Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XXIIL Number 305,

YOUTH KILLED IN HUNTING ACCIDENT

Relief From Cold Wave Is Predicted For Tomorrow

MUCH SUFFERING IS REPORTED IN many localities Moderating Temperatures Are Forecast For Tomorrow Morning COLP BLAMED FOR deaths and fires — i United Press Service* New York, Dec. 28.—According to reports from 13 cities this afternoon, 32 persons have died directly or indirectly from the freezing weather. Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. 28 — Relief from the sub-zero cold wave of the past three days was predicted by the weather bureau today for Tuesday as increased suffering was report ed front every section of Indiana. Tuesday morning will bring mod prating temperatures and Wednesday the weather will be even less severe, according to the forecast. Deaths of five Hoosiers were in directly attributed to the cold wave and fires caused property' damage of ' $150,000 or more. Mr?. John Simon. 52. dropped dead while walking home from church at Goshen. Heart trouble superinduced by the cold caused her death. Mrs. Esther Shaw. 81. a blind wo man, living near Shelbyville, was.burned to death attempting to start a fire in h»r home. Ln automobile skidded on icy roads near Jeffersonville, causing the death of Mrs. Della Rimmel Mrs. Grace Phillips, of Evansville, slipped on an icy levee on Green River, near Evansville and was drowned Her husband drbwne.t attempting to rescue her. Greencastle police feared Bert Iss ley, 38, missing from hi-. home since Saturday, may have wandered away and frozen to death Seventy seven fire? were repotted in Indianapolis shortly before noon today with a total loss of sso,m*o Fire swept the Anchor Furniture store at Terre Haute, causing a loss of $75,000. An overheated furnace started a $15,000 blaze in the Lindley business block at Mooresville. Other smaller (CONTINIKD ON PAGE TWO* • - -O — MANY FLEECEDBY REALTY COMPANY Scores Os Teachers, Business Men And Laborers Lose $3,000,(100 Chicago, Dec. 28.—(United Press) Scores of school teachers. buxines* men and laborers were fleeced out of approximately $3,000,000 by offlc'als of the Consolidated Theatre and Realty company of Chicago and Indianapol.s. federal officials estimated today, 10l lowing announcement of federal indictments against Frederick IL ~rnl|f berg, §y., his son and other officio s of the company. They are charged with using 11 malts to defraud. A “sucker list” of 5,000 names was found on Gruengerg, officials s„id. Gruneberg and his son were an* ' ,(l in New Orleans some time ago. >’ revealed. • . .Chicago victims lost approximately $1,000,000, while Indiana contributors were mulcted for about $2,000,000, ot ficials said. The Consolidated company nl ° than a year ago was placed in hands of a receiver by an indiauapo • court, and after pooling the ‘‘ ss( ‘ was able to pay a dividend of on y per cent. The company sold bonds on pro > which it did not own. it is '« * The bonds were floated on leasee p erty, according to the charge-

