Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1926 — Page 1

Vol. Number 30.

FACTORY ROOF FALLS; 50 MEN BURIED

gCH SOCIETY mntsvolstead LAW MODIFIED Temperance Society Os Episcopal Church Makes Surprising Move want light WINES VXD beer legalized Now York. Feb- 4.-(Unlted Pr*M) _fbe church temperance society ol tbs prJtesiant Episcopal church, feelillg that prohibition hat undone the W rk of fifty years of the temperance moreraent, will work For modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beer. Tlii; decision, us announced by Dr Jat,es Empringhani. national secretary is the result of answers received durluf the paset year to 20,000 members of the society, including both clergy and laiety. Among the reasons given for Uh iMred modification of prohibition were the complaints that the Volstead Art has 'resulted in increased drinking among young people.” is "das? Ugidation. discriminating in favor of the rich,’ ’and "has brought about dis rrsepct for all laws.” The society has a list of officer* and a directorate which includes twen J t) bishops. Dr. Empringhani said considerable pressure has been exerted in an effort to prevent publication of the result of the qitr stionnaire lest it deal "Irreparable injury to the cause of prohibition.'' Wayne It. Wheeler, general counsel fat the Anti-Raloon League, ioomhmil- , nW with him by “telephone, telegnph and letter,” I>r. Empringhani Mid. Dr. Empringham is a former vice president of the ant I-saloon league. 0—..,o —.., ; .... Must Finish Sentence Anderson, Ind., Feb. 4. — (United Press)- James Blake, of Anderson, was to he taken back to the state retormatory today to serve the remainder of a sentence of which he had been granted a parole. A violation of the 1 city traffic ordinances led to revoca- > tioa of the parole. — —— o 1 'WAGE DEATH” MYSTERY IN IOWA Mother Os Nine Children Found In Basement Os Home; Husband Held Sioux City, lowa, Feb. 4 —(United Press)— a "furnace death” mystery confronted police here today in the case of Mrs. George Solomon, 47, toother of nine children, whose badly ch-rrcd body, was found in the bases>«nt of the Solomon home here. Solonum was taken into custody at the -stiggestlon of two of his sons. *ho said they believed he could clear UP the mystery. Wien the younger children return•"<l home late from school yesterday, Solomon told them their mother was friends. A litHle later three of the children discovered the body, hhe body was some distance from large furnace. It was covered *ith coal ashes. The head and arms »ere badly burned. There were no "inis on the lower part of the body, olice said indications were that ' e body had been dragged from the urnace to the spot where it was ound. The family came here from Albertslee, Minn., six years ago. Gasoline Prices Boosted Dnc Cent In State Today lnd - Fob 4—(United J mS ) prices were boostnne cent a gallon throughout Incom* tOday by the standard oil I>any com Pllance with an order “ e<l ln Chicago yesterday. Vi J nce in t * ie pr,Ce of crude oil boost' 6n aS the Reason for the

