Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1926 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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HUNT ESCAPES FROM DEPUTY SHERIFF

•lIMMISSIONERS receive bids IBIS MORNING Steps Taken To Have InteriorOfJail Repainted And To Buy Materials <’ll ANGES MADE IN VOTING PRECINCTS Hijs for the painting of the interior nf the county Jail and for furS tons of fertilizer at the rta . t v farm were received by the of commissioners this morn 1.,. Bills w>r.' also received for the (ornisbng of stone and other materjjl required in the repair of the roads in ths county, but the contract wlll not awarded this afternoon. Four blds were filed for the painting of the interior of the Jail, they being John Morningstar. $235; Frank Xeadstine, $275; Artie 1.. Jackson. I’f.lio; Daniel Cook. $l3O. The bid o( Mr. Cook was withdrawn, because of the fact that he had made a misUke in estimating the Job. The conIrtct will he awarded to one of the <,(her three bidders. Tbs bids for the furnishing of the fertilizer were close, there being a differeme of only $5.15 between the highest anil lowest hid. The bidders wrt: Fred Busche, $274 50; Henry Dehner, $269.85 and Otto Hoile. The contract was awarded Io Mr. Dehner. The bonds of Harry LaFountain, 1 superintendent of the county infirmary, and <’ E. Magley, county supertntendeut of highways. were_ .filed, and approved. The monthly report of Mr. laFountain was also filed jaul.approved. Specifications for the furnishing of one to eleven road graders to the Bounty highway department were adopted by the board and bids will be received by the board on April 6. Voting Precincts Changed The boundaries of the "Ceylon.” ‘■Geneva A" and "Geneva B” precincts in Wabash township were changed. The Ceylon precinct Includes the north half of the township, uciwh of Geneva. Geneva A, now Includes the north halt of Geneva, north of Line street, while Geneva R precinct includes all territory couth of Line street and south one and one-half miles of Wabash township. Tlie change becomes effective at once and voters at the primary next May will be required to vote in the new precincts. It is thought that every voter in Geneva and Ceylon will be required to register next fall, in order to vote at the November election, the change making such registration necessarv. BEET ACREAGE BEING OBTAINED Urge Amount Os Acreage Already Under Contract For Local Plant llork started this week on obtaining fontracLs for beet acreage for the Hol-iMd-St. Ixntis Sugar company and E. J Fricke, field manager for the De'■t'tir factory, stated today that he had sircady obtained a large amount of b'reuge and expected to have more “H acreage next fall than in any camMgtt since the erection of the local factory. The local factory is offering a par“'Rating contract to farmers this year •* n( i it is meeting with great satisfac'lCll'with everyone. The contract this ■ bar offers the farmer a certain price on H,, . , , . f ~ 6 uiuuulil 01 HUgiir produced uih beets, giving him the ad vanJ of the current price of sugar at “■ time of cutting. wit , F ' icke retu i rl,eil the first of this 1 rom northwestern Indiana where J r \ DeW flel(Js were opened to wh r )eet rai,i »K and he stated that W | t J 6Ver tt,e of (er was mad it met m approva! among the far”ork ' lr • Prlcke wlll continue to 36v ' n tllia comni tinity for the next local r ? eeks ’ sald today. The 26 ®»XTe“n ake lnaradiUS ° f

Prince a Hero

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When a sailor fell overboard in Stockholm Harbor, (’town Prince Gustav of Sweden, plunged in and saved his life. The two then repaired to a! nearby grog shop and averted pneumonia with several stiff drinks of brandy.

