Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1921 — Page 1

Volume XIX, Number 236

YANKEES REPEAT IN THE SECOND GAME

LW. FRANK IN AUTO ACCIDENT Three Ribs Broken, Gash Cut in Head, Otherwise Bruised and Scratched MACHINES COLLIDE At Crossroads Northeast of Monroeville — Victim is | Brought Home. L. W. Frank. Decatur road con tractor, suffered a severe cut in the back left side of his head, had three i ribs broken on the left side, and has a badly bruised and scratched left eye. and a badly scratched left knee, as the result of an automobile collision at the cross-roads near the Rosswurm gravel pit. four miles northeast of Monroeville at 9:30 o’clock this morning. The machine colliding with Mr. Frank's Ford touring car was a Ford roadster, said to be occupied by a man and woman, believed to be tourists from Virginia. The Frank machine was headed north and the Ford roadster was going west. The Frank machine had evidently proceeded near the front of the highway running east and west, and the roadster possible struck the car near the rear wheel, and from the position of the machine had turned it around and forced it up against the fence.. The wheels and back end of the car were badly damaged. . The roadster was whirled around in the road and was turned completely over. The occupants, whose names were not learned here, were not so badly injured, and were picked up and carried away by another machine. At 2 o'clock this afternoon it was not known at Monroeville where they badgene. or had any one any knowledge of their identity. The telephone operator at Monroeville stated they seemed to completely vanish. Mr. Frank was hurried to Monroeville where his injuries were tem porarily cared for, and he was brought to his home here where Drs. D. D. Clark and .J M. Miller attended him. Four stitches were taken in the cut on the back of his head and the ribs were set and bandaged. The first news here stated Mr. Frank was probably fatally hurt, and that he probably would not live until the ambulance could reach his home hare. This fortunately proved untrue, and while Mr. Frank is very painfully hurt, there is no cause for alarm, unless internal injuries should develop in the next twenty-four hours, and physicians think this unlikely. He will be laid up several weeks. WANT LUMBER RATES • (United Preen Service >. Washington, Oct. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Application for a reduction of 25 per cent in the freight on hardwood lumber was made today to the interstate commerce commission by the American Hardwood Lumber association and other hardwood lumber organizations. This decrease would restore the rates as of August 26, 1920. Southern railroads filed objections to the proposed decrease on the ground that it Would give them an inufflcient return and at the same time discriminate against soft wood lumber. •_ . WANTS TO BOOST SALARIES (United Preen Service). Detroit, Mich., Oct. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat—Vastly higher salaries for the United States judges as a step to speed the progress to a "new era" was proposed by Henry Ford in a statement to the United Press today. Ford wants supreme court justices to be paid $75,000 annually with no lesser federal judge receiviug a salary below $25,000. Judges then would be ‘‘secure from the resentment of powerful interests against whom they might be called upon to decide,” the automobile manufacturer said. A nation-wide campaign with newspaper advertising as one of the moves is planned by Ford in advocacy of his plan. He feels that to make the issue a dominant one he must ‘‘sell” it to the man in the street.

