Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1922 — Page 1

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delay for two years FOR SOM'S BONUS VIRTUALLY DECIDED ON TODAY BI REPUBLICANS OF HOUSE WAIS ANO means committee-will issue BONUS CERTIFICATES,

fl’allrd tTe«» Service). -faihington. Ma-. l-( Special to Daily Democrat) Delay for two years U the cash payments of a soldier Imus was virtually decided upon to(|av by republican members ot tho tons? ways and means committee. It is understood that it is manned to issue bonus certificates upon which men in time of need con! • eot>dn loans. Sentiment in the committee is that this is the only way out of the bonus ntaation. Republican members of tho com Mittee today named a sub-committee “tn work out some plan that will net cause a demand for large cash payrents for a soldiers’ bonus tn the next two years, according to an official announcement by Chairman ’ Fordnoy. On the sub-committee are: Repr-. tentative Fordnoy, Mich.: Longworth. f Ohio; Green, Iowa; Hawley, Oregon;' and Treadway, Mass. Whether the delay in receiving cash would be satisfactory to Ameri-, can Legion chiefs, committee men could not say. Legion leaders, how-, ever, are strongly opposed to delay in passing a bonus bill, and Hanford: MacNider, legion commander, is now ' on a speaking tour in behalf of prompt ! action. He speaks at Alton, 111., to-! night . • —„ DIED LAST NIGHT Mrs. Mary S. Parrish Succumbs to Cancer of Stomach at 9:40 Last Night. CONDITION HAD BEEN Serious Past Four Months —Funeral Service to be Friday Afternoon. Death again made its presence felt In this community when at 9:40 1 o’clock last night, at the home on 9th street, the spirit of Mrs. Mary S. Par rish, aged 71 years, 6 months, surrendered in a valiant struggle against' death, and passed to the great be- i yond. Mrs. Parrish had been in ill health for some time, suffering from cancer of the stomach, and for the! past four months her condition had 1 been considered extremely serious. Her advanced age together with the unrelenting tenacity of the disease,; afforded but very slight hopes for her , ’ecovery, however, her demise comes *'* a very distinct shock and keenly felt sorrow to the large host of friends and acquaintances who are unanimous in extending their heart-felt emypathy to the bereaved relatives. The deseased was possesed of a most lovable and kindly disposition and Personally which leaves a cherished memory with all who came in contact with her. Mrs. Parrish was born at Blanchester, Clinton county, Ohio, on August . 1850, and was the daughter of -Svm and Sarah Elzey. When a very young girl s tie moved to Adams county with her parents, and for the past BMy years has resided in and near s e ‘ty. In 1876 she was united in m <U’tiage to Abner 8. Parrish, and *>o proceeded the wife in death on ugust 15, 1910. Ten children were )o ’’ n to this union, five of whom are 1 tving. they being French of DelOhio, Homer of Berne, Raleigh " P ° rt Wayne ’ Mr9 ’ R - u Lo n K--6 of Chicago, and Ruth at home, o step-children also survive they ng Dr. M. F. Parrish of Monroe and of thi M " ler residing south ‘his city. Mrs. Parrish was a de’oted member and earnest worker in ,he Methodist church. funeral services will be held at the R 6 Prll!ay nfternon at 2:30 o'clock. Will »J l " !<hain offlciati ’»K- Interment e ®ade in the Decatur cemetery.