JOHN BEITLER DIES AT BERNE Well-known Retired Farmer i Expires After Illness Due To Senility (Special to Dally Democrat) Berne. March 2. —John Beitler, 77, well-known retired farmer, died at his hrwm H-um'if 3TW nYWHr) Sunday afternoon. Mr. Beitler had been ill for the last five and one-half months, his illness being attributed to senility. Mr. Beitler was born in Wayne county, Ohio, February 8, 1849. He came to Adams county, Indiana, when a young man and had spent the last thirteen years of his life in Berne. In 1877. Mr. Beitler was married to. Miss Fannie Reef. Four daughters I and four sons were born to this I union, all of whom survive. They are Emma Beitler and Ed Beitler, of Linn Grove; Fred Beitler, of Wabash township; Mrs. Fred Mettler, of Berne; William Beitler. of Hartford township; Elizabeth Beitler, of Colorado Springs. Colo.; Mrs. Hiram Liechty. of Berne; and Dewaid Beitler, of Berne. Mrs. Beitler and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellenberger and Mrs. Lena Yager, and two brothers, Sam and Lawrence, and two stepbrothers, Chris and Fred Stucky, also survive. Funeral services will be held from the Berne Reformed church at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. o Decatur People In Auto Accident At Van Wert Miss Glee Krugh, of this city, and Mr. Vernon Niblick, of Fort Wayne, received painful, but not serious injuries, Sunday night, when they were thrown from an automobile to the pavement at the intersection of Main and Shannon streets, in Van Wert. The car in which they were riding was driven by “Red" Fitch, of Fort | Wayne. Miss Krugh and Mr. Niblick suffered minor cuts on the head ami Miss Krugh sustained a sprained ankle. The other occupants of the car, MaDonna Krugh and Mildred Debolt, of this city, and Levi Carpenter, of Fort Wayne, were not injured. Rev. Thompson Speaks To Wells County Ministers The Rev. H. W. Thompson, pastor of the Christian church in this city, is-poke at a meeting of the Wells County Ministerial Association in the public library in Bluffton yesterday. The Rev. Somerville Light, pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, was scheduled to deliver the adress, but he was ill and Rev. Thompson filled the engagement. Rev. Thompson spoke on the subject, "The Preacher and the Modern Age.”

EDITOR FOUND NOT GUILTY OF BLASPHEMY Young Brooklyn Editor AcI quitted On Charge Os Breaking Old "Blue Law” COURT FINDS HIM GUILTY OF SEDETION Brockton, Mais., Mar. 2. — (United Pres?!— Anthony Bimba, Brooklyn editor, today was found not guilty, of blasphemy, following bis trial under a 229-year-old Puritan “Blue law" but was convicted of sedition. The verdict was returned by Judge Carrol Kiri?;, a direct descendant of the designers of the Declaration of Independence, who had had the case under advisement since Saturday. Judge King imposed a SIOO fine on the sedition charge. Attorney Harry 'Hoffman, chief defense counsel, entered an appeal in behalf of his client from the sedition conviction. The court, in brief comment on the religious questions raised in the case, expressed the belief that Bimba spoke merely “‘to stir his audience" and was attempting to ‘show the clerical government of Lithuania to he hypocritical and its acts entirely irreligious." “I rule the defendant declared personal belief in away permissable by law and I find him not guilty of blasphemy.” were the words In which the court dismissed this phase of the case. Second Os Series Os Lenten Sermons Tonight r Xhe B*x_.Jfcj*Jbe£_y ic.ha.el. AW.lrew. 'Chapman, associate editor of “Our Sunday Visitor,” published at Huntington, Indiana, will deliver the second of his series of six Lenten sermons at St. Mary’s Catholic church this evening. The services will begin at 7:30 o'clock. The .subject cf his sermon will be "The Agony of Christ in the Garden and the sin of Pride." Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will | be held following the sermon. DAMAGE SUIT GOES ON TRIA L Sarah Mildred Ault Seeks $15,000 For Injuries Sustained In Accident The damage suit of Sarah Mildred Ault, Decatur yoijng lady, against Berch R. Farr, in which the former seeks judgment for $15,000 for personal injuries sustained when she was truck by the defenda|t's automobile on March 5, 1925, went on trial in the Adams circuit court before a jury and Judge Jesse *C. Sutton, this morning. The plaintiff counsel rested its case about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Indications were that the evidence would all be presented today. The Jury likely will get the case sometime Wednesday. The accident in question occurred on the Bellmont road just east of the city limits, on the night ts March 5, 1925. Miss A),it. who was 16 years old at the lime of the accident, was walking along the road and Mr. Farr was driving his Hudson coach. The ear struck the girl, hurling her to the pavement and breaking her left leg between the knee and hip, iraeturing her right knee and Inflicting other injuries. Counsel for the plaintiff consists of Attorney D. E. Smith, of Fort Wayne, and IL M- DeVoss, of Decatur. Attorney Dore B. Erwin is counsel for Mr. Farr o Treasury-Postoffice Appropriation Bill Signed By President Washington, March 2. — (United Press.) — President Coolidge today signed the treasury-postofflee appropriation bill carrying $868,281,501 for running those two departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 2, 1926.

