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a 30. 1939. AND REVIEW PAGE THREE DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD Frazier Salary Case Renewed In County Suit Former Prosecutor's Parents-in-Law Ask $4,000 The Arthur O. Frazier salary case was revived in the Macon county court Saturday when Mrs. circuit Mary Drake, mother-in-law of the former state's attorney, and J.

R. Drake of Lovington filed an amended complaint asking judgment for $4.000 against the county. In the new bill, the plaintiffs elaim they now control all of the original salary assignments made Mr. Frazier, a and seek to collect by the $4,000 unpaid salary which they allege the county owes the former state's attorney. Copies of the varassignments are attached to jous the amended complaint.

Mrs. Bonnie Drake Frazier, wife of Mr. Frazier, is nont made a party to the new suit. The Drake petition alleges Mrs. Frazier assigned her claim to her husband's unpaid salary to Mrs.

Drake on March 9, 1939. By accumulating all of the outstanding assignments, Mrs. Drake now claims $1,500 and Mr. Drake claims $2,500. Original Suit Unsettled In the original action filed against the county in August 1938, Mrs.

Frazier joined the Drakes as a plaintiff and the 1 trio asked judgment for only $1.800. State's Attorney Ivan J. Hutchens filed a motion to dismiss the suit, but according to court records no action has been taken on either the original suit or the motion to dismiss. According to the amended complaint. the $4,000 unpaid salary is represented in $2,000 for the year ending Dec.

1, 1933; $1.800 for the year ending Dec. 1, 1934; and $200 for the year ending Dec. 1. 1935. The petitioners set up the claim in their bill that Mr.

Frazier executed an assignment of unpaid salary to Gertrude J. Wolfe as trustee for the benefit of the Frazier creditors on Dec. 5, 1935. On March 23, 1938, it is claimed. Mrs.

Wolfe assigned her interest in the claim against the county to Mrs. Drake. Then on March 9, 1939, John A. Wieland assigned his $300 interest; Pete Malleos, his $200; and Mrs. Frazier, here remaining interest, to Mrs.

Drake, With these assignments it is alleged Mrs. Drake now has claims for $1,500. It is further contended that Mr. Drake held a $500 interest in the original assignment, and on March 9. 1939 acquired the $1.700 interest of John Z.

Frazier and the $300 interest of James B. Frazier, giving him a claim of $2,500. Promised to Take Cut Before filing the original action 8 year ago, Mr. Frazier's relatives served A demand on the county board of supervisors, but the board members failed to take action. At that time county officials said the reason Mr.

Frazier was not paid in full for the three years was because he declined to take all of his salary In compliance with a campaign promise. Before his electon in 1932, Mr. Frazier campaigned on a program of economy, and promised that. if elected. he would take only $4,500 a year instead of the $6,500 salary set by law for the office of state's attorney.

During the county's sweeping grand jury investigation of vice and gambling in the winter of 1935-36. Mr. Frazier was suspended from office Dec. 7. 1935, when an alleged shortage of fee accounts was discovered.

He was reinstated on Dec. 10 for the same lyear when he paid the deficiency to the county trea-6 surer. A month later, in January 1936, the prosecutor was indicted on charges of malfeasance, bribery and embezzlement, along with former Mayor Harry E. Barber and Jack Cooper. former chief of police.

Mr. Frazier became ill and although he appeared in court to plead not guil1y to the charges, he was never brought to trial. The indictment 1s still in effect. He has been confined to veterans' hospitals most oft the time since. George Quimby Dies: Was in Dry Goods Here George E.

Quimbly, who was with the Bradley Brothers dry goods store here for 20 years unul 01 1905. died Wednesday at his home in Claremont. N. according to word received from a daughter, Miss May Quimby, by 811 old friend. Charles Kemper, 428 West Division street.

Mr. Quimby was 80-years-old last Dec. 20. On that day he celebrated by walking 20 miles to visit friends in neighboring villages. distance, however, was not The unusual, since he has covered between 10 and 25 miles daily, mostly on foot.

for the last 12 years AS 3 salesman for a hosiery company. Mr. Quimby came to Decatur in 1885 to work in the Bradley Brothers store when it was first opened. at 143 North Water street. He left here in 1905 to return to Claremont, his home town, where he bought a store of his own which operated for 25 years.

While in he Bradley store here he was the head of the silk and mail order departments. Quimby leaves two daughers. Miss May and Miss Anna Dell Quimby, of Kingston. N. both of whom still visit here occasionally.

