Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XXIII. Number 287.

APPOINTMENTS MADE BY MAYOR-ELECT

IJury Refuses To Annul Kip Rhinelander’s Marriage

Wealthy youth I STILL MARRIED I TO NEGRO BRIDE ■ * ■ hirors Find That Alice Did ■ y 0( Deceive Him As To Her Blood DECISION ■ RESTS WITH COURT; West Chester'County Court I ■ louse. Whits Plains, N. ¥., Dec.! ■s—(United Press.) —Mrs. Alice' ■ones Rhinelander, adjudged! Kuiltless of fraud in her marKage to Leonard Kip Rhine-1 ■ander. now will seek a scpar-| Ktion. her counsel said today, f ■ “We have prepared summons Kind complaint in a suit for separation on the grounds of Kbandonment,” Lee Parsons K)avis, the attorney who successfully defended her hus■band’s annulment suit, declared. White Plains, N. Y., Dee. 5.— ■(United Press.) — Alice Jones fchinelander, partly colored, reKiains the bride of Leonard Kip ■lhinelander. I The jury which heard wealthy Koung Rhinelander’s suit to ■rave his marriage to the colorK>d girl annulled, reached averKlict against him. | After 12 hours of consideration of Bshe evidence the jury returned its Sealed verd’ct shortly before midKight. .Justice Morschau-mr received ■the verdict on the bench witjj. yhe ■convening of court today and within K few minutes young Rhinelander ■knew that his attempt to break the ■bonds that held him to his dusky ■bride had failed. Six Questions Answered. ‘■l Six questions of fact submitted to ■the jury were answered hy the 12 ■men in favor of the Jones girl. It is ■upon these questions that the court ■will base its final decision. t Rhinelander h'ad alleged Alien de- ■ 'reived him as to her blood but the jury saw it differently. The jury found, in effect: That Alice was of colored blood . . . a point which was admitted. That she did not deceive Leonard either by silencs of by premeditated statement as to her color. That she made no effort to induce Leonard to marry her through concealing her colon. And. that even though Leonard had known she was of colored blood, he would have married her. The seventh question on the list (((IVftMRD OS I’AGR TWOI TRUCK DRIVERS RECEIVE WARNING County Highway Superintendent Plans To Enforce Law on Heavy Hauling ■ Charle H Magley, county highway! superintendent, has issued a warning for all truck drivers to observe the j state laws concerning the driving ot heavy trucks on soft roads. He stated this morning that the law would be strictly enforced in this county. Trouble arises each year over truckdriving on soft roads and violators • his year will receive penalties according to law. Mr. Magley said. The law appears in another part of tonight s Daily Democrat. — z Murder Suspect Freed After Long Grilling Crown Point. Ind.. Dec. 5. — (United Press)—Roscoe Palmer Sharks. Indianapolis, was free today after more than 24 hours of grilling concerning the murder of Fred Higgins, near Hammond in’Febntary, 1917. Sharks was arrested by Indianapolis , police early this week and brought h» 'e in the belief that he was the man "ho committed the crime.

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Elks To Entertain Cast Os Musical Revue, “Cheer Up’’ All member of the cast of the Elk's I musical revue. • Cheer Up,” which was I staged here recently, and the members Os the various committees in charge of I the production, will he entertained at a party to bo given nt the Elks' home [ next Monday evening. The affair will begin at ft o'clock. There will Is- dancing and other forms of entertainment and refreshments will be served. All members of the cast and committees are urged to bo present. MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL OVERRULED Judge Sutton Refuses To Grant Re-hearing Os Typhoid Fever Case Judge Jesse C. Sutton today overruled motions for a new trial of the typhoid fevet damage suit against the city of Fort Wayne and the Pennsylvania ra lroad. which was tried in the Adams circuit court last summer. Judgment against Ixith defendants for $9,000 was awarded. An appeal was prayed to the appellate court by each of the defendants ami the appeal was granted by the court. The appeal bond of each defendant was fixed at $15,000 and they were given 120 days in which to file their bills of