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CONFESS TO BURGLARY (United Pr»M Service). Muncie, Ind., Oct. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Max Gates, alias George Miller, 21, of Toledo and James Richardson, 25, alias John Jones, of Kokomo, arrested on suspicion of having burglarized the WaiI ler Grocery store here Tuesday night, today confessed to the robbery. Richardson two is said to have a prison record, was recognized by one of the local detectives and later made a signed confession. It is susi pected the men are guilty of several other robberies reported in this part of the state recently. BOOHER FUNERAL Funeral services for Ruth Lucile Booher, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Booher, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Pleasant Dale church, the Rev. Miner officiating. Burial was in the Pleasant Dale cemetery. W AniOMESICK New York Times Gives Interesting Story of 15 Year Old Geneva Lad’s HIKE TO NEW YORK Lived at Home of Mrs. Myrtle Ford—Desired to Visit Family. A few days ago this paper printec a story of Charles Blum's hike fron Geneva to New York. The lad wa; not known here, and former residents of Geneva, living in Decatur, conic not tell us anything about the lad The following clipping sent to t|x« , Democrat by Byard Smith, tells th( entire story: Because he was lonesome for “homi folks," Charles Blum, 15 years old, t blue-eyed, blond-haired farmer boy left the home of Mrs. Myrtle Ford ir Geneva, Ind., where he has lived sot ten years, and hiked the greater pari of 800 miles across three states t< New York in twenty-seven days t< find his father, who lives at 98 Black ford Avenue, Port Richmond. Late Saturday afternoon the youn traveler was "found in Wall Street near William, by Patrolman Join Wills of the Old Slip Stat'on, takei to the Society for the Prevention o Cruelty to Children and put to be, between the first sheets he had slep: since he left Geneva. - Yesterday Charles spent the day at the Children's Society, waiting for his father. Self-contained and modest, he doiesn’t "see what all the fuss is about.” “I haven’t seen my father and mj two older sisters for a long time,” h< said, ‘‘and so one afternoon, on Sa,t urday, Sept 3, I decided to come ti New York. I had a letter from nr sister, Ada, who lives with my father and which came Thursday. It hai the address of their home, so I cami along. That's about all there is t( tell.” , - When he was 5 years old and lived on a ranch in North Dakota, his mother was taken sick and had to gi to a sanatorium. The home was bro kien up and the family separated Charles Blum Sr. took his two daughters and the boy to Geneva, Ind., where he had friends. There he found a home for Charles with Mrs. Ford and came on to New York, to work in the shipyards, bringing tlte two girls with him. The boy was lonely, but Mrs. Ford was kind, and he had a good home. He went to school, and in his spare time worked on the farm. Letters came from time to time telling of New York, th|e great ships and the new home on Staten Island —but no letters from the father, who writes only in Swedish. Charles saw no chance of his father coming out to Geneva, and thought that if he was to come to New York 1 he had tetter start before cold weather. , From Geneva he hiked to Ohio City, ' stopping at farmhouses on the way and generally getting food and a place in a haymow to sleep. He never stoi> „ pled in towns. People in towns were ’ not so friendly as the farmers, who almost always gave him something to ’ eat, and sometimes a lift in their wag- ' ons to the next town. (Continued oa page three)

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+++++++++++++*+ + TOMMY IS HOPEFUL ♦ ♦ ♦ + (By Tommy M'Quade, Giant's ♦ + official mascot.) ♦ ♦ (Written for the United Press) ♦ + We will beat those Yankees + + today I bet you. All they got is ♦ ♦ a lot of luck and Babe Ruth and ♦ ♦ their luck was the only one + ♦ working yesterday and you can’t ♦ <• be lucky every day so I guess + ♦ the Giants will get busy and + ♦ take five straight now. I said ♦ + yesterday we would win five ♦ $■ straight but that did not have + fr to mean the first five straight so + + I guess we will make it five + ♦ straight starting today. ♦ ♦ + ♦ + + ♦ + + ♦♦*♦♦ + * A GREAT SESSION Annual Gathering of Indiana K. of P. Closed With Installation OF THE OFFICERS Dore B. Erwin Advanced to Grand Master at Arms— Decatur Men Home. W. A. Lower. C. W. Knapp, Henrj Dellinger, Fred V. Mills, and J. H Stewart of this city: J. C Tritch of ■'oi t Wayne, who also represented the Decatur lodge, and Ferd Christener. ■cpresenting the Berne lodge, arrived lome at midnight from Indianapolis, where they attended the fifty-third annual session of the Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias. The sessions wen the most interesting of any ever held, the order having reached a total membership of 77,000 in the state. The )im or slogan of the new officers it 100,000 in 1921-22.” Tise installation of the grand lodge officers closed the two days’ session Dore B. Erwin of this city was ad vanced to grand master at arms. Louis B. Elmore was elected grand >uter guard on the first ballot over three opponents. Robert A. Brown was reelected grand keeper of record and seals on the first ballot, he also having three opponents. William W. Crooker of Jeffersonville was named grand trustee. Two other candidates were in the racT- The other officers were elected by acclamation and are: Harvey M. Thompson, of Indianapolis; Ralph W. Gaylor, of Mishawaka, grand vice-chancellor; Elmer Bassett, of Shelbyville, grand prelate; William A. Morris, of Frankfort, grand master of exchequer; Dore B. Erwin, of Decatur, grand master-at-arms, and Nathan J. Lane, of Liberty, grand inner guard. A resolution offered by Charles F. Remy, of Indianapolis, past grand chancellor, and a member of the appellate court of Indiana, providing for a special exemplification of the secret work of the first rank for candidates from various Indianapolis lodges, early in the year, was adopted. A committee of three to five members, to write Resident Harding to attend this ceremony, will be appointed. Frank A. Douglas, grand keeper of seals and records of Illinois, made a brief address at the session Tuesday. At the session yesterday afternoon, J. H. Stewart, Adams county lodge deputy, of this city, was presented a fine gold watch charm for Adams county’s having made the second highest gain in the state. The first prize (Continued on page two)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, October 6, 1921.