They were here two years ago with their father. D. M. C. HOSPITAL GETS NEW X-RAY TABLE Max Murray, just done up in a plaster cast covering Service league.

Mrs. R. O. Metzler, left, is president of his body from neck to hips, is the third patient to use the league and Mrs. A.

Rollin Staley, right, is campaign the new Decatur Macon County hospital's new frac- chairman. ture, orthopaedic and x-ray table donated by the Hospital (Herald-Review photo) Centennial Ends In Taylorville Feats of Skill, Prowess Close Celebration By Staff Correspondent TAYLORVILLE Weary but pleased. Taylorville last night brought to a conclusion its weeklong Centennial celebration. A dance on the public square brought activities to a close, and many strange faces hidden for the last five months behind many whiskers, appeared on the street. Barber shops did a booming business.

as one by one the Brothers of the Brush had their beards cut off. Saturday's Centennial events, which were held in the city's business district, included band concerts and various feats of skill and prowess, as well as the awarding of prizes to many of the homecom- ers. Horse Shoes Pitched Winner of the elimination horse shoe pitching contest, in which 12 persons were entered. was Dowell Billingsley of Bulpitt. Second place went to C.

E. Currie of Assumption and third place to Abe Brown of Taylorville. Willie Kapps of Taylorville won the woodchopping contest from nine other contestants by cutting through a 10 by 10 inch elm log in 3 minutes 4 seconds. Ray Gentry, of Taylorville, was second. 3 minutes seconds; Allan Gentry of Taylorville, was third, 5 minutes 8 seconds.

The five-man team led by Les Heflin won the log-rolling contest in 1 minute seconds. Second was Dan Shutter's team, 1 minute seconds; third was Charles Norris' minute seconds: fourth was the Brothers of the Brush team. 1 minute seconds. Homecomers Get Prizes Winners in the various divisions of the homecoming contest were the following: Person coming farthest to Taylorville Robert McKinnon, who came 18.000 miles from Melbourne. Australia.

Others among the 980 registered came from the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, Canada. Mexico, and almost every state in the union. Oldest man returning W. H. Wright from Nokomis, who is 83, years old.

Oldest woman returning -Martha Boyce from Rochester, who is 87 years old. Largest family back for Centennial Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ross from Mechanicsburg, who had their eight children with them. Gone longest without returningTheresa Armstrong from Urichsville.

Ohio. Eighty-one years old. had been away from Taylorville 68 years. Couple married in Taylorville at earliest date Mr. and Mrs.

C. C. Morrison from St. Paul, who were married here in 1883. PICNIC CANCELLED The Central Illinois Spanish War Veterans picnic and fifth Illinois reunion, which was set for today.

has been postponed until sometime in September because of the annual pilgrimage to the Normal Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's home will be held today. Hospital Given Unusual Table Costing $625 Service League Provides D. M. C. With New Instrument since its installation.

Provides Special Nursing "This table," Mr. Hoover declar- The Decatur Macon County hospital Saturday acknowledged the gift of a Bell orthopaedic and x- ray table, one of surgery's newest instrument's for setting fractures and obtaining unusual x-ray plates. The table, a $625 gift of the Hospital Service League of Decatur, was purchased from the league's membership funds and private contributions. Frank M. Hoover, new superintendent of the hospital, said yesterday the table has been used by three patients in the brief period ed, "is one of the most modern and progressive surgical instruments in use.

The hospital is indeed grateful to the donors." Mrs. R. O. Metzler, 465 South McClellan avenue, is president of the Hospital Service league, and Mrs. A.

R. Staley, 2004 West Main street. is campaign chairman. The league has also paid for special nursing care for desperately ill patients and conducts a membership drive annually to provide special donations for the hospital. Also acknowledged by Mr.

Hoover yesterday was the donation by the Hospital Aid of a $231 rug for the second floor waiting room. Approximately 14 by 30 feet in size, the rug was donated with the funds which the Hospital Aid raised after a mazagine subscription drive and private contribution campaign. Mrs. E. L.

Dotson, 305 East Center street, is president of the Aid, and Mrs. B. O. Kinnaman, 175 Linden Place, secretary. The Aid contributed $200 in 1936 to furniture in the Decatur Macon County hospital lobby, $100 in 1934 toward a delivery table and $167 in 1938 for library and waiting room furniture.

A maternity room at the hospital is maintained by the Aid. The organization subscribed funds for the first D. M. C. building before the hospital was opened to the public.