Portland Youths Say Decatur Men Gave Wine To Them Last Saturday | Four Portland high . chooi boys, representative ; cf prominent families in that city, appeared in police court I Monday as a result of drinking dande lion wine, which they say was given to them by two men from Decatur, Jia t Saturday night. The boys said I they were taken to the rear of the . Armory building in Portland, where they drank the wine from a large gallon jug. They say they do not know the names of the two Decatur men. I The boys were rounded up Saturday night by a night policeman in I’ortI land. TWO BOYS FACE t LARCENY CHARGE r 'Geneva And Bryant Boys Admit Theft of Overcoats From Portland Armory (Special to Daily Democrat) I Geneva. Mar. 2,—Sam Dines. 18, of > Geneva, and another youth by the , name of Knoelke, living, at Bryant, • south of here, were placed under ari rest yesterday by Harl Hollingsworth. - Geneva town marshal, on a charge of - larceny. The youth’, are charged with ' the theft cf two overcoats and a silk muffler and with stealing several gal- ■ lons of gasoline from a filling station ■ in Bryant. > The overcoats and muffler were stol- • en during a basketball game between the Portland and Decatur high school teams in the armory at Portland, on l Friday night, February 18. Dines is employed in a hotel In Portland. Marshal Hollingsworth first placed the r KhoeStn youth under arrest yesterday, finding him at his home in Bryant. C On the way to Portland, the Knoelke ! youth confessed to the marshal and told him that Dines sold one of the ( coats to Isaac Bird. In Geneva for $5, ( and that the other coat was at his (Knoelke's) home in Bryant. The marshal and his prisoner returned to I Bryant and secured the coat and then drove to Portland. When Dines was confronted by Marshal Hollingsworth and Portland police officers, he confessed, also. Knoelke then told the oflcers that they had broken into a hardware store in Bryant on the same night and stole enough gasoline to fill , the tank in Dines' car. The two youths were scheduled to appear in the Jay circuit court before ; Judge Roscoe D. Wheat today. o , J. W.WORTHI NGTON ‘ DIES IN PRISON I | "Wolf Os LaSalle Street” Ends Picturesque Career i In Penitentiary , Atlanta, Ga., March 2 —(United . Press)—John W. Worthington, the 5 “Wolf of LaSalle" street, died at the , federal penitentiary here today. Worthington's death was brought about by a paralyetic stroke early to- ! day following his steady improve- , ment in the penitentiary hospital for diabetes and other ailments. The end came suddenly for the 4 financier who had milked thousands r of persons out of millions of dollars ? in fake promotion schemes. , Known as “Lean John,” Worthing- , ton was one of the most picturesque , characters in modern criminal rec(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) f Carter Withdraws From G. O. P. Senatorial Race Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 2.—(United Press)—Solon J. Carter, Indianapolis attorney and colonel of artillery in the recent war, today definitely withdrew his name from consideration in the race for the republican short term senatorial nomination. 1 Weather r Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesr day. Colder in northeast portion tonight.

