Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1925 — Page 1

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J.J.MCNAMARA FOUND GUILTY Os 81 ACKMAIL Once Served Time For Part In Dynamiting Los Angeles Building PLANS AN APPEAL Penalty For Blackmail Is One To Five Years On State Penal Farm Indiana polos, Sept. 22. —John J. jhXamara was convicted in criminal court today cn a charge of blackmail in connection with a labor war on the Elks club building here. McNamara, who recently was liberated from a California prison after s rving a sentence in connection with the dynamiting of a Los Angeles building, was charged in a grand jury indictment here with terrorizing workmen on the Elks club in an esI tort to secure the work of installiug a toiler for the iron workers union, of wide hhe is a business agent. The court permitted his bond to | stand and an appeal will be takea to : the supreme court. Penalty for the offense is sentence of one to five | years on the Indiana state farm. McNamara blanched perceptibly when the foreman of the jury read the verdict —o Claims To Be Busiest School Teacher In State Clifford, Ind., Sept. 22. — (United ’ Press)— V. 11. Everdon. principal of the high school here, claims he is the bits, test school teacher in Indiana. In addition to his dtuies as high school principal he is acting principal of the Clifford grade school and the grade school at St. Louis Crossing, three miles from here. In th«* forenoon he supervises the schools of Clifford and in the afternoon he goes to St. Louis Crossing where he supervises the grade school there. NIGHT SCHOOL TOBE ORGANIZED Students To Register At High School Building Wednesday Night The Decatur night school, for all persons desiring instruction in commercial subjects, will have an organization meeting at the high school building Wednesday night at 7 o'clock, it was announced this morning. After •he class is organized tae regular opting nights will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights of each week. All commercial subjects be of"■red to those enrolling. The cost of ■be school will be low. The combined ,M for all students wilt* be SI.OO an hour, which will be divided equally among the students in that particular <lass. That is, if there are twenty •indents in the class the cost will he five cents per st valent per hour. ■ is probale that the fee for the enre semester will not exceed $1.50 Pet student, which is lower than any' "•“hr commercial night school In the state. The classes will be conducted by , iss Blanche McCrory and Siguard "derson, instructors in the local 1c " school commercial department. Astruction in all commercial subjects "ill be offered, and anyone interested these is invited to enroll in the ■t'tool. a student may take one or '*o subjects each night, A similar school was conducted in J's city last year and many people o are at present employed during I e day t.nte took advantage of the Ti". Coßt . and enroUed in the school. ere w in be both beginners and adanted courses this year. The school Eve 6 llivitletl ,nto two semesters. 'lone who is interested is Invited ist/t- 61111 tlle orßanizat ion and reginn 3 lon tomorrow night and obtain a off'er ß ' hort>Ugh idea ot what the

