Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1920 — Page 1

Volume XVIII. Number 122.

ALLOW HIGHER INTEREST RATE Tax Commissioners Will Permit City to Issue Bonds at Six Per Cent TO ADVERTISE SAME Issue of $15,000 and SSO.000 Wil) Now be Sold— Coal Hauling Up The chy council in special session last evening at the city hall did not receive a single bld for the purchase of the $15,000 worth of 5 per cent, water works improvement bonds offered for sale for the purpose of obtaining money enough to extend the water mains in the north part of the city and to make other improvements in the water works department. The reason attributed for the failure of the bonds to sell was that the Inter .st rate was not high enough to attract investors and banks, better of ferlngs being made In the Liberty Bond market, which bonds are selling below par. Increase Interest Rate. The council, however, has hopes of selling the bonds in the near future. The state tax board, upon the presenting of a petition by Attorney Hu her DeVoss in behalf of the city, will permit the council to issue the *15.0001 worth of water works improvement! bonds and whatever amount up to $75 000 of the bonds to be used in building or remodeling the present electric ■ light plant at six per cent, and it is : the general opinion of the bankers: and the council that these bonds will sell. In view of this order or ruling | from the state tax board, the council instructed the clerk to advertise for' the sale of the $15,000 worth of bonds at six per cent, and also to advertise, tor the sale of $50,000 worth of bonds of the proposed S7S.'WB Issue forthe 1 improvement of the llfht plant, which must be enlarged in or der to supply the General Electric ‘ plant, the foundry and the factorie:in this city with pcwer and current Bids for these sale of these bonds will, be received of June 15th They arc non-taxable and will bear 6 per cent net. making them an attractive in vestment. Draw Up Plans. City Engineer Dick Boch was in structed by the council to draw up the i plans and profile tor the extension or: Johns street to the Fifth street, for | the improvement of the alley sewer i back of the business houses on the; west side of Second street, from Mon-1 roe to Madison street and the con necting of this sewer with the Madison , street sewer and also instructed the engineer to make a survey relative-to, the opening of Dayton avenue. a« petitioned for by Daniel Erwin, manager of the Home Builders’ association. Coal Hauling Problem. The question of hauling the city’s coal from the railroad tracks to the water works was discussed but not definitely decided or contract let for the job as the council is undecided what steps will be taken, bor the present both Mr. Thomas and Mr Hobble will be employed by the city to haul the coal. Miller and Butler have agreed to unload whatever coal s placed on the Erie tracks at their un-

loading pit for forty cents per ton. in , eluding the labor required In operating j the uncoading machine. Mr. H< .dil* will haul the coal from that place to the water works for sixty cents P< ton. making the total expense per ton, of 11.00. Mr. Mylott stated that the | latest quotation received on coal was seven dollars at the mines, but that he would not buy any at this price without the approval of the counci and then only as a last resort, this price being almost prohibitive The city now has 4 or 5 carloads of coal on the railroad tracks in this city, they coming in yesterday, which supply wiU carry the local water plant for a ew weeks. Mr. Mylott also stated that the steam flow meter at the water works plant was in operation showing exactly what it is costing to pump the water and to manufacture the e ectric power. An executive session followed during which time matters P* rtaln " g to the water works plant "tie cussed. ♦++++++ + ♦ + ♦ * * t ♦ THE WEATHER FORECAST Thunder showers probable tonight and Sunday cooler.

