Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1929 — Page 1

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bill aimed at POISON LIQUOR peddlers dies er If Victim Died MORE measures are INTRODUCED [ Indiana poC" 7eb. 20.-(UJD-Pedd. m miison liquor will not make «h* latMpr willy of manslaughter shmild Ws vi«' ,im < lle if U,R vvil . l of the Indiana senate as worded today rresenators unanimously adapted . committee report for indefinite postpsnment of Carl M. Grays bill which would make sellers of poison liquor which caused death guilty of manslaughter and punishable by from two to 1# years in prison. Another Gray bill providing that all indges. prosecutors and attorney-gen-erals must have an Indiana University law school education or its equiv- | i>nt met a similar fate. Gray Introduces Another Bandits cannot frequent Hoosier mads with armored automobiles under provisions of another bill introduced lv Gray which makes use of such ran a felony punishable by from 5 to fl years in prison. It exempts [ peace officers, lmnk messengers and common farriers. A hill by John Hewitt of Terre | Haute provides for increasing penalties for defaulting hankers and bark [ employes from 2 to 14 years to 5 to 21 ! years imprisonment. Indianapolis, Feb. 20. — (U.R) — ConS vertol to the substitution of a tax I i on intangibles for sales taxes and a boost in the real property tax. the ways and means committee of the Indiana house of representatives prepared a report today favoring passage of the Freeman-Lowry bill in- : trodneed Tuesday. The measure, bearing the names of Representatives George W. Freaman. Kokomo, and James H. Lowry, Indianapolis, replaces the bill Freeman entered Friday. It provides for laxing all intangibles at 25 per cent of their cash value. "A billion dollars will be added to :hp tax duplicate if the hill becomes a law," Freeman said, "for we are confident at least $4,000,000,000 worth of intangibles will be listed." Three more bills awaited Governor Ha rry G. Leslie's signature as the legislature today entered the fortyweond day of its sixty-one day sess»n They included the house bill wmrn a ‘ e Tues<Uy by the se »ate. Permitting a verdict by ten jurors in judge CSSes ulK)n instruction of the Passage of the Noll city manager «> -s expected"'" S ° nator Geor^‘ to call h Ha " te ' was not yet readv ha«d“ s of S ,h rePeal blll ° l " of eities and towns!" 8 * 6 C ° mmUtee 011 .Aw difficulties lay ahead of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) « OF LENTEN sermons is given Barrett Priest Speaks At St. ‘Vvs Catholic Church Tuesday Night J,ls iU °* tbe n Beries ot ' Lenten serCatholic ni 1,11 at ,be ®t. Marys LeoScheets Ur o?I aßt eVenins ’ the Revsermon Garrett > deUverl “<T the for his • sui,iptt 11 in an intelli Mat ! and dealt wlth manner The i- gent and convl ncing live. Rev on dißcourse -as instruction 1,,' n?' 8 will c °ntinue hts disea eh Tuesdav 8 . set ’ nions t 0 be given Lent. v f nring the season of a/fet “ Bed facts in the Bible man,, dealing ?!? ving the ori B'n of spentaneoiis^H 1 * eternal generation, Non theory il,,, e . r . at4on an,i thR evolufitigatert ti, C , ud ng th e extreme and fa, 'ts and reasons h arßuments with l lis subject S wL S^ ,ke for one hour and lar Ss audience whfh** 1 interest 10 the vices. ee which attended the serFoUowintr « the Blessed%l erraon ’ Be nedlction ' he Kev j oae J? f a « ament was held, 'he services Hession conducting

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Endows Speakin® I Ml ■■lff Os It mmm. Mrs. Channcey M. Depew, widow of the late Channcey M. Depew, in her first posed portrait in ten years. Mrs. Depew has just given $120,000 to the George Washington University in Washington, D. C., for special courses in public speaking. TO PRESENT PW THURSDAY NIGHT Dramatic Department Os Woman’s Club To Sponsor Production Here The Dramatic Department of the Woman's Club will present a most interesting and entertaining program, tomoriow iThursday! evening, at the Decatur high school auditorium, to which all members of the Woman's club and the public are invited. Woman's Club members will lie admitted without charge, but an admission fee of fifty cents will be charged for all others attending. The program will consist of a monologue by Miss Esther I.epper, an advanced dramatic pupil of Professor S. Cardoso de Silva, of Fort Wayne, a special number by Professor de Silva himself, and a delightful two-act comedy, entitled “Sally Lunn.” The cast for the play was selected by Professor de Silva from the Play and Players Club of Fort Wayne, and two former Decatur girls are numbered iu the cast, Miss Doris Peters and Mrs. Lois Peterson Keller. Mrs. Keller