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Woman Hurls Liquor Into Policeman’s Face Indainapolls, Ind , Feb 4 —(United Press) Patrolman Orville Hudson of the Indianapolis Mice department today is recovering his right, after having a jug of alcohol thrown over him during a raid. When police raided the homo of Edna Window, negro here, the worn an hurled a bottle of liquor at the wall- it broke and the contents went Into Hudson's eyes temporarily blinding him. D.C.H. SENDS FIRST SEMESTER Twenty-one Os Sixty Pupils Get Name On Honor Roll Os School Semester examinations were hold week. Tho results are highly satls!n tho t’atholie high school last factory, and all pupils are ready to make the second half of the year gven more successful than the first. Twenty one out of the sixty pupils of D. C. H F. are. proud to have their name on the roll of honor. Those -eceiving the honor are: Seniors —-Cedric Voglewede, Bernarline Christen. Helen Holthouse. Anna Nesswald. Juniors—Fred Connell. Dick Miller, Raymond Miller. Francis Wertzberg»r. Mary Harris. Sophomores—John Dowling. Margaret Voglewede. Magdalen Schmitt. Freshmen —Cornelius Durkin. Raynond Gase. Agnes Baker. Elsie Brunnegraff. Margaret Fifing, Helen Lengerich. Francis Schultz. Patricia Teeple. , XomiHuWiak . jle~C»iilia o Organization For Riley Hospital Drive Complete Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4—(United Press) —The state wide organization for the campaign to raise $1.000J)00 for the. Itii’ey Memorial hospital for crippled-children was being completed today. When the >1.000,000 fund is pledged an additional half million will be forthcoming from the Ball Brothers of Muncie under the terms of a gift announced this week,. W. G. Terry, director of the drive, appointed zone leaders and stale headquarters were opened here. The zone leaders are: Richmond. G. H. Simons; Muncie. J. WesleyMiller; Fort Wayne. C. W. Stevens; South Bend. 11. A. Church; Peru, 11. C. Burkholder. Lafayette, N. M, Darrell; Terre Haute, J. T. Pierce; Evansville. D. A Leeper; Bedford, F. D. Empey. o Auto Driver Held Following Accident Logansport, Ind., Feb. 4. — (United! ITess.) —A man giving his name as benjamin 11. Block, of Indianapolis,' Is being held here today following an auto accident in which Mrs. Byron Menthorn was seriously hurt. i Police contend that Block disre-j garded a stop signal and collided with the car in which Mrs. Menthorn was ridingArmy Life Too Dull For Expert Saxaphonist Indianapolis, lnd.. Feb- 4. —(United 1 Press.) —An expert saxaphene playerl who found the army dull was hunted ! here today by civil and military authorities. Robert Preston, a private, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, took French leav e after serving less than two months of his enlistment. Auto Skids And Hits Seven Young Women Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4. —(United Press.) —One man is being held here today following an accident late yesterday in which seven young women! were painfully but not seriously Injured. Ben Stewart was arrested by police after his auto had skidded through a safety zone knocking seven women who were waiting for a street car to the pavement,

'DIREGTORSOF : AGRICULTURAL ; ASS'N ORGANIZE John IL Carmody Elected President Os Board; Plan Sale Os Stock PLANS FOR FAIR RECEIVE ATTENTION John 11. Carmody, manager of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar plant here, was unanimously elected president of the board of directors of the Adams County Agricultural Association, at a meeting he'd yesterday afternoon at the Industrial rooms, and he will serve during the sixty days for which the luxird was chosen at the stockholders > meeting a few evenings ago. Other officers elected yesterday were: T. A. Gottschalk, Berne, first vice-president; W. D. Cross, Geneva, second vice president; E. U. Williamson. secretary and W. A. Lower, treasurer. Dr. J. M. Miller was chosen chairman of the membership committee, the other members being ths officers of th>lassociation. They will plan and direct the campaign to dispose of the stock, making an effort to do this durling the next sixty days. Plans were also discussed for the fair this year ’ and work preparatory for that big event will start immediately. It is also probable that a Fourth of July celebration will be held celebrating the 150th anniversary of the independence of the United States. Eleven of the sixteen members of the board attended the peeling, Mr. Gotschalk presiding. It was decided to meet again "Yf.xT"UTonday evening to further plans of operation. RAILWAY HEADS ; GATHER FORGES Road Executives Prepare to Fight Demands Os Employes For Higher Pay I Chicago. Fob. 4—(United Press)— Western railroad executives gathered their forces today to fight the demand of some of tljeir employees for wage increases. A meeting of the executives has been called for tomorrow to organize their resistance to the pay advances. General chairmen of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors already have notified a number of the roads that they were prepared to fight for higher wage -Iveels. Others organized groups are expected to I follow. Preliminary to tomorrow’s meeting, Slason Thompson, head of the i bureaus of railway statistics, issued 1 a statement intended to show that wage increases were not justified at the present time. The average pay -of railroad employes is now 115 per ! cent higher than in 1913. Thompson said, whereas the cost of living is only approximately 65 per cent higher. “The cost of living does not justify an advance and railway revenues ■ cannot stand the •gafT,” Thompson's I statement asserted. It listed exten- ' sive figures in defense of the claim. —o Chicago To Have Pure Milk, Beginning April 1 Chicago. Feb. 4.—(United Press.)— Beginning April 1, Chicago will have pure milk and it will be at no increase in prices. Dr. Herman N. Bttndesen, commissioner of health, said today. Dr. Bundesen’s announcement followed the meeting of the milk produe- ' ers’ association after which it was said that Chicago could have pure milk but it would “have to pay the price.” I “There are sufficient sources to give ' Chicago all the pure milk it wants by ! April 1,” Dr. Bijndesen said. “Every time statements are issued saying that farmers cannot furnish milk at the same price, I receive telegrams from nearby sources offering use of all the 1 tuberculine tested milk we want.”