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PIGEONS TURNED LOOSE Six crates of pigeons, numbering ISO i in all, owned by the Toledo Homing ■ Pigeon club, were sent to the Amerl- ■ can Railway Express company- of this city, three crates of the birds being turned loose at noon today by Agent I Ben Elzey. Upon being released, the birds circled around several times and left the city for their destination in u northeasterly course. The remaining , three crates will be released tomor- ‘ row morning. FOR THE BOYS I Organization Formed by! the Presbyterian Men to Care for Lads OFFICERS ELECTED Charles Knapp is President —Committees Named— Fine Social Evening : — An enthusiastic meeting of the men of the Presbyterian church was held in the Sunday school room of the church Friday evening at which definite action was taken in regard to the new venture of the men of that congregation in plroviding a | reading room and place of amusement for the boys of the church. C. D. Teeple, president of the I Men's club presided, and after the devotionals W. Guy Brown, principal ■ of the junior high school, gave some of the problems in earing for boys that has come to his attention during the last few years. His talk was interesting, and showed the great need i of having some place where the boys ; could congregate and be under prop- : per supervision, that they might be trained in the right direction. He was followed by Clark J. Lutz, who made an earnest appeal to the men of the church to lend all assistance possible that the new move on the part of the men might prove of I untold value to the boys of Decatur and mean the establishment of just such a place by every church m the rity. and ft would thus solve the boy ■ problem. The men have leased the Erwin and Michaud room on Second street next to the Merry studio for the club roam for rhe boys, and it will be ' equipped in real reading room and gymnasium style, just so far as the size of thq room will permit. The following officers and commiti tecs were named Friday evening to , care for the club room: President—Charles W. Knapp. Secretary-Treasurer— J. E. Elberson. - Finance Committee—Hugh D. Hite. W. A. Lower, C. J. Lutz. Organization—D. B. Erwin, John H. Stewart. C. C. Pumphrey. Wesley i Hoffman, J. E. Elberson. i Equipment—C. D. Teeple, W. H. Lee. Herb Borroughs. Fred Patterson, Charles Knapp. The room is now being put in shape and will soon be ready for the ' entertainment of the boys. This room will also be used to house the mission which was estab- | lished last fall at Steele’s park by the Presbyterian church. This mission meets on Sunday afternoon, and '; is making fine progress. Following the business session, a ' social hour was enjoyed, during ' which refreshments of ice cream, cake and coffee were served.

SOLEMN COMMUNION Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday, one of the most beautiful and important feast days observed by the Catholic church. In connection with this great feast day. a class of thir-ty-one boys and girls will make their first solemn communion at the regu lar 9:30 o'clock high mass. Rev. Father J- A. Seimetz officiating. The class of this year's communicants will be accompanied by the class of last year. Special services will also be conducted in the afternoon. The list of communicants as published in this paper two weeks ago will appear again in Monday’s paper. SALVATION ARMY FUND Previously reported $749.51 Indiana Board & Filler Co. 50.00 Union township 32 50 Total 3832 01 — ,1•• What's the matter with your old , mß n. Liz’" "Why he's kinda downhearted? He fired into a bunch of revenue officers today and didn't git I but four of ’em!"

SENIORS ARE ENTERTAINED Annual Reception to Graduating Class, Faculty and the School Officials WAS PLEASANT AFFAIR Banquet and Dance at K. | of P. Home—One Hundred Guests Present The K. of P. home as a veritable flower garden Friday evening when the junior class of the Decatur high school gave the annual reception to the seniors, wiho after next week, will go out from the Decatur high school, to enter higher fields of education. or to become a part of the great business world. The reception started off with the usual banquet in the dining room of the K. of P. home, which was very nicely served in two courses by the Pythian Sisters. The banquet was served at the small tables and places were arranged for 100. the members of the junior and senior classes, the faculty of the high school, and the members of the school board, together with their wives, being seated at the banquet tables. The dining room was beautifully decorated in the class colors of gray and pink, with palms, lilacs, wild plum and dogwood blossoms, which were prettily arranged, and made a most beautiful setting for the dinner. Electric floor lamps, with shades of variagated colors, added beauty to the room. During the serving of the banquet Miss Marie Cook acted as toastmaster, and toasts were given by R. D. Myers. Carl Groves, Dick Durkin. Cal Peterson, Superintendent Worth mann. Miss Wemhoff, Miss Ossenherg. Herman Myers and Pat Hyland Following the banquet the happy company went to the lodge room of the spacioqs K. of P. home where a program of various stunts, music and 'other (TTversfons were enjoyed, which included dancing, the music for the (Continued on page four) A LABOR MEETING At the Court House in This City Last Evening Was Fairly Well Attended MR. BELL SPOKE Twenty-three Signed Petition to Become Members of the Federation More than a hundred laboring men gathered at the court house Friday evening at the call of the members of the carpenters’ union in a get-together meeting preliminary to the organization of a federation of labor in Decatur. Representatives of the various labor body already organized in this city were present, and twenty-three others signed applications to become members of the new federation. Jesse Roop, of the carpenters, was selected as chairman of the gathering last evening, and Clyde Butler was made secretary-treasurer. Another meeting will be held next Friday even ing at the carpenters' hall to further the organization. An interesting feature of the organisation was the address of Persa R. Bel), prominent labor worker of Ft. Wayne. Mr. Bell in his address told of the benefits to be derived from an organization such as the one proposed for Decatur, and he was freely applauded during the course of his speech. MARRIED HERE TODAY I , Harry Dubach and Miss Frances Moser came here this afternoon from ■ French township and secured a marriage license. They left their car. a fine Auburn Beauty Six. in front cf the Murray house, and walked to the Rev. Stolte's home to have the knot securely tied. While the car was standing on the street a bunch of merry makers decorated it in fine style. Mr. Hurley, manager of the Service Aviation company, announced that he would give them a tree ride if tlie» I presented themselves at the ground a - mile south of town. Monday. f Later—The couple has accepted the i offffer and will be given a free ride I tomorrow afternoon.