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THE BOY SLATER Harvey Crurch to be Hanged Friday—To Gallows in Invalid Chair. A MENTAL SUICIDE Man of Nerve Proves Coward When it Came to Facing Death a Murderer. (United Pre** Service). Chicago, March 1. — Harvey C Church. Boy slayer more dead that alive’ ’will go to his death at 4 p. m ! Friday strapped in an invalid chair | Church, whom physicians say is : "mental suicide," has (heated th< state from exacting a full death pen alty for the brutal murders of Car’ i Ausmus and Bernard ,1. Daugherty auto salesmen. , Tlie hanging will merely be “an offi cial ceremony," as the slayer will no' iknow he is being put to death, accord ing to alienists. - ... Decision to hang Church in the as ternoon instead of dawn breaks I precedent. Change in time was made [for the convenience of a jury of doc ; tors and witnesses who. according tr law. must witness the execution. Authorities said they were em powered to change time because since Church will not know lie is beine hanged, the time will make no differ ence to him. Fear of the gallows and forty-one ' days abstinence from food has caused I Church to sink into a comma fron ■ which it has been impossible tc awaken him. He was still forcibly fed today. THE COURT NEWS Charging unfaithfulness a divorce , suit was filed in circuit court toda--by Grant T. Lyons against his wife Irene R. Lyons. The complaint state: that the couple were married Augus' i 30, 1918 and lived together until Feb ruary 27, 1922 on which date th' plaintiff became informed ot the re lations existing between the defend ant and another man. The defendan' .is also charged with cursing and swearing at the plaintiff on numerou ! occasions, and that during the earn’ val in this city in 1920, she associat ■ed with various lewd persons. Th r couple are parents of a three year ok’ son and the plaintiff asks that the court grant him a divorce and cus tody of the son. Judson W. Teeple is attorney for the plaintiff. A second divorce suit was filed, en titled Raia Macklin vs. Clement L. F Macklin. The complaint states that tho couple were married July 12 1890 and that in the year 1910 the defendant abandoned the plaintiff and since that time has failed to pro vide and furnish her with a liveli hood. The plaintig is at present ? resident of Berne. Attorney B. B. Erwin is representing the plaintiff. Damages to the amount of $4,000 Is claimed in a case filed today by the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. against the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. These damages are claimed to have resulted from excessive freight charges on sugar beets shipped to the local plant during the past campaign. Real estate transfers: William Arnold to Noah T. Sheets, tract in French two., $9,000; Noah T. Sheets to William Arnold, 120 acres in Kirkland twp., $16,000; Paul Felber to Elmer Luginbill. inlot 413 Berne. $2,000; Alfred W. McDaniel to Abe Ackerman, tract in Root twp., $8,940; Alfred Kneuse to Edwin T. Moser, tract in Wabash twp., $350. Tice Ullman ot Root township made a business trip to Decatur today.

URGE REGULATION Electric Traction Companies of Indiana Suffer from Motor Competition. EACH WOULD BENEFIT If They Would Co-operate —Where Word "Interurban” Originated. Indianapolis, Mar. 1. Electric comlanies in Indiana have suffered from he competition of automobiles and motor trucks, according to the general mpressic.n gained at the meeting of he American Electric Railway association here today. But the motor cars and tile interur>ans could easily co-operate to their mutual advantage, according to Harry Reid, president of the Interstate Pub'ic Service Co, who addressed the meeting. "Utilization of motor busses and ‘rucks as feeders for interurban lines will increase the development of the erritory served and give business to both parties”, he said. But the busses ind trucks should be regulated." There is no indication that the cost of operating electric railways will reach the low pre-war levels for several years at least. John McCardle. chairman of the Indiana public service comnission, said. He vigorously assailed tax free securities and said the lines uow must oay much more for their money than ’ver before. In the cities, C. D. Emmons, presi ’ent of the United States Railways and Electric Co., of Baltimore said, the motor busses can never supplant the electric cars. He said he came to this -onelusion after making a thorough investigation of motor bus lines in Xmerica and Europe. The story of the development of the nterurban railway was told by Charles L. Henry “father" of the first system. Henry coined the name "interurban" ’nd pioneered iu the. development of he first lines. He said he got the idea ’t the World’s Fair in Chicago where a small line was running on the -rounds called “intermural". Morethan 800 members of the assoiation attended the meeting here. ■’RESBYTERIAN MEET ING TONIGHT Every woman who has a mite-box s kindly requested to bring it. tilled f possible to the meeting at the Presbyterian church tonight at 7:30 and anyone who has not handed in hei 'ime multiplied, that she received at ’anuary meeting will please do so at his time as this is the last meeting if this church year and the books ’eve to be closed as soon as possible. Let every member help make the 'ffering a fine, large one. Marjorie, the small daughter of Mr. >nd Mrs. A. H. Wehmeyer has been a victim of pneumonia for the past toveral days. She is slightly better ‘oday.

