Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1922 — Page 1

' 1 nu> XX. Number 56

PRESIDENT stands pat Oil SALES TAX FOR BONUS

SEES INSURMOUNTABLE DIFFICULTIES IN CERTIFICATE PLAN—WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE APPROVES THE SILL FDR PRESENTATION.

.. .1 sinff Corre»l»nrteßt Washington. Mar. 7 (Spefi.,l t 0 Dailv Democrt)—Prcsi(|'nl Harding “stands pat" a cainst any method of providing a soldier bonus except hrougli the sales tax it was ol ESy announced al (he White House today. Just before announcement ol Harding's attitude, the house W ivs and means committee approved a soldier bonus and prepared to introduce it into the house. . The bill approved provides in substance: 1. Cash lor men whose readjustment pay runs under |SO. 2. Insurance certificate with a loan provision to needy soldiers who can get 5(1 percent advances at once from a bank. 3 Option in the way of vocational training, farm land grants or home building aid. ' Postponnient is the only alternative to the sales tax which President Harding will permit, it was stated on highest authority. • The president has not even given the new certificate plan serious study seeing insurmountable difficulties on the surafee of the plan, it was emiatically stated that the present has in no way changed St view set forth recently in te Fordney letter and that he iasno intention of altering this stand in the slightest. In accordance with the committe order Chairman Fordney introduced the bill this afternoon.

I (By Lawrence M. Benedict, United Press staff cot respondent) Wuhingtnn, Mar. 7 —(Special ’o huly Democrat! —Opponents of the ! bonus bill in congress today were ■■•*eking to have President Ha"C'i.g ■••(■pose the new lonus-insuranco loan bit. framed alter much effort b” the republicans of the house ways anl Mans committee. They claim the plan of having the Links 'oan up t i nfty percent of the proposed service (nen's certificates ,’ill seriously interfere with the n-t---tion's financial system and are urging Hit president to etr.nd by hi- pre* ions declaration that the boni s must posito’.ii-d unites paid by a tft.es tax. Sectetary or the Treasury Mo. ct. •ceording to nfiuble infortuiitio’i is OLW.vI to the har features of t l, a Plan for the same reason op is in ccaeress advance and may present bls views to President Harding at Hit cabinet meeting today. Having failed in their efforts to >-*ve the soldiers’ bonus bill intro ilnced into the house by today, the republican sub-committee, it is Inown, took several unsuccessful ’otes on alteration of the measure. These votes are understood to have borne on the subject of dropping "Ptions out of the measure and leav•ni> it chiefly confined to insurance (f, rtificates with a loan value there°n and a cash payment for those "iiose due is not above SSO. All the votes showed a comfortable Win for keeping the bill in its Present form. The tarm settlements branch was i> be considered when the committee "'('livened today. The democrats nginally scheduled to conte in this u'enoon could not be called imniedlate>y. it was stated. Tin farm clause has been altered guard against land grabs from se outside the benefits of the bill, it is written so that nobody ner than an ex-service man can get tracts 1 ° f ' an< * * n ‘h® sol( lier farm o . WAS THIS CROOKED TOO? the refereeß made the statein th ' lat was the best player tournament.— Bluffton News.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

