Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1926 — Page 1

Vol XXIV. Number 26.

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heal battle OVER TAX BILL OH IN SENATE ■Rssswar Points In Measure SOME OF REGULARS S JOIN INSURGENTS Washington. .lan. JiO- (I’nitI jw.ss) ri"‘ rc °i over iiv’Ml.OOO federal tax dudion I'ill " ns schcdule<l •<» ± n It..- tah> '“’“X Sir ll» i.u.tinK ;'f the fifty unread pages ot the ' Bilter warfare w ill be waged n „ th,- floor over four imports' points of the bill in its present form: . , , . ~ 1- Repeal of the federal Inherit- - anee tax. 2- Repeal of the income tax poo j li,H> clause 3- lower surtax rates which , rwh a maximum of twenty percent ] ol $500,000 income compared with ( i h , present forty percent maximum. 4 Administrative changes, mostly • in the functioning of the internal ] revenue bureau, recommended by the Cotizens committee. I The sporadic debate which has | interrupted the reading of the measure during the last two days has Indicated Hutt the fight will find some ot the regulars with the insurgents against the present bill. Senator Norris, republican, Nebras ka. expects to use the Cotizens re- J port to bolster his demanff that publicity of income taxes be retained. He will also demand >hqt publicity k extended to the operations of the wernie bureau. t ■ o I Question Os Which Is i Best Shop Is Undecided ‘ l-aporte. Ind.. Jan. 30. — (United f Press.) "The question ot what is the 1 best florist shop in I aporte is still 1 unsettled today but Mrs. Eva Sark 1 end Mrs. Ursula Hakunas are out $5 1 each. i They were fined in city court here 1 after Mrs. Bakunas used a poker to ’ emphaslzo the points she was making ‘ io her argument about the better 1 shop. I o ...... . . _ Exposure Causes Death Os Gary Tin Mill Worker Cary, Ind., Jan. 30.—(United Press) —Exposure to the bitter cold of the last few days today was blamed for , the death of Ernest Baker, tin mill wker, who was found frozen to death in a vacant lot here. OVERCOME BY GAS;RECOVERS Harry Staley Has Narrow Escape From Asphyxiation This Morning Harry Staley, owner of the Ace Battery and Tire shop, was overcome . Ih Aas about noon today in the vulcanizing department of his shop, and f,r a while it appeared that the gas 1 foisht prove fatal. lie was overcome 1 n t ' le basement of his shop and man- ' . 8 10 Ad to the first floor, where ’ c became unconscious. Fred McCon- * used artificial respiration on Mr. 1 w apy nn,i ' a Physician arrived. He 1 s revived in a while and was able ( . < ' on(i!> He his work, hut for some ®e it was feared that his lungs had X ’" lp w Hh' the poisonous gas. O -r— Mail Sack Is Stolen ft,- ' — Jan ' (United Press.) 1 ®an. hid m h “v. Iligßins ’ a ba Kgage retl '. 1 ’ back turned, a sack of * •t!h *7 mail ln CU9 to<iy ' urban > rOni the HHnols Central sub- I ch 'S the Ut lOM. I,M haVe nOt yet I