HYLAND LOW MAN Gets Plumbing Contract for Rock Creek Township Wells County Schools HEATING CONTRACT Goes to A. J. Moser & CoBerne—W. E. Moon and C. E. Christen Bidders. Two Adams county contractors, P. J. Hyland of this city, and A. J. Moser & Co., of Berne, were successful bidders on the plumbing and heating contracts, respectively, for hte new high and grade school building to be erected in Rocker township Wells county. Mr. Hyland's bid for the plumbing was $9,700 and Moser's and company’s figures $15,000 were the lowest on the heating, and they were awarded the contract. There were eight bidders on the work. W. E. Moon and Charles N. ChcLt en & Company of Decatur were bi-, ders on the general contract, which was awarded to Gorden & Rieff of Liberty Center, on their bid of $59,090 R. E. Fox, of Markle secured the coo tract for wiring, his bid being $901.62 General Contract. The bids for the general contract are as follows: W. E. Moon, $77,894; Gordon and Reiff. $59,090; W. R Duncan and Son. $71,150; U. G Smuts, $86,921; J. E. Dunn, $74,688; Carey and Bobinett, $68,286; Hisey and Debout, $80,667; and Charles Christen $77,180. For Wiring. Bids for wiring follow: Wells Elec trie Company, Bluffton, $1,125; R. E Fox, Markle, $926.62; Hartford Elec trie Company, $3,655.60: Ed Paul $1,716; Herman Fulton. $2,185; and (Continued on page four) HEARING' FRIDAY Representative of State Tax Board Will Hear Petition of Taxpayers ASKING CUT IN LEVY Township Petition Heard at 10, County at 11, and City at 2 O’clock. A representative of the state tax board will arrive here in the morning, and at 10 o'clock will hear citizens of Washington township, in a plea for a lower tax levy for the township. The representative will hear a petition for the same purpose affecting the county levy at 11 o’clock and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, residents of the city of Decatur wiH be heard. The representative comes to this city in response to the petition filed a few days ago, by a dozen or more citizens, requesting that the levies in the three taxing units be reviewed, as in the belief of the petitioners, the levies as fixed, would bring a much larger sum than was necessary to successfully conduct the government of the three taxing units. The petition was filed as is provided under a section of the new taxing law. Similar petitions were filed in more than half of the counties of the state.