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February I, 1926.

| President j ~T~ LdflHi 4- JR JOHN 11. CARMODY John H. Carmody, manager of the Decatur factory of the Holland-St. Isiuis Sugar company, was elected president of the board of directors: of the Adams County Agricultural Association, at. the meeting of the directors held yesterday,. Mr. Carmody and th<- other fifteen directors will serve for sixty days, after which a permanent board of directors will be elected by the stockholders. RvTpersons DIE IN FLAMES ’Parents and Three Children, One Three Days Old, Burn To Death Dowagiac, Mich, Feb. 4 —(United Press) — Five members of a family of seven including a three day old infant daughter, were burned to death by fire of undetermined origin which totally destroyed the farm house of William Wilkinson, six, miles north of here today. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin-' son, a son Floyd, a daugher Clnet and the infant daughter. Two other sons. Harold and Arnold, were working on. a neighboring farm and escaped. Witnesses attracted by smoke were unable to cope with the Haines, which swiftly roared through the frame structure and caved it in upon trapped members of the family who were sleeping. All five bodies were reclaimed from lite wreckage after the fire and brought to undertaking parlors here. The dead mother of the family had been blind for many years. — o —. — Court Approves Ford's Purchase Os Factory Site Crown Point, Ind., Feb. 4, —(United Press) —Purchase of 1,6(10 acres of land in the outskirts of Hammond from the L. C. Fisher estate by the Ford Motor Company stood approved today in Lake county court. The sale price was given as $575,000. The tract will be used by the Ford company in development of an air port, it is understood. L. Ert Slack May Seek Senatorial Nomination ■ f Noblesville. Ind., Feb. 4. —(United Press.) — Political observers today were commenting on the statement of L. Ert Slack, Indianapolis, democrat, who yesterday indicated that he might seek the senatorial nomination of his party. In making the statement. Slack said he regretted the idea that the klan issue might be injected into the coming campaign. Slack is considered close to the hooded organization through his association with Walter Bossert former grand dragon. Army Appropriation Bill Is Reported To House Washington, D. C-, Feb. 4—(United Press)—The army appropriation bill carrying $339,581,924, an increase of $1,087,699 above budget estimates and $695,293 above appropriations for the current year, was reported to the house today by the appropriations committee. Weather Mostly cloi|dy tonight and Friday. Somewhat colder in northeast petition. . t