County Farm Oats Yield Almost 100 Bushels Per Acre John R. Hamilton, steward of the Macon county home, reported Saturday that an eight-acre field of oats harvested at the county farm Friday, produced an average of 97.2 bushels to the acre. He said the total yield from the eight-acre measured tract was 778 bushels. John R. Gilkey, Macon county farm adviser, said the average oats yield this year is expected to be from 35 to 40 bushels to the acre in this vicinity.

Mr. Hamilton reported that a 20-acre field at the county farm produced an average of 95 bushels in 1937. Howard Doyle Gets Job Again U. S. District Attorney by Senate Vote Confirmation of the appointment of Howard L.

Doyle for a second four -year term as U. S. district attorney for the Southern Illinois district was given Saturday the Senate. Mr. Doyle's name was submitted to the Senate several days ago, and at that time the two Illinois senators announced they would not oppose confirmation.

Mr. Doyle was in Chicago yesterday when he learned of the confirmation. He said he plans no change in the personnel of his staff of assistants in his second term. During his first four years in office, District Attorney Doyle several important cases. Outstanding were the prosecutions of a large number of defendants indicted on charges of railway bombings during the period of unrest in the Illinois coal mining industry, and the Waner conspiracy cases, which were prosecuted in Peoria.

In another case, prosecuted at the instance of the postoffice department, mail fraud convictions were obtained which resulted in fraud orders being issued putting more than 100 fraudulent insurance companies out of business in the nation. WILLARD REUNION The Willard Family Reunion association will have its annual meeting today at the pavilion in the new addition to Fairview park. Condemned Building Only Ghost of Former Hotel Neighbors Seem to Recall Former Location; State to Get Land When Building Is Gone One of Decatur's first hotels, looking like anything but the haven of rest and quiet: it must have been 70 years ago, will be nothing this week but a heap of old lumber and a pile of scarred bricks. The ancient two-story frame building, now at 339-343 South Broadway, was condemned by the city council in June and ordered demolished after obscure heirs to the estate failed to reply to summonses from Building Inspector Roy Whitten. From Brunswick Site Residents of the neighborhood say the structure was moved up on Broadway more than 50 years ago from the site of the present Brunswick hotel, at the northwest corner of Wood and Water streets.

A second frame building, adjoining on the north the condemned hotel, was moved at the same time from the same place, neighbors say. The hotel's origin is vague. County histories contain no records of such a building. Built in 1839, the Revere House was Decatur's first actual hotel. The possibility is that the building being wrecked this week was some sort of inconspicuous competitor of the Revere, which was destroyed by fire in 1871.

The present Brunswick hotel. the oldest structure of its kind still standing in the city, was built about 1860-making the anony- Marathoners Start All Over New Bike Squad Formed When Youth Quits Because one of their number dropped out of the endurance test yesterday, the bicycle marathoners riding in the block bounded by Main, Wood, Illinois and Calhoun streets called off their test last night, but will start all over again at 8 a. m. today, it was announced last night. "One of our boys failed to keep to the route Friday night, and as we do not wish any doubt as to the authenticity of our record when it is completed, we decided to start all over again," one of the group explained last night.

The move was made at the suggestion of Richard Johnston, of the Montgomery-Ward sporting goods department, who is supplying the bicycle. fore the going test. to put a cycle meter on the bike, and the boys say nothing is going to stop them this time. They already had about 600 miles on the bicycle," Mr. Johnston said.

Boys starting on the new test this morning are William Pruzinski of 1600 East Eldorado Bob Davis of 977 East Main street, Russell Ely of 1161 East Johns avenue, and Delmar Major, of 321 South Jasper street. In the meantime, another group of marathoners in the block bounded by Clay, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets and Johns avenue continued their endurance test last night and entered their 40th hour at 11 p. m. They are now ahead of the time made by the first group, as it was unofficially announced that the boys did not consider their time after one of their riders disappeared off the regular route Friday night at 10 p. m.

The boys in the latter group are W.Orrying about the condition of their bicycles, as they say they have not secured a sponsor as yet and do not know how long their own bikes will stand the grind. mous building at 339-343 South Broadway at least 79 years old. At any rate the old hotel ultimately was absorbed by the estate of the late George H. Bills, whose heirs later scattered to parts unknown. When the structure was allowed to deteriorate to a point of dilapidation, paying tenants shied away from it.