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Off Again ■»*» V. • w W. PPtMCE o/'VALEir 't he Prince of Wales, champion “faller ofl” of the world, narrowly escaped serious injury when his horse dropped dead while the British heir was fox hunting. Although bruised, the Prince mounted nnolht r horse and continued the hunt. This is the third fall he has had this season. GRADE TOURNEY SCHEDULE DRAWN Pairings For Eighth Grade Net Tournament Is Arranged Today The schedule for the Adams county eighth grado basketball tournament, to be played in the Decatur high school gymnasium next Saturday. was drawn this afternoon. The games will start at 7:30 a,m. and the final game will be played Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Fifteen minute halves will be played, with fiveminute rest between halves. Leßoy Hedges, coach of Lancaster high school, Wells cjounty, will referee the games As a preliminary to the final game, the teachers of the southern half of the county will play the teachers of the northern half.. This game will start at 7:30 o’clock. Following is the schedule: Saturday Morning 7:30 —Wabash twp. vs. French twp. 8:10 Berne vs. Decatur public school B:so—Preble vs. Kirkland twp. 9:30 —Linn Grove v%. Geneva 10:10 —Monroe vs. Monroe township. 10:50 —Monmouth vm. Washington township 11:30 Winner 7:30 game vs. Decatur Catholic. z Saturday Afternoon 2:oo—Winner 8:10 a.m, vs. winner 8:50 a.ny 2:40 Winner 9:30 am. vs winner 10:10 r( m. 2:lo—Winner 10:60 a. m. vs winner 11:30 a.m. • 3:so—Winner at 2 r> m - V -S winner 2:40 p. m. Saturday Evening 8:30 —Winner 3:10 p. m,. vs winner 3:50 p. m Flagman Gives Life In Effort To Save Girl Ottawa, 111., Jan. ~ 30. — (United Press) —Matthew Ross, flagman at a railroad crossing and Miss Catherine Brown, were killed today, when they were struck by a train near here. ' Ross sacrificed his life in an effort to save the girl, whom he saw in the path of the train. Community Meeting At Aber School Postponed The community meeting scheduled for the Aber school house last evening has been postponed until Monday evening, February 1, The program will begin at 7:30 o’clock. C. E Striker, county superintendent of schools, will give an address during the evening and a debate will be held- There will be songs, readings and talks, also, and a cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend. jfetftiM

REVIVALS MAY : CLOSE SUNDAY I Three Churches Holding Evangelistic Services Plan Big Day Tomorrow Good attendance marked the rc- ' rival meetings being held at three | Decatur churches last night. One | ] service will be held tonight at the United Brethren church, the Rev. Cecil Ft. Smith announced today. Ail, churches will hold their regular | meetings tomorrow and lite three' hold'ng revivajs will decide whether they will continue with weeknight meetings. I it is thought, generally, that the. I revivals will close Sunday, but it was learned this morning that they may continue part of next week. All I the meetings have been very successI ful and many have professed their j faith in Christ. Evangelical Church 1 An interesting song service, led by - Profl. (’. A. Gerber, preceded the regV ttlar sermon at the Evangelical 1 church last night. The Junior choir < presented an interesting program. • Three people bowed at the altar and f were saved. • The pastor, the Rev. R. W. Loose. 4 took as bls text. Numbers. 32-23. “Be sure, your sins will find you out." He said tn part: “One of the most startling facts in life is that of our individual responsibility to God. To live an average life; as good as this I person or this or that Christian, is to think loosely. The real issue is. I ‘what is God's plan for me? What is God’s will concerning me? My final responsibility is to God alone. In the judgement day I will not hide behind any other individual. If all Decatur were in the wrong, that would-not jnotvfy my -being wrong.' “Especially if I had the privilege og having the truth and light. My r sin will appear in the judgement ' and it will find m« out ultimately. But our sins are revealed in our physical lives. Read the faces of » (CO.NTIMEO OX PAGE TWO) :DECATUR GIRL ■ REACHES CHINA , Miss Esther Sellemeyer Arrives At Shenchow To Resume Her Work Successful in dodging bandits, cholera nnd other dangers. Miss Esther Sellemeyer, of this city, arriv- . ed at Shenchow. China, at 3:30 i o'clock on the afternoon of November 8, according to her letter written r November 15 and recently received .here. So many inquiries have come Io the relatives, that Mr. M. Kirsch r gave the Daily Democrat the foliow- | ing paragraphs from her very interr esting letter: | “We arrived here at 3:30, on the r Bth and were met at the landing by I the entire school and the foreigners, r lite girls school celebrating by the I shooting of fire crackers all the way I until we reached the home. This r is one of the customs here. To avoid danger the small boats travel in fleets. There were 400 boats in ours and we were escourted by 200 sol- [ I diets to guard against the bandits. | A danger graver than the bandits | was the cholera which is now very 1 bad here and during our trip up the ) [ river, more than a hundred on the ' fleet died from tills terrible disease. | The river is simply full of cholera t germs and we were compelled to ) 1 drink this water on the trip. “Travel is very slow here after speeding around the U. S. A. We traveled at the rate of eleven miles lia day (not hour) and we could not I travel at night because of the 1 danger of attacks by the bandits. “Arriving at Shenchow. we found - many are dying from starvation as' - there is a serious famine here and . conditions aye simply terrible. Folks! f in prosperous and happy lands do ; not realize what it means to live as t the natives do here. I am thankful t to have escaped the bandits and the - cholera on the trip and we are busy j now relieving the sufferers here as | much as we can.” I

