Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1922 — Page 1

■Volume XX. Number 113

FUNDS DO NOT PERMIT I BUILDING OF HOSPITAL ■CANNOT BUILD THREE STORY BUILDING I UNLESS ADDITIONAL APPROPRIAI TION IS MADE-BIDS FOR BUILDING I COMPLETE TOTAL $120,000,

I ' If file people of Adams county are He have a three story, thirty-six room Hmspital, one tt,at will HUfiWel the Heeds of the public not only for a year H>r two bbt for the future and one that Hhe community can point to with pride, Ht will be necessary to obtain uu ad Hditional appropriation of $20,01i0 to H|25,000 with which to complete the ■Adams County Memorial hospital,' ■stated members of the hospital board ■this morning. [ The contracts for the building of the ■hospital, the installing of the heating ■and plumbing systems and the elec ■trical wiring and apparatus have been ■ awarded to the lowest bidders, stated ■A. J. Smith, chairfan of the board, for ■ a three story building on condition ■ that the county council will appropri ■ ate at least an additional twenty thousand dollars with which to build tile hospital. The low bidders on these three classifications are: General contract —Charles Sanders " , $81560.00; Plumbing and heating—Sanitary Engineering Co 15000.00 Electrical work —Edmunds Electrical Co 2215.00 Total $98776.00 To the above bids must be added the ■ (Continuied on page Hr TO CHANGE DATE FOR YEOMEN DAY In Order That President Frink May Attend With Other Lodge Officers A two page letter from Mr. George N. Frink, president of the Yeomen lodge was received this morning, as | suring us of support from the national organization for the big Yeomen day proposed here. However, Mr. Frink asks that the date be fixed for some time in August if possible as he is leaving the 23 of this month tor a four weeks vacation, the first he has taken In his life. He desires to attend the meeting here and there is no doubt that the date will be fixed for the convenience of him and the other officials and directors. The local committee will meet this evening to discuss the falter. He concluded by saying: — "Every community making application for this Home will be gjven due and fair consideration when the time comes and of course that includes you people, and I really believe Decatur will be among the most favorable places we have visited so far."

Discoveries of Interest In Regard to Planet Mars

Astronomers in California , Believe Life Exists on That Planet (I'ullrd Preas Sfnlof.) Berkeley, Calif., June 17 —(Special to Dally Democrat)— Discoveries of interest and importance with regard to the planet Mars already have been made by astronomers in Cali- j fornia studying the planet which now is the nearest to the earth it has been since it became a source of major interest. Dr. A. C. Lueschner, professor of astronomy at the University of California, made that announcement today but added that datu is not yet complete and cannot yet be given to the public. Leuschner personally is engaged In making both skeptoscroptic and Photograph observations of Mars

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

: RAILWAY BOARD : CHARGE CAUSES BIG SENSATION Members Say Dissenting Opinion Not That of Labor Men on Committee CHARGE FOLLOWS CUT — Labor Board Members Say Effort Made to Inflame Men Against Decisions < I iilfrul I'rcMN Servler,) Chicago, June 17.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Part of a dissenting opin 1 ion of members of the United States ! Railroad labor board, objecting t, j wage cuts, was written in railroad ! union headquarters here, majority members of the board charged today The charges, following announce ment of an additional cut of $26,500, 1 000 per year from wages of 320.000 workers, caused a profound sensation in railroad circles here. Tile majority members, represent ing the public and the railroads, claimed the dissenting opinion filed by representatives of labor, did nol represent tlie beliefs of the labor representatives on the board, but wa written in part at least by employe: of the railroad department of UnAmerican Federation of Labor. The majority members claimed the dissenting opinion was an "incendiary argument to employes in favor of striking against decisions of the board" despite the fact that the main purpose of the board is to "prevent strikes.” “The entire dissenting opinion” th, majority members continued "conti tutes a strained and exaggerated effort to inflame the employes to tlie belief they have been grossly outraged b> the decisions.” The latest wage cut, clips off from 2 to 6 cents an hour from pay of clerks and station employes; sign men, stationary firemen, engineers and helpers. It brings the total of yeerly wage cuts from railroad employes, to go into effect July 1, to $134,988,919. Others affected are maintenance of way employes and shop workers, whose wages were cut in previous decisions. Rev. and Mrs. B. N. Covert will return today to take up their residence in this city.

through which he hopes to ascertain j the atmospheric conditions of the planet, if I hat can he determined. Leuschner believes it may be possible to answer the question of what kind iof life, if any exists on the earth's ! neighbor. “We have no reason to deny that j ifie exists there," Prof. Leuschner 1 said. "The beings that dominate the ! planet may be entirely different from those of this world.” Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, Calif., and Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., are the centers for observation of Mars in this country. In addition to data regarding atmospheric conditions mathematical data concerning the speed of the planet motion through space which may be turned to many uses, is be- , fog compiled by a staff of observers.