will carry the leading role of the play, the story of which centers around the character of Mrs. John Randolph, a young matron who has married a man with children her own age. The gist of the story is the method adopted by Mrs. Randolph in gaining the love aqd esteem of her newly acquired and obstinate stepchildren. A large number of tickets have been sold for the program, and anyone desirous of attending who has not secured a ticket, may pay at the door, as they enter. The cast of the play expects to come to Decatur tonight, to practice on the auditorium stage. High school pupils and grade children will lie admitted to the program for twenty-five cents. Geneva Bank Making 25 Per Cent Payment Geneva, Feb 20 —(Special) —Checks representing a 25 per cent payment, are being mailed to depositors of the Farmers and Merchants hank, of Geneva, which was closed several months ago. This is the first payment made hy the bank. Col. Lindbergh Starts Another Inspection Trip Curtiss Field, L. 1., Feb. 20.—(U.R)- ~ Col. Charles A. Lindbergh started from Curtiss Field in his Curtiss Falcon biplane today for Columbus, Ohio, his first stop in his inspection tour of transcontinental air transport landing fields. Lindbergh flew alone. He will make stops at landing fields between the east and the Pacific coast on his inspection tour being made for the Transcontinental Air Transport of which he is the technical advisor.

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PETITION FOR REDUCED LIGHT RATES IS FILED Council Adopts Resolution Tuesday Night And Files Petition Today OTHER MATTERS BEFORE COUNCIL The resolution adopting a new and lower schedule of light, power and! cooking rates for the City Light and Power plant was passed by tlie city j council in session last evening. Mayor George Krick, M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the city light and power plant, J. Fred Fruchte. city attorney, and several of the city co'incllmen went to Indianapolis this morning to file the petition for lower rates with the Indiana Public Service commission. The rates petitioned for follow’: Kind No. K. W. IT. Rate L'ght ... First 100 Sc Light Over 100 5c Discount of one cent on first 100 K.W.H. if paid hy 20th of month. Reduction of one half cent on first 100 K.W.H. Power First 2005 c Power Over 200 2 Vic Power Over 50,000 2Vs c Minimum charge 50c per H. P. per month. Reduction of one-quarter cent after 250,000 K. W. H. Cooking First 100 4c Cooking Over 100 2%c Minimum ( f 50e per month per meter. Rural route First 1000 5c Rural route Over 1000 2V(*c Minimum charge $45 per month. Minimum of SI.OO for individual rural patrons. The petition asks that the new rates become effective March 1,*1929. Railroad Men Present Representatives of the Erie railroad company were present at the council meeting and discussed the protrsal of erecting flasher signal lights at the Erie crossings on Line and Winchester streets and on Mercer avenne. The railroad men recommended the placing of the flashers in (lie center of the crossing on Mercer avenue and Winchester street and on the sides on Line street. The couneilmcn informed the railroad irovTivrun <>v imur two; BLUFFTON PLANS NEW STATE BANK Sale Os Stock In New SIOO,000 Institution Is Started Today Bluffton, Feb. 20. —(Special)—Plans were going ahead here this afternoon for the organization of a new state bank in this city, according to announcement made today at a mass meeting of citizens of Bluffton. The new bank will have a capital stock of SIOO,OOO and a surplus of $50,000. Stock iu the new bank will be sold in shares of $l5O each. Bluffton business men and citizens will buy one-half of the stock and Fort Wayne business men will buy the other half, according to the plan. The guaranteed deposits of the two Bluffton banks, which were closed recently, will be taken over by the new bank. The remaining assets of the two former banks will he liquidated, it was sakl. Immediately following the mass meeting this afternoon, sale of the stock started and the date tor the opening of the new state bank was expected to be fixed in the next day or two. Headless Body Os Man Found By Train Crew Hammond, Ind., Feb. 20.—<y.PJ—The headless body of a young man was found by trainmen on the Indiana Harbor Belt right of w’ay near state line. An unmailed letter bearing a Rvierdale, 111., address was found in the pocket of the coat. Police believe the man may have fallen from a train. ~ -i ——o — Volcano In Eruption Hilo, T. H., Feb. 20.—(U.R)—Halemaumau pit on Kilauea volcano began belching fire today. At dawn the lava flow was increasing steadily and had covered an area in the pit of approximately 35 acres.