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Rural Mail Carriers Paint Boxes On Routes Columbus, Ind., Sept. 22.—(United Press)- The thirteen rural mail carriers in the local postotflce are th' only ones in the United Slates who are painting the mail-boxes and posts on their routes without charge and on their own time, according to Toward Too’ey, local postmaster. For two years the carriers have ' pamted and oiherwise cared for the boxes and posts, he said. POSSE OF 800 SEEKS SLAYERS — Two Young Brothers Suspected Os Killing North Vernon Policeman North Vernon, Ind., Sept. 22. — (United Press) —Two young brothers, sus--1 pected slayers, played hide and seek v.ith a posse of 800 farmers through the thickets, in the neighborhood of North Vernon today. An armed guard of 100 which had surrounded a thicket in which Frederick and Walter Wright, both of Indianapolis, had disappeared, became lestless at dawn today and pressed into the bushes where the boys were thought to be hiding. Frederick. 19, and Walter, 22, were accused of shooting Night Policeman Ed Fowler and fatally wounding him Sunday when Fowler accosted them, immediately following Fowler's death in a hospital at Seymour Monday noon, the greatest man hunt in the history of this section was organized. Grabing guns, c'.uibs or other weapons, the farmers rushed into fields and began a systematic combing o. the woods nearby. From their number, IDO with guns were selected to guard one plot of timber where the boys were thought to have been hiding. They stayed on duty throughout the night The two boys escaped in an automobile which was later abandoned by the roadside and was found to have been stolen. o BERT CONYERS DIES Former Baker In This City D.es At Home In Portland. Os Dropsy And Heart Trouble. ’ Bert Conyers, 52, who was employed in this city as a baker until several months ago, died Sunday afternoon at his home in Portland, following an illness of heart trouble and dropsy. Mr. Conyers was taken ill last February. He formerly was engaged in the bakery business in Portland and Muncie. The deceased was born in Redkey, December 16. 1572. He is survived by his widow. Auna Conyers, two sons. North and Ralph, and three daughters, Annina, Hilda and Majorie Conyers, and his mother, Mrs. Arniina Tucker, of Portland, Mr. Conyers was a member of the Masonic lodge and the K. of P. lodge. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon from the home in Portland. o Thief Steals Man’s Spectacles, False Teeth And Clothes Hammond, Ind., Sept. 22. — (United Press)—Toothless, sightless and entirely undressed, Frank M. Chabbell spent all of Monday in his hotel roof here ci|rsing the thief who escaped with his travelling bag and his belongings. Chabbell didn't cherish the bag so much, but In it were his false teeth, his spectacles and ail of his clothing—even his underjvear. Today Chabbell opened his eyes und looked around in a new pair of spectacles which were fitted him and then gnashed the new set of molars that were made to fit his mouth. A merchant had clothed him last night. Advertisers Association To Meet Wednesday Night The members of the Decatur Advertisers Association are requested to attend a meeting of the association to be held in the Industrial Rooms at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening.

TRAIN I NS SCHOOL HAS ENROLLMENT OF 104 STUDENTS! Twenty-five More Expected To Register Before First Classes Meet MEETS EVERY WEEK Opening Classes Next Monday Evening; Many Rural Students The Decatur Community Standard i Training school opened at the Central school building last night with an! enrollment of 104 students and pros-< pects of 25 more students before the I first classes start next Monday night. The Rev. R. W. Loose, dean ot the school, was in charge, assisted by the other m'nisters of local Protestant churches and M. F. Worth- ; man, superintendent of the city | schools. After registration the first d'asses were called and lessons were assigned for next Monday night. There are seven classes! from which the students may select two. The first classes meet every Monday night at 7:15 o'clock. After the first period a short chapel exercise is held and th< second classes then begin. Instructors in the various phases of religious education are local pastors and laymen. All the classes had large enrollments last night and it is thought that when school takes up next Monday night, a recotd enrollment will bo reached. Tail ton is SI.OO a semester, which entitles the student to twelve interesting lectures and discussions prepared by the instructors- Many people residing in the country near Decatur are tak ng advantage of th" /CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 28-CENT STATE TAX RATE LIKELY Tax Board, Auditor And Governor Meet Wednesday To Fix Levy Indianapolis, Sept. 22. — (United Press.!—State tax rate of 28 cents on each SIOO of taxanle property appeared probable today on the eve of the meeting of the tax board, the auditor of state and the governor, which has been called for tomorrow. Compilation completed today shows the total value ot taxable property in the state is $5,268,117,801 and the 28 cents levy on this valuation would provide sufficient funds to operate the state government, leaving a balance of $824,939. _ o Industrial Board To~ Hear Case Here Oct. 1 The Industrial Board of Indiana will hear the following compensation case in this city on October 1. 1925, at 9 o'clock A. M.: Elmer Wells vs. Indiana State Highway Commission. Eph P Dailey will be the hearing member. Any questions pertaining to compensation matters should be taken up with Mr. Dailey while he is in the city. — o-- —•—— Bus Driver Arrested For Exceeding Speed Limit Anderson, Ind.. Sept. 22.—(United Press.)—Roscoe Cravens, bus driver for the Hoosier Stage lines. Inc., was arrested here by Sheriff Daniels while operating the bus nt 52 miles an hour. It was Cravens’ second offense on speeding charges. -— Two Men Eligible For Bluffton Postmastership Washington, Sept- 22. — (United Press.) —The civil service commission today certified to the postoffice department that Ralph C. Thomas and Leroy Hedges are eligible for appointment to the postmastership at Bluffton, Indiana.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 22, 1925.