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) Large Golden Eagle Is Costly Pet, Farmer Learns Columbus, Iml, Dee. yx ( | n lted' Press)—John Burns, a tanner neat I here, who recently captured a large) golden eagle on his farm, i? learning the high cost of keeping h s trophy 1 alive. The eagle will eat only meat and it must slaughter its own food, it win not eat anything else. John must feed the captive choice chickens. talibits and o|«issunis, etc., alive and must provide one at each meal. John is learning lots about the I eagle’s eating qualities. TEMPERATURE REMAINS LOW Zero Weather Grips Adams County And Northern Indiana Over Week-end Zero weather was in style in Adams county and northern Indiana over the week-end The mercury rolled and tossed below the zero mark ' during the retire time since Saturday. Yesterday was one of the cold est days of the winter and in many localities it was the coldest day ol the year The lowest mark reported was 11 degrees below’ zero, registered Sunday morning and again early this morning. At 8 o'clock this morning, the thermometer on the Peoples Loan and Trust company building registered o degrees below. The; mercury then advanced to 1 and 2 degrees below and held close to zero most of the day. At noon, cold weather was still prevalent. The sun made several almost futile attempts to break through the gray sky. Snow began fall ing early today and the thirties lasted most of the day. Automobile radiators and oil lines froze up in many instances over the week end, and few ■ cars wpre used Sunday night in this j community. Storage garages in Decatur who full early last night and many carshad to be kept in unheated hudd-j ings and sheds. Alcohol for radta | tors was sold in large quantities by. all gasoline filling stations and gar ‘ ag( .s the last few <>*>- Automobile, mechanics say that, during the extreme cold weather, it is advisable to, llse about half water ad halt alcohol , Plumbers were busy all day r. t.t day, temporarily repairing burst*' heating and water pipes. Furnaces, were kept booming at an excesslv j rate. The streets were deserted early Saturday and Sunday night, ami 1110Sl Decatur people spent Sunday, in their own homes. Not much relief is ex- ro-d Hom the cold wave for the next day « two. according to state weath ports, bul it is not expected that mercury will drop much lower. Poker Player Slain; Two Suspects Held Lexington, KySec- 28- " Press)— R- <’• IJovil ’' al as R ° y W X’s Rochester. N. Y„ and Thomas Brown Cincinnati, were in Jail h r. today charged with mtfrder in conne.tion with the shooting to death o Nelson Fant, Flemingsburg. M-. club room poker game late Sa I • ■ The two suspects were captured > ,J after a short chase through the (nlked of the tragedy. ■” ti„ «•«•«’■ X' » attacked Davts and , * th e melee killed Fant. Search OfYear Ends Indianapolis. Ind. Dec. .28 (Unit , a search ot a*n)ost s . rrC9 Ld here May H<** ,he ar ‘ to e.<

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DO FOR EIGHT 1 FARMINSTITUTES!. F ARE ANHOUNCED 1 t First Os Series Os Meetings In County At Hartford ' t ('enter, January 20 > CORN SHOWS ARE BEING PLANNED ‘ i According io information received from the county agent's office, eight farmers’ institutes will lie held in I Adams county this winter. The first will be at Hartford Center, on January 20, Eugene Lindsey being chairman. The other seven are as follows: January 21. Cnion township, C. D. Spuller, chairman; January 22, Kirk land township, O. V. Dilling, chairman; February 2, Monroe, J. F. Rn pelt, chairman; February 3, Monmouth. C. D Kunkel, chairman; February 4, Geneva, Walter Thornhill, chairman; February 5. Boho, Kermit Bowen, chairman; February 6, Berne, Fred Blum, chairman. At each of the institutes, two farmers institute speakers engaged by the Farmers Institute Division, of Purdue, will lead discusicons of sub jects selected by those in charge of the meetings. Programs consisting of local talen also are arranged. It is probable that corn shows will be held in connection with several of the Institutes, the officers of the Monroe and Berne institutes having already announced they expect good-1 I sized entries u* these shows. Faces Term Os 2 To I I Years For Slaying Rival Martinsville, Ind , Dee. 28.—(United Press)— Dewey Staley, 27, today faced the prospect of spendihs from two to twenty-one years In prison for the slat ing of Wallace McGinnis, 28. McGinnis was beaten to death in a quarrel over a girl, evidence at the trial revealed. . — o auction school TERMISSTARTEO Twenty Students On Hand For Opening Session; More Are Expected The annual winter term of the Reppert School of Auctioneering started at 8. o'clock this morning, at tb( . ~l as 4 room located over the United Cigar store on Second street Twenty students were on hand tin morning when Colonel Fred Reppert founder 01 the school, declared the school opened for the semi-annual session. Twenty more applicants are noeted to arrive in the next day or two making a total enrollment of near 40. Colonel Reppert stated to L T„e faculty for the winter term

day. The lacuny wP I be practically the same as that The Auction school teaches all the Dhaseil of auctioneering and is one j",.. »> All fields of auctioneering will be covered by Ute students In the course. A complete roll of students will be announced in the next day 01 . two , Colonel Reppert said today. Prominent Fort Wayne Business Man Goes East j Earl Groth, of Fort Wayne, for several years manager of the Rurode Dr y Goods company, wiil leavP first of the year for New York where Je has accepted a position as manflger of the S. 9- Kresge Department .tores Mr Groth will be the manXOf three targe stores. Mr. Groth was well known here and was ac ve , th e business and social life of Fort Wayne. He was president oy the Rotary club there and was known here by many of the local Rotarians. •r