exceptions. The suit was filed by the Lincoln Trust company, administrator of the estate of Herman Ihuiermeister. who died of typhoid fever during the epidemic in Fort Wayne two years ago. The plaintiff alleged that the ep( deinli Wil'S caused hy" germs in the city water and that the germs entered the city water from the mains of the railroad company through a defeefeive valve. — —0 Wisconsin Republicans Excluded From Committees Washington. use. 5. - (United Press)—Carrying out their plans to discipline insurgents, house Republican leaders in organizing committees for the new congress today removed two Wisconsin members from major c< nnnittee posts. Representative John M. Ne son, insurgent leader in the lower body, was removed from the powerful rules committee. and Representative Frear lost his post on the ways and means comni'ttee. Tlie Republican house committee on committees approved majority selection for the appropriations, rules, ways and means, accounts, mileage ami enrolled bills committees. The Democratic caucus will be held later in the day. —o — Alabina To Plav On Coast Chicago. Dec. 5.-(Un'ted Press.)— Alabama University has accepted an offer ftom the University of Washington to play the tournament of roses game on New Years day of tills year, it was authoritively learned by the United Press today. ———o — GOOD FELLOWS CLUB Be A Good Fellow And Help Provide A Merry Christmas For The Kiddies. Contributions to the Good Fellows . Chlb lOf ' a : $30.69 Previous total . - Friend '{,. Fri, ' n ' l $3174 Total ‘ , —o ——— Woman’s Arm Injured In Elevator At Store • I Mrs. Florence Merris, of Lima. Ohio, ‘ who is well-known here, was painfully injured a few days ago. when her left . arm was caught in an elevator at a . .tore in Lima. The arm was mashed . the elbow and the shoulder was ! in j ureri . Her condition is reported as serious. Two physicians are making , e very effort to save the arm. Mrs. Merris has been taken to the home of ‘ V 6 . t Mrs G F- Fowler, on her daughtei, Mrs. v East Second street, in Lima.

SAYS EVANSVILLE CITIZENS WANT A SPECIAL SESSION Lieut. Governor Van Orman Says People Os Vander* burg Co., Are Aroused HOLDS CONFERENCE WITH GOV. JACKSON Indianapolis. Dec. 5. (United! ( Press) —The people of Evansville and! Vandergurg county are aroused and | demanding a special session of the | > legislature to investigate the state | highway commission. Lieut Governor Harold Van Orman, told the United Press here today. The lieutenant governor and Federal Judge Robert Ihiltzell were in conference witlt Governor Jackson for some time today and it is presumed the highway commission case was discussed. While Van Orman denied that lie came here with the intention of urging the session and refused to comment on th enuture of his conference with th governor, the presence of the Judge and the fait that th highway commissioners' action in disposing of government property is under investigation

hy federal agents, gave strength to the opinion that highway matters were discussed. , “There's a lot of agitation in Evansville ami Vanderbilt gh county for a special session." Van Orman said. “The papers have carried num-rftus stories and 1 hive »ppww»eh*d hy any number of people urging th session." "It's up to the Governor and isn't for me to say whether a special sessionshould he called." “Some time ago it was learned that department of justice officials had taken a hand in the investigation of tlie commission's receipt of sale of $1(1.000,001) worth of material." Documents pertaining to the case are known to have been handed over to U. S. District Attorney Ward, who forwarded them to attorney general Sargent. BEET CROP IS REPORTED SAFE