OVER A BILLION Claimed Necessary to Catch Up in School Building Program in U. S. SAYS MR. ENGLEHEART Columbia University, Who Insists on More Play Grounds for Children. (trntt«-<l PreMM Service). Chicago, March I.—lt will cost the country $1,500,000,000 to catch up in' its school building program to insure adequate room for pupils, N. L. Englehart. Columbus University, told the National Education Association here today. One of the greatest needs of American schools is adequate playground facilities, Englehart declared. “Academic halls must come In for their share of appropriations,” he said. "But America today is overlooking a fundamental thing when It slights playground." City Park Commissions and school boards should work hand in hand in the building of a city, he said. CHOIR PRACTICE POSTPONED There will be on meeting of the Methodist choir this evening at the janitor is ill.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, March 1, 1922

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MAT CLARIFT THE TATLOR MTSTERT Reported Today One of the Men Named by Mrs. Rupp Has Given Confession. THE "THIRD” DEGREE Given .Men During Last Night — Activities Confirm Earlier Reports. (United PrewH Service I. Los Angeles, Mar. I—An1 —An unconfirmed report that one of two men named by Mrs. John Rupp as the slayers of Wiliam Desmond Taylor had confessed, spread like wild-fire at police headquarters today. Activities among the detectives who have geen griling the six men under arrest indicated that some important new development had occurred. The suspects had been under going the “third degree,” throughout the night, it was reported. It was known that valuable information touching on the murder had been obtained from one of the suspects. Detectve Sergeant Herman Cline, .head of the homicide squad, was working on an angle of the case which, it was believed, will connect the statements obtained from the prisoner with some of the previous clues in the murder mystery. These dues, which without corroboration, led only to blank wat's. had been abandoned as hopeless by the baffled investigators working on the case. Pursuing this new angle of the investigation, Cline was in secret conference with Mabel Normand, ftlm conunedienne, who was the last friend to see Taylor alive. Miss Normand, sufficiently recovered from an attack of influenza to make the trip, came to Los Angeles from her rest cure home in Altadena, and met Seargeants Cline and Murphy. George Rornier, teacher of French, was meanwhile questioned at the district attorney’s office. He was with Miss Normand the day Taylor was shot. Rornier told of a visit he and Miss Normand made to a jeweler’s to have a French motto inscribed on a cigarette case. William East, Walter Kirby, Harry Lynch, George Calvert, John Herky and Harry Amorheim, the six men taken in yesterday’s raid, are held in incommunicado at the central police station. No officials who have been questioning them would corroborate the “confession" which persistent rumors at headquqaiffers said had been obtained. ——• TWO BLACK EYES United Press Service. Stratford. Eng.. Mar. I—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A young French woman testifying in an alleged bigamy case here today said that a month before the birth of her child her husband gave her a black eye. The boy was born with a black eye. — ' ■ -— ® THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Indiana: Snow mixed with sleet and rain tonight and Thursday, not much change in temperature. Lower Michigan: Snow tonight and Thursday, not quite so cold tonight in east portion. Upper Michigan: Snow tonight and Thursday, not quite so cold tonight.