Couple Drowned In River In Kentucky | Rumsey, Ky„ Dee. 28. — (United Press) —Hurrying to catch the steamer Evansville to retura to their home in Evansville after a, visit here, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Phillips were drowned in the icy waters of Green River here Sunday. Tli,-re were no witne-.es to the tragedy, lint It is believed Phillips lost his life when he attempted to save his wife after she had fallen froh the lock wall. The bodies were recovered Sunday afternoon and taken to Calhoun. Ky , for burial. ND CRAY SUFFERS FROM BREAKDOWN Former Governor Os Indiana Removed To Federal Prison Hospital -J * Atlanta. Ga„ Dec. 28. — (United Press) -Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, who is serving a 12 year term for using the mails to de fraud, lias been removed to the federal prison hospital here fullowing a breakdown caused by high blood pressure. McCray is not seriously ill. it was said, and as soon as he recovers he will he given lighter duties He has been relieved ot bis duties in connection with editing the prison magazine ►“Good Words" and the supervision of the print shop. COL. COOLIDGE SUFFERS STROKE Father Os President Suffering From Paralysis; Condition Favorable

Plymouth, Vermont. Dec. 28—Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the president. has teen stricken with paralysis. affffecting his right leg and has keen ordered to bed by his physician, Dr. Albert M. Cram. While Dr. Cram does not consider the Colonel’s condition as immediately serious, lie has notified President Coolidge of this latest development by means of a long distance telephone conversation with Major James F. Coupal, the president’s per sonal physician, in Washington Besides lhe paralysis, Colonel Coolidge is now suffering more frequent recurrences of the heart block which caused his recent serious illness. according to Dr. Cram, and lhe > condition of the B(kyearold patient; is causing some concern. The paralysis has affected folonel JcoMIMi n ON I’AGK TWO* > o ■ MEXICAN YOUTH DIES AT HOSPITAL I

Peter Grinaldo Succumbs To Septicemia; Home Near Chattanooga, O. Peter Grinaldo. 16, of nedr Chattanooga Ohio, died at the Adams County Memorial hospital this morning following a short illness of septicemia. He was brought to the hospital five days ago. The youjth was born In Mexico, In 1906 He was a son of Algo and Pasada Grinaldo, who reside neat Chattanooga. One brother survives also. The young man had been em ployed in the sugar beet fields by the Holland-St. Louis Sugar rompany for some time. The body was removed to the tag er Brothers morgue this morning ant it will be shipped to McAllen. Texas, for burial Weather Fair tonight and probably Tuesday Not quite so cold Tuesday.

CITY FIREMEN HAVE BUSIEST 1 DAY IN HISTORY: — — I Fire Laddies Answer Four Calls On Sunday; Damage Less Than SIOO ONE MISTAKE MADE IN TURNING IN ALARM A new record was hung up yesterday by Decatur firemen, when four fires helped make it the busiest day (or the local fire fighters in the history of Decatur's volunteer department. The first fire report came about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, when the firemen were called to the Ed Zimmerman home on North Second street. An overheated furnace caused shingles on the roof to catch fire and damage to the extent of sls was done before the flames were extinguished. The arrival of tl.e firemen in time, kept the flames from spreading and only a ' small hole was burned in the roof. Wrong Address Given The second call came shortly after noon. The fire was reported wrong to the telephone operator and the f.re- ' men were forced to search on several • streets before the exact location was 1 found at the Tobe Meyers home on ' ’ South Fifth street, where another over j • heated furnace caused damage to the f extent of aboutst>s. The firemen urge that fire alarms be ti«rnNt into the telephone operator correctly, stating as near as possible lhe exact 10.-attbn of he fire and he , (COVITNI ED ON PAGE TWO* I - o • Auto Toll In Muncie This Year Is Eleven