FINE PROGRAM FOR FOLLOWERS OF TURF SPORT Four Days of Excellent Horse Racing Promised at Northern Indiana Fair ATTRACTIVE P U R S E S Four Thousand Dollars to Be Given Away in Purses and Added Money Four thousand dollars to be distributed in purses and added money among the race horses participating in the four day race program of the Northern Indiana Fair this year, is an attraction which will undoubtedly in sure tile lurf sport fans of a real treat. The large purses, added to the splendid track and the excellent treat ment which the horsemen receive front the local fair management, are sure to attract some of the fastest horses in the various races, and every race will likely be well filled. A special prize of SIOO is offered li> the management to the first horse that breaks the present track record of 2:09 1-4. Tills is another incentive for the drivers to push their horses for fast heats. Every horse entered in the races gets money. Col. Claude Madden, the Mayor of Danville, Illinois, who was the official starter of the races here last year, will ring the starter’s bell again this year. Col. Madden’s ability as a first class race starter is widely known anil local race fans will welcome the announcement that lie will be on hand again this year. He is also the official starter of the Indiana State Fai# races. On Tuesday, the opening day of the fair, there will be a 2:20 pace for 3vear olds and under, for a purse of $250; a 2:22 trot for a purse of $250; and a 2:16 pare for a purse of $350. The Wednesday program includes a 2:30 pace, a 2:16 trot, and a 2:19 pace, each for a purse of $350. On Thurs day there will be a 2:25 trot for 3year olds and under for a purse of $250; a 2:24 pace for a purse of $350; and a 2:12 pace for a purse of $350. Three good races are scheduled for Friday, the last day of the fair. They are the 2:14 pace, the 2:18 trot, and 2:30 trot, each for a purse of $350. ADAMS COUNTY PIONEER DEAD Barclay Smith, Formerly of Berne, Died Suddenly in Ohio Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Evangelical in Herne, for an j other of the pioneers of the community. The body of Barclay Smith, formerly of Berne and well known in this community, was brought there from Chattanooga, 0., for the last rites. Mr. Smith has been a member of tlie Evangelical chrcli for a number of years and had attended the services of that church faithfully until of late years, when failing health did not permit. Barclay Smith was born In Green county, Penn., Jan. 30, 1846 and was Hie son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Smith. At the time of his death on June 13. 1922, he was 76 years, 4 months and 14 days old. In ldte years he had been making ills home will) his son, Harley, at Chattanooga, 0„ where lie died suddenly Tuesday morning. He had complained of not feeling well when he arose and a little later he became suddenly ill. Before a doctor could reach the home lie had passed away. In 1848 he moved with his parents to Adams county and had spent nearly his entire life time in and around Berne. He was united in marriage to Miss Arminda Storey on October 13, 1868, which union was dissolved by the death of his wife on February 26, 1896. Since that lime he lias been living with ills children. The greater part of his career had been spent in farming until ill health failed to permit this. Five children survive their father, (Continued on page two)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, June 17, 1922

+♦+++++♦♦+♦+♦++ 4 AMERICAN HISTORY 44 DAY BY DAY * 4‘ By T. P. Green 44 + 4* Saturday, June 17, 4 ' * + 4* Tlie battle of Bunker Hill was 4> 14- on June 17, 1775. 4' + — 44- George Washington was elect- 4- , + ed to command of American ar- 44- mies on June 17, 1776. 4> + - — 4 1 Congress declined to trout with 4 4- British peace commissioners on 4- + June 17, 1778. 4- + — 44- Corner-stone of Hunker Hill 44- monument was laid by Marquis 44< Lafayette on June 17, 1825. 44* — 44* U. S. Grant was commissioned + 4' Colonel of Illinois Volunteers on 4* 4' June 17, 1861, 4 * — * 4- General R. E. Lee and Alex- + 4* ander 11. Stephens applied for 44« pardon on June 17, 1865.. 4* •E4-4-4-4 , 4-4-4-4-4+4-4-4-4-RUHL HOMESTEAD WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE TODAY Fire Believed to Have Been Started by Tramp at 3:30 This Morning NOTHING WAS SAVED Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl Were Spending Vacation at Crooked Lake Fire, thought to have been started by a tramp, entirely destroyed the (farm residence on the farm owned by John C. Ruhl near stop No. 9, on the Fort Wayne and Decatur traction line, ten miles north of Decatur, at 3:39 o’clock this morning Insur ance was carried on both tlie building and tlie contents. Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl left last Thursday morning, with the famous Poe quartet to spend two weeks at Crooked Lake, and were not at home when the fire occured. Mr. Ruhl’s son, John C., Jr., was living in the house while ills parents were gone. Mrs. Barto, of Hoagland, who has been keeping house for him, was also in the house last night. Mrs. Barto said today that early in the night she heard someone knock at tlie door, but site did not answer. She also said that she heard footsteps in the yard. About 3:30 o’clock Mrs. Barto and Mr. Ruhl were awakened to find file house on fire. Neighbors were attracted to the fire and an effort was made to save tlie furniture, but the strong south wind fanned the blazes and the building was a mass of flames before (Continued on page four) RETURNED FROM SOUTHERN TOUR Local People Spent Week in Viewing Many Scenic Beauties of State Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey and Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson returned home yesterday evening after a week’s tour in southern Indiana. Their trip included a two day's stop at West Baden, Indiana, where Mr. Pumphrey attended tlie Indiana Slate Jewlers meeting. From there they went to Louisville, Kentucky, and then made a trip across Brown county, Indiana, which is famed for its beauty. Their "route through Brown county took them across Bearcat Wallow one of Indiana's mountains, from which one obtains a view of the country for 25 miles in any direction. The old state of Indiana means more (o all of them now for they, like most people in this northern part, never realized (he senic beauties of the southern counties. Generally fair tonight and Sunday, somewhat cooler tonight In eastern und in south portions Sunday.

