Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1919 — Page 1

Volume XVII. Number 228

FIREMEN IN CONVENTION Fire Chiefs of Northeastern Indiana Hold Annual Assembly in This City MANY ARE HERE r* From 90 Towns in District Secretary of State Fire Marshal Speaks. Today is Northeast Indiana Fire i Chiefs’ Day in Decatur. There are ninety tii> chiefs in as [ ■ many cities and towns in the fourteen conntifes- qf this district and a goodly representation of them were \ lure for the annual convert ion of the Northeastern Indiana Fire Chiefs’ as- . sociation. A number arrived during the morning; and still mo«e on the early ntJOn and afternoon trains. Assembling at the headquarters in the city hall, they registered and spent the time socially until one o’clock, when local Fire Chief Henry Dellinger, who Is of the executive board, and his assistants, business men of the city, took the visiting men on an antomobile. trip over the city. They visited the sugar factory, the waterworks’ plant and other points of interest in the hour that they were Stone, and then returned to the city hall in time for the opening of the convention at two o'clock. * On account of the death of President Albert W. Beehleh of Garrett, last June 20, the vice president. Geo. I Braun, of Berne, presided: and called the assembly to order. ’ Mayor Charles W. Yager extended a hearty welcome to the visitors and response in behalf of the association, was made by the secretary, H. E.! Homey, of Columbia City. Tiie program was carried out as announced, except ttffft the place of the state fire marshal, H. H. Friedley, of Indianapolis, twas taken on the program by his substitute. E. H. Pugh.of that city, a secretary in the office of the state fire marshal. He arrived here at 2:45 o’clock and his address, which told of fire prevention and also of the inspecting of buildings, was nicely illustrated with stereopticon views, making it entertaining, as well as instructive. H. E. Romey, of Columbia City, and George Kihm, of Kendallville, members of the resolutions’ committee, presented resolutions on the death of | the president of the association, A. I W. Beehler. of Garrett. Mr. Beehler I was an officer of the Northeastern In-1 diana Volunteer Firemen’s Association. also, and his death occurred last June 20, just the day after he attend(Continued on Page Three) HUNGRY FOR FOOD x i I R A youngester at the door of an ■ American Jewish Relief Station in Poland. The American Jewish Relief Committee, which is feeding thousands of youngsters o the threshold of life, is to conduct a campaign in Indiana from September 29 to October 4 for funds to feed and clothe the war sufferers of eastern Europe.

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LOOK THEM OVER I j State Accountants are Making Regular Investigation of Official Records IIN ADAMS COUNTY County, City, School and Township Officials Being (Jiven the “Once Over” ■ Messrs. Strait and Palmer, field representatives of the state board of! accounts of Indiana are busily engag-1 ed this week in checking up the i books in the office of County Treas--1 urer George E. Kinzle, this being the regular examination of the officials. The accountants expect to remain here about six weeks the odrers being to report on the treasurer, auditor recorder, sheriff and surveyor of the county, on the city treasurer and clerk and on the trustees books in the twelve townships. Besides this a report will be made ’ as to the books and accounts of the school boards of Decatur, Berne and I Geneva and on the town officials of Geneva and Berne. The report will be a complete one of all officers in the county but as there are no unusual circumstances, the work will be done very rapidly it is expected. ■ Mr. Kinzle will retire as county treasurer and Mr. Hugh Hite will succeed him January Ist and this report will bring the records down to the present time making a final check out a very simple matter in three months from now. CENSUS OFFICE At Washington Has Moved Into Building Formerly Occupied by Aircraft IS A BUSY PLACE Machines are Being Installed and Work has Already Begun—Blanks Sent Out Washington, Sept. 25.—The advance guard of the Census Bureau in Washington has swooped down upon the quarters of the aircraft production | section of the war department and dispossessed that branch of the army of about half of the temporary buildling it occupied during the war. It I is the intention of the aircraft section to surrender the entire building to the census bureau within a few months. The building, a full city block square in its dimensions, offers com- ; modious quarters for the rapidly expanding clerical force of the Fourteenth Decennial Census. It like- ; wise offers excellent facilities for the I installation and operation of the 1 ' many ingenious machines to be used by the bureau of the census in tabulating the statistics which will be gathered by the census enumerators during the month of January. 1920. More than 8,000 packing boxes have already been provided for sending out copies of the census schedules and other supplies to the 85,000 enumerators in the field. The first shipment of schedules is already’in progress and the bcjtos now being sent out will ho reutmed to the census bureau as ' rapidly as possibly, thus keeping them in constant use. Finally the supervisors and enumerators after the enumeration is completed,, rdill usa these same boxes to. return to the census bureau the schedules filled out with the items of information which they have recorded on the schedules in their canvass cf the population, homes and farms of ! the United States. The dimensions of these boxes being approximately 26x20x11 inches, a ; simple and obsiouv computation shows that each box will come back ta. Washington packed with more than three ■ cubic feet of staitistical data. ! Man& punching, (sorting and tabulating machines are already set up in the new quarters pf the bureau i Most of these machines are products of the mechanical labaratory of the 1 census bureau and have been invented I and manufactured solely for the purF pose of performing the intricate and •I rapid work required in sorting and 1( tabulating the millions of punched II cards upon which the facts and figr ures of the entire nation will be transr j scribed from the information gathered Iby the field force.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, September 25, 1919.