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♦ RESERVED FOR PARENTS ♦ !♦ All parents of the graduating ♦ I ♦ class of the Decatur high school ♦ ♦ will receive reserved seats at the ♦ ♦ baccalaureate sermon to be held ♦ ♦ ut the Methodist church tomor ♦ ♦ row evening. In order to make it ♦ ♦ convenient for the ushers, all par ♦ ♦ ents tire requested to wear the ♦ ♦ high school colors. ♦ ♦ COMMITTEE SENIOR CLASS ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ NECK AND NECK Republican Presidential Race in Oregon is “Nip and Tuck" Between WOOD AND JOHNSON Military Candidate Leading by a Small Margin— Meager Returns In. (United Press Service) Portland, Oregon. May 22. (Special to Daily Democrat) —General Leonard Wood and Senator Johnson were running a neck and neck race early today on the face of meagre returns from the republican preferential primary in Oregon yesterday With less than one-tenth of the returns compiled. Wood had a lead of 354 over Johnson. Herbert Hoover, who withdrew from the Oregon campaign a week ago. was in third place with Lowden next. William G. McAdoo had no opposition for the democratic endorsement. Portland, Oregon. May 22. — (Special to Daily Debocrat) — Major General Leonard Wood, had a lead of 249 over Senator Hiram Johnson for the republican presidential nomination, meager incomplete returns from yesterday’s primary indicated today. Tile tabulation early today, including 15 counties, incomplete gave Wood 3352; Johnson 3103; Governor Lowden 1273; and Herbert Hoover 1.380. William G. McAdoo was unopposed for the democratic nomination. United States Senator Chamberlin apparently has been renominated by the democrats over Harvey Starkweather who claimed the backing of the administration. SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Seniors of the Decatur high school will give their class play next Wednesday evening at the Gym. The title of the play this year is “Eliza Comes to Stay," and is said to be one of the (Tinniest of farces. Ten Seniors comprise the cast, and the public is assured of a good entertaniment. The high school orchestra will furnish the music, and the curtain will go up at 8:15. Tickets may be had from any of the Seniors. Admission is forty cents. MRS? MANN DEAD Mrs. George Mann, Former Adams County Resident, Passed Away Today AT FORT RECOVERY, O. Family Moved to Oklahoma Seven Years Ago, Then Southern Kansas O. J. Suman, of this city, this morning received the following message: “Mrs. George Munn died this morning.—C. C. Mann.” This message brought the sad news of the death of Mrs. Stiman’s sister, at Fort Recovery. Ohio, some time during the morning, the exact hour not being known by the friends and relatives here. It is believed her death was caused from cancer, as she had been a sufferer from that affliction for some time past. Mrs. Mann was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Brown of Pleasant Mills, and the family lived here for a period of six or seven years, but moved away about seven years ago, going first to Oklahoma and then to Kansas before returning to Fort Recovery to reside. i The husband and a son and a I daughter survive. A brother. Ora ■ Brown also survives, besides the sister, Mrs. Suman. Funeral services ) were not known to relatives here this 1 afternoon. Mrs. Sumsn will leave toi morrow for Fort Recovery to be present at the funeral services.

