Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1922 — Page 1

Volume XX. Number 104

NOT MUCH EXCITEMENT IN PRIMARY ELECTION HERE SHULL VOTE CAST IN MOST PRECINCTS IN CITY BEFORE NOON—SOO,OOO BALLOTS EXPECTED TO BE CAST IN STATE TODAY.

Very little of the excitement and r reat Interest which usually characterizes election day, was • noticeable in Decatur today as the voters cast their ballots to select the candidates who will enter the campaign next fall. Heavy clouds, hanging in the B ky this morning, indicated rain, but the sun broke through the clouds about 8 o'clock. A much larger vote from the farm !er element would likely have been ■ cast if the day had been a rainy one. The farmers refused to leave their work in the fields to go to the polls, since they were thrown so far behind 1 with their work by the continued < spring rains. < Voting in Decatur was light in j most precincts. In one precinct ( about 145 voters out of a total of 450 ( registered, had cast their vote at f noon. In another precinct out of approximately 500 registered voters, ( only about 100 had voted by noon. A larger vote by the women was expected this afternoon, as many of the 1 women were busy with their house 1 work this morning and could not go 1 to the polls. 1 The democratic voters however < seemed to be coming out much bet- < ter than the republicans. For instance In first ward A where 505 t rotes were cast last November in the city electron a total 183- ballots i had been cast at 1:30. However of ) this number 156 were democratc c and but 27 republicans while the t November vote was 267 democrats , end 238 republicans. The election returns will be received by the Daily Democrat tonight. I The results will be telephoned into 1 this office from the various precincts ‘ as soon as the ballots have been ' counted. Arrangements have also 5 been made to receive the resuits 5 throughout the state on the senatorial and congressional races through 1 the United Press service. An elec- s tion table giving the complete returns f where there were contests, will be t carried in Wednesday’s Democrat. r Information concerning the election i ( may be had tonight by calling this', office, No. 51. — ; (By Fred Q. Johnston, United Press staff correspondent) Indianapolis, Ind., May 2 —(Special|' to Daily Democrat) —Rain threaten- ' cd over Indiana today as the final mad scramble for votes began in the most spectacular primary battle in history. i A half million Hoosier voters went 1 to the polls to decide whether a vote t of confidence should be given Presi- 1 dent Harding by renominating his t close friend and loyal supporter 1 Harry S. New, as republican candi- t date for United States senator. i New stands for renomination in 2 TContinned on nep-e fl vet

Peggy Hopkins Joyce In Limelight Again Today

By Webb Miller I'alted I’rraa Stnff Correapondmt Har * s , ,May 2. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Police today started an I,lve1 ,lve| digation of the statement of PegK - v Hopkins Joyce that William Erfazurlz, young Chileon diplomat, killl®d himself in a room next to her suite in the Hotel Claridge because she reJ«cted his ardent love. Errazuriz, whose sister, Blanca DeKa ulles, caused a tremendous sensat*°n in America in 1917 by slaying her husband, wealthy society man and former Yale athlete was found dying ■Sunday with a revolver grasped in his lan d. it was at first a mystery. Then Peggy Hopkins Joyce, whose Patrimonial adventives have gained am ° for her on two continents,, came orward and told a dramatic story of ler ' ast night with young Errazuriz. he told of frantic court paid by the Wa althy youth, and of how he had been

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DR. BRYAN MADE TALK BY RADIO President of State School Broadcasted Foundation Day Message Washington. D. C., May 2. —(Special to Daily Democrat —Celebrating the 98th anniversary of the opening of the State University of Indiana, May 1, 1822. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, President of Indiana University, boardcasted his annual foundation day message by wireless from the Post Office radio station here last night among more than twenty-five thousand alumni and former students of Indiana University residing in the United States. Arrangements had been made to receive Dr. Bryan's address by wireless at various alumni centers over the country, where Indiana Foundation Day celebrations were being hold. President Bryan's message in part was as follows: “Alumni and friends of Indiana Uni versify: I bring you greetings from the boys and girls who have followed you at your University; from your former teachers who follow your careers with affection and pride; from the people of Bloomington and Monroe County who are now in the midst of their victorious campaign for the Memorial Fund, and I ring you greetings from my good wife, 'steel true and blade straight’, the wise and honest counselor a man ever had. “I am speaking from Washington but I wish you to think of me as speaking from the midst of boys and girls on the Old Campus. I want you to see them massed together about a great fire at midnight of March eighth at the close of their thirty-one hour drive for four hundred thousand dollars. I want you to see them lifted up as in the days of the Great War above the meanness and miseries of self interest into the thrilling joy of work and sacrifice for a great cause.” RECEIVES STATE LICENSE Elmoe Smith, of this city, successfully passed a state examination for registered pharmists recently and is now a licensed druggist. Mr. Smith has been employed for some time in the Smith Yager and Falk Drug store here. He took a course of study in the Chicago Pharmacy School following his discharge from the United Army after the close of the World War.