+++++++♦ + + + * + + + | ♦ EDDIE IS CHESTY + + (By Eddie Bennett, Yankees of- + ♦ ficial mascot.) + + (Written for the United Press) + + We got only four more to win •F ♦ and after today it will be only + ♦ three more. I said yesterday + + the Yankees ought to win five ♦ + out of seven but mebbe they ♦ + will do better. A fellow had not + + ought to be a hog but you can- + <• not blame him for wanting all •> +he can get. If the Yankees can * + win without Babe hitting any + + homers I guess they won’t make 4> + the Giants look sick when he + + gets hitting some. ♦ ♦*++*+++ + + * + * + + THREE LADS HOME ■ — From Thirteen Months Service in Army—Spent Year in Hawaiian Islands HAD A GOOD TIME But Are Satisfied With Ex-perience-Bell, Smith and Moore Are Discharged. Three Adams county boys, D. L. Smith, a son of Harve Smith and his pals, Bell, a son of Vincent Bell of this city and Moore, a son of Simon Vloore of Monroe, arrived this morning after a trip of thousands of miles. The boys left here last Sep '.ember and enlisted in the U. S. army service for one year. They were sent to Camp Grant and from there to Hawaii Islands for a year. They were discharged at San Frandsco a few days ago and came directly home, declaring they enjoyed the trip, saw a lot of country, had a ;ood time and are ready to settle lown, their experience being sufficient to satisfy them for a good while The trip home over the Pacific ocean required eleven days of stormy sea and was admitted by the old time sailors to have been an unusually tough one. Life in Hawaii was pleasant and the climate ideal and the boys have many interesting stories to tell of their experiences there, as well as in other camps durng the thirteen months they served Jncle Sam. Smith and Moore left here together while Bell, who enlisted a few days later at Bluffton, caught up with hem at Camp Grant and the three stuck together during the year, a twelve months they will always remember. AT KIRKLAND HIGH. A box social will be given at Kirkland high school tomorrow evening, Friday, October 7th and everybody is most cordially invited to attend and to participate in the happy event. A good program—Riley Day exercises—and a big evening has been planned. Be sure to come. You will enjoy it. - >♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ » THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Indiana—lncreasing cloudiness late tonight, warmer in east and south portions tonight, cooler in north and central portions Friday. Upper Mich/igan—Rain tonight and FYiday, cooler Friday and in extreme northwest portion tonight. Lower Michigan— Ra’n late tonight and Friday, colder Friday.

DEFEAT GIANTS AGAIN GY SAME MARGIN AS BEFORE FORTY THOUSAND FANS—RDTH WALKED THREE TIMES-YANKSGET THREE HITS AND THE GIANTS TWO-THREE ERRORS IN GAME. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9—RHE GIANTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 2 3 YANKS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 x—3 3 0

LOOKS LIKE A GO Mr. Arnold Pleased With Boosts for Country Club —Arranging for Land DRIVE FOR MEMBERS Will Be Started Soon Hope to Secure 200—To Layout Golf Course. J. F. Arnold is in earnest about the Country Club idea and is working at it with all his energy. He hopes to lay out the golf course during the next week or two and get ready for business in the spring. He has practically concluded arrangements for leasing the ground needed in addition to the ten acres hwill donate and is securing much en couragement. He hopes to have a membership of 150 to 200 and within a year to have the finest little country club in the middle west. A club house will be erected with showers and all modern conveniences and next spring an outside bathing pool, fed by springs and with bath houses will be provided, making it a delightful spot. The location decided upon is with in a mile of the city limits and will be one of the most popular places in this locality after it’s going. A trip will be made at once to Huntington. VanWert, Portland and Fort Wayne to get their plans and ideas befoie work is started here. It’s a go, Jimmy says, if the men and women here will support it and the indications now ai-jp that they will. . PRINTZESS MAN COMING. E. F. Gass & Son of the Store of Quality, received a card this morning notifying them that a representative of the Printzess company, high grade suits and coats, will arrive here tomorrow and will be at the store during the day. The line is well known here and the visit of this representative will be welcomed by many 1...1U - who wish to see this line of fashionable garments. The store carries an excellent line of the Printzess suits and coats. •— FORTY-TWO OBJECTED. Taxpayers in forty-two taxing units in twenty-seven counties have appealed to the state board of tax commisssioners to reduce one or more ot the tax levies fixed by local officials. The petitions affect one or more levies of some of the taxing divisions of ten cities or towns. The board has before it. 1,586 assessments of property for review. The adjusting of levies and reviewing of assessments will constitute the work of the fourth and last session of the board this year. The session will end Deceuil r 10 th. The counties in which taxpayers are protesting against on elevy or another are Marion, Adams, Allen, clay, Elkhart. Greene, Laporte, Madison, Marshall, Miami, Montgomery, Newton, Porter, Posey, Ripley, Scott, Shelby, Steuben, Switzerland, Vigo, Vanderburg and Wabash. Hearings on the protests will be held in the various counties. The first hearing will be Thursday on the Marion county and Indianapolis appeals.— I Indianapolis News.

