Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1922 — Page 1

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Ibestoration I I OF RIGHTS IS I big obstacle — ■ m Settlement of Nation ■ "wiie Sl'ike of 100.000 ■ Kail Shopmen lihkihm. to v. tsoon ■ prudent Holds ConferI With Hooper and ■ Expects to Act Soon ■ By James T. Kolbert I . to ■ Washington. Jn'.' — * ■ Democrat) The greatest obEcie in the path of an early settle|L of the nation-wide strike of Eoooo railway shopmen is the ques-j ■ of restoring seniority rights to ■ the strikers. Ben W. Hooper, chair- ■ n , told President Harding today. ■ Hooper, summoned here from ChiI pap, by Harding, who desired com- , ■ .lets information on the shopmen s ( ■ dispute before taking steps which he ■ Dopes will bring a settlement, gave ■ tbs president a complete resume of ■ re( ent unsuccessful eftorts of the la- ■ Dor board to terminate the strike and ■ the causes underlying the walkout. I Washington. July 22-(Special tot I Daily Democrat )-Within 48 hours. ■ president Harding will move to end ■ the rail strike. I The executive today sought a soln I tion of the nation wide tie up in a I conference with Ben W. Hooper, I chairman of the railroad labor board, I wmmoned from Chicago. I A first band account of all quesI tions at issue, and position of the I warring factions in the labor board's ■ fruitless negotiations are demanded ■ by Harding. I The president then w ill determine ‘ ■ what action he can take towards! ■ tettlement of the strike. It is be- ■ hered he will bring rail executives ■ nd union leaders together for a ■ -i.p, I Chicago, July 22—(Special to Daily ■ Democrat!- Railroad executives, after ■ fighting the walkout of shopmen for I three weeks are convinced they can I break the strike. The success which various roads have had in hiring new workers and : indusing old men to return, has been ’ the greatest factor behind their re-1 fusal to permit the return of strikers j with full seniority rights, a leading executive stated today. Eastern railroads especially have been successful in carrying out strikebreaking plans, this executive stated. While western lines are harder hit, company managers are confident that after a short period of operation with scanty equipment they will be able to overcome the emergency and resume normal operations with a full force of strikebreakers. Os the western roads, the Illinois Central and the Santa Fe have had the greatest success in meeting the strike. Both have been strong open shop companies for years. Neither line has been forced to curtail trains, and schedules are being maintained. 1 nion officials here had little hope that the Washington conference between President Harding and Chairman Ben Hooper will result in peace. Bert M. Jewell, president of the shop crafts union, declared he believed an agreement could only be reached through direct conference with the railroad managers. The attitude of the government throughout the strike has been that any settlement must be reached through the labor board—the agency °f the federal government. "I think the strike will be settled shortly before the November election -on our terms,” Jewell stated today.

Local Post Os American Legion Gets New Members

Thirty-four Ex-Service Men sign Membership Cards During Drive Thirty-four new members were oba ned by the Adams Post No. 43 of stato A “ erican Legion during the state-wide membership camoaien xr:: : ,y the loea nn t' e tOta ' me,nbershl P the local poßt up t 0 162 the largest < oXir ,n the post The membership of the local post.