THEY ARE FILING Fourteen Candidates File Declarations of Running for Public Office LIMIT IS APRIL 2ND - One Republican Has Filed —No Women Candidates —For County Offices Fourteen candidates for public office have filed their declarations of being candidates at the primary election to be held. Tuesday. March 2nd. the declarations being filed with County Clerk John T. Kelly. Only one republican has filed his declaration, the candidate being Benj. W. Teeple of St. Mary’s township, he being a candidate for township trustee. County Clerk Kelly stated at noon that the candidates had until April 2nd to file their declarations, the thirty days limit expiring on that day. The democratic candidates who have filed their declarations are: For She-iff —Roy Baker. For County Clerk —Fred T. Schurger. Tillman Gerber. For Treasurer —Louis Kleine, I. G. Kerr. Commissioner Third District —Joseph M. Peel and George Shoemaker. Assesso- Monroe Township—John Lobsiger. » Trustee French Township—Martin Moeschberger. Trustee Preble Township—Ernest Worthman. Trustee Hartford Township— D. Forest Hoffman. Trustee Monroe Township—Otho Lobenstein. Assessor Monroe Township—Aaron C. Augsburger. Republican Candidate Trustee St. Marys Township—Benj W. Teeple. • THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A Indiana: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, except snow flurries in extreme north portion tonight, colder tonight; rising temperature Wednesday. Lower Michigan: Generally cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably snow flurries in west and central portions, colder tonight. Upper Michigan: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except local snows near Lake Superior tonight colder tonight in east portion, rising temperature Wednesday. ■ TICKETS ARE HERE Principal Cline, of the local high school this morning received twentyfive season tickets and fifty single admission tickets for the regional meet to be staged at Purdue university next Saturday. The season tickets are priced at $1 and include all games to be played through out the day, while the single admission tickets are for the Decatur game only which will be played Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The price of the single admission tickets are fifty cents, and any one desiring tickets can secure them by notifying Mr. Cline. —o TROUBLE IN TOKIO (T’nlteil Pre** Serviced. Tokio, March 7.-Downfall of the government of premier Takahashi was declared inevitable by well-in-formed political leaders today. These statements were mad-' after the premier appealed to the house to adopt the budget now under consideration even it’s adoption should carry with it the influence of lack < f confidence in the cabinet. Takahashi intimated in.his appeal that it is his intention to resign untimately.

HOOTCH HOUNDS Capture Five Hundred Barrels of Whiskey at Clinton, Wet Spot of State BIG JIM IS TAKEN Bootlegger King is Caught in Building — County Officials Overlooked It y— —— (I’nlteil Press Service) Clinton, Ind., March 7. —Distillers in Vermillion county scurried to cover today and hid from the “hootch hounds" who captured their leaders and confiscated large quantities of whiskey- mash and two large stills late yesterday. There was a fear the officers would keep hammering in this spot until all the illicit liquor traffic in “the wettest spot of the middlewest" is wiped out. James Carera —Popularly known as "Big Jim" ami said by Federal authorities to be the king of bootleggers in this section —was caught in a red brick building in which two gigantic stills word in operation. The agents confircated 500 gallons of whiskey and 200 barrels of mash. A handful of agents under direction of state Chief W. O. Holman rushed into the county and seized a total of 1.000 gallons of whiskey. Holman expressed admiration for “the unexcelled facilities of city and county authorities for being able to overlook gigantic whiskey manufactories and liquor running systems."

MR. KALVER DENIES IT One of the coaches at the Bluffton meeting last night made the statement, I am informed, that I told Mr. Hendricks that his team would lose as the referees had been “fixed.” There is no truth in the statement. I did not talk to him over the phone and never thought of or intimated such a tiling. I didn't bet a dollar on any of the games no- did I see either the Bluffton or Monroe game. -BARNEY KALVER. DIED YESTERDAY Mrs. Rex Sowle Passes Away Yesterday Morning at Jackson, Mich., Home HAD BEEN IN ILL Health for Six Weeks—Remains Arrive at Home of Parents This Noon It was with the deepest sorrow that the relatives and friends received the information yesterday of .the death of Mrs. Rex Sowle. formerly Miss Agnes Eady of this city, and whose death occurred at 5:30 o'clock Monday morning at the home in Jackson. Mich. Mrs. Sowle had been in very delicate health for the past six weeks, and her mother, Mrs. Enoch Eady, ot this city, had been at her bedside for about three weeks. Although relatives here were aware of the fact that Mrs. Sowle’s condition was very serious, they had no idea that it would prove fatal, and the news of her untimely demise comes as a severe shock and grief, not only to the relatives but to the large host of friends that the young lady had in this community. Mrs. Sowle was born in this city April 13, 1894 and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Eady. She received her education, in the city schools, being a member of the graduating class of 1913 of the high school. Following her graduation she completed a teacher's course at Winona Lake, and the following winter was a teacher in the schools of Blue Creek township. On May 6, 1916 she was united in marriage to Mr. Rex Sowle and shortly afterward the couple moved to Fort Wayne where they made their home until about two years ago when they removed to Jackson. Mrs. Sowle was one of the most popular young ladies of the city, highly respected and esteemed by all who were acquainted with her. She had a very winning personality, was an ardent worker in the local Methodist church during her residence here, and the news of her death causes great sadnesa to the large circle of friends that she had formed. Besides the husband, the deceased is survived by the mother and father, four sisters and three brothers. The remains were brought to this city at noon over the G. R. & I. and (Continued on page six)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, March 7, 1922