(NINETEEN MEN LOSE LIVES IN MINE DISASTER Explosion Wrecks Mine Near Pittsburgh, Pa.; Only Two Men Escape BLAST FOLLOWS FIRE IN “POCKET” Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 4. (United Press) I teat h has again claimed its grim toll in a mine <tisaster and today 19 men are dead following an explosion that wrecked Right Hutt No. : 15 of the Pittsburugh Terminal Company’s mine No. 4. at Horning, neat here.| I Trapped in a passageway 4,000 feel from the mine entrance only two of the 21 men at work fighting the blaze in the mine, escaped alive. They are Edward Travis, a mine foreman, and Ixtttis Powell. The explosion, which occurred al 4 p. m., yesterday was the aftermath of a fire in the miue which broke out "when a cutting machine broke through ■a cilay vein into a gas pocket. Thr 121 men went into butt No. 15, 4.000 | feet from the mine entrance to fight the blaze at 10 a. m. At 3:30 p. m„ George Osler, vice president of the company, in charge of operations, came lout of the pit announcing his belief that the fire had been brought under control. Within a half an hour, a ter rifle explosion was felt and the group was trapped while between 4<>o and 600 others emerged from other sections of the mine, some of them not knowing that aio LruuUU was around tlu-m. -o BELIEVED MG GRAY TO BE SOLVENT Goodrich Says Business Men Thought Loans Were Good Business Deals Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4. (United Press) —Final evidence was introduced today in the federal court suit over $350,000 worth of assets of Warren T. McCray, former governor. James P. Goodrich, who raised the pool to aid McCray, testified that the twenty-one business men who made the loan of $350,000 to McCray thought he was solvent at the time and regard ed the loan as a good business deal. R. Earl Peters, trustee in bankruptcy for McCray, is attempting to have the assets McCray gave as security for the loan turned over to the general creditors of the former governor. Goodrich told of soliciting con/lbutions to the fund from bankers and politicians by telephone and telegraph Among the men who formed the poo) were Goodrich and Winfield Durbin, both former governors, Will Irwin, Columbus banker, Tom Taggart, democratic politician, and Will 11. Hays, czar of tiie movies. Following completion of the evidence attorneys will argue the case before Solon J. Carter, master in chancery. —. o White Woman Learns That Her Husband Os Six Months Is Negro Davenpoat, Feb. 4. —(United Press.) —Six months ago Mrs. Edna Healy Bogie, 39, widow of a well known stock breeder of the tri cities, married a personable "white man" she had known for more than 8 years. Today Mrs. Bogie was reported on the verge of prostration at the home of her parents in Rock Island, 111., following the discovery that her hitsiband was a negro, and that he was the father of a girl in Columbus, O-, by a former marriage with a negress. Ralph Bogie, the husband, and his bride of six months, were taken into police custody following the death of Harold, their foster son. who died from burns received "when a kettle of boiling water fell on him. They were released, but the grand jury is continuing its investigation.

Elkhart To Get New Factory In Near Future Elkhart, lr.d„ Feb. 4 - (United Press)—Elkhart citizens today were jubilant over the announcement that this city is soon to hate another factory. Tho now plant will bo tho Henry Weis Manufacturing Company, now of Atchison. Kansas. The company has closed a contract for the construction of a large factory building here and :t. is believed the plant will begin op•ration about June 1. CORONER GIVES VERDICT TODAY Finds Death Os W. IL Walter Due To Self Administration Os Poison Coroner Harold Mattax of Geneva tnd Sheriff John Baker of this city completed their inquiries last night nto the death of W. IL Walter whose body was found near Bellmont Park yesterday noon. Coroner Mattax said n a telephone conversation this morning that fils report would read, ‘suicide by self administration of poison.” There was some talk last night, that there was a possibility that death might have been caused by apoplexy, but the evidence was] -,uch. the coroner stated, that suicide was evident. Funeral services will be held at he United Brethren church in this city. Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. R. Smith, of this city, and the Rev. Mr. of Portland, will have charge of the services. Burial will take place at the DeerUur cemetery' o— Proof Os Bet Missing; Prisoner Is Released ' St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4. — (United Press)—Frank Betz was brought into circuit court here charged with receiving a $2 bet on a recent horse race at Havana ' "WTiere’s the club steward,” one of the prosecutors asked of the arresting oficer. There was no reply. "Where’s the horse?” the prosecutor asked. The officer grinned and sai dhe 'idn't know. "Then if there's no steward and no horse, how can you prove there was a horse race on which you made the bet,” and when the oficer couldn’t answer this, Betz was dismissed. Terre Haute Man Jailed For Robbing The Mail Terre Haute, lnd., Feb. 4. —(United Press)—Joseph E. Fleenor, for seven years a postal employee in the local postoffice is in jail today on a charge of robbing the mail. Postal inspectors annoYtnced today they had been suspeious of the man for some time and decided upon decoy letters yesterday which the inspectors claim Fleenor opened last night and removed cheeks and money orders. _ o —— Infant Daughter Os Decatur Couple Dies Esther Eline, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Patterson, died at the Patterson home in this city yesterday evening. The child was born November 21, 1925. She is survived by her parents, one brother. Harvey Edward, and one sister, Faye June. Funeral services will be held from the Salem M. E. church at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, with the Rev. Mr. Shipley officiating. o Apartment House Burns; Fifty Families Homeless Whiting, Ind., Feb. 4. — (United Press.) — Eighteen families, of more than 50 people, are homeless today following a fire which last night dei stroyed the Hoosier apartment build--1 ing here with a loss of $50,000. The apartment, which is located in I the heart of the business district was I burned to the ground and firemen had ' difficulty in preventing the blaze 1 from spreading to an adjoining theater.

