Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XXIH. Number 289

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE OUTLINES POLICIES

MCDANIELS IS fREED BY ACTION OF GOV. JACKSON One Member Os Trio Who Mtempted To Hold-Up Preble Bank Is Freed i.'liEP WAGONER ALSO gets his freedom (1 - I’. staff Correspondent) Indiana polis, Dec. 8 Governor Jackson today approved li lf report of the stale pardon Imard for the November term '.ranting six paroles, 22 comnuilalions, remitting two lines, n losing 11<» pleas, striking lw o cases from the docket, withdrawing one and continuing 12 cases. Among the pleas acted on were those of Donald McDani,|s. assault and battery with attempt to roh. commuted;. I'rctl Wagoner, forgery, stricken from docket, both of Adams county. Donald McDaniels was sentenced from the Adams circuit court. Octobpr 11. 1921. after pleading guilty to * fl charge of assault and battery with attempt to rob 'in connection with ,he attempted hold-up of the Farmers State Bank at Preble. June 9. 1921. Russel Barrone. of this city, was alm sentenced at the same time on the same charge.. The third member of the party. Eugene Cole, a Fort. Wayne taxi driver, was found not entity the week before the Barrone McDaniels trial. McDaniels was not a resident, of this city and he never revealed his home, but he had been here on several occasions with Barrone- During the robbery, Barrone shot Clarence Smith, cashier of the bank, through the breast, and Edna Werling. an assistant in the bank, in the arm The two men escaped without obtaining any money and later were captured by Fort Wayne police and a posse of Adams county men about a mile north of Preble. ('ole was captured in this city by Fred Schurger and D. M. Hensley. Fred Wagoner, the other Adams county man to rveive leniency, was found guilty about a year ago of issuing a check without funds in the icnvrtxi’p.n ov pack shvem o— — — Youthful Bandits Hold Up Dry Goods Store; Get $66 Indianapolis, D°o. B—Police today are searching for two youthful bandits who yesterday held up a drygoods store and eseaped with SB6 iu cash. «s ” Nancy Ladd, proprietor of the store, was held up at the point of a revolver while the bandits worked. Just as the men completed rifling the cash registers Miss Ladd screamed and they fled. “LOSTBATALLION" TO BE SHOWN HEBE American Legion To Present Famous War Story Movie at Cort Theatre "The Jx>st Batallion," a famous American war story dramatized by the men who went through the six days and nights with the lost batallion in the World War, will be shown at the (, ort Theatre, December 10 and 11. under the auspices of the Decatur P°- St °f the American egion. Special matinees will be held each afternoon during the two-day showing in this citySchools w ill be dismissed at 3 o’clock each day so that all school children may see the show, which is highly rectirntnemied by educators throughout the country. A special price has been made for school children. Tickets may be obtained from any member of the American Legion or at the ticket office on the nights of the i show. The actors in the show are all w ar veterans and most of them served in the. famous American outfit which was lost, but wouldn’t surrender,

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Motor Bus Lines Not * Successful Financially hHlanapolis, s ... . a. ’ < unhod . r ■ Ol mmor "n..s art* financially suceesiifu! “'ling to a report of auditors for ’he public service commission mad., public today. The figures were made public ln C o n . nection with the petition of the interstate public service company f or iin increase in , al es between Indianapolis and Louisville, hut are said to show the situation us it exists in the state. GOOD FELLOWS CLUB GROWING Several More .Join Club Bv Giving To Christmas’ Fund; Total Is $73.21 ■ Eleven dollars and forty one cents was added to the Good Fellows Chib; Christmas Fund today, making al total of $73.21 already donated by I I local individuals t.nd organizations. | The money will be used by the Delta Theta Tau sorority, which is sponsor- , ing the fund, in providing Christmas ' cheer for the poor children or the' city. J 1 Fivetlolhir Contributions to the fund were made today by the So Cha I Rea (Tub and the Daily Democrat. A ' $5-contril)tition made, yesterday by the Catholic Ladies of Columbia was counted in the total given, but i through mistake the name of the I contributor was omitted The Delta | Theta Tan sorority and Gecode clubi of tile General Electric plant each gave $25 io the fund. Other organizations ai|? urged to iwurihute to the fund The Good Fellows Club was started by the Delta Theta Tau sorority four years ago and has been sponsored each Christmas since then. The general chairman of the Good] Fellows Club today issued the f-ol-lowing statement: “Be sur-s to send your contribution to the Good Fellow Club today. By giving your donation early it will greatly aid the purchasing committee to visit Santa Claus in plenty of time. “We realize that the good people of Decatur have been called upon num erous times the past year to donate to worthy and charitable organizations. but is the Good Fellow Club not a worthy cause? Is there a cause more worthy than one that will provide warm clothing to the poor anil gteater than that provide a toy or two for the little boy and girl, who perhaps never had a real toy? • At Christmas, veil' few of us are stingy with ourselves or our own little kiddies. For it is true that men and women do at Christmas time things which at any other time would he considered extravagant and unwise, but when did cold wisdom ever make a person happy? Edgar A. Guest, the writer who is so truly human, has said: ”1 should not like to live in a world inhabited only by very wise people. I hope never to see a Christmas day come when it can truly be said that no one has I spent, more than he could afford, oi given anything that is trivial or need’ess or foolish. “Surely, then, we cannot deny these poor little kiddies a happy Christmas.” Contributions today include: j Previous total $.>6.80, (' 1., of G 500 SoChttllea Dr. Mangold r Daily Democrat • Friend $73211' Total To Investigate Mental Condition Os Prisoner Hammond. In.iT"Dec. S-A sanity commission today will invest.ga e the mental condition of Ora Cadwall[lder. prominent Christian chutth worker, charged with contribute at the delinquency of girls who were members of his Sunday school class. Cadwallader entered a plea of guilty to delinquency charges at a I "““te « ■lC'ScpeS 'cadwallader, three years ago, while 1 resident of Indianapolis, was sentenced to a term at the state re formatory on a similar charge.