Not many months ago, however, a mysterious old man and a brood of children moved in on the former hotel without notice and set up housekeeping very light, according to the neighbors. The old man came and went and his brood stayed pretty close to the crumbling walls and splitting boards. Objections to the building as a "menace" were filed with the city council and the condemnation proceedings started. Now Rats Leave Last week Contractor Elmer Hedenberg was awarded the contract ($120) to demolish the structure and immediately started ripping it to pieces. The lot itself become the property of state.

Haif-way through the demolition process the wreckers discovered charred and black boards that i in dicated the ravages of some earlier fire. Piece by piece down comes the building, and the rats and mice scatter before the sound of crashing planks and bricks. In one more week even the rats won't know the place. DOWN COMES ONE OF DECATUR'S FIRST HOTELS Brick by brick, lath by lath, one of Decatur's first hotels, now located at 339- 343 South Broadway, is being demolished. When the ancient 12-room structure was County to Get $5,076 Bill on Transient Care Salvation Army Offers to Do Job Again If Funds Provided A budget calling for expenditure of $5,076 for transient relief during the next year has been drafted and approved by the Salvation Army board of directors and the Community Chest and will be submitted to the Macon county board of supervisors in September, Brig.

W. R. Conway of the Salvation Army announced Saturday. The county will be asked to include the transient relief, appropriation in its budget the 1939-40 fiscal year when the supervisors draft in the September. annual appropriation Responsibility of County Under an opinion of the Illinois attorney general, the transient problem has been designated as a county responsibility, but it has been handled here by the Salvation Army.

Last year county appropriated $3,000 for the Army to handle the problem. Mr. said yesterday the fund Conway, insufficient and as a result the Salvation Army organization found it necessary to incur a deficit. A report of the transient fund from Sept. 1, 1938 through June 30, 1939, prepared by Brigadier Conway, shows 9,451 persons were housed and fed during that period at a cost of $3,068.91.

The report estimates that another $756.16 will be spent on transients during the remaining two months of the fiscal year, making the total expenditure $3,825.07. At a meeting of the Salvation Army board last week, a resolution was passed again offering the county facilities of the Army for handling transient relief, but stipulating that the county pay the expenses. It states that the program would necessarily be curtailed if the county fails to approve the full Ousted Family Provided Lake Tent by Township Parents and Four Children Take Two Weeks Outing During Search for House When a house was not available for the family of a relief client, Supervisor E. Voris Conner of Decatur authorized the rental of a tent for the family of husband, wife and four children, Mr. Conner said Saturday.

The tent. rented for a period of two weeks, was placed near Lake Decatur, and the family was at home Saturday in the new quarters. The family has been on relief since 1936. Mr. Conner said, and has been living in a cottage near the lake.

The owner of the cottage was no longer willing to rent it at the maximum rental allowed for relief, and took court action to evict the family. "An effort to find a house within the period of the eviction notice was unsuccessful." Supervisor Con- Fire Chief Completes Shifts in Department Newly Appointed Captains Take Posts at No. 2 and No. 6 Fire Chief Will Platt Saturday shifted four members of his department in the reorganization of, the force following the appointment of two new fire captains by the board of police and fire commissioners. Capt.

Bert Smith, who has been on duty for years at No. 1 station. has been put in charge of the 24 hour shifts at No. 2 station. Capt.

Lynn P. Martin was shifted from No. 5 to No. 6 station, Boo Rushing has been transferred from No. 4 to No.

5 station and Ernest Winters, newly appointed fireman. has been shifted from No. 4 to No. 5 station. The department is still one man below the stipulated personnel and Chief Platt will soon ask the board to supply another man to fill this vacancy, he said last night.

Moodys Pass Sixth Day Up Fliers Have Less Than Three Days to Go By Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD The Moody brothers. Hunter and Humphrey, passed their sixth day of endurance flying at 3 p. m. yesterday.

"We're getting on fine. feeling good. and all set to go on indefinitely," Hunter told friends over the plane's radio. The young fliers have only three more days to go to equal the 218- hour world light plane endurance record which they are. trying to break.

Hunter said he and his brother had no dull moments in their small monoplane, but "keep pretty busy" flying, broadcasting, refueling, eating. sleeping and reading fan mail. The Moodys said they first attempted to answer the letters they received. but gave up "because it kept us writing all the time. Mrs.

Dorothy Moody, Hunter's wife. said the fliers have been receiving between 100 and 200 letters la day. budget. Food Item Boost Biggest The proposed budget of $5.076 ner said, "and the case reached an emergency situation which required action. Food and other supplies are being furnished and the family will be comfortable during the brief time that we expect will be necessary to find a home for them." Mr.