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++++++++ + + + + + + 4 4> AUCTION SALE TONIGHT + + + 4> The attention of the public Is 4 + called to the auction sale to be + ♦ held on the court house lawn at + + 7:30 o'clock tonight by the Civic + 4> Section of the WiYinan’st Culi + + as a benefit for the new rest room + + for women in the library. Many + + useful and beautiful articles will + 4* be offered for sale and the cause + 4» is one deserving of support. Part + + of the articles donated for the + + sale were sold this afternoon but + + half were reserved for tonight. + ++++++++ + + + + + + + • Mr. and Mrs. E. Burt Lenhart and daughter, Alice, returned last night after a several day's visit at Sturgis, Mich., with Mr. and Mrs. Albert McGill. sayllwelT WILL PRODUCE 30 BARRELS New Well on the Habegger Lease Pumped for First Time Thursday DIRECTORS ENTHUSED Many Adams County People who are Stockholders Encouraged After pumping the new oil well drilled on the Habegger lease southwest of Decatur, which was shot last Friday the officials of the oil company are well pleased and announce that the well will produce from 30 to 35 barrels per day. The pump was started at 12 o’clock j noon last Thursday and salt water was pumped for four hours. At 4 o’clock the oil came in and seventeen inches was pumped into the tank in about two and one-half hours. This is equivalent to about 20 barrels The tubing was also full of oil which I would make about six more barrels. , The oil was not all pumped off but it was necessary to stop on account of the tubing in the steam boiler blowing out. The well was pumped for a short I time yesterday with a tractor but I this did not prove successful. About | seven barrels were pumped during I that time. The Habegger Oil Com--1 pany will attach its own pump as soon as the driller’s outfit has been moved away and it is hoped that pumping may be resumed within a few days. The new well is located the Tom Baltzell farm, six miles south west of Decatur. It was drilled to a depth of 1,200 feet and stopped in 35 feet of fine oil sand. When the well was shot a week ago yesterday the indications were somewhat discouraging as the spray was white. Many Decatur and Adams county people have stock in the Habegger company which was incorporated last spring, with Ezra Habegger as president. The company has another well 600 feet east of the new well which pro duced about eight barrels per day for a long time but recently has not been pumped regularly. RECEIVED WORD OF THE DEATH OF SISTER-IN-LAW IN HAMMOND, INDIANA Mrs. C. E. Baughman, of this city, received word this morning that her sister in-law, Mrs. Alva Wertzberger had died suddenly at her home in Hammond. Her death occured early this morning according to the message Mrs. Baughman and her mother, Mrs. Wertzberger, will go to Hammond tonight.

was divided into two teams for the membership campaign, the losing team to give a dinner for the winners. The team captained by Dallas Brown obtained twenty new members while Charles Starost’s team succeeded in signing up only fourteen. The post is planning to take an active part in the staging of Indiana Yeomen Day in Decatur on August 22. The matter will be discussed by the i Legionaires at their regular meeting I on Monday night.

i' ; j Will Open Chautauqua Program v■ ■ J \ Bi ■■ J k i Hon. William Jennings Bryan, America's foremost oiator, iLxaw' and the Ver Haar Concert Company, who will open the Uqjw Decatur Chautauqua program on next Monday. The Vet $• ■ < Haar company will the program both afternoon and evening and Mr. Bryan will speak at 8:30 p. in.

TOM AUTO LICENSES HERE kuto License Branch to Be Established in Decatur For Next Year H. D. McClelland, manager of the utomobile department, secretary of tate’s office. Indianapolis, has writ?n Mr. Harry Fritzinger, republican ounty chairman, notifying him that it as been definitely decided to estab ish an automobile license branch in Decatur for the year 1923, thus enbling auto owners to secure their :cense plates here instead of sendng to Indianapolis or going to some i ther branch. The establishing of such an office ere will prove of great convenience nd will be in charge of the Hoosier tate Automobile Association who will Iso open a branch office here in collection with the license office. The latter of exact location and who will e in change will be decided later, his matter being left with Mr. Fri'ziger and as the letter says "On the round and in a better position to seect some one having the facilities and ho is qualified to handle the work, ’here is on profits to the party issuing he license and there will be no charge xcept for the notary fee as heretoore. The branch here will be greatly ppreciated by the nearly 2,500 owners f automobiles in Adams comity. LARGE JUDGMENT ASKED IN SUIT Suit on Note and to Foreclose Mortgage Filed in Circuit Court Judgment in the sum of $6,500 and osts of the trial is asked in a comlaint on a note and suit to foreclose mortgage filed in the Adams circuit ourt this morning by the Evans, Derore and Company, of Craw fordsvilb . .gainst Nettie E. Douglas and Angusus D. Douglas of Blue Creek townthip. Th" Peoples Loan and Trust Company of Decatur, the \\ ren Bank if Wren, Ohio, and the Indiana Pipe Line Company are also named defendmts in the suit on account of mort qages or liens held by them against real estate on which the mortgage is alleged to have been executed. It is alleged in the complaint that the defendants executed a promisory note to the Mutual Benefit Lite Insurance company for the sum ot $5,000 in 1919 and set tired the note by a mortgage on their 80 acres of land in Blue Creek township. It is claimed that the installment of interest due in June 1922, and amounting to $137.50 was ont paid by the required time It is further stated that, the mortgage and note was sold by the Mutual Beneefit Life Insurance company to the plaintiffs Evans. DeVore and company in June, 1922. The plaintiffs claim that there are delinquent taxes in the sum of $209.37 due on the real estate It is asked that judgment be given the plaintiffs for $6,500 and costs and that the mortgages and liens against the estate held by the banks and the (Continued, on page four)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, July 22, 1922