insanely jealous of the attentions showered on her by Henri Letellier, owner of L Journal, whom Peggy says she intends to wed. The three, Letellier. Peggy and Errazuriz,, went to dinner Saturday night and later to a dancing club in the Hue Caumartin. According to Peggy, much champagne was consumed, and the party returned to tho Claridge early Sunday morning. After Letellier had left, according to Peggy, Errazuriz made a final desperate plea for her hand. He wished her to mary him when a Papal divorce had been granted, she said. On his knees in her boudoir, he begged her to give up Letellier. With all the ardour of his race, he pleaded. But the former wife of Stanley Joyce remained firm in her intention to be faithful to Letellier. She refused him, gently at first—then sternly-

G. 0. P. MAKES A STATEMENT OF NEW POLICIES Republican Leaders Make Announcements While Indiana Votes Today PARTY "WILL FIGHT For Election of 29 of the 33 Senate Seats to Be Filled This Year B Lawrence Martin United I‘rexM Staff Correxpnuilent Washington, May 2. — (Special to Daily Democrat) — Republic an campaign leaders took the occasion of the Indiana primary today to announce a new and more aggressive policy for this year's elections. While Senator New. Indiana was fighting at the polls in his home state against former senator Beveridge for the Republican nomination, senator McCormick, Illinois chairman of the republican senatorial campaign committee, announced here: That the republicans intend to fight for 20 of the 35 senate seats that will be filled this year. That the senatorial campaign committee will take a more active part than ever before in directing the campaign. That the issues and events of the various state campaign will be kept constantly before the public by means of conferences between McCormick committee will make no fight They are Virginia, Florida, Mississippi and Texas. But in such border states as Tennessee. Arizona and New Mexico, in all of which democratic senators come up this year for re-election, the republicans will make unusually strenuoud"efforts, McCormick said. _• MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Womans Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. W. E. Smith on Thursday afternoon, May ! suitfiledto FORECLOSE HERE Studebaker Bank Seeks A Foreclosure and Judgment for $2,800 A suit to foreclose a mortgage and for judgment in the sum of $2,800 was filed in the Adams circuit court yesterday afternoon by the Studebaker Bank, a corporation against Murray J. Scherer, Blanche M. Scherer, the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company, Joseph Bowen, the Starr Piano company, Amos Hirschy and Emma Hirschy. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Schurger and Schurger, and D. B Erwin. The plaintiff in the case says, in the complaint, that in the year 1917. They received a note for $2,300, executed by Lional G. Barker and Mary F, Barker. It was secured by a mortgage on certain real estate, they claim. Later the real estate was conveyed into other hands several different times, it is stated, until it is now owned by Amos Hirschy, w.ho assumed the mortgage and agreed to pay the amount due on the note. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company is made a defendant in the suit on account of a lien which it claims to hold against the real estate. Joseph Kessler claims to hold a lien against the real estate by virtue of a judgement against Jacob ('. Kessler, a former owner of the land. The Starr Piano company also claims to hold a Hen against the land, by reason of a judgment against a former owner. JAPANESE CAE3INET AND PREMIER RESIGNED TODAY Untied Preus Stn(T Correspondent Tokio, May 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—-The Japanese cabinet, headed by Premier Takahashi resigned today. This action was taken to permit partial re-organization.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, May 2, 1922

+ + + •>♦♦*♦ + + ♦♦ + + + + PHYSICIAN IS DEAD + ++++**+*+ + + * + + + + DR. I). D. CLARK Former coroner of Adams county and one of the best known physicians in this part of the state who died at his home in this city Monday night. TROPHY MAY BE WON IN CONTEST St. Joseph’s School Has Chance to Win Tuberculosis Contest Banner It will be remembered that Hoosier Health Week was observed in this city several months ago, during which time the topic of health was discussed in the schools and the importance of keeping healthy was brought to the attention of the school children by the different civic organizations, including the Antituberculosis society, the Woman’s club and the Rotary club. Much interest was shown by the children in the St. Joseph's Catholic school in this city and the April issue of the “Hoosier Health Herald." a monthly magazine published by the Indiana Tuberculosis association gives an interesting account of the results obtained in the school and of the interest taken by the pupils. The article pertaining to the school states that the school may win one of the trophies offered by the Tuberculosis association, and that reports were received from six grades, Inclusive from the third to the eighth. The article reads: “St. Joseph’s Parochial school, of Decatur, has become a contestant in the Second Field of the Cloth of Gold. Six grades, inclusive from the third to the eighth, have sent in their re ports for entrance into the Second National Tournament. The school may win one of the trophies, a beautiful banner, for itself, and it is also contributing to Indiana’s standing in the Inter-State Cup contest. The Banneret Cup is awarded by the National Tuberculosis association to the state having the most Knights Banneret in ratio to the school enrollment.” MAN FINED FDR INDECENT ACT Stranger Taken from The Clover Leaf Train and Given Trial Here A stranger was removed from the Clover Leaf passenger train due in Decatur at 2:45 p. tn. yesterday afternoon, by the conductor, who took the man to the county jail where he was boked on a charge of public indecency under the name of John Jones. 7 lie man was given a trial before Mayor De Voss at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The affidavit against the man was signed by a lady passenger on the train, who testified that he purposely commltteed acts of indecency while in her preesnee on the train. He was fined $5 and costs, all of which he paid. The man was a cripple, .having had one leg amputated above the knee. (Continued op page five) —■ - - - ■ " For Illinois and Indiana: unsettled weather tonight and Wednesday, probably showers; not much change in temperature.