MINISTERS AID Promised in a Resolution Adopted by the Decatur Ministerial Association TO EXERT INFLUENCE To Awaken Sympathy and Secure Cooperation of All for Jewish Relief Fund. The following resolution was adopt|ed by the ministers of this city at a (meeting of their association: "Rarely has the heart of the world been more touched than by the miserably helpless situation of the Jews in Europe. Humanity’s call must not go unheeded., Never has there been a time when Jew and Gentile should be more united in a common purpose. We teach from ourypulpits God's supreme command that “man should love his neighbor as himself.” This drive for funds to relieve these unfortunates will by its failure or sue-I cess demonstrate how practical and effective we have made this teaching. With prayers in our hearts we ask that the example of the Good Samaritan will be repeated by our good people. Therefore, Be it Resolved, that we the Ministerial Association of the city of Decatur, will exert ourselves andour influence to the utmost to awaken the sympathy and secure the cooperation of all of nor people in the relief of the .suffering and starving ones across the sea. MINISTERIAL ASS’N. by Rev. C. J. Minor, Sec. Charles Tinkham, A. H. Saunders. J. Ed Stone, W. S. Mills, Com. H. C. L. DROPS The High Cost of Living is taking, a noticeable drop on the local mark-1 et. Small sweet pickles that sold for, twelve and a half cents a dozen a year ago, are selling for ten cents. thOolFTpirit Will be Theme of Evangelist A. P. Renn at Baptist Church This Evening SPLENDID SINGING By Singing Evangelist Backemeyer — Revival Opened Last Evening "The Holy Spirit” will be the theme of Evangelist A. P. Renn, at the Baptist church this evening, the services beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Singing Evangelist H. A. Backemeyer wilLlead the choral music and will also sing (.wo special numbers. The two and a half weeks' revival service opened last evening with splendid sermon and singing, and with interest at a high point. These two leaders were here a year ago, and their splendid ability and power are well known. “Visions” was the subject of last evening’s sermon and the discourse wad built upon the two texts—one from Proverbs 28-18; and the other from Acts 27-19. The great part that a true vision plays in one’s life was brought out and illustrations were taken from the Bible and from notable instances in history Prof. Backemeyer sang a sacred word arrangement for the air, “Till | He Come Again.” and also, “His Loving Thought." Both sermon and sing ing are arranged to co-operate in the uplifting power of the service. A cordial invitation is given to all to attend. BIG FIRE AT CAPITAL CITY (United Press Service) Indianapolis Sept. 25. — (Special to Daily Democrat)—Fire this afternoon gutted the garage of the Horace Wood transfer company in the heart of the city and destroyed approximately 100 high priced automobiles. Five hundred gallons of gasoline was stored under the building, but the blaze was gotten under control before *t reached this. Horace Wood said he thought the fire started with an explosion among several cars which wore stored in the rear Os the gjarage. For a time the entire three storybuilding was theatened with destruction. Workmen in the garage escaped. The blaze and smoke could be seen