: THE MEMORIAL : DAY PROGRAM : — Soldiers of the Civil, Span- ' ish-American, Mexican ’ and World Wars !I TO DEC ORATE GRAVES Os Their Fallen Comrades I —Good Program is Announced for the Dav — I The program forthe 4 Decoration day exercises to be given in this city a week from tomorrow. Sunday. May 30, Is herewith announced. The program had been held up for a few days because of a change in the date, from Saturday, May 29, to Sunday. r May 30. It was first planned to have ' the Decoration exercises on Satur day. and the speaker. Judge S. M Hench. of Fort Wayne, was secured for that date. Since it was necessarv to change the date it is not known I whether he will be able to be here I for the day, but if he cannot, some one will be substituted, and the program otherwise will be carried out. The Decoration day services this year will be out of the ordinary in that the soldiers of the world war are taking a prominent part, and will appear in uniform during the day. Dallas Brown, of Battery A, and W H. Myers, of the G. A. R., will be marshals of the day. The following program will be the order of the day: 9:00 a. m., assemble at the G. A. R. hall. Decorate graves at Decatur, St. Joseph and Maplewood cemeteries. 1:00 p. m.. Assemble at G. A. R hall. Program on court house lawn: Cenotaph services. Selection of music. Decorating the grave to the unknown dead. Salute. Taps. Relief Corps Services. Court "RoomG. A. R. Ritualistic Work. (Continued on page four) INJURED IN A FALL Edward Kleinhenz, Formerly of This City, Received Serious Injuries STEPPED FROM AUTO And Thrown Violently to Pavement—Skull Believed to be- Fractured Edward Kleinhenz. son of Mrs. John W. Kleinhenz. who resides on Line street in this city, was serious ly injured Friday noon at Fort Wayne when he jumped from a slowly moving automobile while on his way to dinner from the Bowser factory, where he is employed. His injuries consist of a fractured skull, and a badly bruised face and head. It is not definitely known how the accident happened, as Mr. Kleinhenz was in the habit of riding home with a friend at the noon hour and jumping off the machine as the driver slowed down at the St. Paul church. It is believed, however, that his coat must have become caught in the door of the machine, which caused hint to fall as he jumped from the running board of the car. He was unconscious when friends reached his side and he was picked up and taken to the St. Joseph hospital in the police i ambulance. Dr. E. J. Bickel was cal- ■ led. as were also the relatives of the : young man. His brothers, Lawrence i and Arthur, went down from this city. ■ and a brother. Frank, was already ( there. They report that he regained - consciousness during the afternoon, and that he was getting along as well . as could be expected, considering the 1 seriousness of the injury. Ed has " been in' Fort Wayne for some time, t and has been employed at the Bowser , plant about seven years. , — — SETS NEW RECORD i Dayton. Ohio. May 22—(Special to i Daily Democrat)—L. B. Ehelen. civil- - ian pilot employed by the Daytont Wright airplane company today es- ( tablished a new world altitude record -for airplanes carrying four persons. - The plane was driven to a height of 18,200 feet.

BASE BALL TOMORROW The Pennsylvania league team from I Fort Wayne will come to this city Sunday and play the Decatur boys in their second game of the season. The tame will be called nt 2:45 sharp, with France Confer as umpire. Distel 1 " and Kolb will be the battery for the Fort Wayne aggregation and Cochran I and Coffee will serve for Decatur. The 1 Decatur boys expect to win the game 1 Sunday from the Pennsylvania bunch ) and will enter the game to win. A CLEVER BOOK 1 Annual Edition of “Rave- ’ lings” Will be Distributed Next Week , I OVER HUNDRED PAGES' A Resume of Year’s Work and School Festivities—i Many Pictures i The annual edition of “Ravellngs" “ the Decatur high school paper is now •well under way at this office and will be off the press in a day or two and, . ready for distribution by the senior i class by next Thursday or Friday. ’ The annual edition will come out in ! book form and will consist of about one hundred and fifteen pages, including reading material, pictures and advertisements of the local mer-j chants. The book is cleverly and interest!ngly written, it covering a resume of the festivities and doings of the De-, catur high school in the last year, in-j ■hiding sports and commencement week. It also gives a summary of the senior classes of the last four, years. Pictures of the graduating class in >anel form appear in the edition as •veil as group pictures of the Freshmen. Sophomore and Junior classes. 1 the high school faculty, the grade teachers, members of the school board, cartoons of a number of the high school students, the teachers as well, pictures of basket-ball and football teams, and in fa-t it is jammed nil of interesting reading and picures. The book sells for seventyfive cents and is well worth it. If you have not placed your order for me, leave word with one of the members of the Senior class and a copy will be delivered to you. Following is the official staff of “Ravelings: ” Dick Heller—-Editor in Chief. Dorothy Smith —Assistant Editor. Elmo Ehinger—Business Manager. Chas. Keller —Asst. Business Mgr. Linn Kern—Asst Business Mgr. | Miss Gay—Circulation Manager. Helen Stanley—Senior Editor. Helen Dugan and Mildred Niblick —Society Editors. Gertrude Yager—Exchange Editor. 1 Doris Erwin - Alumni Editor. Donald Hower —Joke Editor. Fred Butler—Cartoonist. Thetus Hocker and Bernice Leon ard—Athletic Editors. Serena Hornada—Department Editor. WOMAN OPENED IT (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind., May 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A woman opened the state convention of the Indiana socialist party here today. She Mrs. Dr. Madge Patton Stevens. Terre Haute, who fixed the election , of E. S. Whitner of Indiana Harbor, as chairman of the convention. The motion was carried and Whitner took charge of the meeting which will name a state ticket tomorrow. About fifty delegates were present when the meeting got under way this morning. < A. Kelso, of Elwood, was named as t chairman of the committee on creden- 1 tials. l TO FIGHT BONUS BILL 1 “TO THE LAST DITCH." (United Press Service) Washington. May 22—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The soldier bonus bill which its advocates had hoped to pass through the house before adjournment tonight was confronted with indefinite delay today. An agreement has been signed by t,early 60 republicans to fight the bill “to the last ditch.” The bonus still has a majority in ■ the house, but the difficulty arises in obtaining a special rule to prevent all amendments to the measure. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee stated today that the ’ I eat liest date now set tor considersI tiou of the bill is next Tuesday.