PREMIUM LIST FOR BIG FAIR IS OFF PRESS Attractive Premiums Offered in Every Department by Management AUGUST 1,2, 3, and 1 J Scores of Features Assure I Visitors of Four Days of Real Enjoyment i Hound in a bright red (over and | containing about one hundred pages, (the premium list catalogs for the 1922 I Northern Indiana Fair, were deliv- | ered by the printer today. Judging , from Hie attraction of the fine prem | iums offered there will be a large i number of exhibitors in every depart ment. Entries close on July 24 in all departments. The fair will open on August 1 and continue for four days The admission fees for the fair tills year are announced in tlie catalog as follows: Exhibitor’s ticket, $2; adult $.50; child, 6 to 12 years, $.25; niglil admission after 6 p. m„ $.35; grand stand, $.50; bleachers, $.25; truck or delivery wagon, $5; taxi, $5. Ttiere will be no admission charge for automobiles and free parking space will lie provided. School child ren under tlie age of 12 years, will In admitted free on Tuesday, August 1 which has been designated as Child ren's Day. There will be a free nursery and playground in connection with the women’s tent, under tlie supervision of a competent superintendent and trained nurse. The local branch ot the Red Cross will have a tent on the grounds equiped with cots and com plete emergency outfits. Tlie music for the fair this year will lie furnished by the Decatur, Berne, | and Geneva bands. The management I has also contracted with jazz bund ■and orchestras and has made the an I nouncement that there will be mush * all the time. One of the features of tlie fair will be the auto and tractor show for which the management is making especial efforts. The Relic Depart ment, under tlie supervision of I). M Hensley which lias proved a source of much interest at the previous fairs, will lie on the grounds again this year (Continued ou page three) YOUNG SLAYER'S MIND IS NORMAL Examination of Portland Lad’s Head Made at the Plainfield Boys’ School Portland. June 17 Robert Silvers. 9, youthful slayer of Bernard Teeter, 9, his playmate, whom he stabbed to death last Friday a week ago, appar enlly is normal mentally according to an examination given the youth by the physician at the Indiana School for Boys at Plainfield, where he was taken Wednesday by Sheriff Badders. The reformatory physician made a careful examination of the boy's head and stated to Sheriff Badders that tie could find no place where there was any depression on the brain, which lias been thought probable as result of tlie automobile accident in which tlie youth was dragged and injured about the head sometime ago. Sheriff Badders was naked by the authorities there to secure information from the physician here who attended the boy after tlie accident as to the nature of the treatment given. Soon after his arrival at the Instilu tlon, young Slivers underwent an operation for the removal of diseased adnoids and tonsils. OPERATED ON AT FORT WAYNE Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer underwent an operation on the auxiliary antrum at the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, yesterday, Dr. Bulson being the physician, Reports this morning state that she is progressing very satisfactorily. ILLUMINATED °VAN!TY CASES Beauty need no longer go neglected until Milady finds a place in the light to powder her nose or add a bit of color to her lips. A vanity case illuminated with a tiny electric light, which may lie switched on and off like a flashlight, has been perfected.

SEPARATE PEACE SOUGHT BY MINERS AND RAIL MEN AGREEMENT WOULD COMMIT BOTH MINERS AND RAIL WORKERS TO STAY ON STRIKE UNTIL BOTH HAD WON THEIR PRESENT FIGHTS.