FITZPATRICK BEFORE SENATE First Witness Called Before' the Committee in the ( Strike Investigation MORE THAN PROMISE Os a Conference is Now Necessary to Get Men j Back to Job, He Says. , (By Raymond Clapper, United Press staff correspondent) [ i Washington, Sept. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) —More than the promise of a conference with steel of- ! ficials is now necessary to get strik-1 ing steel workers back to the plant.' John Fitapatrick, strike leader, told the senate labor committee today, j | Fitzpatrick, the first witness in the investigation, authorized by the seni ate Tuesday, declared that the refus--1 al of a conference was the cause of a I strike but the workers now will not I go back until they get justice, he added. Fitzpatrick made his statement under questioning by Senator Kenyon ■ after he had told the committee that the steel officials took every means to prevent unionization of their plant and declared bad conditions in the steel Industry werexused in preventing the securing of improved conditions elsewhere. I “Would the strike be called off if you had the consent of the officials for a conference?” Senator Kenyon asked. “I don't think so,” Fitzpatrick replied. "There is now ground on which we can get together but the i mere fact of calling of a conference I will not be sufficient to recall the i 850,000 workers who have left their "jobs. They have been subjected to brutality and murder. They present that and they will not go back to the mills until they get justice.” Washington, Sept. 25 —(Special to , Daily Democrat) —That an industrial armistice will result from the senate investigation of the steel strike was the hope of members of the labor committee, as hearings opened today. , Complete airing of labor's grievances and of capital’s fears, together with suggestions from senators, I will tend to bring the clashing forces to a halt, committee members said today. i Chairman Kenyon of the senate labor committee made it clear that the committee is making the investi-; gation with an open mind and starts with no prejudice. “What we want now is the facts," he declared today. “We want labor leaders to feel free to tell us the whole story from their side and we want the employers to have the same privilege." Not only organized labor, but unorganized labor will be asked to send 1 representatives before the senate ini vestigating committee, Kenyon indi- ' cated. He wants to get the views of ! non-striking workqien, he explained. | Later the committe may go to Pittsburgh and other steel centers. Kenyan said today that no source of information would be left untouched, i The committee will seek facts as to , the number of men organized, the number not organized, the number responding to the strike call, grievance, complaints of employers and terms on which both sides would be willing to compromise. ; John Fitzpatrick, chairman of the steel workers strike committee, will be the first witness. Charges that union leaders are aiming to inaugerate revolutionary charges in management and ownership of industry under cover of a strike for higherwages and shorter hours will be put up to him by committee members. I Senators will question him as to why labor leaders refused to postpone the strike until after President Wilson’s industrial conference Oct. 6. WEATHER Indiana — Fair tonight; cooler : north and central poritions; Friday fair. for more than two miles. The average price of the automobiles exceeded $2.1)00. He owned 20 of them which he used in taxi serv- ■ ice. The remainder belonged to pat-! rons who had parked them there sor 1 i; the day.