PETITION FOR HARD SURFACE FOR HIGHWAYS Property Owners Want Roads Near Geneva And Berne Improved ONE PETITION FOR ROAD IS WITHDRAWN A delegation of farmers and property owners from the south part of' the county appeared before the county commissioners today and urged the board to improve the roads' west of Geneva and east of Borne I with a hard surface under the county unit road building law. The petition for the Geneva road' asks that the road west of Genova. I beginning at the end of the Warren Striker concrete road, be improved to Perryville, a distance of two and one-half miles. The petition for the Berne road asks that the road east of Berne be imptoved to the state line, a distance of little over seven miles. Those in th (leelegation Included John Parr. Frank Sipe. James Foreman and Samuel Egley, of Blue Creek township; Mr. Munro, Luther Martin, and Eugene Lindsey, of Hartford township, and Thurman Gottschalk. of Berne, who acted as chairman, The petitions were presented last year by Attorney J. Fred Fruchte. The petition for the improvement of the road southeast of Decatur to the state line, through Pleasant Mills, was not presented to the board. The board has not yet adopted a program for county unit road building and It is not known what tUeir plans will be. Withdraw From Petition Twenty of the petitioners who signed the petition for the improvement of the G. C. McCune road In French township, presented a petition through Attorney Earl B Adams, asking that their names be with(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) W. C. T. U. TO HOLD INSTITUTE FRIDAY All-Day Session To Be Held At Methodist Church In Geneva Women from mil parts of Adams county will gather at Geneva Friday, to attend the institute of the Adams County Womens’ Christian Temperance Union, to he held in the Geneva Methodist church. An all-day session has been planned and an excellent progmm has been planned. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, president of the state W. C. T. U., will be present and deliver an address Following Is the program for the three sessions: Morning Session 9:30 o'clock Devotionals —Mrs. Williams of the M. E. church. Greeting—By County President. Mrs. C. E. Hocker Response—By Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley. Mesic—Geneva Local. Appointment of Committees. Address “Enlisting the Young People," By Mrs. Stanley Closing Prayer. Afternoon Session 1:30 o'clock Devotionals —Mrs. John Hill, Decatur. Address, “Our Line-up with Living Issues,” Mrs. Stanley. Music —Berne Icocal. Recommendations and Plan of Work, By Mrs. Hocker. White Ribbon Recruit Service. Questions and Discussions. Offering. Benediction. Evening Session 7:30 o’clock Devotionals —Rev. Kiiipe. Music—Berne Ix>cal. Address —By Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley. Thank-Offering and Enrollment of New Members. Benediction. A cordial welcome is extended to everyone to attend this institute.

Hares Sorrow

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Hie Countess of Cathcart. | discarded wife and sweetheart! of two English nobles, has; arrived in America to try to] sell a play dealing with her life story. She calls it “Ashes.” CATHOLIC HICIT - DEBATERS WIN I). C. H. S. Affirmative Team Scores Victory' Over C. C. H. S. Os Fort Wayne The Deeatur Catholic high school debating team won a contest from the Fort Wayne Central Catholic high school team, at Fort Wayne, last night, on the question, “Resolved, That the Eighteenth Amendment Should Me Repealed.” Bernadine Christen. Anna Murtaugh, Arthur Voglewede and Wil-; llam Holthouse of this city represent-, ed Decatur and took the cffl.mative side of the question. Several hundred people attended the contest and the rivalry between the ’two teams was keen. Next Sunday night, the affirmative team from Fort Wayne will meet the negative team of the Decatur school at the local school auditorium. No admission will be charged for the debate here and the public Is Invited to attend. The Decatur Catholic high 'school negative team is composed of Cedric Voglewede, Richard Miller and t Theodore Knapke. Kokomo Man Prepares To Enter Democratic Senatorial Contest Indianapolis, Mar. 2. — John Frederick. of Kokomo, president of the state chamber of commerce, is preparing to enter the race for the democratic long term senatorial nomination according to word received hero today by political friends. Fhederick’s entrance would bring the number of contestants to four, L. Ert Slack. Albert Stump, and William Rooker, having already announced their candidacies. o — I Sen. Edwards Demands I National Referendum On Beer And Light Wines Washington. March 2. — (United ( Press.) —Demand for a national referendum on beer and light wines was made today by Senator Edwards. New Jersey, Democrat, in connection with a statement attacking prohibition Director Andrews’ proposal for an unbiased commission to investigate the functioning of prohibition. 0 Assessment Value Os Grains Is Much Lower Shelbyville, Ind., Mar. 2. — (United Press) —A material reduction in the assessment value of grains will be in ] effect in Shelby county when township assessors start their work, it became known today. Wheat, which last yera wa s listed at $2 per bushel has been reduced to $1.40 and corn, which stood at $1 has been cut to forty cents per bushel. The > valuation on diamonds, however, was raised from S3OO per carat to SSOO.