— c Muncie, Ind, Dec. 28. — (United j Press)- Eleven persons have been ;1 killed by auto accidents it* Muncie and t vicinity this year despite efforts of t aßthorilles to teach motorists that cau- , tion pays. < TO DIVE RECITAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT — I Instructors Os European ' School Os Music And Pupils To Give Program A recital will he give nat the Decatur high school auditorium Wednesday evening by Miss Ruth Castle, of this city, and S'gnor .1. ('. Cafaro and Edward Molthatn, of Fort Wayne, instructors in lhe European School of Music, and their pupils- The pro gram will start al R o’clock Tickets may he secured from Miss t’asllc. M. F Worthman, superintendent ot the city achools. and the pupils of the three instructors included in the program will lie selections by a saxophone quintet, a 1 saxophone band of twelve pieces, and solos by the three instructors, thenpupils and the Misses Carinela and 1 Theresa Cafaro, daughters of Signor

Cafaro Mr. Moliham is Instructor in violin music. Miss Castle is an In- • structor in piano, and Signor Cafaro - is a band instructor and is giving t lessons to the members of the De- - catur junior band. f o — ’ Mrs. Charles Sowells Dies At Jackson, Mich. i 3 Word was received here by Mrs r Enoch Eady of the death of Mrs. ’• Charles Sowells, of Jackson, Mic -, i- a former resident of this city. Mrs. y Sowells died on Christmas day. after y au extended Illness of cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Sowells was about f- 48 years of age and lived In this d city several yeart, moving to Jack- ). son from this city- Word of her death was sent here by her son, Rex Sowells, son-inlaw of Mrs Eady. The funeral services were held today from Jackson and the many friends y. of the former Decatur woman will be grieved to learn of her death.

New Order Is Issued By Public Service Commission Indianapolis,, Dec. 28. tl'uited Press) The slate public service com mission has issued a new order regulating issuance of securities by utilities. J The order requires the utilities to file petitions for authority to Issue the securities at least ten days before ap proval. Final orders w ill not h epromulgat ed for the securities until the matter has been heard publicly. The new rules were drawn up on recommendation of Howe.l Ellis, secretary ot the commission. D. H. S. ALUMNI MEETINGTODAY Reunion Opens This Afternoon; Banquet And Dance This Evening The banquet and reunion of the De catttr high school alumni is in progress and many from out of lhe city) are here for the occasion, which opened with registration at 2 o'clock thl-* afternoon. At 4 o'elo.-k, with Mr. C. A. Dugan. | a former superintendent in charge, the first program was given with former teachers, students and super i ) intendents taking part. At 6 o'clock,' the banquet will be glv»n by the domestic science classes, with Miss Ruth Frlsinger, teacher, in charge After a program of toasts and re sponses, the < rowd will adjourn to ' the auditorium, where a special pro ’ gram, divided Into decades, will be given and, following this, there will i be an organization meeting and a dance for the young people The event promises to be a very delight

ful one. The rooms have been dec orated by a committee, with Miss Florine Michaud as chairman, and arrangements made to check wraps, tag the guests and see that every body meets everybody else. The tables will be arranged so that those of the various periods of school life will be together

Traffic On Ohio River Is Tied Up By Ice Floes —.— p Evansville. Ind., Dec. 28. — (United C Press) —With the channel threeqqua- t) ter.s full of heavy ice floes, traffic on p the Ohio River was tied up today. All steamboats have been moved into b Green River or behind government j locks for protection. Ferry service at all points on the Ohio has been discontinued indefinitely. oFour Diamonds, Worth $2,000, Stolen At Gary Gary. Ind.. Dec. 28—(United Press) —Two daring gem thieves who stole four diamond rings worth $2,000 from a jewelry store here Saturday nigh) were hunted by police today The robbery occurred while scores ‘ of persons were passing the store. 1 One bandit broke the show window 1 with a small hammer while his partner engaged lhe attention of employes of 1 the store.