SKULL FRACTURED Ralph C. Craighead, Salesi man of Ft. Wayne. Badly Injured When THROWN OFF SIDE-CAR Os Motorcycle — Brought Here and Then Taken to Fort Wayne Hospital | Ralph C. Craighead, aged about | thirty, married, traveling salesman, ot 1 Ft. Wayne, Tor the Myer-Cassel Wholesale house, had his skull fractured, | several right ribs broken and his body badly bruised otherwise, when thrown from the side-car of a motorcycle near the Tricker fam, southeast of the city about 4:30 yesterday afternoon. He had come here from Ossian, and was enroute to Wren, Ohio, at the time of the accident. His automo- ( bile being out of commission, was held up for repairs at Ossiau, where he had engaged the motorcycle driver and his vehicle to make this portion of the trip. After attending to business here, they started again on their way enroute to Wren. Near the TrickI er farm, they found themselves going past the road where they should make the turn, and hastily correcting their way. 'made the turn too sharp, throwing Mr. Craighead out of the car, with the aforesaid results. He was brought to the Decatur hospital, and at the time of the accident, was believed to be dead, so lifeless he lay. Dr. D. D. I Clark was called to treat him. His wife and his parents arrived from Ft. Wayne during the evening and it was decided to remove the in- ; jured man to his home-city and he was taken about ten o’clock last night in the Black & Getting ambulance to the St. Joseph hospital. At no time did he regain consciousness, and his condition was said to be very serious. z Mr. Craighead’s immediate family includes the wife and son. DEMANDS ANSWER Judge Anderson Refuses Grant of Injunction but j Rules That Tax Board i MUST MAKE ANSWER To Erie R. R. Complaint by October —Adams County Included in List. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Sept. 25. — (Special to Daily Democrat)— Refusing to grant a temporary injunction to prohibit placing the increased assessed valuation of the Chicago & Erie Railroad com- ‘ pany in eleven northern Indiana counties, Judge A. B. Anderson in federal court today ruled the defendant, taxing authorities to answer the railroad’s complaint on or before October 10. The court indicated that he will refer the hearing of evidence in the case to a master in chancery a short time after it comes to issue in order that there may be a decision before January 1. The suit is one of the two which attacks the state tax board method of increasing the assessed valuation of large corporations in Indiana. It is brought in tile name of Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads and thq Chicago & Erie Railroad company. The members of the state tax board, Ottis Klauss, state auditor and state attorney General Stansbury and the auditors, treasurers and prosecuting attorneys of Lake’, Porter, Laporte, Pulaski, Fulton, Stark, Miami. Wabash, Huntington, Wells and (Adams counties. RUTH HAS RECORD (United Press Service) New York, Sept. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Babe Ruth made back numbers of all official and unofficial records yesterday afternoon when he. knocked his 28th home run. It was a terrific drive over the right field stands in the ninth inning of the second game with the Yankees, the first time the feat was ever accomplished. • A week ago Ruth broke Breemen’s 25 home run mark and yesterday tin drive that bettered the alleged Wil ' liamsoii mark of 27 in 1883 also shat : tered Joe Jackson’s record for tin (longest hit on the Polo grounds.

TO HAVE At Festival at Fort Wayne | Next Week—WemholT Monumental Works ARRANGES FOR SAME Will Show New Sand-blast Method of Lettering — Many Fine Stones. The Wemhoff Monumental Works is preparing an exhibit for the cele-j bration at Ft. Wayne next week ! Among the displays will be several ' pieces showing a new style of letter-, j ing—the first in this section of the j country. It is known as the sandblast method, and the new plant now owned and operated by the Wemhoffs. is’ one of only six of its kind in the ' United States. The nearest ones, in fact, at Indianapolis and Grand Rapids, Mich. The method cuts the 1 letters deep and clear, and beautiful, ' and the process is especially interesting. Tiie first two pieces made here, 1 which will be on exhibition at the celebration, are markers for the ‘ graves of George Crist, and for Barbara, wife of John Magley, now of ’ Warren. Ohio. Other beautiful stones at the local plant include one to be r sent to Morgantown. W. Va., by Dr. Boyers for his parents' graves; and 1 a beautiful stone, bearing a simple 1 cluster of tulips, in relief, the same being selected by Mrs. Emma Jabk- ’ son Myers, of Columbus, Ohio, for her late husband. : CROWD SHOUTS “WE'RE WITH YOU" I. _____ e President Wilson Given a Demonstration in Denver V Today—Crowd Jumps J AND SHOUT APPROVAL 1 President Declares That i “Hyphens” are Ones who 5 Are Opposing Treaty. (United Press Service) Denver, Colo., Sept. 25.—(Special to j Daily Democrat) —“Hyphens are the knives that are being stuck Into this document,” President Wilscn charged - today in a speech, demanding acceptance of the peace treaty. He laid witn emphasis the accusation that legislative hall” the only organized opposition to the treaty came from the same forces that favor- ’ ed Germany in the war. i A demonstration which continued . several minutes, people jumping on , chairs, broke out when Wilson said he believed he had the support of the people of the United States. Shouts of “you bet, Woodrow”, “we're with you, old boy”, filled the air. — Denver, Colo., Sept. 25 —(Special to I Daily Democrat) —Avowedly ready j 1 for a finish fight on the issue of 1 peaqfe treaty ratification. President Wilson carried his campaign into Col- ’ orado today. He was to speak at : Denver this morning and at Pueblo this afternoon. Colorado is the state . of Senator Thomas, who has just de- ; clared for reservations. Wilson says the treatv fight is , centering on article X, which he regard's as the heart of the document, i It was considered today that he had | [ thrown down’, a challenge when he I . said at Cheyenne, that he, as presi- • dent, would deem the treaty rejected if congress adopted the proposed res-! . ervation to article X. This reservation stipulates the United States assumes no obligation to carry out any of the provisions of (Continued on Page Three)