Not More Than 300 Acres Os Beets Remain In Ground This Evening “Tlie beet crop is practically savI " John Carmody, manager ot' the local plant of tlie Hollard-St, Louis Sugar company, stated this morning ■By tonight there will be les* than 300 acres of beets in the ground and the present indicated cold snap will not interfer with the work of getting them lifted." Mr. Carmody stated. Between 12.000 and 14.000 tons of beets are in sight today, that is within the yards or on the tracks, and with the big mill running at top speed, quick work will be made of them. The mill was never,in better running order and as high as 1.200 ♦ons of beets have been choved through the plant in a day. The sugar company is grateful to the farmers and those persons who made it possible to get in the beets and wish to thank those who aided in the campaign. ——o German Cabinet Resigns Beilin. Deo. 5-The Luther cabinet resigned today. Following out its pledge of last week to retire after it had disposed of the Locarno signing. it met today and determined formally upon the resignation which was offered to President Von Hindenburg. President Von Hindenburg will ask Luther to form a new government and it is believed certain that his regime will be drawn from Stresemann's folfcsparty, the ientrists and the, democrats with the naionalists and socialists not participating.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 5, 1925.

Stricken ’ Rudyard Kipling, suffering from 'double pneumonia in London, was allended by LortL Dawson, tin- King’s physician. christmaYseal SALE IS STARTED

W, G. Brown, Secretary, i Sends Seals To All Parts Os County Today ’ — — i The Adams county supply of Tuber-! • culosis Christmas Seals have arrivedi and W G. Brown, who has charge of I ■ the distribution again this year, began of the county for sale. About 1.000 t letters, containing seals and ret urn I envelopes, were mailed today to De5 i > ' Mi ■ mm

today sending the seals to every part catur citizens. Those who keep the I seals are asked to return their chocks ' at once and those who do not wish toj keep the seals are asked to use the I return envelope to return them. The seals also will be for sale at j i all the schools in Decatur anil also all I schools in the county where they may , be obtained for one cent each. Adams - county made an enviable record in last vear’s sale of Christmas Seals.! ' and it is hoped by the county officers] that a better record will be made thisi year. Mrs. (’. V. Connell is president ! iof the county organization. Albert I ’ Scheumann is treasurer and W. Guy I • Brown is secretary. Circiflars telling what is done with [ I the proceeds of the seal sales have been sent to all newspapers in the i United States. The money is used i toward caring for people with tuber-1 l culosis end also for aiding those in-' I elined towaiK ‘.he disease to prevent I getting it. Fives years ago. there were .1,151 (COXTIM i:i> OX PAGE TWO) 1 ’ / 5 V) 1 ' C ! Weather i s | Cloudy tonight. Snow in north and! -'central portions. Colder. Sunday; .[mostly fair, a strong northwest wind. 1

VIOLENT SNOW STORMS SWEEP MIDDLE WEST Blizzards Rage In Many Places; Snow Piled High In Drifts KNEE-DEEP SNOW REPORTED IN IOWA Chicago. Dee. 5. (United Press) —' Violent sales and snowstorms of blizzard proportions raged in much of the middle western, area today. A fifty mile gale roared over lowa.! piling the snow in large drifts, serious- J ly interferring with train and wire service. The mercury fell to 13 de- ■ grees above zero today, from a high ! of 35 ysterday. The Rock Island train from Denver Colorado, to Des Moines was three hours late and similar delays were rei ported on other roads. Waterloo. lowa, reported knee deep j ! snow and street car service crippled. Parts of Nebraska also suffered. Omaha reporting the hardest snow storm of the season. Minnesota was swept by a heavy j snow storm, delaying trains from one I to four hours and crippling wire fa{cilities. The thermometer fell to near

:zero. Snow also fell in St. Louis, Mo., toI day.’ It will be colder in nearly all middiewestern cities tonight, with snow ; probable over a wide area, the weath- ! er bureau forecasted. o — I. U. Co-eds Win Debate From Michigan Team Bloomington. Ind.. Dec. 5. — (United Press)—The co-ed debating team at j Indiana university today .held a de- ! vision over a team from Michigan uniI versitv. The Indiana team debated j the affirmative of the question. “Rei solved that the child labor amendment Ito the constitution should be adopted." DECEASED ELKS TD DE HONORED