+++++++ + + + + + + + ♦ AMERICAN HISTORY + + DAY BY DAY + + By T. P. Green + + + ♦ March 7th + ♦ + + Providence. Rhode Island, was + + founded on March 7, 1638. + + + + James Aitken was hanged al + + Portsmouth. N. H. for treason + + on March 7. 1777. ♦ + — ♦ + The celebrated horticulturist ♦ <• Luther Burbank, was born on + * March 7, 1849. •> + A grand Jury, composed of + both sexes, was impaneled in •> + Wyoming on March 7, 1870. 4- + — + Treaties with France and + Great Britain were ratified by »> + the U. 8. Senate on March 7. 4> * 1912. 4+++++++4 + + + + + + **

ROAD PRICES STIFFEN UP Four Roads, Totaling Five and One-half Miles Sell for $30,112.63 ABOUT FIFTY BIDS Average Price Per Mile Was $5,475 — Commissioners in Busy Session Contracts for the building of four macadam roads, totaling five and onehalf miles were awarded to the lowest bidders this morning by the board of county commissioners, tlie contracts totaling $30,112.63 or approximately $5475.00 per mile. The bids this morning showed slight increase in the cost of road building over that paid for the four roads sold last month when the average price was about $4600.00 However the contracts this morning are about fifty per cent lower than the price paid last year. Forty-eight bids were filed this morning and a majority of the bids showed only a few hundred dollars difference. Work on the building of these new roads will be started at once and the sale of the bonds wili be held about the twentieth of the month. The roads sold this morning were: Jacob Fuelling Road. Contracts awarded to Charles Arnold on his hid of $4953.00. Length of road, one mile in Root township. Other bids filed were Dan Wallace. $4996.00. Barger and Andrews, $5860.10, L. D. Fennig. $5657.00, Arthur Zehr. $5572.20. Julius Haugh. $5500.00, Sauer and Moser, $5220.00, J. F. Lesh, $525000, Charles W. Filing. $5294.60. Fred Meyer Road. Contract awarded to Arthur Zehr. bid $5628.68; Length of road, one mile, in Monroe and French townships. Other bids filed were Chas Arnold, $5668.00; L. O. Bears, $6899.00 Charles Merriman. $5962.00; Dan Wallace, $5967.00; Barger and Andrews, $6890.26; L. D. Fonnig, $7252.00; Julius Haugk, $0382.00; inley Striker, $6,239.05;; Sauer and Moser, $5922.00; Warren Striker, $6212 00; Earl Ogden. $6,923.00; Fred Mathys. $6999.42; Meshberger Bros.. $6389.00; J. F. Lesh. $6000.00. (Continued on page five)

WOMAN SPEAKER Miss Beadle of Purdue Instructs Speakers in Milk Campaign Details HERE WEDNESDAY Meeting Will be Held at the County Agent’s Office— AH Be Present Miss Beadle, of the Dairy Department of Purdue University will be in Decatur tomorrow for the purpose of instructing the speakers who will assist in the Adams County Milk Campaign to begin next Monday. Miss Beadle is the lady furnished by Purdue to assist in the entire Milk Campaign. The meeting will be held at county agent’s office at 1:30 and all members of the committee are asked to be present. Plans are now practically completed for the campaigns which opens March 13, and indications are that it will be entirely successful.

