charles Kitson,, all of Decatur, and Alfred ilahnert. of Monroe. Funeral services will be held in Dunkirk at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. 0 Judge Fines His Cousin Connersville. Ind., July 16 —“They all look alike to me when they stand In front of the bar," said Police Judge Cohiitree today. Judge Cohiitree fined his cousin, T. E. Dunn,. $25 for leaving his auto iu the street with the motor running.

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■ Police Chief ‘‘Cleans Up” On Man Who Criticised Him Noblesville. Ind, July 16—Police Chief A. W. Huddleston was confl dent, today folks won't criticise him any more as an officer. He walked into Squire Maker’s court late yesterday and pleaded guilty to asault and battery and was fined A few minutes before he had knocked down Calvin McClelland, who. he said, had been circu.ating false reports about his work as police chief. McClelland is in the hospital. ANNOUNCE DATES FOR TENT MEETING Interdenominational Meeting Opens At Monroe On July 23 (Special! to Daily Democrat) Monroe. Ind., July 16 —Under the auspices of the Adams County Holiness Association, a big interdenominational meeting is to be held under a large tent here beginning July 23 and continuing until August 2. On July 26 and August 2. the meetings will continue during the entire days. The Rev. C. W. Butler, of the Cleveland Bible Institute, will preach and it is announced that he is a powerful speaker.. The music will be in charge of the Mackey sisters of New Cumberland, West Virginia. The services will be held at 7:45 o'clock each evening except on Sunday when there will be three services or more . each day. The Rev. Grant Whitenack of Monroe, is president of the Holiness Association and Mrs. Charity J Martz, of route two Monroe, is the secretary. YOUNG SLAYER WEEPS IN JAIL Youth Regrets That He Murdered Hig “Puppy Love” Sweetheart (United Press Service) Sioux Falls. S. D. July 16 —Winifred Meeks, a tall gangling youth of 21. sobbed in tile jail here today while preparations were made in Garden City to bury the charred remains of little Beryl Healy. 17, victim of the "haystack murder.” > Throughout the night Winifred wept his grief, apparently realizing for the first time the meaning of punishment —life in prison for the confessed murder of his "puppy love' sweetheart, who asked for death to 1 avoid living in disgrace. A warden, pacing the corridors found Winifred crunched in his cell, weeping, and tried to persuade him to go to sleep. Early today the six foot stripling of a boy was "dressed in”. He was fitted with a two-piece khaki suit and given a number by which he will he known-for the remainder of his natural life. He was to be “mugged" and his picture, with the usual identification, will be broadcast for Bertillin i files throughout the country. Winifred pleaded guilty Wednesday ■ to a charge of murdering his pretty i little Garden City sweetheart. He said he killed her because she preferred death to motherhood of his child. He I swung a tire iron on her head and i choked her with her owh scarf. He . buried her body in a strawstack and • later burned it. I This afternoon the charred remains f of the little girl were to be burled in a little cemetery just outside Garden i City. She was a motherless little girl . and her father, John Healy, and one sister, were the mourners at her bier. Out in the country four miles north of Garden City, Mr. and Mrs. Guy ,• Meeks returned to toil amid the crops, 1 as their only son started on a life of a* hard labor in the penitentiary. Weather Fair and cooler tonight and Friday.

SEEK NEW TRIAL OF STEPHENSON BAIL PETITION Attorneys For Ex - Klan Leader File Motion At Noblesville CONFER WITH CLIENTS Allege Decision Os Court Is Not Sustained By Sufficient Evidence (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Noblesville. July 16 —Attorneys for D. C. Stephenson. Earl Klinch ami Earl Gentry, held in jail here on charges of murdering Miss Madgt Oberholtzer, today filed a motion for a new trial on their petition for hail. After the motion was filed the attorneys conferred with the clients. The petition to bail had been over ruled by Judge Fred E. Hines about a month ago. In filing the motion the defense alleged the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law. The motion said the evidence is not sufficient to create a presumption i of guilt because the state relied upon the filed declaration of the principal factor in its case. It was also asserted that the statement itself shows MLss Oberholtzei took poison with suicide intent and attempted to keep it a secret. About 14 pages of memorandum was contain ed in the petition. o Man Sentenced To Hang Tomorrow, Still Has Hope Chicago, July 16 —(United Press.) —Last minute efforts at intervention today buoyed up Russell Scott. 30, former millionaire, sentenced to hang here tomorrow for the murder of Joeph Maurer, a drug clerk. Frank Grenier, internationally known architect of Detroit, visited Scott today after telling him not to give up hope, went out in search ot Governor Len Small. Scott received a telegram from Ottawa. Ont., signed "Senator Healy,” pledging a defense fund of between SB,OOO ami SIO,OOO. Mrs. Katherine Scott, the doomed man’s wife, made a brief visit to the death cell and then hurried out on a mysterious mision. It was said she was seeking the aid of Governor Groesbeck of Michigan. "All this is so late," Scott said, "I have only a few hours to live and I hope they will find Governor Small in time. U.S. SENDS OUT CIRCULAR NOTE Urges Powers To Appoint Commission To Consider Chinese Situation By Litdwell Denny, United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, July 16—A circular note has been just sent by the LTnited States government to the powers) urging appointment without delay of a joint commission as provided in the Washinton conference treaty to consider gradual abolition of extra teiritorial rights in China. The note, which was delivered to foreign ambassadors here, should be received in London, Paris and Tokio and oter capitals today. McNamara To Go On Trial On July 27 Indianapolis, July 16—Trial of John J. McNamara, business agent of the structural iron workers union charges of blackmail will start in criminal court on July 27 after delays. McNamara’s indictment grew out ot attempts to force Indianapolis con tractors to employ members of the iron worker's union on local construe . tion jobs.