Conner said his recent request to the city council to cooperate in securing better living conditions for relief clients in nursing homes has resulted in marked improvement in most of the homes in the city. "While all of the homes offering board and room to relief clients and age assistance recipients are generally referred to as 'nursing homes'." Mr. Conner said, "only two actually are nursing homes, and recent inspections of them show highly satisfactory conditions." Jury Says Fall Death Accident Testimony Differs on Part Played by Rope A coroner's jury Saturday afternoon found that Melvin Davis, 33, of 1404 East Prairie avenue, "was accidentally killed when a rope, being used in lowering a concrete form, broke and swept him off the top of a tank to the ground 116 feet below" at the SpencerKellogg Sons plant east of Decatur Friday afternoon. Testimony of two witnesses at the inquest, which was conducted by Dr. I.

V. Grissom, county coroner. at the Dawson Wikoff funeral home, varied as to the exact part the rope played in the tragedy, although both were standing within a few feet of Davis at the time of the accident. J. A.

Myers, of 1248 South Polk street. a concrete finisher, testified that he was standing within seven feet of Davis when the rope broke. He stated that the rope struck Davis legs, causing him to lose his balance and topple over the lip of the high tank. George Vava, labor foreman, of 649 East Decatur street, had a different version when he told the jury that Davis grabbed for the rope when it broke and that it was his opinion that Davis was dragged off the top of the building in attempting to assist in holding the form which was being lowered to the ground below. Charles Foulks.

of 328 South Webster street, was working as a ground laborer at the plant and was standing within 35 feet of where Davis fell. He said that he was looking upward as the form was lowered, saw Davis appear off-balance over the top of the tank, and watched his fall for the entire 116 feet. Davis struck the edge of a concrete storage shed before he struck the ground, he testified. W. J.

McDonald, of 2431 East North street, who is superintendent of construction at the plant, testified that he was in the company office when the accident occurred and that it was the first fatality of its kind that he had Thad in his 20 years of provides $425 for laundry; food, 200; wages to cooks, janitor supplies, $175; heat, $350; printing, $18: paint, $15; light, $80; gas, $140; blankets, towels, $300; expense of canning project, $125; repairs to plumbing, $250; and superintendent of transients, $780. Mr. Conway said the item for a superintendent of transients is new in the budget. The food item contains the largest proposed increase over the 1938 expenses. The report estimates the total food cost for this year will be $741.64 by Sept.

1, and the budget provides $1,200 for next year. A committee appointed by the Council of Social Agencies and the Salvation Army, is making a study of the problem and will report in a September meeting of the council. This commitee includes Brigadier Conway as chairman, Lee Pigott, L. W. Hurtt, O.

C. Keil, Edward Buckner, Mayor Charles E. Lee, and Howard Krigbaum. Payroll Clerk Held for Theft Walter Kersch Charged With $866 Embezzlement Walter H. Kersch, 34, of 1145 Cottage Hill avenue, was under arrest last night, charged with the embezzlement of $866 of the funds of Swain Myers, distributors of hotel and restaurant equipment, of 544 North Main street.

Harold H. Myers, president and treasurer of the firm, swore out the warrant against Kersch before Justice Harold F. Paine. He was being held in jail pending arraignment on the charge. Officials said last night that Kersch.

until recently an employe of Swain Myers, was agent for the firm and in charge of the company payroll. In securing action against Kersch, Mr. Myers told officials that they discovered that their payroll had been "padded" and the Kersch arrest followed. Osiber Goad, Casner Farmer, Aged 45, Dies Osiber Hamilton Goad, 45, a farmer of this vicinity who has been working this season at the Ridgly farm at Casner, died Saturday afternoon in St. Mary's hospital after an illness of one week, attributed to an infection in the nose.

Mr. Goad was born Feb. 20, 1899 in Kentucky, and was married there to Vida Brown. He leaves his wife and two young daughters, Frances and Norma Jean. There also are his parents and five sisters and two brothers living in Monroe county, Kentucky.

Mr. Goad lived in this vicinity for the last seven years. The body has been taken to the Brintlinger funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Camera Club to Hear Photographers' Model condemned by the city council a mysterious old man and a brood of children moved out.

(Herald-Review photo) Nelson Bennett of Hollywood, nationally known as a model for commercial photographers, will give a short talk and exhibition before the Decatur Camera club from 8 to 10 p. m. Monday in the Decatur Club. After the talk he will posa. for pictures by the club members.