KITSON CARAGE OPENS ON SOUTH FIRST STREET NEXT MONDAY MORNINC Harve Kitson, the well known automobile man who has been employed at the Schafer Hardware Company for the past twelve years will resign his position with that company this’ evening and announces that he will open a new garage Monday morning. The Kitson garage is located at 116 South First street in the building formerly occupied by the Decatur Horse Sale Co. The building has been completely remodeled into a strictly fireproof garage and he will do general automobile repairing, take care of storage and will handle United States Tires and tubes, accessories and the Sinclaii gasoline and oils. Harve invites you to give him a call Monday or any day thereafter. ROTARIANS LOST BLUFFTON GAME Put Up Game Fight Yester day But Lost Battle By Score of 11 to 2 Decatur Rotarians made a game j • ght in their baseball game with the ■’Juffton Rotary Club on the latter's I home lot yesterday afternoon,, but they were sorely in need of practice . nd dropped the battle by the score : f 11-2. Bluffton took an eight point ilead in the first three innings which proved to be too big a handicap for the ‘locals to overcome. Decatur used three pitchers during the seven inrings of pastiming in an effort to stop the onslaught of the Blufftonites. | Schmitt’s delivery proved to be the easiest for the Bluffton men to solve. ■ Ince they counted seven runs in two. innings while he was pitthing. Several rooters accompanied the lo ial team to Bluffton. The members o. tiie Decatur Rotary Club who made the’ trip were guests of the Bluffton Ro tarians at a banquet giveft in the Bliss , lintel yesterday evening. J. O. Sellemeyer anti William Kleper made short talks at the banquet ind Mr. Sellemeyer sang a few solos. The local men report that they enjoyed ,he day very much, despite the fact . that they lost Hie baseball encounter by a one-sided score. Following ithe box score of the game: Score by innings: Bluffton 5 2 1 0 3 0 x —IT Decatur 000101 0— 21 Box Score: Bluffton AB R H PO A E Blackman, lb 2 2 17 0 0 Dailey, cf 4 2 2 1 0 0 Farr, If 2 2 0 3 0 0 Webber 3 11 0 1 0 Thompson, 2b 4 0 0 1 3 1 Berling, 3b 4 11 0 0 2 Ullman, ss 2 2 2 0 1 2 Bender, rs 4 11 0 0 0 Belger, c. 3 0 I 9 1 0 Total ..|....28 11 9 21 6 5 Decatur AB R IT PO A E Confer, ss 4 0 0 11 0 (Continued on page five) Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight; cooler in extreme northwest iiortiion; Sunday/probably fair.