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Modern Flapper Wears Few Clothes But She Keeps Those Few Clean Indianapolis, Feb. 20 —(Uf‘) —Flap-1 pers of 1029 may not wear a ton of clothes but the few ounces the>' da weai are kept clean, in the opinion of (iiffoid “Happy" Goldsmith, of the (leanliness Institute of New York Goldsmith will deliver a (Pries of talks iu Indianapolis ihis week under the auspices of the Marion (’unity Tuberculosis Association. "The modern girl depends upon absolute immaeulaleness for that wellgroomed look and what she does wear he keeps clean," lie believes. THREE ESCAPED I CONVICTS CAUGHT Pat McDermott And Two Others Returned To Ohio Penitentiary Today Columbus, 0.. Feb. 20. - (U.R)— Whipped into submission by the in- ' tense cold, three of five convicts who broke out of the state penitentiary ' at dawn yesterday, were capture'll, last night and early today. Among them was the notorious Pat i McDermott, the red headed trigger-,i man-who ambushed, and killed Don j i Mi llett, crusading editor of the Canton Daily News, two and a half years ago. The others were Mike Jacko, Oleve- ] land lifer, who was trapped witli Me- ] Derm,ilt, and John Busso, sent up i from Cleveland for robbery. i Tracks in the snow led authorities I to where the captured men were i hidden. < McDermott and Jacko were taken ! by Deputy Sheriffs Charles William 1 and John Crumley before midnight, i Russo was apprehended three hours j later by Constable John Guy of j i Sliadesville. |. The three were placed in dungeons ji this morning. j: Meantime, the capture of the other 'i two —James A. Walton, Cuyahoga j i Falls and William Yeung, Marietta lifer —was believed imminent. i o I ] Covert Family Is Recovering From Illness i i In a communication to friends in j this city, the Rev. B. N. Covert, for- ■ mer pastor of the Presbyterian church jin this city, who together with his family, is now located in South Bend, j sends the following news: “We enjoy South Bend very much. It is a live growing city. Studebaker is expanding the plant here and several other factories are coming to the citv. “The work is moving along about as usual. Have had considerable sickness in our parish and home. Catherine has had chicken-pcx, infections in both ears, and whooping cough and Mrs. Covert lias been confined to the house with a bad cold. Both are able to be out again.” \ Negro Goes On Trial For Killing Teacher Garmi, 111, Feb. 20 —(U.R) — Two months after Miss Anna Preher, Carnii school teacher was slain and her home ' fired, Hoyt McMurray, Negro, went on trial today charged with slashing her 1 throat. i The jury was selected late yester- i day. i o — ( MERCURY DROPS FAR BELOW ZERO 1 i Thermometers Register , About 12 Degrees Below i Early This Morning The coldest morning of the season i was unofficially recorded in Decatur i today when street thermometers registered between 8 and 16 degrees below l zero at 7 o'clock this morning- The i cold wave was not entirely unexpected but general weather predictions were , to the effect that the mercury would s drop to near the zero mark. j The most reliable street theremo- f meter registered about 12 degrees lie- t low zero early this morning. A bright ( sun chased the mercury upward and s by noon the temperature was near the J seasonal mark. Local garages were busy today thawing and repairing frozen radia- ( tors and batteries, and servicing' av. tomobiles. Weather forecasters reported the cold wave would be short and that slightly warmer weather would arrive bv tonight, or tomorrow.