DENOUNCES THE SOCIALISTS AS REACTIONARIES Former Socialist Candidate for Mayor in Cleveland Makes Statement PARTY ALL BUT DEAD Socialists Seek to Defeat Purposes bf Socialist- i Farmer-Labor Merger United Press Service. Cleveland. Ohio, .May 2.- —(Special U Daily Democrat) With the Socialist-1 Farmer-Ixibor ' near merger” accomplished, the Socialist party resumed its convention her. 1 today to find another element laying plans to defeat its purposes. The workers party of America headed by C. E. Rnthenberg, former socialist candidate for mayor of Cleveland, who served a year in Canton work house for his alleged war time activities, met in mass meeting and denounced the socialists as “reactionaries.” "The party is all but dead: I attended its convention here and sat at its wake,” Rnthenberg declared. Rnthenberg. .charged with criminal ' anarchy, ,is out on bail awaiting disposition of his case by the New York court of Appeals. He was announced here as the new executive secretary of the workers. Just what action will be taken by I the socialists in face of the new criticism would not be forecast by socialist leaders today. Otto Brandstetter, executive secretary of the socialists, said he thought I it "hardly likely” that any effort would I be made by his party to extend the | same cooperation to the workers group that it did to the farmer-labor organization. Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey was a business viitor in Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Delbert Walters of east of the ctiy attended to business here today. MRUEINKINC DIED YESTERDAY Mother of Decatur Man Succumbed at Home in Ft. Wayne Yesterday Mrs. Louise Reinking, 64 years old died at 11:45 o’clock yesterday morn ing at her home, 2316 John street. Fort Wayne, following an illness of complications arising from hardening of the arteries. Deceased had been ill since last fall and had been bedfast for several weeks. She was born In Union township, Adams county. She 1s survived by the husband, three sons, Reinhart, of Decatur, George and Hugo, of Fort Wayne: three daughters, Mrs. Alvina Eiz: Mrs. Eliza Lahrman and Miss Blangina Reinking. Two brothers, William and Ferdinand, of Decatur, and four sisters, Mrs. Caroline Ehrman, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Helen Lankenau, of Napoleon. O.; Mrs. Mary Runge, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Sophie Jaebker, of Clinton, Ia„ also survive. Funeral services will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the late residence, 2316 John street. Fort Wayne, and at 2:30 o’clock from the Zion Lutheran church, Rev. H. C. Luehr officiating. Burial will be made in Concordia cemetery. BLUFFTON WOMAN. 70„ GIVEN DIVORCE FROM MAN 77 YEARS OLD Bluffton, Ind... May 2.—Judge F. W. Gordon granted flvo decrees of divorce in circuit court here today. The most noteworthy, in point of interest, was one in which Lorintla Smith, 70, was granted a divorce from Benjamin A. Smith. 77. of Hudson, Ind., on the ground of cruel treatment. They were married here March 29, 1921, and it was the third marriage for both of them. The court refused her request for alimony and allowed her attorneys SSO to be paid by defendant.

PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OF DECATUR DIED LAST NIGHT • I DR. 0, D. CLARK SUCCUMBED TO ERYSIPELAS AND A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES LASTING A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS.