NEW RIVER BRIDGE — Plans Being Pushed For Construction ’ Os Half Million Dollar Bridge Over Wabash River. | (United Press Service) VJncennes, Ind,, July 16—Plans ' were being pushed today for the construction of the new half milion dob I lar bridge across the Wabash river here. The Indiana and Illinois highway | commissions and the federal government will share the cost. 1 Colpnjei rfeorge k>f thiarmy engineering corps, was here I yesterday inspecting the plants. ———o REV. CULP IS MISSING AGAIN I South Bend Minister Elopes With His Sister-in-law Once More South Bend. Ind.. July 16—The Rev. W. W. Culp has struck out for the 1 open spaces and his wife, who forgave his two elopements with women, is determined he shall suffer. She secured a warrant charging non-support. Mrs. Culp charged her husband with seizing the family savings of s9u and departing for Mexico. She believes he will have to walk most of the way if he persists in making his goal. “The money and my husband disapeared some time yesterday,” she said. While a preacher in Xenia, 0., Rev Culp eloped with a choir singer. The * two were arrested in Michigan and the preacher served a ja.l term while i the girl was freed. . Some time ago, after moving his , wife and nine children to South Bend. : Rev. Culp eloped with Mrs. Cleo Culp I his brother’s wife. After a few days they returned and were forgiven. Now Cleo is also said to be missing. So far police have not been able to > locate her. t o — IMPROVEMENT OF ROAD STARTED [ Work Well Under Way On Paving Os Decatur-Fort Wayne Highway I Work has started on the improving of the Fort Wayne-Decatur road leading off from Decatur on North Second street. The road has been closed to the Adams county line and stone is being hauled along the road about a mile north of town. Heavy, rough rocks are being placed on the road at present to form a base for the tarvia. I It is probable that the road will be closed for at least two mouths while improvements are being made. When ' completed, the road will have a hard surface to the county line, which is about seven miles north of the north bridge. It is highly probable that the Allen county part of the road will be paved r next summer with asphalt or cement. -a petition to that effect being circulatj ed in Fort Wayne at present. The road j improvement is part of the state road improvement program. [) The detour to Fort Wayne is design--3 ated by state road signs along the road J commonly known as the River Road to Fort Wayne. The signs bring the 3 traveler back on the regular Fort ‘‘ Wayne road at a point just north of II the Nine Mile House. One of the best ways at present to' go to Fort Wayne, according to persons who make the trip is to go east 7 out of Decatur to the Bell View farm; turn left and go to the first road to a the right; go on this road five miles e and then turn to the left and hit the s Hoagland road and thence to the Way--1 ne Trace and into Fort Wayne The River road, however, is said to be in >f good shape and it is much easier to )- follow the detour signs than to ate tempt the detour through Hoagland, e- unlegs the driver is acquainted with the roads.

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FIERY ORATORY IS UNLEASHED BY COMMONER Dons Armor For Fight Against Introduction Os Scientific Evidence WEILDS PALM LEAF FAN Declares Most Important Part Os Trial Has Been Reached (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Dayton. Tenn., July 16— I William .1. Bryan, donned his armor today in the fight against the introduction of scientific testimony on evolution and the Bible in the Scopes evolution trial. The commoner made his first speech of the trial and he unleashed his most vibrant oratory to a crowded and sympathetic courtroom. The commoner was dressed in keeping with the homely atmosphere of the trial. He took the floor before the judge and between the two counsel tables garbed in a purple shirt, soft collar and dark mohair trousers, he wielded his palm leaf fan against the stifling ajr. “We are now approaching the end. and I have not thought it proper to take part in the discussion to this time. “We have been dallying with state laws and I felt that those who are versed ip the law might better take up the burden of the case. ' but todav we come to the important part of the trial which will determine the length of the trial If the court holds as we believe right we will be near the end. “I have been unable to understand the chief attorney for the defense, who says that I am the arch-conspir-ator and originator of the ease. “This morning I was credited with being the cause of the so-called experts being brought here. “Mr. Hays said 1 said this was to he a dual to the death and because of that they went to great expense to bring the experts here,” Bryan I said. By William J. Losh, (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Dayton. Tenn., July 16. — (United Pi ess. I —The old courtroom. In which the Scopes evelution trial is being held was transformed into a mighty broadcasting station today. Evolutionary theories and their relation to Biblical accounts of the creation of man were to be sent out from it to the American people in the defense’s gigantic educational campaign to give the the facts and let (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 INITIATION IS HELD BY ELKS Three Candidates Taken Into Lodge; Last Meeting In Gid Hall Three more candidates were initiated into the Elks lodge of Decatur, at the old hall on South Second street, last night. The meeting last right marked the closing of the old lodge room,, it being announced that the next meeting of the lodge would be held at the new home on North i Second street. Work of remodeling the second I floor of the new home and converting it into an up-to-date lodge room was authorized at last night's meeting and, until this is done, meetings 1 will be held in the downstairs par--1 lors. ’ Plans were also discussed for the ’ Elks carnival at the meeting last ’ night All of the carnival commit--1 tees reported favorably in regards to 3 the big festival. The tent has been • secured and the free acts have been I- decided on and will he announced I) soon. Walter Wilkehson, genera! I chairman announced.