Price Two Cents.

FUGITIVE TAKEN IN CUSTODY AT HOME OF SISTER A Man Wanted Here on Charge Os Forgery Again Free After Being Caught HAS WIFE, DECATUR GIRL, STILL WITH HIM (Special to Daily Democrat) Manistee, Mich., Mar. 2.—E, E, Hunt disappeared from here Saturday night after turning his gun on Deputy Sheriff Caleb Williams, who had taken him in custody at the home of his sister. Mrs. Victor Johjison, Bear Lake, countv village twenty miles north of here. Hunt formerly lived with his parents near the village and Williams had wcked with him. The deputy did not suspect that the information aaglnst Hunt was true and did not take the precaution even to disarm him. Enroute to the county jail, the stolen Chrysler sedan stopped on a lonely stretch of road. Both men got out to see what the trouble i was and Hunt ordered Williams to hold up his hands and remain stand ing in the road until he drove away, with his seventeen year old bride. They are believed to have been seen in Ludington, 32 miles south, late Saturday night, but since then no trace of the couple has been uncov ered. E. E. Hunt, with his youthful bride, formerly Esther Faye Krugh, of this city, who is wanted in Muncie for auto theft, Hartford CiLjr and Bluffton for forgery, and in this city for forgery and beating liis hotel bill, is etill at large, but Is apparently trapped in a pocket between Lake Michigan on the ; west, and heavy’ snow borders on the north and east, after being chased for several days through Michigan by Sheriff John Baker. A. C. Krugh, and Jesse Rice, of this city, and a score of Michigan .state police and Manistee county officials. At one time. Hunt, with his bride, was captured, but he displayed his prowess as a master at his game and, amid the shower of revolver shots (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Advertising Association To Meet Thursday Night A meeting of tho Decatur Advertising Association will be held in the Industrial rooms at 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening. All members of the assocition are urged to be. present. FIRE SWEEPS NEWPORT, ARK. Nearly One-fourth Os City’s Population Made Homeless By Blaze Newport, Ark., Mar. 2. — (United Press)—With nearly la fourth of its population homeless, as a result of a fire yesterday, Newport today faces the task of housing and feeding its people. The fire, starting from a dedective flue in a negro's cabin, swept the town yesterday, aided by a high wind and did damage estimated at nearly a million dollars. The fire was brought virtually under control early this morning and it is reported that no danger is expected from the flames. The state militia has been called out to prevent looting. Two people were reported dead but several were unaccounted for and tho death toll has not accurately been reported, A thousand people have been mado j homeless by the blaze. Churches, bu - I iness houses, aud any other means of refuge were resorted to last night for shelter. The American Legion is assisting the national guard unit in patrolling to prevent b oting. The fire cut a path several blocks wide and nearly a mile long. A lumber mill and some of the finest re .i---denies in the city were destroyed, it was discovered this morning.