THUS. EUIHGER WILL LIVE HERE Former Decatur Man Sent to Decatur by the Indiana Board and Filler Co. Thomas Ehfnger, former Decatirr •oung man and a son of Mr. anil Mrs 1. X. Ehinger, is moving to this city having been transfered here by the In liana Board and Filler company, which concern he has been associated with several years. He started to work this morning and ..ill be associated with the manage nent of the local office of the Indiana 3oard and Filler company, one of the irgest concerns of its kind in thq ountry. For two years past Mr. Ehinger was onnected with the management of the company's plant at Urbana. Ohio, and previous to that was located at Vincennes, Indiana, where the conii jany has a large plant and where recently the central office of the com- | nany was moved to. Mr. Ehinger’s family is now in the ( ity, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. X. | ILliinger and within a few days their household goods will be shipped here 1 Mr. Ehinger is a competent business man and his many friends and acquaintances are glad to learn that he and his excellent family are coming back to good old Decatur. MCCRAY GAUS A MINERS' PARLEY Mine Owners and Striking Miners Invited to Meet in Governors Office • nheul PreMx StnflF Cnrr<‘*»nondcnt Indianapolis, July 21—(Special to ; Dpily Democrat) —Governor McCray . today invited mine owners and striking miners of Indiana to meet in his office next Tuesday to arbitrate their :differences. Members of the scale committees of both factions were asked to the conference. Letters were sent to John Hessler, district president of ; the United Mine Workers axyl Phil Penna, operator's spokesman. The governor's action followed con- | Terences with the scale committee of 1 operators in which they failed to ac- ' cept his offer of state protection for mines resuming work to allay a fuel shortage. While the governor was drafting his letters and an accompanying , ’ statement to the public, it was learned from leading operators that they consider settlement of the railway 1 shopmen's strike as the key to end ' the industrial crisis. It was not learned whether they would maintain this attitude in the ! face of th? governor's appeal. The ', miners are striking for the right to ' negotiate a wage agreement and are I expected to refuse the invitation. J “I thoroughly believe in the principles of arbitration" said McCray’s statement to the public “and am hop- ! ing that through the influence of this i meeting the men who are involved in the problems of the coal producJ tion in Indiana may come to a better t —— (Continued on page six)

<•++++++<• + + + + + + + > SHIPS ARE READY + v + > Washington. July 22. — The ♦ F shipping board is ready to pul a + F huge fleet of its idle vessels In- + +to service to bring coal from + + Wales to this country to break + + the backbone of the approaching + > coal famine which threatens to + + cripple the industries of the nn- 4 + tion. + 4 Initial steps to import coal 4 + have been undertaken by the 4 4 1 board J. Barstow Smull. vice- + + president of the Emergency Fleet 4 + Corporation, announcing, con- + + firming previous United Press dis- 4 1 * patches that a comprehensive 4> + program for relfeving the pres- 4 + ent situation. 4 GAS COMPANY TO MAKE MANY IMPROVEMENTS Wore Than $2,000 To Be Expended Here for Bettering Service BIG MORTGAGE FILED Mortgage Covering A Bond Issue of $7,000,000 Placed On Property More than $2,000 will be expended n Decatur by the Northern Indiana las and Electric Company in the near uture for the extension and betternent of its mains and service. The ompany, whose territory coverjj \dams, Boone, Cass, Clinton. Lake, Marshall, Maimi, Montgomery. Porter, St. Joseph, Tippecanoe, .Vabash, and Wells counties, recently led a mortgage on its property in the zarious counties, covering a bond issue >f $7,000,000, to carry on extensions nd improvements in the fifteen Connies. Mr. W. H. Hasse, of Hammond, exeuted the mortgage covering the \dams county property. The mortgage on the property in Allen county •ontained 62,000 words and carried ;3,500 in revenue stamps. The Allen ounty recorder stated that it was he largest amount of stamps ever afixed to any document presented for •ecord in that office. The recording ee was $62. The recording fee on the nertgage filed here also amounted to 62. S. E. Mulholland, of Fort Wayne, ice-president of the company, stated hat the filing of the mortgage merely narked the consumation of the coni •any's plan for refinajicing, w'.’iich vas before the public service com nission some two months ago. The purpose of the step he said, is to go head with a scheme of improvements vliich the company has been working >n for sojne time and which had been clayed in carrying into effect l>y the ;crld war and the adverse business onditions following it. Will O'Brien, manager of the local •ranch of the company, stated today hat more than $2,000 had been ap xirtioned to this branch for extenion and improvements. The holder vill be improved here, including a lew stack, boiler, and several other terns. The main will be extended on Mercer Avenue to the new Adams County Memorial Hospital now under construction. This will cost more than SBOO. The main will also be extended on South Fifth street from Adams street, for a distance of 380 feet. Several hundred dollars will be expended in bettering the service at individual locations also. s_s_s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