MR. RAILING DEAD Pioneer Resident of County Passed Away at Daughter’s Home Last Night. INFIRMITIES OF AGE Was Cause of Death—Had Resided Here Since 1853 —Funeral Friday. After having out-lived the alloted span of life by twenty years, the death summons were answered last evening by Abrnham Railing, aged 90 years, aud one of the pioneer residents and builders of Adams county. Mr. Railings dealli occured at 6 o’clock last evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. V. p. Hall on Line street where he had been making his home since the death of his wife in 1915. The cause of his demise being attributed to general infirmities of age. Mr. Railing was born in (’umber land county. Pennsylvania. December 12, 1831. and was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Railing. In 1853 he. together with his brother Daniel, came to Adams county and settled in Root township. On October 20, 1857 he was united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Gessinger. and to this union were born five children. In 1883 Mr. Railing disposed of his farm in Root township and moved Io Washington township where he resided until 1912 at which time he moved to this city. The wife and three of the children have proceeded the husband and father in death. Those surviving are Mrs. V. P. Ball of this city and Mrs. Simeon Brandyberry of Shock, Ohio. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Evangelical church, Rev. Haney officiating. Interment will be made in tho Decatur cemetery. FARMERS ENDORSE COUNTY FAIR — Warsaw, March 1. —The Kosciusko “County Farmers Association has unanimously ’ endorsed the county fair idea and refutes the insinuation in some localities that the county fair is a thing of the past. The association recognizes the fair as one of the best means of getting better stock Itefore the public. In the future the fair in this county will be made an educational exhibit. CONSPIRACY TRIAL TO JURY The trial of Ara Godfrey on a charge of conspiring with William Slusher and Ivan Jones to blackmail Roben | Campbell out of S6OO “hush" money, was resumed in circuit court here this morning at 9 o'clock, before Judge (John Moran, of Deeatur, and a jury. : after a two weeks vacation in tho case which was caused by the sickness of A. G. Emscwiller, of Hartford ICty. chief counsel for the defense. Evidence was concluded just before the noon adjournment and the arguments werebegun at one o’clock this ’ afternoon. —Bluffton News.

TO AWARD MEDALS Winners in Corn-growing Contest Will Receive Medals Next Monday. MEETING TO BE HELD At County Agent’s Office — Purdue Man Will Make the Awards. Mr. R. S. Thomas of the Soils and Crops department of Purdue, will be in the county next Monday, March 6, for the purpose of meeting iwth those interested in corn growing. At this time a discussion will be given by Mr. Thomas concerning tlie best methods of growing corn as determined in the 5-acre contest conducted in Indiana this year. Every one is invited to attend whether they participated in the 5-acre corn contest or not. The meeting will be held at the County Agent’s office at 1:30 p. m. The men in Adams County who will receive medals nt that time the as follows: Gold Medals: Fred Blum, Berne Henry Coyne, Decatur. Silver Medals: John K. Mazelin, Berne. Bronze Medals: ('. W. R. Schwartz. Berne; Fred W. Busche, Decatur; Adolph Schamerloh, Decatur; Jacob C. Mazelin, Berne; Carl Callow, Decatur.

ASSESSORS BEGIN WORK OF TAKING VALUATIONS COUNTY ASSESSOR FRAZIER INSISTS THAT ONLY TRUE CASH VALUE OF PROPERTY BE TAKEN-MEETING TO-DAY-REAL ESTATE AT CASH VALUE

CONCRETE ROADS Big Reduction by Cement Companies Makes Possible Road Construction. STATE OF INDIANA To Get Busy in Few Weeks —One Bid Reduced $115,000 on 200,000 Barrels. (United I’reiw Service). Indianapolis. Mar. I—(Speciall—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Construction of concrete roads in Indiana probable will be started in Indiana this spring, members of the state highway commission said today, as the result of c'nicnt prices deceasing. New bids on cement for national roadway showed a reduction of $115,CCJ from the first n.<is received sev oral months ago which resulted in charges of collusion being voiced against certain cement companies. An examination of the new bids indicated some of them were identical and Attorney General U. S. Losn may again investigate this fact. Three companies submitted bids of $350,222 at first. In the new bids, the Louisville Portland Cwnent Co., bid $414,626. Pavement work on the gaps in the nlattonal road will require 211,544 barrels of cement at a not cost of $1.96 a barrel.