Statesmen Sign Peace Pact Will O:A«BLRX.AIM, BKLXND, DR. > ■ ~ X-aWa SaSy WI. ' /111 ff * 1 .J MfShfT k' ’ dPkt >’ i Jr -a. 4 MCr k• - -Jr* Jw ci /ißk K m Hhsi a aMB RHWmx MR r>R HANS’ WTM-rEK /coujaT , SuJNUSJ tSCIAT/E^J>A~ <$• M.' ._ — B t midawar^-’THrMMaif-i~vi - - —.;— rite Locarno peace Irettly for Europe was signed by Austen C.litiniberlain, British I'oreign Minister; Aristide Briand, new Premier of Fran -e; Dr. Stresemann. of Germany: Dr. Benes, of C.zecho-Slovtikia; C.hancellor Luther, of Germany; ('.omit Skrynski. of Poland; Signor Seialeja, of Italy, and M. Vandcrvelde, of Belgium i _

GOV. FERGUSON MAKES BECIMN - Woman Governor Os Texas Says She Will Not Call Special Session Austin. Tex., Dec. 8. — (United Press.l — Answering iom:inds of 44 signers to :i peHflon for u special session of the state legislature, Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson today issued a formal statement saying she would not call the extra session. The petit'on gave the woman governor until Dec. 10 to make up her mind but in her statement she declared she did not need that much time. “I have deciiljil I' will not call an extra session of the legislature at this time for the reason I do not see any necessity for putting the people of the state to the extra expense,” the statement said. A similar petition is in the hands of Speaker Satterwhite, who declared he would call a session Dec. 16. A session called by tne speaker can not lie for other purposes than impeachnwnt.

men i. Mentone To Build New Community Building Mentone, Ind.. Dec. 8. — (United Presst—Business and professional men ot Mentone and many farmers residing in this vicinity are backing a movement for a community building here to he erected at a cost of $.‘.,500. It is hoped to have the building completed before January 29 in order that the county high school basketball tournament may be held there. A drive for subscriptions to the building fund is now being conducted. — : 0 Five Bandits Hold Un 13 Persons In A Bank — Anoka. Minn.. Dec. 8. — (United Press.)—Five bandits entered the Anoka Nation a blnak. sETAOI ART 1 Anoka National bank shortly before noon today, held up 13 persons and I escaped in an automobile with $15,000 in currency and negotiable papers.

——- o Fifteen-Pound Baby Born In Wells County A hoy baby, weighing fifteen pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Put Burns., of Wells county. Monday. Mother and babe are doing fine. This makes the tenth child, five boys and five girls, the oldest being 20 years old. Wellw county school records .bow that tb« chuldreu are among the most intelligent children in the schools of the county. Mrs. Burns is the Wells county attendance officer. The family resides one-half mile north and one-half mile west of Keystone. •