Five Killed And Score Injured In Train Wreck

Two Passenger Trains Meet in Head-on Collision In Missouri Logan, Mo., July 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Five were killed and a score injured when Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train No. 9 and a joint “Katy” and ‘Frisco train No. 2 collided head-on here. Engineer C. H. Ring, No. 9. was instantly killed. An unidentified man, a woman and two children also met instant death.

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W. J. BRYAN WILL BE FEATURE OF THE FIRST DAY ’I . Everything in Readiness for Opening of Chautauqua on Next Monday TENT ERECTED TODAY Ticket Committee Reports Large Advance Sale; An Excellent Program Everything is in readiness for the opening ot the Decatur Independent ('bauauqua on next Monday afternoon. Tile big tent arrived yesterday and was erected on the lot at the corner of Third street and Liberty Way today. The ticket committee reports a large | advance sale of season tickets and I ;those who subscribed for tickets at I the close of the cliautauqua last year | have succeeded in selling most of their supply. , I The program for the five days’ entertainment this season represents probably the best talent that has ever been gathered together for a Chautauqua in this city. The program is 1 well-balanced with lecturers, humor ists, and musicians, making it appeal !to everyone. Splendid co-operation lias been shown by the officers, directors. and the general public in completing arrangements which will make i the cliautauqua a fine success. The opening number of the chan- . . tauqua will be given by the Ver Haar Concert Company, at 3 p. m. Monday. Tin concert will consist of vocal and instrumental music which is guaranteed to please the most critical. The same entertainers will open the evening program at 7:30 p. m. and give . an hour’s concert, preceding the lec- , ture to be given by Hon. William Jennings Bryan. America's foremost ora- . tor. Regardless of political beliefs, America is not divided on the fact that Mr. Bryan is the greatest American orator produced during this generation. This reputation is not con- , fined to America, but is world wide. His latest lecture, "The World’s Greatest Need," is one of his greatest. The m°re announcement that Mr. Bryan is going to speak here will make . certain that people who have heard . him will want to hear him again, and anyone who has not had the privil- ( edge will not want to miss this oppor tunity. Bryan day will be one of the biggest days of the Chautauqua and a large crowd is expected by the management who is making arrangements to care for an extra large number. There will be no reserved seats and it is advisable to go early. The program for Tuesday, the second day. included a lecture in the afternoon by Strickland W. Gillilan, ■ prince of humorists, and two concerts J by the Crawford Adams company, one jin the afternoon and one at night. W. S. PORTER WILL ATTEND CONVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS W. S. Porter, of the Porter Studio, will leave tomorrow morning to attend the convention of the Tri-state Photograghers’ Association, to be held in Cleveland. Ohio, next week. Mr. • Porter will return on next Friday. MARRIAGE LICENSE Paul Reiter, manager Adams County Equity, Decatur, born May 12, 1895 son of Henry Reiter, to Marie Bultetneier, stenographer, Decatur, R. R. 1. horn April 21. 1895 daughter of Fred Bultemeier.

Both trains were running late. The west bound train was running at high speed and No. 2 east bound, was slowing down and had almost stopped to meet the west bound passenger. Misreading of orders caused the accident, railroad officials believed. Both engines were telescoped and i several of the passenger coaches left the track and were damaged. i The four passengers who were killl ed were on No. 2 running from San i 1 Antonio to St. Louis. No. 9 was from | St. Louis bound for Oklahoma City.