BLIZZARD IN SOUTHWEST (Uulted PreMM Service). Kansas city, Mo., March 1. —March came into the southwest today on the teeth of a blizzard that demoralized transportation, wire communication and highways. Snow that has already measured a foot in parts of Kansas and extended over Arkansas, Missouri. Oklahoma and north Texas was still falling heavily over most parts of the territory early today. —. IT’S JUDGE KENYON NOW (United Press Service) St. Louis, Mo., Mar. I.—William S. Kenyon, former senator from lowa, today was sworn in as judge of the eighth district, United States Circuit court of Appeals. Kenyon succeeds the late judge Walter I. Smith. Kenyon, who resigned his senatorship to acept the app intmen: took the oath of office before circuit judge Walter H. Sanborn. The eighth circuit is corij vised of the states of lowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebrasga. Colorado, Kansas. Oklahoma, Wyoming. Utah. New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota. > ... —— RAIN, SNOW AND SLEET Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 1. —Rain, snow and sleet ushered tlie month ot march into Indiana today. . reports tothe govern i.ent weather buteau here showed the storm was general throughout ’.io state, with snow and sleet in thaaorth and central portion and rain in the Ohio river valley. The storm presages mild weather for the latter part of the month in keeping with the old saying. A. H. Armington, motereorolcgi«t. said. TWO “DARK" HORSES United FrewM Stull* Correxpondeu t Indianapolis. Mar. I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Two “dark horses" launched their fight today for democratic senatorial nomination in the primary, May 2. One petition of candidacy was filed with the secretary of state by Jesse Sanders, of Garrett, Dekalb county. The other petition was filed by Chas. F. Howard, Windfall, Tipton county.

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Tlie job of assessing persona! property ant real estate in Adams anunty started today. This morning the township asses sors and a number of their deputies met with County Assessor William Frazier in the sheriff's offiie and discussed every item in the personal property blanks and were otherwise instructed by Mr. Frazier as how to proceed in the taking of the valuations. The assessors have sixty-eight days to complete their work and will be paid four dollars per day, while the deputies will be paid three dollars a day. In view of the fact that real estate will be assessed this year, the job will be a heavy one. The law governing the taking of property valuations, provided that real estate valuations be taken in 1922, or three years after the law was passed, while after 1922 real estate valuations will be taken every four years. In other words the valuations made this year will hold until 1926. while the value of personal property is taken every year. County Assessor Frazier explained the exhibits on the first page of tlie personal property blank, on which must be listed money, notes, etc., showing the debits and credits claimed by the taxpayer. This blank is the same as in former years, except a person must include money on deposit in the banks. Mr. Frazier advocated that the true cash value of all property be rakcri, (Co’-tiniied nn paere four)

ATTEND MEETINGS Farmers Show Much Interest in Meetings Being Held in Townships. SCHEDULE ARRANGED — For Next Week—Enjoy the Talks of Mr. Lehner— Slides Are Shown. Farm Bureau meetings held in Blue I Creek and Jefferson townships Monday and Tuesday evenings, respect- : ively, have been well attended as evi- : deneed by the fact that more than 100 have been prsent in each case. The motion pictures which have been shown by the machine recently purchased by the Adams County Farm Bureau have proven very interesting to the farmers and ther families, as a large umber of ladies and children have been present. The films which have been shown were of an agricutural nature and for this reason are of nterest to the farmers. Mr. Lehner has proven to be an interesting and a well posted speaker and many new members have been scared. ; Meetings have been arranged in othler townships for next week as fol- : lows: Monday—Preble township; Preble : (Lutheran) school. Tuesday—Union; Kohr school. ( Wednesday — Root; Monmouth school. Thursday — Washington; Brandyberry school Friday—St. Mary’s—Bobo school. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these meetings. • FIRST DAY OF LENT Today is Ash Wednesday, the openj Ing day of Lent and for the next I forty days, not including Sundays, the season will be observed in Hie St. Mary’s church. This morning at the seven-thirty mass the distribution of ashes took place. On Friday I evening at seven-thirty the Way of the Cross will be made, followed by | benediction. II A new calendar watch runs for eight days with one winding. It shows the days ot the week and month, besides the hours, minutes and seconds.