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President Leaves His Overcoat Behind In Rush To Catch Train i Chicago, Dec. 8. —(United Press)— A special messenger was enroute to i Washington today to give President Coolidge the overcoat he left behind in his rush to catch his train yesterday. Mr. Coolidge brought two overcoats with him on his trip to Chicago hut 1 in hurrying from the hotel he took only 1 one of the lighter weight—the one he I was wearing. The heavy ulster was • left behind. I I Hotel employes found the coat a ' few minutes after the president's train I started to Washington and so a special niesKPHKPr was employed to lake it to Washington before night. i ELKS WILL GIVE : BASKETS TO POOR i Lodge To Continue Custom' l Os Providing Christmas t Dinner For The Needy ■ — As lias been the custom for many

years, the Decatur lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will give out more than 50 Christmas baskets to the needy people in and near Decatur, it was announced today. The baskets, which will contain chicken and other commodities that go toward making an ideal Christmas dinner, will be distributed the day before Christmas, according to present plans. year 70 baskets were distributed. Three Senate Seats Subject To Contest Washington, Dec. 8. — (United Pi-exst — The rights of office of three senators who took their seats in the upper house of congress today are being challenged. Contests have been filed against Senator Smith W. Brookhart. Republican. lowa, Samuel G. Brattan, Democrat. New Mexico, and Thomas D. Schall. Republican. Minnesota. There is also a likelihood of action against the new Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, it being contended by some that he should not lie seated because the governor who appointed him

was not designated by law to make the appointment. i bwM 1 |./ >r ®\l 1/J JHOPWSVI-k Weather Mostly cloudy tonight followed by generally fjir Wednesday, ('older in north portion. |

ALUMNI URGED TO REPLY SOON Husbands. Wives. Sweethearts Os I). H. S. Grads Invited to Home-coming Many return cards have been received during the last two days by the committee'ln charge of the Decatur high school alumni and former teachers' home-coming, which will he held in this city December 28. Those in charge wish to announce that the wives, husbands and sweethearts of graduates, also, are cordially invited to attend the celebration. I It is the desire of those in charge that everyone who is planning to attend send their cards in at once. If the card has been lost, the alumni are urged to cal! the high school or ( write, stating how many seats they . desire. I A few more addresses are incomplete and any information regarding them will be appreciated. They are: .Mrs. Harriet Burns-Voglewede. Franjcis Davidson. John Kern, John Jones, Mrs. Esther R. Miller. Mrs. Etta Rose-

brough. Alice Rice, I.ulu Brown. Mrs. Paul Kendall, Mrs. Joe Krabill. The program committee has started working on the plans for the banquet and a good program is assured to all those who attend. Those who can not attend all the program are invited to come to all parts that they can.

Three Men Partially I Overcome By Smoke ’ Indianapolis, Dec. 8. <1 nited p r ess)--Three men today are recovering from the effects of being partially overcome by smoke in a hotel fire | here. ' Twenty-six other guests at the ho -' | had narrow escapes from death I smoke-filled building. — o I Two Boys Sentenced For Robbing Grocery La Porte. Ind., Dec. 8. — (United Press) —Sentences of one to eight years in the state reformatory at Pendleton wore imposed today on Leonard Rosner. 18. and Harry Turner. 19. for robbing a grocery store. The boys

live tn Grand Beach. Mich. o Woman Turns Shoplifter I To Get Christmas Gifts I Columbus. Ind., Dec. 8. — (United! Press) Craving Christmas things for| her mother and herself she was unable to buy, Amelia Brane, 16. a music teacher of Seymour, turned shoplifter, she admitted to authorities today. She was charged with stealing silk hose, silk bloomers ami other articles from a store here. "I prayed I would be able to get by | with the thefts," she told arresting I officers.

Berenger Named French Ambassador To America Paris, Dec. B—Henry Berenger, no’ed pHflinnfentiir.r financial expert. was today namiul by the Briand cabinet ns ambassador to W'ashington to succeed Ambassador Dueachner. who is to return here. President Douinergue approved the appointment, which, it is understood.! Is- only a temporary one permitting Berenger to negotiate a debt settlement with Hie United States and then return to his |»arliani'*ntar.v duties here. TRACTION BRIDGE IS WRECKED TODAY Interurban Car Almost Falls Into River At Bluffton This Morning Bluffton. Dee. S. An intururban freight train, loaded with goods, al-, most fell into tne river at the edge of town here early this morning.' when one end of the Indiana Union I Traction company bridge across the Wabash river collapsed. The last section of a five-car fre’ght traction; jumped the track just as it was pass-

ing over the bridge, enroute to Fort Wayne. An end of the car hit the side of th ( > bridge with such a jar that the holding beam broke and the bridge started to fall. The north end of the iron bridge dropped down more than two feet, and it appeared for a while as though the entire bridge would ( drop into the river. Officials of the traction company were notified at once and work has already started on reconstruction of the north end of the bridge. Durtng the construction of the bridge, the service continues. Passengers from Fort Waytie are taken off the interurban just north of the bridge ami transported to Bluffton in a bus and there are sent on to their destination in another car. Baggage also is taken care of with the aid of several large trucks. It is thought that it will he several days before th ebridge will be rebuilt for use but the interurban service will continue.