o - — Joseph Bentz Dies At Marion, Indiana, Sunday Ralph Bentz received a telegram Sunday announcing the death of his father, Joseph Bentz, at Marion, Indiana. Mr. Bentz was well-known in Decatur. Ralph left Sunday for Marion | where he will remain until after the funeral services, which were to be held al 2 o'clock this afternoon. Fire Damages Church In Wells County Sunday Bluffton. Dec. 28—The Bluffton Dre department answered a call to Rockcreek, in W«ll« county, yesterday noon. • when it was learned the St. Paul ; church of Rockcreek township, was on fire Fire damaged the building to ' r the extent of about SSOO. before the I Bluffton firemen extinguished the s blaze. An overheated furnace cause*! {the fire-

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WERLING BOY IS INSTANTLY KILLED TOOAY Accident Occurs Near Preble At Noon; Son Os Charles Werling SHOT STRIKES BOY IN NECK AND JAW Wilbert Werting. ap* 15. son of Chttiies Werling, of Preble township, was instantly killed at noon Balay, when the shot gun with which he was hunting was accidentally discharged. I'he ln*y, with two other youths, latwrence Smith, of Preble, anti Delbert Melcher, of Hoagland, was hunting in a | woods a mile anti a half northI west of Pre h le when the fatal abcident occurred. Tne three boys had gone into the woods about two hours before the accident They had trapped a rabbit In some brush, and the Werling lad had climbed on top of the brush to i shoot the rabbit when It tried to escape. He reavhed down to get his ! gun and as he drew it toward him | the trigger eaught on some brush land the ghn was discharged. The I shot struck the lad in the neck and jaw and it is thought that the jugular vein was torn off. Death Is Instantaneous Death was practically Instantaneous. The two boys ran to a nearby farm house.for help and medical aid was called, but the boy was pronounced dead as soon as physicians arrived. The Melcher boy was vHlttnr the Werttnr boy during- the holidays ond the three lads had i planned the hunting trip by them selves. They had left Preble two hours hie fore the accident and had been hunting In the woods The fatal accident Is the first one to occur during the present hunting season in Adams county Wilber) Werling was born In t< ONTINI I'.l) ON PAGE SIX* ... 0

Opera Singer Undergoes Operation At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne. Ind., l)e< 2li - (I nlted Press) —Horen.ee Macbeth, Chicago Chic Opera soprano. was recovering today from an operation for acute appendicitis. Dr Albert Macbeth, the . tiger s conbln, performed the operation at the Methodist hospital here. CHURCH ELECTS OFFICERS SUNDAY Christian Church And Sunday School Select Officials For 1926

G. T. Burk whs re-elected trustee of the Christian church. anti I'r. Burt Mangold was re elected superintendent of the Sunday School, at the annual election of off cere held yesterday. at the church. Both the church and Sunday school held elections. The church officers for 1926 are as follows: Trustee, G. T Burk; deacons. ,p r . Burt Mangold. Olin Baker. William Cole. Homer Rhul, George Twins Hoy Miller, Joe Cloud, and 11. 1Merry; treasurer. William ('ole; secretary. Olin Baker; chorister. Josephine Anderson: assistant chorister. Dr. Burt Mangold, pianist. Mrs. Adam Kunowlch; assistant pianist. Mamie Sunday school officers elected for 1926 are: Superintendent, Dr. Burt ’ Mangold; assistant superintendent. Olin Baker; secretary, Josephine Anderson; pianist. Isabelle cloud; assistant pianist. Mamie Teeple; treasurer. Mrs. Homer Rhul; chorlst- ' er. William Cole. I The officers Wil he install’d next > Sunday and will nerve in the capa it' ■ Ito which they were elected for one ■ I year, with the ■ veep; ton of wi Burk. 1 1 as trustee. wlioa- vtf.ee t.r (tree