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 30, 1926.

Planes To Be Used In Flight To North Pole Pass Through Decatur I The shipment of two airplanes, contracted by tite Atlantic Aircraft cor'potation of Hasbrottek, N. J. passed through this city on the Err railroad this morning. It took four rate to ship Ute planes. They were of tlm Fokker , F-7 type commercial plttne aid will be used in the contemplated flight <om- | mantled by Capt. G. it Wilkins, Aus.trailan explorer, who proposes to fly to the north i»ole. The expedition Is . expected to fly from Fairbanks, Alasj ka, to Point Darrow, Alaska, a h-lance ’ of 5(»0 miles, (in March 20, the party expects to fly from Point Dtrrow to Ute north pole. o — — , DECATUR WOMAN EXPIRES TODAY Mrs. Jane Steele Cloud Dies Os Heart Trouble At Home On Monroe St. Mrs. Jane Steele Cloud. "8, died at her home on Monroe street at 8:35 o'clock litis morning. Death was due to a heart attack, suffered recently. Mrs. Cloud's death occurred on the date of her wedding anniversary. Her husband, Clinton C. (’loud died four years apo. Mrs. Jane Steele Cloud was l>orn in Kirkland township, and has spent her entire life in this county. She was born February 13( 184". and in 1873 she was married to Clinton C. Cloud. To this union, nine children were born, seven of whom survive. They are: Frank Cloud. Hol Springs, Ark.: Joseph C’oud, ami Richard Cloud, of this city; Harry Cloud, of Midland, Michigan; Jesse Cloud, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Mrs. John Bright, of Decatur, and Mamie and Mrs. Letta Peters, at home. Two sisters also survive. They are Mrs. Elmer Sprague, of Monroeville. and Mrs. W. H. Straub, of Peterson. besides a host of friends. Mrs. Cloud has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city for many years and has always been a faithful church member. Fitneral services will be held from the home Monday afternoon. The Rev. Somerville Light, pastor of the Decatur Methodist church, will have charge. Burial will take place in t“e Decatur cemetery. MINE OPERATORS OFFER NEW PLAN Compulsory Arbitration Os Wages Demanded By Operators At Parley By Paul W. White (United Press Staff Correspondent) Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 30. — Machinery to fix wages in future disputes within the hard coal industry now remains the most sharply contested point in the negotiations of the conference attempting to bring to an end the present strike. Operators, in the newest summation of their demands laid before tite conference, demand compulsory arbitration of wages; the miners off era conciliatory commission with power of recommedations only —a sort of voluntary arbitration. Possibly of acceptance by the miners of the employers plan is scarcely considered. As to whether the operatorg will reject the voluntary proposal, there is doubt. Weather Rain or snow In north portion and rain in south portion probable tonight nd Sunday. Warmer in extreme south portion and colder in north portion j tonight. Colder Sunday. Washington, Jan. 30. — (United 1 Press) —Weather outlook for period Feb. 1 to C, inclusive: Region of Great Lakes—A period ot snows or rains the early part, about the middle aud again toward the eud of the week. Temperatures near or | below normal most ot the week.