SERVICE CLUBS OF CITY UNITE | IN BIG MEETING Good Fellowship And Cooperation Shown At Banquet Tuesday Night PERRY FAULKNER GIVES ADDRESS Closer fellowship and cooperation j in movements for the betterment of the community were the purposes of and, undoubtedly’, will be the result of the inter-service club banquet held in the Knights of Columbus hall. Tuesday evening. The banquet was sponsored by Adams Post No. 43, of the American Legion, and was attended by members of the Legion, industrial Association,' Rotary Club and Lions Club. About 125 men attended the affair. In an interesting, convincing and eloquent manner, Perry Faulkner, of Montpelier, Ohio, former commander of the Indiana department of the American Legion, delivered the prin- 1 cipal address of the evening. Mr. 1 Faulkner discussed the origin and purpose of the American Legion and ! told of much of the good work already < accomplished hy this comparatively 1 young organization. France Conter Toastmaster France Conter, commander of the lceal post of the American Legion, presided as toastmaster at. the banquet, which was served by the Eats restaurant. The Rev. 11. H. Ferntheil, pastor of the Presbyterian church and chaplain of t lie local post of the Legion, invoked the blessing. ( Paul Saurer sang two numbers, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. France Conter. In opening the after-dinner program Mr. Center gave a brief history of Adams Post No. 4.'!, of the Legion, , and placed bis .organization on record , as a service club, anxious to aid in j the advancement of the city and com- i munity. He compared the Legion to ] other service clubs and declared that j it stands for the same ideals and < purposes as do the others. Legion Program Discussed | Mj\ Conter also discussed, briefly, t the Legion's program in Decatur for ( this year. He said that Herb Curtis, | Decatur high school athletic director i and coach, had been appointed ath- j (COlVTl*•*'«» r,V Ptr.R TWO) 1 CHICAGO USES ! ELECTRIC CHAIRj < j Initiates New Method Os < Execution By Putting 5 Y oung Slayers To Death ! By Merton T. Akers. ( UP Staff Correspondent j Chicago, Feb. 20. — (U.R) — Chicago ( baptized its new electric chair early today by putting to death two youths j who murdered a policeman because ] he interrupted one of their robberies. ] The two —Anthony Grecco, 19, and ] Charles Walz, 18—walked to the chair a few minutes after midnight down i an isle ot' spectators. They were the < first to die in the electric chair in 1 Cook county. 1 Grecco, whose nerve had failed c gradually as the county jail clock 1 ticked off the minutes before mid- f night, was marched to the chair first, i followed by a Franciscan priest. His I walk became a shuffle as he neared the seat, manufactured in the Indiana ' state prison. As the thirtieth second after mid- c night ticked, Grecco, Ashem, his head c shaved and right trouser leg slit, was jammed into the chair by the guards, k straps hastily adjusted, clamps pinned liis arms, and electrodes were strapped on his head and right leg. A white haired guard fumbled the , head electrode, Grecco’s hands open- t ing and shutting convulsively. ( A dynamo hummed. Warden Ed- i ward F. Fogarty, stop watch in hand, signaled the unidentified executioner < in a curtained cell nearby. A click < and Grecco'S body stiffened against j the straps for five seconds, a wisp ot blue smoke ascended. Another signal from Fogarty, another click, the body slumped back to normal ' position. The hum stopped. Three doctors announced at 12:05 c that Grecco had paid with his life ‘ for killing Policeman Arthur Esau in ; April 1928. , Grecco wrote verses throughout f (CONTINUED 0.1 I’ACJIC TWO

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Killer Captured Patrick Eugene McDermott, murderer of Don R. Mellett, editor of the Canton (Ohio) News, who escaped with four other convicts from Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus, Tuesday, and was recaptured near Columbus, IS hours later. propose™ RAILWAY MERGER C. & O. And B. & O. File I'etition To Expand Lines Throughout East Washington, Feb. 20.—(U.R) —Creation of four giant railroad systems embracing all tbe lines in eastern territory was proposed today in petitions filed with tlie interstate commerce commission by tlie Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. Executives of tlie two roads asked the commission, in separate applications, to approve unification plans to expand their linos by authorizing them to acquire a system of intermediate roads. The plans provided for enlargement of both roads to rival the Pennsylvania and New York Central, the other two large eastern trunk lines. Approval of the two plans would go; far towards settling the nine-year dispute over railway consolidation in eastern territory. Conference between various railroad executives having proved fruitless, and the I). & O. and the C. & 0., the latter a Van Sweringen property, decided to withdraw and place the entire question