Annual Memorial Services To Be Held By Local Lodge Sunday Afternoon Plans have been completed for the I annual Memorial services to be held | by the Decatur lodge of the B. P. O. | ’ Elks at the Elks home on North SecLind street. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 ! o'clock. The public is cordially in- ! vited to attend 'the services, which j will last about one hour. The program, which includes three ; musical numbers and two addresses Iby prominent Decatur citizens, will be held in the lodge room of the new [ home, which is located on the third floor. Elks, their wives and children, ’ ami all others who desire to attend j the program are cordially invited to I , do so. Judge J. T. Merriman and C. J. Lutz will deliver short addresses, and Mrs. Mae Holthouse, Mrs. Cecil Moser • and Dr. Fred Patterson will sing i vocal solos. Each year, every Elks lodge In the ; country dedicates one Sunday in ob j servanee of .Memorial services for ! their deceased members. A good i memorial program has been planned 'for the Decatur lodge this year by i the committee, of which Herman Yager is chairman, and the public is ; cordially invited to attend.

o Petition For Purchase Os Bus Lines Is Filed ludianapolis, Dec. 5. — (United {press)—The public service today bad before it a petition to purchase the Donzeli bits line to South Bend and ! Mariou from Fort Wayne for $107,500, and the Crawford and Son line from J Fort Wayne to Warsaw for $21,460.

Miss Helen Emert, Reader, i To Appear Here Monday | Tlie Literature Section of llie Woman's dull will present Miss Helen Emert. prominent reader of Indianapolis. in a miscellaneous program at the Library, Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, after the business meeting. Miss Emert is a member of the Metropolitan Music and Art School and has appeared liefore many clubs lin the state in her tine programs. All i members of the club and their guests | are invited to attend. NEW HERDS LEAD I IN ASSOCIATION New Members Os Cow Testing Association Cop First Three Places Tile new members of Hie Adams County Cow Testing Association opened a new bag of tricks in the November testing when they copped tin- three first places, as disclosed by the report of Roy L. ’’rice, tester. Th« new member to swing into the lead is A. Z Smith, of Washington! township, whose 1? cows averaged 28 pounds of butterfat for the month. Orton Wheeler, of Wabash township, anil Calvin Llechty, of Monroe town )

ship, followed closely with 27.3 pounds and 26.4 pounds, respectively. All three herds are made up of Holstein*. The Smith herd was fed a grain ration of ground corn, mound oats, bran and oil meal. Some soft ' ear corn also was fed. Clover chaff ind silage were fed as roughage. Sol Mosser. vice-president: of the Association and an old "standby". I because of his consistent record last vear with his purebred Jerseys, ! landed in fourth place with 26.2 pounds fat. E. H. Kruetzman. of) Kirkland township, dropped from! first place in October to fifth place! II in November with 25.9 pounds. John . ID. Mason. Eli C. Stucky. Peter D I j Schwartz. Dan Steury ami Noah Rich. 'follow in the order named, all except Nr. Stucky having Holsteins. i Osia Von Gunten's purebred Hollstein. Whitey,” startle)! several of, the members by hanging up a record for the month of 62 2 pounds fat. She I gave 1.652 pounds milk during the month, an average of 56 pounds each day. A purebred Jersey in the MosI ser herd was second with 56 9 pounds

fat. she having milked 813 iiounds •esting 7 i>er cent butterfat. A grade Jersey belonging to Eli C. Stucky was third with 55.5 pounds Burk- ■ h irt Lehman. Calvin Liechty. lhin| | Steury. Sol Mosser. A. Z. Smith. Noah | Rich and C. W R. Schwartz, fed; high producing cows finishing tn the orde 1 namedi The 111 high cows averaged 1 232 pounds milk containing 5o 4 ]M>unds fat liming the I month In all, 200 cows were being {milked by the 26 members. 47 cows lin their herds being dry. Fifty-five of tbe cows prod’iccsl more than one pound of fat each day. In addition to his regular duties. Mr Price tested skimmilk from each |of the separaotrs belonging to members in order to determine if they : were <>|>eratlng efficiently ami obtainling all the butterfat in the milk The ■ Skim-milk tests ranged from .01'1 to