I GENEVA YOUTHS ABE ACOUITTED Harry Hanni And Harold Lehman Found Not Guilty Os Assault Charge (S[»eclal to Daily Democrat) Geneva. Jan. 30—Harry Hanni and Harold Ijehman., Geneva youths, today were found not guilty of assault and battery in connection with the Injury of Marion Ray. Geneva high school freshman, in an accident two weeks ago. The decision wfls announced this afternoon by James W. Barr, local justice of the peace, who heard the boys' trial yesterday. j The trial was completed laste yesterday afternoon, but 'Squire Barr took th erase under advisement unit II today. The Ray boy fell from the running board of an automobile driven by Hanni and I.ehman one evening two weeks ago. striking his head on the railing of the Limbetflost bridge, a half mile east of town. He was rendered unconscious in the fall. Lehman and Hanni were alleged to have flicked the Ray boy up and carried him several yards down the road, and then placed him in the road. I-ater. it was charged, they drove) their automoblie over the boy's legs) and left it ini lying in the road, where he was found later by. a farmer. Wiljis Jack. Hanni and Lehman denied that they carried the boy down the road from the bridge and drove their car over his legs. The Ray boy has practically ijix-ove.red from his injttritps. K. Os (’. To Hold Interesting Meeting An interesting meeting has been planned for Monday evening, when the Knights of Columbus will hold their regular meeting. An attendance prize Os S2O will be given aud every member is urged to attend. On Tuesday evening, the regular card party and dance will be given at the K. of C. hall and tickets are now being sold. BADIO TESTS END TONIGHT Stations In Western Hemisphere Broadcast Test Programs Tonight New York. Jan 30.—(United Press) — International Radio week will wind up tonight, the tests involving only stations in the western hemisphereThe hour set aside for the fest broadcasting will be that used during the entire week, 11 p. m., to midnight eastern standard time. II to 11:15 p. nt. —Canadian stations on the air, all others silent. 11:15 to 11:30 p m. —Stations in northern part of the United States on the air, all others silent. 11:30 to 11:45 p. m.- Stations in southern part of the United States on the air, ail others silent. 11:45 to midnight—Stations south of the United States, including Cuban and Mexico, on the air, ail others silent. These tests, arranged geographically, will include all stations from coast to coast. For instance, northern United States will range from Portland, .Me., to Seattle, Wash. Particularly all the important stations iu the various sections involved have arranged special features for their 15 minute test periods and an nouncements will be made in such a manner as to provide the distant listener with every possible means of identification. o School Bus Ditched; 15 Pupils Escape Injury Mt. Vernon, Ind., Jan. 30. —(United Press.) —Fifteen pupils in a rural school truck escaped unhurt when it was ditched on a slippery road and overturned near here yesterday. Several of the children suffered frost bitten hands and feet when they were forced to continue to school on foot.