Evansville To Have A River-Rail Terminal Evansville. Ind.. Dec. B.— (United Press)—A river-rail terminal to servo Evansville and southern Indiana seems asured today following announcement that the Kelly A xand Tool company of Charleston. W. Va.. has purchased Ohio river frontage and rtompleted plans for construction of a first unit The terminal will serve as a loading medium between railroad cars and river barges. City engineers have given their approval of the plans, which call for a 200 foot frontage for the first unit.

Gun Shot Wounds Three Years Old, Blamed For Death Noblesville, Ind.. Dec. B.—(United 1 Prest) —Gun shot wounds received more than three years ago today were I blamed for the death of Ulysses Mossier, 47. Mossier was shot three years ago by Charles Linton,-a high school youth, when he objected to the hoy paying attention to his daughter. oEast Haven Patient Hurls Self Into Path Os Train Richmond, Ind.. Dec. 8. ti ntted Press) —Thomas C. Meyers, of Upland, is in a serious condition at a hospital here today from injuries received when bo threw himself in front of a Penn sylvania train near here. The man was a patient at the East I Haven hospital. — o—- - Man Dies Week After Being Shot By Wife Clinton. Ind . Dec. B—Millard < linton. 43, is dead here today as the : result of wounds suffered a week ago t when be was shot by his wife. Mrs, Clinton, who is known to r have suffered spells of temporary ? insanity, killed, herself after ing her husband.

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MIXED APPLAUSE ANO CRITICISM GBEETS MESSAGE "Join World Court” Advises Executive; Many Issues Are Covered | SEES AN ERA OF GREAT PROSPERITY <U P. StalT Uorrefpnn<lent) XVtishinglon, Dec. 8 Ihe messtige of President (.oolidge to congress was greeted w ith mixed applause anti crilicism in the house and senale today. 'Hie president’s farm relief and muscle shoals proposals wi re chiefly singled out as objectionable by members of the old farm bloc and the insurgents. i His world court stand met ' approval from democrats and some republicans, but it found i no svmpathv with the "irrecon- ' cilcahlc group” which is fighting the court. Due, to the ext.cnsivo number of • (muck covered, every con;’ re.ssman.

no matter what his political affilia- | lions, could find something to sanction and something to criticise. Chairman Borah, foreign relations committee, opposed the stand of the President of American adherence to the world court but favored his plans fcr handling the coal strike Borah .Intends to introduce a coal bill along the suggested lines. Washington. Dec. S. (United ’ Presf.i—The nat’on is reaching into an era of great prosperity and needs ' only extension of present- isdudeS rather than any experiment with un--1 tried theories. President Coolidre ' told the new Congress today in his annual message. Preserve economy, he said, but do ' not cut to the bone. Enact a business tax hill, hut keep reduction within tile bounds of propriety: Join the world I court and promote American good will abroad; expand the air defense, ' but make no radical change in the present system; help the farmer but

do not try to fix his prices. Present i< ovum t-'t> <>x i-m.i: M'A EM —— q——-— Kosciusko County Grand Jury Has No Work To Do Warsaw, Ind.. Dec. S. (United Pressi Kosciusko county is practically free from crime. Judging fr..rn the statement of Morrison Rockhill prosecuting attorney. Rockhill. announcing that the grand Jury session would be held during December said: "No cases of a criminal 'vifure have 1 been called to my attention for investigation." - ——

MORE SUBSCRIBE FOR Fftlß STOCK Two Men From Outside Os County Buy Stock In Agricultural Association More subscribers for stock in the Adams County Agricultural Association are being obtained each day by E. B. Williamson. organizer. Seven new names h:tv,» been added to the list of subscribers since the list of eighty was published last week. Among the latest subscribers are two persons who live outside Adams county. M. 8 Daugherty, of Washington Court House. Ohio, a brother of Hugh Daugherty, former attorney general of the United States, has subscribed for stock ill the association. Mr. Daugherty owns oil properly in the vicnity of Geneva. .1 B Schaffer, of South Bend, has asken ,ot stock k in the enterprise, also. I The new names added to the li.-t I-'are: Samuel Acker, the Kocher l.utnb- » er company, Ered 1 Sehiirget tad u Edward Whittiglp. rd D itiir * <'■ Munro of Geneva I >’ S h «ffer. of o South Bend, ami M S !>;>’>’ho ty. of y Washington Court House Ohio I- Plans are almost completed for taking out incorporation papers.