LEAGUE OPENS NEXT SUNDAY Locals Clash in First Game at Belmont Park with Elkhart Conns — The Northern Indiana Semi-Pro j Baseball League, composed of seven or eight cities of northern Indiana and of which the Decatur CloverI leafs are a member will open its seaIson next Sunday, May 7. According to the schedule arranged by the officials in charge of the league, the i Cloverleafs will play their opening I game at Bellmont park and will I clash with the fast Elkhart team who [ j have taken the place of Bluffton who j dropped out of the league several weeks ago. The league is to be managed under the same system as the big leagues, the various teams to play each other las scheduled with a fight for the I pennant at the close of the season. , Each team in the league is going out for the high mark and the followers I of the famous sport are assured of some fast baseball every Sunday. The local management announced this morning that the Cloverleafs ; have signed up several fast players and will put a team in the field that will finish close to the top and one that deserves the support of every fan. The line-up includes Coffee, captain and right field; Baxter, first base, and Cochran, left field, all three local men. Four Fort Wayne man have been signed up and need no introduction to the local fans, they being "Roaring” Bill Kolb behind the plate; Distell, former Lincoln Lifer at short stop; Compton, second base and Henry, third base. Barry, of Lima and Kunkel, of Bluffton, will form the pitching staff with Humbert filling the gap at center field. The above team may be considered as one of the strongest in the league and a successful season with the right support can be looked for. In order to give the opening game a Yeal send off Booster Sunday has been arranged for, the tickets selling for $1 each. The tickets have been placed in the various business houses and can be secured at Lose Brothers Cigar store. Martin Lose Barber shop Joseph & Lang. H. Knapp & Son and several other places. Give the home team some real support by attending Sunday’s game. BOY SCOUT MEETING OF THE LEGION POST | The Boy Scouts of the Legion post will hold their regular meeting Wed nesday night. Any boy from the age of 12 to 18 years wishing to join, he there. SCOUT MISTER.

Harding Offers Solution of Coal Industry Problem

By Laurence M. Benedict United I’rexx Stall’ Carrenpondcnt Washington, May 2.— President Harding believes lie lias found a permanent solution of the trouble in the coal industry, one that will practically safeguard the country against serious strikes in the future. The president outlined his plan to several members of congress. It is based on this fundamental principle: The coal industry must bo made less > seasonable. Production must go ahead i at a steady rate throughout the yeai thus affording fewer men employment ' but assuring those remaining of steady work. Distribution from ths t mines must also be kept at an ever flow. To accomplish this the govern

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++++++++++ +++♦+ + STORES TO CLOSE + + + + As a mark of respect to the + + memory of Dr. D. D. Clark + + who has been a recognized fig- ♦ + tire in the business community + of this city for many years, it |+ is requested that all business ♦ + houses close during the funeral, 4> ♦ from 8:45 to 10:15, Thursday + ♦ morning. + + DAN M. NIBLICK. ♦ :4- President Decatur Industrial + + Association. + ++*+**++ + + + + + + * One of Decatur's prominent and useful citizens. Dr. D. D. Clark, age 55 years, died at his home at 127 North Third street, at 11:55 o’clock last night, following an illness of Erysipe- ■ las and a complication of diseases, which lasted for a peroid of a little I more than two weeks. Dr. Clark made his last professional call on Easter Sunday, April 16. and has been conlined to his bed since that time. Dr. Clark came to Decatur twentyseven years ago and took up the practice of medicine. In addition to his service to the community as a physician. lie has been active tn business and community affairs. He served three terms as coroner of Adams county: was one of the leading organizers and a member of the board of directors of the American Security company which was organized in Decatur two months ago and active business enterprises. Continued exposure and hard work in his profession gradually wore down the doctor’s health. During the last two or three years he was troubled with numerous and serious illnesses. Dr. D. D. Clark the son of David and Margaret Clark, was born in New London. Ohio, on January 1867. He attended school in Ada, Ohio, and Angola, Indiana. After graduating from high school, he taught school for a number of years. Later he decided to begin th estudy of medicine and entered the Fort Wayne Medical College, in Fort Wayne. This school has since become a part of Indiana University and is located in Indianapolis. After graduating from medical college. Dr. Clark began the practice of medicine in Ottoville. Ohio, where he followed the profession for a few years before coming to Decatur. He was a leader and very active in the affairs of his profession. He was a member of the Catholic church. Dr. Clark was a member of a family of eight childliren, five of whom are living. Four were physicians. One sister Mary Clark, died at the family home In Ohio, when a young child, and one brother, Dr. Battle Clark, died in New Haven. The surviving brothers and sisters are : John Clark, Miss Elizabeth Clark, and Mrs. Winifred Weichart. all of Van Wert. Ohio; Dr. (Continued on page six)

ment must direct that the surplus coal mined in the summer must be 1 stored in tho centers of industry and population to await the demands of e winter. '• y! The plan, said by Harding to be s "still in the rough" is being worked out with the aid of Secretary Hoover, o They expect to have it completed ■’ within a few weeks, it is understood '■ and will then submit it to congress s with tho request that law bo enacted d to carry ft into effect. r The President also has a scheme, it the details of which are still to bo >f worked out, for settling the present e coal strike, but he has not revealed n the nature of the steps he will take in 1- this direction.