WILL MEET HERE Nearly Hundred Foremen of the Genera) Electric i Company Will Banquet SATURDAY, MARCH 18 A Large Number Coming From Fort Wayne for , Afternoon and Evening i The foremen of the General Klee trie company will enjoy a reunion and general meeting here on Saturday, February 18th, afternoon and evening About eighty from the Fort Wayne , plan will tirri,ve here on a special cat -over the interurban at about three o'clock and will meet the twelve fore | men here. During the afternoon they will visit the local factory for inspection and a general discussion of business. At six o'clock llley will enjoy a dinner at the Pythian Home, the banquet in charge, of the Pythian Sisters. The visitors will spend the evening here, leaving about 9:30 for home. Mr. Lutz of the: I Decatur plant is in charge of arrange ' Iments and is planning for a fine time, j Fl A. Barnes, superintendent of the Ft. Wayne plant and several other offl cials from there will be with the boys and all are looking forward to a good time. The local plant is going along nicely and indications for the future i are much brighter than at any time! during the past year. o — TRENTON CAN'T HAVE IT (United Service). Trenton, N. J., March 7. — New Jersey has practically locked her doors against the proposed Dempsey-Wills fight. The "Evans Bill” placing a maximum price of sls on a seat at a box ing show and requiring promoters to l be a resident of the state. Removes! the state as a possible scene for the! encounter. The measure is not aimed at the big fight, however, as it was in troduced before the Dempsey-Wills thing was talked about. WILL GO ABROAD Mr. and Mrs. Kalver Will Sail April 22nd for Visit to Europe. FOR A FEW WEEKS Mr. Kalver Returned Recently—Hope to Reside in Indiana Soon. I. A. Kalver, former resident here was the guest of his father Barney Kalver. yesterday, leaving last evening for Fort Wayne and Chicago. He will return the latter part of the week for a day or two before leaving for his home in New York. He returned recently from a business trip to London Paris and other European cities and says that business in those countries is by no means nor mat. Industrial conditions are still quite serious though not as bad as a ! few months ago. He will return to | Europe, sailing the 22nd of next month and Mrs. Kalver will accompany him. Thej will be absent a month or two. Mr. Kalver also stated while here that they did not like living in the east as weil as in old Indiana and that they are planning to return to Fort Wayne within the next three or four months to make their home. He had a good time meeting old friends here yesterday and says that after all there is no place like Decatur. 0 SHE WAS ONLY A COG Warsaw. March 6.—For nearly a year a mail carrier has been delivering letters and parcel post packages i directed to Miss Beßssie Jordon at the . residence of George FI. Jordan, for many years manager of tlie lelcgraph | company here. Then a registered letter came and the carrier asked for Miss Jordan and her signature. Mrs. George H. Jordan, wso answered the bell, called for Bes- j sie, and Bessie, a Boston bulldog, responded. She signed for the letter j with an ink impression of her right j front foot. The letter was from Miss | Charlotte Jordan, manager of the telegraph company at Goshen and former- | ly of Indianapolis. From Europe comes a telephone receiver light enough to be hung on a person’s ear, leaving both hands free.

A PRINCIPALS’ MEETING WAS HELD MONDAY NIGHT COMPLETE INVESTIGATION DEMANDED BY SUPERINTENDENT WORTHMAN CONCERNING CHARGES OF UNFAIRNESS IN DISTRICT GAMES.

