Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1925 — Page 3

O.E, OFFERS NEW insurance plan Company Arranges For Policies For Employes At Extremely Low Rates Schenectady, Nov. 7—Bife instirgnfH, additional to the free policies now given employes of the General 1.. p , trie Company, at costs much lower than prevailing rates offered individuals. will be offered employes of one or more years service under a group plan just arranged by the company with the .Metropolitan Insurance Company, President Gerard Swope announced today. This additional Insurance R offered to men employes under 70 years of age and women employes under 60 years without medical examination, and can be paid for by weekly or monthly deductions from their pay. Under the terms of the additional insurance plan, employes are offered: It wages or Insurance Monthly Salary are Obtainable Cost $1,200 or less I 500 $ .30 1,201 to 1.800 1000 .75 1,801 to 4.000 2000 1.70 For convenience in makipg payment of this additional insurance, deductions will be made, according to the specified rate, from the employee's pay. The only requirement, in addition to one year's completed service, is that the employee be actively at work. All that employees who wish additional insurance need to do is to sign a simple application card which authorizes the Company to make the payroll deduction. This additional insurance will become effective as soon as 75 per cent of eligible employes apply for it. This renewable term insurance is isned for one year at a time, and at the rates as given above, are subject to yearly review and possible change. The great merit of this new policy lies in the fact that it provides immediate protection for dependents at a low cost. The General Electric Company guarantees! the above rates for one year. Insurance Company officials firmly believe that it will not be necessary to revise the rates for at least a number of years. In the additional insurance policy, the employee may name anyone as beneficiary. In case of permanent or total disab'llty the insured employe, under sixty, will receive the face value of his policy in monthly cash installments, payment to begin six months after proof of disability. Another attractive feature of this new insurance policy is that an employe may at any time convert his insurance, without physical examination, to standard forms of policies issued by the insurance company at rates determined by the applicant’s age. If, the employe leaves the service of the General Electric Company, he may convert the entire amount of his insurance, both additional and free, to standard policies. In this latter case, he must apply within 31 days. Further provision is made for employees to buy still other insurance on an advantageous basis. Under the new insurance plan, a still farther offer is made to employees who desire to purchase more insurance than offered under the free additional policies. This is known aSHhe salary allottment plan and provides for employes buying ordinary life insurance such as straight life, pair up, endowments, etc., at regular rates hut paying for it ni monthly deductions from wages to be made by the Company and forwarded to the insurance company. Persons carrying such insurance now are required to make premium payments quarterly, semi-annual-ly or annually. The salary allottment plan also provides for employees render 56 years of age applying for insurance from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO without medical examination. In the great majority of such eases the application will be sufficient and no medical examination required. Insurance over SIO,OOO may be applied for but all such applications will be subject to full medical examination. Fore nearly six years the Company has provided, entirely at its own expense, group life insurance for the protection of the large majority of its employes. During this period more than $2,000,000 have been paid to over 1800 beneficiaries. o ————— Real Estate Men Are Convicted Os Fraud j Indianapolis, Nov. 7.— (United Press) —Three Terre Haute real estate men, charged with using the mails to lefraud in connection with an alleged land swindle, were found guilty in federal court here today. The men, Clarence Kirschner, Williaf Sheldon and Solon Freeman, are said to have swindled John W. Hahn, 69. and his wife out of a 280-acre ranch in Montana. O "Cheer Up” lots of fun and good music Nov. 17-18. 248tf.

Wreck of Crack Train Brings'Death to Twenty • ***** > 1 -A* Every coach on a crack west-bound flyer was ditched down a forty-foot embankment in Mississippi, killing twenty and injuring half a hundred passengers. Here a Pullman, a chair car and a day coach are shown dashed together in the crash.