' .05%. o Chicago Police Are Rounding Up Bombers Chicago. Dee.. 5 With indictments returned against fifty business men. union workers ami gangsters, and more expected during the next fewi days, police today said they were on. the verge of dealing a death blow to the gang responsible for more than

100 bombing outrages in and around Chicago during the past year The names of eight, executive committee members of the Retail Clean ers and Dyers association are included in the list handed out by the grand jury last night. Among these are Hirshie Millet, alleged gangster, bootlegger, proprietor of a cleaning and dyeing establishment and president of the Master Bakers association.

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SELECTIONS APPROVED BY NEW COUNCIL Amos Fisher Named Street Commissioner; Melchi Is Chief Os Police JACK FREIDT IS MADE FIRE CHIEF Mtiy<ir-<lt cl George Krick announced his appointments ot city officials anil committees on the city council. The appointments to the several city offices under the jurisdiction of the mayor meet with the approval of the new councilmen. with whom Mr. Krick conferred before making the official appointments. Amos Fisher, present fire chief and well-known contractor of this city, was appointed city street commissioner. one of the most Important and exacting positions In the city administration. Mr Fisher is capable of handling the job and will, no doubt, render efficient service. Orval Harruff was re-appointed to the position of city engineers Mr. i Harruff ijas served with credit as city engineer during the- last four years and is also superintendent of the water department of the city plant.

Melchi Is Police Lhief Sephus Melchi. well-known police ofticer and former sheriff of Adams county, was appointed chief of police He will succeed Joel Reynolds, who has been head of the department under the present administration of Mayor H M DeVoss. Mr. Melchi has served Ff venrs rm the city police force, being appointed night policeman in 1910 during the administration of former mayor Judson Teeple. The three members on the city boaid of health were re-appointed by Mr Krick Thev are. Dr. James M. Miller, who is secretary of the board: Dr H. F<. Keller and Mrs, John H Heller. Jack Freidt. captain of the city fire department, was appointed fire i chief He succeeded Mr. Fisher anil the department will elect a captain to succeed Mr. Fr“idt. The new chief lias been a member of the force I for several years. Committees Are Appointed Tlie chairman and members of the several committees on the city council were also announced today by Mr. Krick. Councilman A It Ashbaucher and the only councilman who was reelected, was named chairman of the electric light and public safety committees O L. Vance, was named chairman of the I finance and purchasing committees: >ll. F. Linn, who served as council- ! man during the Charles Yager admini . - - - - iHivriMEiHit rti.i: >:ii.iri'> ANNUAL PRAISE SERVICE SUNDAY Entertaining Program Planned By Presbyterian Missionary Society i> Tile annual Praise Service of the

| Women's Home ami Foreign M:»sioriarv Society of the Presbyterian church will lie helil tomorrow night at the church, at 7 o'clock. Included in the interesting and entertaining program. Is a pageant entitled. ‘Tile Church Victorious Through fxive." The pag- | eant is a very beautiful one and in- | eludes a large cast, well-trained The I public is invited to attend the annual ' service. The ladies of the church will have charge of the service and included in the program are other interesting features besides the pageant. The pro gram will start promptly at 7 o'clock. . No admission charge will he mode. r Mt Elt Kngelcr, Mrs. C. C Noble and Mrs .laine Elberton nre In charge of this year': service a ti<l they have been working for the la i •• veral . weeks, formulating ih inogr.iin, wlrcli » it is hoped will exceed al! previous Praise Service programs.