MR. HOWER DEAD Infirmities of Age Result in Death of Pioneer Resident of County. — HAD BEEN BEDFAST — Past Three Weeks—Funeral Service to be Held on Thursday Afternoon. Adam Hower, aged 82 years, and , for the past three quarters of a century, having been a resident of Adlams county and one of the pioneer | builders of the community, passed j away at his home near Rivarre yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, death having resulted from general infirmities of age. Mr. Hower had not been in the best of health for several ■ months, but only for the past three weeks had he been in such a serious condition that he was confined to his bed. The deceased was born in Champaign county, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1839 and was the son of Andrew and Margaret , Hower. At the age of nine years, his parents moved to this county, settling in Washington township, amb he has been a resident of tiie county' cohtinuously since then. For the past nine years he has resided at the I present home. In 1867 Mr. Howe* . was united in marriage to Miss Bar- ! bara A. Steele, who survives the husband. This is the second death in the | family, the first having occured when a daughter. Olive Elenora, died at the age of 15 years. Besides the wife, seven children survive, they being Alva C. of Tennyson, ndiana, Charles W. of Louisburg. Tenn.. Milton E. of this city, Willard D. at home. Mrs. Cora V. Beery of Clarkston, Wash., Luther S. also of Clarkston. Wash., and Mrs. Dora M. Shilling residing just across the state line in Ohio. One brother also survives, he being Noah Hower of Fort Wayne. Two brothers and cne sister have pre I ce-’ded Mr. Hower in death. Funeral services will be conducted! at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon (standard tints) i't the Bobo U. B. church. Rev. Bennett officiating. In t iment will be made in the Decatucemetery. —o BRIDGE OPEN TO TRAFFIC i The bridge, across the state road j near Geneva is again open for traffic and travelers on the road between this ! place and. southern points can go straight through without making the detour. Motorists and those who have been compelled to make this detour will be pleased to learn of the opening of the road, as the roads of the detour had become almost impassable.

■ —■■■■■■ll ■—II 1.11. L 111 I ..—■■■■■— II I. —II II I 1 THE BLUFFTON RESOLUTION The principals of the following schools: BLUFFTON MONROE LIBERTY CENTER BERNE GENEVA PETROLEUM haye adopted the following resolutions: We, the principals concerned with the Decatur tournament hereby enter our objections to the referees of said tournament, especially to Mr. Humke. A number of competent referees and coaches have very emphatically declared that the refereeing of the above mentioned tournament was very unsatisfactory and decidedly contradictory to clean sportsmanship. Throughout the tournament the refereeing of both officials, Mr. Humke and Mr. Hale, favored Decatur. Mr. Hale’s refereeing, except in the games in which Decatur was concerned, was generally satisfactory.

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The called meeting of the principals anil couches from the high schools in phis district, which is comprised of Jay. Wells and Adams county, or rather those who seemed to have a grudge I concerning the work of Referees Humke and Hale, at the district tournament I here last week, met at the office of I Superintendent Allen of the Bluffton high school Monday evening at 7:30 I o'clock. The meeting was called to order by | Principal French of the Bluffton high ' school, and in a brief statement he said the meeting was called in the interest of clean sportsmanship, and stated that the many complaints com- . ing from the work of the referees Messrs, Humke and Halo, demanded that some action be taken and presented to the stat.' athletic association, to prevent tlie employment of incompe'tent referees, as the schools represent,ed in the meeting w< re charging these two men with being entirely incoinpe- . tent or unfair in their decisions. Mr. French was named chairman of the meeting, and Don Collum of Genieva, secretary. Mr. French then called for remarks from the various repre- | sentativog present. For fully a minute, not a man spoke, ami then Mr. « French caled on Clyde Hendricks, of 'the Moffroo school; to make a statement. Mr. Hendricks responded, voicling the sentiments of Mr. French in his opening talk, that there was no feeling against the people of Decatur, or the Decatur school officials, and saying that the referees were entirely unfair, and decisions by them in final game with Monroe, and in other games in which Decatur was concerned, were favorable to Decatur. He cited instances where fouls should have been called, and also complained of holdball decisions, out of bound plays, etc. He also stated there were other things which he might say that he didn't care to state in the meeting. R. D. Myers, iof the Decatur school board, J. 11. Stewart of the Decatur Democrat, ami I Superintendent Worthman of tlie Decatur schools, insisted that Mr. Hendricks lay his cards on the table, and any charge he had to make, should be made right then and there, and that i the people of Decatur, and all concernled had a right to know, and know Just. what every man had to say. He finally i told that the actions of Coach Moore and Referee Hale at the supper hour, and pr< vious to the Monroe game, made it appear that the referee had been influenced to favor Decatur in the final game. Several of the coaches and principals voiced disapproval of the work of (he referees throughout tlie tournaI ment. but only inade complaint concerning the games in which Decatur (f’nnHmmd nn tno-p throp)