Prize Fighters Demand Big Pay And Set-ups By Henry L. Farrell (United Press Sports Editor) New York, Nov. 7 —(United Press) —“There are only two fighters in the whole business with whom it, is a pleasure to do business," Tex Rickard, major domo of the new $3,000,000 Madisn Square Garden, said a few days ago. ' With the exception of Paul Berlen bach and Harry Greb, there isn't a champion or a fighter who is willing to talk any reasonable kind of business I have been asked many times why I uje Berlenbach so much. There seems to be a suspicion that I have a piece of him, but that is not the case. "I use Berlenbach every chance 1 get because he is a good drawinng card and because he is always ready to sign. I only have to tell him who the opponent is going to be. name the date and the price and the deal is set. “Greb is the same type of business man because lie fears nqXighter and likes the game so well that he doesn't consider prices first, last and always. “I would like to use Greb more than I am able to do. but 1 can't get opponents for him. The fellows his own weight will not have anything to do with him and the heavier ones want too muth money for being shown up by him. “I’ve been trying to match Greb and Mickey Walker for a return bout. Walker howled for another chance after Greb had beaten him last summer and Greb told me to name my own terms and he would sign articles. Walker, however, named such imposisible terms that I simply couldn't afford to pay him. "Greb is the drawing card, but Walker figured that he was worth more money than the middleweight champion. and I couldn't see it that way." With a huge new plant depending partially at least on some revenue from boxing, Rickard planned to make the 1925-1926 indoor season a record breaker. He took only a small part in the past outdoor season, figuring that there were few cards big enough to fill the ball parks and results showed that he was right. With a capacity of 25,000, he figured that he could offer the fighters attractive purses to work inside this winter, but he has been able to make very few good matches. “When I opened the old Garden 1 had no trouble arranging cards and 1 think any of the big boxers at that time will be willing to admit that I wasn't out to make any clean-ups for myself. “I paid them such good prices, however, that it spoiled them. Even preliminary boys got inflated ideas about their price. Then when the outdoor season came, every fighter in the business wanted to work outside. The records will show that ball park boxing was overdone and many of the fighters wasted a whole year because they were not willing to fight indoors.” Piece Os Lead Removed From Stomach Os Baby Huntington. Nov. 7.—A piece of lead, weighing over an ounce, was removed from the stomach of the month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Koughn of Swan street Wednesday after having remained there since Friiday. The discovery that the child 'had swallowed the lead was made Monday following the taking of several X-ray photographs at a Fort Wayne hospital. The child will recover, according to physicians who had charge of the case. The parents noticed that the child had swallowed a foreign substance on Friday, but at first it was' thought that it was a hairpin. Efforts made by local physicians to locate the substance failed and the child was then taken to Fort Wayne, for the X-ray examination, jJfilliilM

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1925.

. GOOD OIL WELLS , ARE BROUGHT IN . “Oil City” Field Near Ge-, neva Is Scene Os Small Boom Now Geneva, Nov. 7. — At last, after 1 years of waiting, the name of "Oil City" which was adopted by a certain i : . neighborhood northeast of Geneva now bids fair to become an appro , I priate appelation. The territory, overlooked during the days of big wells I and lying unmolested until the past few months, has already produced twe very good wells and a couple mort will be put down as fast as the drill ers can finish the job. Well No. 2 on the old Chris Steinei farm was shot last week and is mak ing a fine showing. Thirty-five bar lels of oil were pumped from th< well Monday without its being pump ed off. 1 Stakes were set Monday for wells No. 3 and No. 4, and drilling will be 1 gin at once. One string of tools ii 1 already on the ground, but it will bi 1 a few days before the other is ready 1 Well No. 1 on the Mrs. Ardon Burlej lease, adjoining the Steiner farm, wa> 1 shot last week and made no showing. • whatever. Mr. Kenyon, who driller this well, is moving his tools over t< help on the Steiner lease. 1 Well No. 1 on the Steiner lease, the • first well in that territory was shot ■ about six weeks ago und made a grea ■ showing. It is holding up good and is rated- as a first class well. It was ■ the strength of this well’s showing ■ that encouraged Daughtery & Baker. -of Washington Court House. Ohio holders of the lease, to drill more wells in the Oil City field. During the oil boom, a big gas well was drilled in on Ute Will Mann farm in that neighborhood, but gas well; 1 were not considered good property it those days, so the well and the field were abandoned without further in 1 vestigation. C. F. Grene, Ralph Mesel and other interested parties are working ovei 1 the old field east of town with good success thus far. Well No. 1 on tht ’ Charles Armstrong farm, shot las week, made a very good showing and work has already been started on No. 1 2. 1 Several years ago this was a good producing field, but the price of oil 1 took a slump and the price of junk ' went up, so several wells in that ter ritory that today would be consider - ed god producers were plugged and ■ the pipe sold. W. J. Heeters has been drilling in ' several wells this fall on the Martin ■ Armant rout lease southeast of town. > Thus far two fair producing wells - have ben drilled in and a third well ■ is being put down. s The Frank Johnson farm, six miles ’ east of Berne, has what now looks like the best well that has been drilled in the local field for a long time. r The well was shot a few weeks ago and has been pumping since at. the • rate of about forty barrels per day. I o • I BOOTLEGGERS USE APE LOOKOUT FOR RAIDERS I Monessen, Pa., Nov. 7. —(United . Press) —Use of a monkey as an "offi--1 cial warner” of an impending raid of > prohibition officers is the latest novelty adopted in this section. ) Dry sleuths, who recently raided a still on a steep hill in Rost raver I township, near here, heard the furl- , ous chattering of a monkey as they t clmbed to the scene of action. ArT riving at the stable which housed the , still, police found it unoccupied but , secured more than 1,000 gallons of , liquor, three automobiles, besides | equipment, mash, and alcohol.