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WEIGHT OF SNOW CAUSES ROOF OF FOUNDRY TO FALL Two Bodies Taken Out Os Debris Os Building In New Britain, Conn. RESCUE WORK IS STARTED AT ONCE New Britain, Conn., Feb. I . (I'itited Press) Weight of ' snow which for almost 21 ’ hours had be<>n falling here, (caused the roof of the foundry of the North and .ludd Manufacturing company to collapse today. Fifty workmen were reported buried, Two bodies were taken out and six persons, seriously injured were carried away soon after the accident. Fire copanies and police reserves were called out to join other workmen from the plant in rescue work In the belief that forty or more men probably remain trapped beneafh the wreckage of the roof and mounds of snow. ! Democratic Committee To Discuss Change In Rules Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4.—(United Press) —Plans for redrafting the rules of the Indiana State Democratic committee are to be discussed at the n-xt meeting of the state committee to he held here February 11. it was learned today. The coming session of the committee will be held in conneetioft with the annual session of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. it was indicated today that Lincoln Dixon, former democratic congressman from the fourth district, will announce his intention of becoming a candidate for the long term senatorial nomination at this meeting. Dixon is now democratic chairman from the fourth district. INSTITUTE HELD AT MONMOUTH Three Interesting Sessions Held Wednesday; Plan Institute Next Year • ■ The Root Township Farmers institute was held in the school building at Motymouth, Wednesday forenoon, afternoon and evening. During the forenoon session, Mr. Maurice Douglas, of Shelby county, spoke on the subject, “Cattle," and Mrs. Ogg used as her subject, "My Travels.” Lunch was served by the domestic science, class of the Monmouth high school. In tiie afternoon, Mr. Douglas used. “Market Problems,’ as his subject, while Mrs. Ogg addressed those present on "The Art of Getting Things Done." Those present were well pleased with the addresses. The evening program was made up of literary numbers, which greatly I pleased the people of the vicinity who crowded into the limited space afforded by the assembly room of the school building. A session was also held in the evening preceding, motion pictures shown by the county agent making trf> a large part of the program. In an exhibit held in connection with the Institute, the following were winners: White cake, first. Miriam Myers; second, Margaret Moi Her; third, Della Borger. Dark cake first, Mary Jane Kunkel; second. Louise Gage. Bread, first, Arvllla Bieherick; second, Mildred Bohnke. Officers elected for the following year were: chairman. C. D. Kunkel; secretary-treasurer, Mr?. Ed Christen It was stated following the after- . noon session that sufficient membership was obtained to insure allot Iter institute next year. ; The St. Marys Township Farmi-r.t Institute will be held in the school - building at Bcbo, Friday while the Betne Institute w II occur at B one Saturday.