squarely before the commission. Filed in the name of the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Van sweriuger petition asked authority to combine with the existing Van Sweringen roads the following seven railways in their on- ] tirety: Wheeling & Lake Erie. Chicago & j Eastern Illinois, Virginia, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Bessemer Lake Erie, Pittsburgh & Sbawnut, Pittsburgh, Sbawnut & Northern. Principal roads which the B. & O. asked to acquire are the Reading including its subsidiary, the Central of New Jersey, and the Western Maryland. Other roads it wants to buy outright are: Lehigh & Hudson River Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh; Buffalo & Susquehanna; Detroit, Toledo & Ironton; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville; Wabash; Aim Arbor. The Van Sweringens also want minority interests in eleven lesser lines and trackage rights over still others while the B. & O. seeks a minority interest in nine other roads. Search Being: Made For Galveston, Ind., Girl Galveston, Ind., Feb. 20. — (U.R) — Authorities continued their search today for 16-year-old Pauline Gray, who disappeared from her home here Saturday. Police in Nearby counties have been enlisted in the search. Her parents could give no reason for her disappearance. Ira Fuhrman Moves Office The Insurance offices of Ira Fahrman, of this city, have been moved to the loems in the Schafer building foimerly occupied by the Late Dr. J S. Coverdale. Mr. Fuhrman formerly occupied rooms in the same building, at the front of the hall. The new office has been newly decorated and painted and the insurance agency was opened today for business

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NINETY PERSONS HURT IN THREE WRECKS TODAY i Five Workmen Are Killed When Train Is Derailed At Peoria, 111. 1200 AFFECTED BY SMOKE IN SUBWAY By United Press At least seven persons were killed and perhaps 90 injured in three train accidents today. Five dead were accounted for and more than 70 injured in derailment of a workers' train near Peoria, 111. Two trainmen were killed and a third injured when a freight train left the track at Falconbridge, Out Seventeen passengers were taken to hospitals after an electric train was struck bv a locomotive at Rochester, N. Y. In adit ion. hundreds of New York subwayites were affected hy smoke fumes and about 200 taken to hospitals after a fire In the Hudson tube connecting Manhatan and New Jersey last night. Five Killed at Peoria Peotia, 111., Feb. 20 —(UP) —Five men were killed and upwards of 70 injured today when five passenger coaches of tlie Peoria railway treminal company's "Miners Special'' jumped the track and plunged over an eini bankment near here. Physicians, volunteers and wrecking | crews working over tlie cars at the I base of the -’5-foot embankment, said I they believed additional bodies might be found in the wreckage. Three of the w ooden coai hes caught fire as they | rolled down the embankment but the j blames were quicly extinguished. Peoria hosiptals wpre crowded with injured, brought here irt ambulance! and automobiles. Because of the congestHJji and excitement the extent of their injuries could not be determined. Eight hundred workers in < al mines south of here hud left Peoria on the train at 6:22 A M. The wreck occurred about 7 A. M. but because there were no telephone in tlie locality it was more than an hour later before the fiist ambulance reached the scene. Meantime injured and dying miners lay exposed to a temperat nr of six idegtees below zero. Gov. Leslie Signs Three House Bills Indianapolis, Feb. 20 —(UP) —Three house bills were signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie today. Onp < permits the defendant attorney in a civil action to efil change of venue without his client in court; another permits county commissioners to establish a county hospital upon petition ot' 30 per cent of the tax payers, and the third increases tlie time for filing liens I for warehouse and storage companies I from 10 to 60 days. MONROE PUPILS TO GIVE PROGRAM High School Glee Club To Present Musical Program And Play Saturday The Monroe high school Glee Club will give a musical program, consisting of vocal and instrumental numbers, readings and a two-act play, "The Arrival of Hilly.” at the Monroe high school building Saturday evening, February 23 at 7:30 o’clock. Admission charges will be 15 and 2ft cents. The program is as follows: Part I. Night Sailing Geibel Flower Bells Geibel Glee Club Biolin Solo Selected Floyd Johnson Amoroso Boex Girls’ Sextet We Meet Again Tonight Down in Mobile Southern Song Hangin’ Out de Clo’es Hall Boys’ Glee Club Readings—Selections from Edgar Guest Mary Schwartz Deep River Negro Spiritual I Ain’t Givln Study War No More Negro Spiritual The Glorv of Moru Geibel Glee Club Plano Duet - Selected Zelma Meyer Rosamund Gould (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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