Decatur Young Man Fined At Portland Harry Sheets, a young man of this city, was arrested in Portland last Saturday night charged with public '.-itoxication. Ho attended a dance at Portland with two othei imeatur young mon and got In an argument with a young lady about going home, according to a Portland dispatch. Sheets was arrested and taken to jail. Later he was arraigned in mayor's court in that city and found guilty. He was fined SIO.OO and costs amounting to S4O and sentenced to thirty days in jail. He paid the fine and the jail sentence -ras sur.pended as long as he conducted himself properly in Portland. Sheets returned to this city with the other two young men. BREAKS RECORD IN HOG FEEDING Adams County Man Sets New Mark For Eight Pigs In Ton Litter Work An enviable record in ton litter work has been “hung up” by C. W. It Schwartz. Monroe township farmer, in the fact that a cross-bred Poland Ch'na-Duroc litter of eighi pigs, which were weighed last Saturday evening, tipped the beam at 2.331 pounds. The largest pig in the litter strained the scales at 333 pounds while the ' runt*' registered his puny weight at 254 pounds. According to information gained trom James R. Wiley, state leader of the Ton Litter Contest, only four other contestants have reached the goal with Liters of eight in the previous three years the work has n<-en In progress. The heaviest of the four was a litter of purebred Poland Chinas fed by Lottie Mitschke, a club girl of Jackson county, they having weighed 2.270 pounds. This record was made In 1923. The Schwartz litter exceeded this weight by 61 pounds, or an av. erage of 7 1-2 pounds per pig. The litter had already surpassed the ton at 165 days of age, when their official weight was 2.050 pounds. Mr. Schwartz led a’l other contestants of the state in 1922 with a 3.040 pound litter, a record which stood for that year, but which has been broken several times since. The mother of the litter is a good type purebred Poland China while the sire is a purebred Duroc. The pigs were kept in a pen on the barn floor from the time they were born on March 23, nutil weather conditions permitted the mto be removed to the orchard where they epent the remainder of their slx-months life. Ground corn, wheat and oats soaked in butter, milk made up the bulk of their ration. Another litter entered in the ton litter contest by Mr. Schwartz weighed 1.865 pounds on September 11, when they were 156 days of age. Their average was 207 pounds, there being nine purebred Poland Chinas in the litter. These pigs would undoubtedly have made a good record also, but theby were sold on the above date. A premium of 25 cents per hundred was given Mr. Schwartz for this litter. due to the fact that they were so nicely finished. The records made by the above litters certainly bear out the claims of ton litter enthusiasts who have been stating that "boarding” hogs for nine or ten months is entirely unnecessary and unprofitable. ——o Fort Wavne State Bank Closed By Officers Fort Wayne, Sept. 22 — (United Press.) —Depositors in the Ft. Wayne State bank which was closed by its officers, were as.ired today of receiving 100 cents on the dollar. The bank was closed on recommendations ot a state bank examiner, officials coining to the conclusion that a bank was not necessary in the section of the city in which it was located. Weather Showers probable tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature

HARRIS AIMS~AT~ i BIG SOURCES OF LIQUOR SUPPLY New Administrator Os Prohibition Says Law Will Be Enforced Rigidly ‘BIG FELLOWS’ TARGET Private Homes Liable To Raids If Owners Persist In Violating Law il'nltr-,1 Press Service) Indianapolis. Sept. 22—Proh'hition < nfoi cement in Indiana will be directed first at the big sources of supply, according to A. R. Harris, newly appointed deputy district administrator in charge of the Indiana district. Harris declared today that the lawwill be rigidly enforced bus that “the big fb lows” wfll be the targets to be shot at first. "Our motto ’ will be stop the sources,” he said. "We will not raid I homes to enforce the law. we will for doing so. The man who Is not violating the law need have no fear. "A man's home is his castle, If he forgets that it should be a castle and makes a brewing plant of it or a storage house, he loses the r'ght to be unmolested. “In other words, if peop'e by violating the law force us to enter their homes to enforc ethe law. we will meet their We will not stand for any one waving it under our nose.” Harris said that search warrants should be by affidavits and not based on rumor. Transfer of papers necessary to taking over the office of Bert Morgan, former prohibition director for Ind ana. was to be completed today. o— ANDERSON AND WOLFE INDICTED Pair Face Charges Os First Degree Murder For Slaying Muncie Couple Muncie, Ind., Sept. 22. — (United Press) —George “Dutch" Anderson and Charles “One Arm" Wolfe today face two first degree murder indictments for the killing of Ben and MaryHance on the evening of August 14 The Delaware county grand jury which had been in session for more than two weeks, late yesterday afternoon returned the charges against Anderson and Wolfe. In separate indictments they are charged with the two murders. Wolfe is being held in the county jail here while Anderson is still at large. It is understood that Wolfe will be placed on trial during the present term of the circuit court.

Origin of Name Limber lost Is Interesting Hit of History Many Versions Os Story But All Agree That Etream, Made Famous by Gene Stratton Porter, Was Named For Man Called Limber Jim Who Was Drowned In The Little Stream; Story Tells How The Man Received His Title Os Limber Jim.

There nre many versions of the story regarding the origin of the name Limberlost, which was made famous by the books of Gene Stratton-Porter. These stories all agree, however, that a man by the name L'mber Jim was drowned in its waters about one hun dred years ago. The following story is found in the early history of Van Wert county, and was also used by J. F. Snow, who, some years ago wrote the history of Adams county. This story goes into the matter a little more fully than most of the others do; it tells who Limber Jim was. and how he got his name. Erect Flour Mill "In the year 1821, Captain James Riley settlejf'pn the banks of the St. Mary’s, where the town of Willshire

Boy, Kicked By Horse, Able To Leave Hospital Francis Hemmrick, 14-year-old son of Peter Hemmrick. of Tocsin, who was kicked in the face by a colt last. Saturday, was able to return to his home yesterday, after being treated at the Adams County Memorial hospital here. It was first feared that the lad would lose the sight of his right eye, but physicians believe they can save the organ now. The accident occured when the lad was turning the horses out of the barn. THRUST INTO FURNACE ALIVE New York Woman Victim Os Horrible Murder At Hands of Secret Wooer New York, Sept. 22. —("United Press) —Beaten upon the head with wine hotties, gagged afcd almost unconscious, Mrs. Sophie Poleskie was dragged into the kiln room of a lumber yard and. still alive, thrust into a blazing furnace here today. George Sympk. special fireman, and secret wooer of Mr. Poleskie, is alleged to have confessed to the murder. He was captured by Policeman William Herrick after a chase and a desperate hand to hand battle. "She was going to poison me." the fireman is alleged to have told police. After a recent quarrel. Mrs. Poleskie threatened to kill him and last night when she brought him two bottles of wine, he suspected the bottles contained poison. Symuk is a Roumanian. 44 years old, and tends two furnaces in one of which he is alleged to have placed the woman. Other policemen came running at the sound of shots fired by Herrick as he pursued Symuk. They took Symuk, dazed and snarling, back to the furnace room. "There she is.” he called, pointing to a furnace door. Police found the bady amid a mass of flames.,Her features were still recognizable but the lower half of her body was horribly burned. Symuk is said to have confessed he struck Mrs. Poleskie on the side of tile head with one of the bottles and that when she screamed he lost his temper, struck her again and then pushed her in the furnace. Mrs. Poleskie was 28 years of age. She lived with her husband. John, a waiter, and her son, Ladik. It was said she and Symuk had been together frequently. —_____ _ o _______ Democratic State Committee To Meet Indianapolis, Sept. 22. — (United Press.) —The democratic state committee will be summoned into meeting by Chairman Walter S. Chambers some time during October prior to the city elections in November. Chambers announced today. The chairman said he does not intend to call any district meetings before the city elections.