Flu Victim \ s ■ iw j . . KATO Viscount T. Kato, the Japanese Prime Minister, is dead tiller a four davs’ illness with influenza. tie was a hitter foe of America’s immigration policy. SHAW ACQUITTED IN THIRD TRIAL Indianapolis Negro Finally Wins Freedom From Murder Charge Martinsville, Jan. 30 — (United Press)—John Thomas Shaw, Indianapolis negro, today was found not guilty of murdering Mrs. Helen Welchel, a white woman, iu Indian apoils in the fall of 1923. The jury in the Morgan county court which cleared Shaw deliberated less than an hour and a halt The trial was the third time Shaw faced a jury for Mrs. Welchel’s death. He was convicted in Marion county and sentenced to death but the state supreme court ordered a new trial. On the second trial, held last summer. the jury disagreed. o Woman And Daughter Face Prison Terms For Robbery Sioux Falls, S. D.. Jan. 30.—(United Press.) Mrs. Catherine Rogers and her daughter, Zera, today face prison sentences for the robbery of the Renner State bank, November 27. The jury in the case was out three hours and returned a verdict of guilty after three ballots. Mrs. Rogers and her daughter received the verdict calmly although the sentence for first-degree robbery calls for from one to 20 years imprfaoninent. Defense counsel pleaded for asylum treatment rather titan imprisonment for his clients and the husband of Mrs. Rogers testified “she is crazy.” The woman bandits will be sentenced Tuesday. o _ Fur Thief Shows Too Much Interest In Case; Arrested Mt. Vernon, Ind., Jan. 30.—(United Press.) —Barney Caldwell, 27, is in jail here today awaiting court action on charges that he stole valuable hides from a local store,. Barney's constant questioning of police as to whether they had any Clues to the robber first directed suspicion to him. He was watched and arrested when lie took the pelts to Evansville to sell them. 0 W. L. George, Prominent British Novelist, Dies London, Jan. 30. — (United Press ) —W. L. George, prominent British novelist of the modern school, died today from pneumonia and heart disease. George, who has attained prominence since the war. was the author of a burlesque of British journalism called "Calliban” which is probably his outstanding work. "Ursula Trent," another of his recent books portrays the transition of thought of the British youth since the war.

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GAS EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE TAKES BIG TOLL Eleven of Dead Are Whites; Others Are Negroes; Bodies Are Recovered THREE MINERS DIE IN COLORADO BLAST Birmingham. Ala., Jan. 30. - -I United Press) The 101 lof dead in the gas explosion in tne Premier Coal Com party's mine at Mosboro, near here, was brought to 27 today, when searchers found 10 additional bodies. Seventeen bodies were taken out of the mine a short time after tite explosion and It was hoped that the remaining ten would be rescued alive. During the night, oxygen was pumped Into the shaft in the belief that their lives would be saved.. When the entry was penetrated today, however, the remaining ten bodies were found. Eleven of th? dead were white, the rest negroes Funerals of the victims will be held tomorrow at Mosboro. Relief work for the families of the dead was promised by the coal company. Miami. Okla.. Jan. 30. — (United Press) —Four miners were killed by u cave-in at a zine mine near here today. Rescue work is.held up on account of a cave-in, uhleh injured on of the rescuers. Explosion In Colorado Trinidad, Colo.. Jan. 30. — (United Press) The dead in the nulnher three mine of the Bear Creek Coal Company today stood al three, while nearly a score more were suffering slight injuries An explosion of gas in the yesterday occurred while 36 miners were working in the shaft. All but three escaped. Probe Illinois Disaster West Frankfort. 111., Jan. 30. (United Press) — Investigations were started today to determine tite cause of the fatal blast in the Oriental Mine, the world's largest collerie here, in which five men were killed yesterday. Although there were more than 1,600 men a work in the shaft as the time of the blast, preventative measures prevented the fire and gas extending to other regions of the mine. “Rock dust" is used throughout the mine to prevent an escape of the gas and it was this which probably prevented a more serious blast Friday. TRAINING SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS HERE Books May Be Obtained By Students At Office Os Lenhart & Heller The text books for students of Ute Community Training School, which will commence the second semester Monday, Feb. 8, arrived this morning and may be secured at the law office of Lenhart & Heller. Students may study the first chapter of the text book for the first evening New students will have the privilege of enrolling at 7 o’clock on the evening the school commences. Students having the texts used in Dr. Bridge's class last spring ( "The Educational Task of the Church,” by Bower) and that used in Rev. Dotson's class ("Training of the Devotional Life." by Weigle & Tweedy) and the book "The Teacher," may sell their books if they desire by bringing them to the office of Lenhart & Heller or to the school on the first night. Text books in all courses should be purchased by the students, except in course No. 92 on "Tite Curriculum of Religious Education,” where it is optional with the, student. In a letter send to the students, it was erroneously stated text nooks on course No. 83. on "The Adult Worker (COVt’iMiED ON PAOF. FINE)