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DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED I State Department is Without Evidence That Carranza Was Killed LATER REPORTS SAY That He is Still a Fugitive in Mountains—Party Was With Him I (United Press Service) Washington. May 22 (Special to Daily Democrat) —The stale depart inent was entirely 1 without reports on the death of Carranza advices from the American embassy at Mexico 'City saying that according to the Mexico City Press Carranza was still in the mountains near Zacatlan where the fugitive president was reported to have been killed. Mexico City, May 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Venustiaro Corran--1 za. deposed president of Mexico with ' six members of his party, has been I killed near t.he town of TlaxcalaTongo in the state of Pueblo, according to advices to headquarters of both generals Alvaro Ohregon and Pablo Gonzales, here tonight. - Reports received at revolutionary I headquarters up to midnight did not name the six members of the deposed president's party who were killed | with him. I Earlier dispatches, however, had said Louis Gahrera. Carranza’s minister of the treasury; General Guen I Barragan, his chief of staff; Aguirre I Berlanga, prime minister and Ignacio Bonillas, former ambassador to the United States were witli their chief. ! Telegrams received at the headquarters of General Gonzales filed in Huachinago. Pueblo, said the bodies were being taken to Beristain in the same state. The Carranzistas were killed at 1 a. m. yesterday by a force commanded by Col. Rudolpho Herrera, advices to General Obregon from Villa-Puar-ez. Puebla, said Herrera formerly was a Carranza commander. Herrera was a sub-commander under General Marial Herreras. Telegrams here indicated the colonel with his men accompanied Carranza on his final flight into the , mountains after the Rineonada defeat. W.hile reports were vague it was believed at revolutionary headquarters that Col. Herrera and his I mon revolted during the fight and , turned against Carranza. COAL SHORTAGE IN INDIANA IS SERIOUS (United Press Service) Indianapolis. May 22—(Special to I Daily Democrat) — Drastic action must be taken immediately to relieve | the acute coal car shortage in Indiana members of the public service I commission agreed today when they held a conference to devise means by which to overcome the situation. Invitations were sent to three or four representative coal operators and the superintendents of coal carrying railroads in the state asking ’ them to attend a conference with the commission next Monday to learn just how serious the shortage is and how best to avert a closing of public utilities. PLAN IS DEFEATED (United Press Service) Washington, D. ('., May 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Deserted by some of their own forces insurgent republican senators today were outmaneuvered in their fight to have con gress stay in session until it enacted legislation to bring down living cost. Following a caucus today at which republican senators decided to back their party leaders against the insurgents, Senator Kenyon of lowa abandoned his plan to carry out the fight tor a consideration of cost of living hills to the floor of the senate. TO NOMINATE HIM New York, N. Y., May 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Charles S. Wheeler, of San Francisco, prominent ■ California attorney, will nominate i Senator Hiram Johnson for the re. I publican nomination for president, it I was announced at Johnson’s head- * quarters here this afternoon. ) Seconding speeches will be made ■ by Senator Borah of Idaho and Janies T. O'Neill, of Detroit.