now stands. He immediately began to make preparations for the erection of a flour mill. The mill stones, nails, and other materials needed were brought from Dayton, Ohio; the wag- ' ons were drawn by four yokes ot I oxen. ■| “When everything was ready, invii tations were sent to Fort Wayne, ! Saint Mary's, Fort Recovery, and Piqua. Ohio, for help to raise the mill. , i i Great preparations were made by the hunters for their entertainment. Wild ' meats of all kinds, wild honey, maple and sugar molasses were in abundance—not omitting a generouse sup- ! ply of egg-nog and whiskey, without 1 which no frontier crowd could be gots| (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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NAVY AIR HEAD REFUTESCHARGES OF COL. MITCHELL Rear Admiral Moffett Declares United States Leads All Other Nations WILBUR TESTIFIES Secretary Os Navy Makes Flat Denial Os Maladministration Charges San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 22— Col. William Mitchell plans to leave here this afternoon by automobile for Washington where he has been ordered to appear Monday as witness in the aircraft inquiry being conducted by the special board of investigation. /United Press Service) Washington. Sept. 22 Naval aviation has been developed further by the I'nited States than by any other nation in the world. Rear Admiral Moffett, navy air head, told the special aircraft board today. Moffett’s testimony was directed at recent charges of incompetency bv Colonel William Mitchell. “Although not entirely satisfied our developments <in any type." said Moffett, "the progress that has been made in the operations of aircraft from the ships of the fleet has been truly amazing. So far the navy has actually installed on ships of the feet thirty airplane catapults capable of operating daily. “No other nation.” he declared, "has the catapult out of the experimental stage. “If sufficient funds are appropriated to carry out the progress mentioned. in five years naval aviation will have assumed its proper place as a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MACKLIN HEADS D. H. 8. SENIORS Officers Elected By FourthYear Class; Ravelings Staff Named Robert Macklin was elected president of the senior das of the Decatur High School at a meeting of that class last night at the high school building. Richard Bogner was elected vice-president; Ruth Johnson was elected secretary and Don Leßrun was ciiosen treasurer. Miss Blanche McCrory, head of the commercial depeartment, was chosen as class guardian. The class also pledged their support of the Ravelings. the high school publication, and the following staff was selected to put the semi-monthly 'publication in the field: Monai Butler, editor; Ireta Fisher, assistant editor; Robert Macklin, business manager; Richard Bogner, assistant business manager: Helen Farr, girls' athletic editor: Robert Strickler, boys’ athletics editor; Gretchen Kocher, society editor; Doyle Johnson, exchange editor; Lloyd Beal, cartoonist; Don Leßrun and Eleanor Pumphrey, joke editors; Evangeline Spahr. Chape) editor; Katherine Nichols, departmental editor; Miss Maude Anderson, staff advisor. The first publication of the Ravelings will appear soon, Miss Butler announced today. The paper is usually an eight or ten page publication and is published during the school year by the senior class members and their assistants. Two assistant editors of each of the three under-classes also will be selected to aid in. the editing of the paper. Organization of classes at the high school will be made soon, it was said this morning. The organization of classes usually follows in order, the seniors being first. The election of Junior officers will probably occur next week.