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(United I’remm Service). Polo Grounds- N. Y., Oct. 6— (Special to Daily Democrat)— Pitching into a state of helplessness the New York Giants ■ were blanked for the second time and pushed farther away from the base ball crown when they went down before the Yankees here this afternoon 3 to 0. Close to 40.000 fans saw the victor and the victim go through a brilliant game in which the battling Yankees repeated the great game that gave them the first battle of the world series yesterday. Hoyt, the boy veteran from Brooklyn, took every ounce of drive out of the Giant bludgeons. He held the hard hitting National league char - ,*i ■' • to two hits on a litt'e puny drive that dropped between Babe Ruth and Peckinpaugh. The Giants again played a hard game and they shower symptoms of being beaten from ihe first inning. +♦♦+♦♦*♦++♦♦♦♦♦ * THE LINE UP * i- Giants —Burns, es; Bancroft, ❖ •{• ss; Frisch, 3b; Young, rs; Kelly <• lb; E. Meussel, If; Rawlings. <• ■J» 2b; Smith, c; Nehf, p. <■ > Yankees—Miller, cf; Peck, ss ♦ * Ruth. If: R. Meussel, rs; Pipp. + + lb; Ward, 2b; McNaJly, 3b; * 4» Schang. c; Hoyt, p. ❖ ■i- Umpires— Morarity; Quigley, * j* lb; Wigley, 3b. •fr {*♦♦♦ + *♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦❖ THE GAME BY PLAYS First Inning Giants: Burns fanned, swinging. Bancroft out. Hoyt to Pipp. on a bunt Frisch out. Ward to Pipp. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yankees: Smith drew an error when he muffed Miller's high foul. Miller walked. Peck sacrificed. Nehf to Kelly. Ruth walked on four straight balls while the crowd booed Nehf. R. Meussel lined into a double ply. Frisch to Rawlings. No runs, no hits, one error. Second Inning Giants: Young out, Pipp, unassisted. Kelly fanned. E. Meussel out, Pipp unassisted. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yankees: Pipp walked. Ward out, Bancroft to Kelly. Frisch took McNally's grounder and tagged Pipp out on the base line for a very smart play. McNally out stealing, Smith to Rawlings. No runs, no hits, no errors. Third Inning Giants: Rawlings singled to left Smith popped to Peck. Nehf fanned. Burns forced Rawlings, to Pipp unassisted. No runs, one hit, no errors. Yankees: Schang popped to Bancroft. Hoyt singled, it was a pop fly which Rawlings ran back to get and dropped after making catch. ■ Hoyt -was almost caught off first by Smith. Miller filed to Burns. Peck walked. Ruth walked filling the bases. R. Meussel popped to Bancroft. No runs, one hit, no errors. Fourth Inning Giants: Bancroft out on strikes. Frisch out, Peck to Pipp. Young out, McNally to Pipp. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yankees: Pipp died to Young. Ward singled to right. Ward reached second and McNally was safe at (Continued on page three)