Scientific Whaling Flourishes In Pacific San Francisco, Nov. 7.— (United Press.) —Minus most of the dangers of older days, and plus the benefits of modern science, the business of catchi ing whales still flourishes in the sea off this (jort. An average of 14 of the sea monsters now are caught each week in the Pacific, only a few miles from land, and towed by whaling tugs to reduction stations at Trindad. north of here, and Moss Landing, located a few miles southward. There they are cut up. boiled and made into fertilizer, oil and chicken feed, worth approximately SI,OOO a whale. Whalebone for corsets stays still is produced, but on a greatly lessened scale. The modern whaling vessels are smaller and more powerful than the old-time ships. They are absent from port usualy only three days, instead of six months to three years. No longer is the whale carcass hoisted abroad the vessel, and the decks made odorous and redolent of the catch. Nowadays the whaling tug takes as many as six whales in tow and hauls them into port. The modern harpoon is as deadly 'n comparison to the old style one as is the modem ordinance in comparison with the flintlock musket. It is fired from a gun, weighs 200 pounds, has wicked barbs along its sides that open after it has entered the whale, and contains a bomb that will either kill or fatally wound the monster of the. deep. Science even has solved the prob’em of saving the whale that sinks 1 in death after it has spouted. Now i pointed, hollow and perforated rod Is sunk into the carcass, with an air hose attached. Compressed air is pumped into the whale, and once again he floats. Also, his distended tides resist the attack of the occasional shark. The average whale in this vicinity weighs 50 tons. The whalers seldom bother with any less than 40 tons in weight. Some run as high as 90 tons. Whaling is more profitable now. because of scientific aids, and the men engaged in the work no longer have Sparkling Eves Accompany Good Health ■ ■’U wB ' i; * ) ' X / MRS. G. E. MOTTWEILER 1 New Albany, Ind.—“ Just a few lines to thank you for your wonderful medicine. I had a trouble for about a year that was very weakening and ■ hard to control. I doctored for it but f it didn’t seem to do much good, so I . thought I would try Dr. Pierce’s medicine which I had heard so much about. I took five bottles of the 1 ‘Favorite Prescription’ and two of the r jMedical Discovery,’ and I feel like . a different woman. I praise Dr# Pierce’s medicines and /recommend them to all suffering women.’’—Mrs. ’ George E. Mottweiler, 1747 Shelby St. 5 Dr. Pierce’s famous family remet dies are sold in any drug store, in r tablets or liquid. Send Dr. Pierce, Pres. Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y., * 10c for a trial pkg. of any of his medicines and write for free advice.

to depend upon the success of their particular veipel. The crews, 11 men on each of the four tugs running out of ’his port, get wages, and a bonus in This bonus is $lO a whale to the captain, chief engineer and gunner. The assistant engineer gets $5, and each ciew member receives $2. The catch of the whole fleet is equalized for the boats having the poorest luck or engaged in towing in catches of the other vessels. 3.362 SCOUT CAMPS CONDUCTED LAST SUMMER New York, Nov. 7—Approximately 312,110 boy weeks of attendance were

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registered at the 3,362 camps conducted by the Boy Scout organization last summer. The figures appear in a report just issued by the National Scout Camp department In the annual campaign to mako "Every Scout a Swimmer” 10.007 Scouts were taught to swim. Outstanding progress In all water-front activities is reported. The Buddy System for swimmers as a means of Insuring water safety has been adopted by 244 council camps- Junior Life Guard organizations have been installed In 206 camps. Requirements for receiving the Scout Life Guard Emblem are that each life guard be an expert swimmer, who has rendered creditable service under a qualified Red Cross Life Saving memlgtr. 30,000 BOY SCOUTS ARE REGISTERED FOREST GUIDES New York, Nov. 7—Thirty thou-

sand Boy Scouts in Pennsylvania are regl.qered forest guides, according to a statement Issued by the National Scout office, based on a report of the department of forest and waters of that state. "There boys," states the report, "are co-operating splnedldly with the Department in Forest Protection by posting fire warnings, patrolling and firefighting to the extent permitted by legal 16-year age.” Extensive work In forstry and conservation has been performed also by Boy Scouts of other states. , Q» . - — South Africa wan th« flr«t country In the world to bavp registration for women nurses. Card party and dance at the iK. of C. hall. Tuesday, Nov. 10. The public is invited to attend. , Prizes and good orchestra. 262 3t