INDIANA MINERS PLACED UNDER ARREST TODAY Union Miners Placed Uuder Arrest on Charge of Inciting Riots MINERS QUIET TODAY • Pending Mass Meeting this Afternoon an Joint Meeting on Sunday Terre Haute, Ind,, June 17—<tSpe ciai to Daily Democrat) —Arrests of 59 Vigo county union miners wanted In Clay county for rioting was started today by Sheriff Wolfe after re ceiving the bench warrants. Dave Jones, board member of district 11, United Mine Workers, Harry Lentz, a leader of the union miners: and David Robb, who recently figured In tlie West Virginia riots when lie was wanted for murder there,j were included In the list. i it is understood that 56 others in j Vermilion and Clay counties are also | wanted. The warrants were sworn out by : operators of Clay county mines fol-1 lowing recent disorders on the mines there. District 11 was comparatively quiet today, pending a mass meeting at I Bicknell this afternoon and a Joint j meeting here Sunday of Vermilion and Vigo county miners. According to word received here today, engineers, pumpers and firemen of two mines in the Bicknell field have been taken from the mines by their respective local unions when the operators refused to checkoff llieir dues. Brazil, June 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Twelve of the hundred or more striking coal miners who were charged with inciting riot when j they closed non-union mines west of j the city Wednesday were arrested by Sheriff Wallace and arraigned in : circuit court today. Bond was fixed at SI,OOO for their! appearance Monday and an effort is being made to give bond. The twelve strikers were Kdgar Hallmark. John Weber, Paul Smith, Oakley Hadley, Ralph Hadley, Hers< iidl Crabh, Robert Galbraith, John Hardman, Ross Ehrlich, Herman Weber, Richard llarroll and Claude Galbraith. Warrants for fifty nine have been sent to Vigo county and for thirty to Vermilion county.

Straight and Narrow Path Has Grown Wider

Ultra Conservative Baptists Have Lost Their Fijjht in Convention 4 I iilliml Pre«ot ftervle#,) Indianapolis, June 17 (Special to Daily Democrat) -The straight and narrow path of righteousness was j wider today than It used to lie. Modern religion has made It a boulevard. The rise oC progressive Interpretation of the Bible in tin* northern Baptist convention here permits every Baptist to form Ills own creed. “The only requirement Is that lie accept tlie teachings of the new testament,” said Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y., president of I he convention. Ultra conservatives lost their fight to force through a confession of faith. It would have laid down the laws of the church on a foundation of Revela-

Cincinnati, ()., June 17 (Special to Dally Democrat) John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers today announced be would not bo a candidate against Samuel Gompers for the presidency of tlie American Federation of Labor. Arriving here today to attend the Federation convention Lewis said: ”1 positively urn and will not be a candidate. I have a Job in band in tlie shape of a strike and 1 can Bee no further than that.” Cincinnati, O. June 17 Agreement that a “separate peace" will not bo made by either the striking coal miners or tlie railworkers who are about to strike is to be sought at tho | forthcoming conference here of rail j union executives and leaders of the | United Mine Workers. Such action if agreed on, would commit both miners and rail workers to stay on strike until both had won. Tlie first session of the joint conference, requested yesterday by the rail workers under terms of their alliance with the miners, will tie held tlie moment John L Lewis, miners’ i chief, gets to Cincinnati, it was announced. Just when is coming remained uncertain. Tlie move for joint action of the (Continued on page two FORMER DECATUR RESIDENT DEAD Henry Gass Died Yesterday Evening at His Home in Stockdale, Michigan Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gass, of this city received word last night, telling of the death of their cousin, Henry Gass, of Stockdale, Michigan. Mr. Gass, who formerly lived In Decatur, died late yesterday evening. Funeral services will be held in Stockdale, on Tuesday morning. Henry (iass was born in Decatur (about forty years ago. He spent his : early life here and was educated in ! the parochial schools. He went to Stockdale, Michigan several years ago and was manager of a store in that city at the time of his death, lie was the son of Joe and Anna Gass, both of whom are dead. He is survived by a wife, two children, one brother hikl one sister. The brother, Ed. resides In Fort Wayne, and tlie sister, Mamie, lives in Massillon, Ohio. There are also several relatives living in Decatur.

,~ T * lions and other parts of the Bible which 'lie liberals have been interpreting in their own way. The conj /option approved the liberal attitude and disapproved that of the conservatives who have been adhering to :tho New Hampshire confession. "You might as well close ail your Sunday schools, you might as well I; top all your preachers, you might as well ( lose your theological sem- ! iuaries, you might as well stop the programs of the missionaries and ‘devote all of your promotion money Ito printing and distributing the new Testament" said Dr. J. C. Massee, leader of the "Hard Shells.’’ loosing in the tight for a creed, Dr. Massee looked forward to a possible victory in Ihe election of otlicers. •— - Mrs. C. A. Oarrett returned today from Montpelier where she has been visiting for two weeks.

Price 2 Cents