,— >— ——.— —_— " — SHALL WE DESERT THE CHILDREN? i • The Jews are asking help from the United States because there are hundreds of thousands of homeless orphans in i eastern ami central Europe. If America would now desert 1 the children of Poland alone that they are now helping, ■ eight hundred thousand youngsters would die. Is this the 1 honest truth? It is. It is the blunt am! plain truth. Thou- : sands of children are sleeping in the streets, barefooted ■ 6 little bundles of rags, shivering and sobbing in the wind, j H who have forgotten the very taste of white bread and milk, j Twenty-live cents will buy one 6f these youngsters nioie I s food than he has had at any one time in five veal’s. '• »- | e i ty-tive thousand people of Adams county surely a . I ’’ enough heart to raise six thousand dollars as mcir ‘. j I t- ward relieving this awful situation. Less than that houW ie not be living up to Christian doctrine. j I —r ’

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OUIET EXCEPT IN PENNSYLVANIA One Striker Killed and Another Injured in Raid on House by Police SHOTS AT PITTSBURGH ' Fired at Employes With Pay Roll—Few Workers Going Back to Jobs. One Killed at Farrell. Farrell, Penna., Sept. 25.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —One striker was killed and one seriously beaten in a gun fight with state policb here today. The police raided a house from which | it was declared men were sniping at | the steel plant. 1 Shots Were Fired. Pittsburg, Penna., Sept. 25.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —A score cf shots were fired today at three emi ployes of the Clairton steel plant and policemen enroute to the mill. The men were carrying $200,000 in wages) to be paid workers. No one was injured. ■! . Absolute Quiet Today. , Buffalo, N. V„ Sept. 25. — (Special s to Daily Democrat) —Absolute quiet prevailed in the vicinity of the closed r steel plants here today. Enforcement of order by the state police, prohibit ing more than two persons to con gregate upon the streets, kept pedes trians on the move. Mayor Toomey has refused the request of Captain 'Robinson cf the con- ’ stabulary to close saloons in Lackawanna until the police commissioners approve the plan. } I Quiet at Youngstown. Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 25. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —While all wss quiet at the steel plants here today, Mahoning county's united labor -z congress was changing its attitude I toward the American Legion members [ who have been guarding the plants and otherwise assisting policemen to maintain order. Although the legion was scored for placing a company of its men heavily armed at Struthers, after S. D. Robinson, post command- - 51 er. had finished a plea for labor’s ! support, the congress pledged to aid • the legion in its work. I Working at Carnegie Plant. Sharon. Pa., Sept. 25.—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Barrning the firing of a few shots near the North Carnegie works in Sharon last might by men apparently intent on frightening others away from the plqnt, there was no disturbance in the Shenanago valley in connection with the steel strike. Reports received by tiie Farrell police department that large numbers of holshevists were marchring from Ohio to Farrell to assist the strikers proved untrue. Searching of persons entering the I strike district continued today at Far- ! rell. More than 50 arrests of persons carrying concealed weapons have been made. More men returned to work at the Carnegie plant in Farrell this morning. Signs of Life Again. Chicago, Sep. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Steel mills began comeback in the Chicago district today. The Gary plant at Gary, Ind.. | began limited operation of the siuii mill at 4 a. m.. using workers who ( have dribbled buck in the last two : days. Steel company officials in Ini diana Harbor and East Chicago said men were appealing for more police protection that they might return to their jobs. In Joliet, 111., the plant ' was reported still inoperative. (Continued on Page Three)