Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1922 — Page 1

Cirne XX- Number 251

CAMPAIGN ISSUES ABLY tISCUSSEDBY MR. MYERS A crowd which completely filled the court room last evening Hstened to the able address by Hon. Walter Myers, Indianapolis Bttorney, who is answering Mr. Beveridge in his campaign speech. Kfr Mvers is a young and refreshing orator of the old type. He K;a lawyer and his speech is an able arraignment and a convincK argument, fair and devoid of anything but argument. Judge John C. Moran presided as chairman of the meeting Knd devoted five minutes to urging the people of this counnty to

8 Lie for John Tyndall for contress. He is the first candidate for this high position from old kdams and a worthy one. Mr. |r> ndall was unable to be present last evening because of demands on his time from Delaware county where he is campaigning, but |i'a hopes to speak here before etec lion day. Mr. Myers was Introduced and spoke tor more than an hour, the big crowd listening attentively. The tariff and Its blood-sucking schedules is the big Issue of this campaign and is more than likely to be the issue two years 'rom now. Mr. Myers said: "You are leeling the effects of the Fordney-.Mc- ■ (’umber tariff law already. Only the ■ other day an Indianapolis paper car- ■ ried an advertisement—‘These gloves ■ have not been touched by the tariff,’ ■ meaning that the price had not been I raised. In Chicago I noticed this card in a window—‘Buy these blankets. The new tariff will make them cost from 33 to 50 per cent more at the factory.’ Coal is $12.00 a ton and going higher. Please read the tariff schedule yourself. It provides a tax on the baby’s clothes and the pins that fasten them [up. It taxes the dolls of its childish I [games. It taxes books and musical I [instruments and the pieces of art that ■ you use to beguile your worries and ■ cares. It taxes your medicine when i ■you are sick and even the monument ■ *!■:• t: :■ i'ks your -sting place when ■ dead. Prattling infancy and white I haired age are the equal objects of I taxation. It puts tax on wine and ■ beer In a country supposed to be bone ■ dry, a tax on garters which hold up ■ your sox, on Bible paper and rosaries ■ and similar articles of religious de- ■ ration. | "Scarcely had the bill become a ■ law when Mr. Fordney announced that ■ if prices were raised a law would be I passed to send such persons to jail. ■ According to that logic we have a law ■ which permits the raising of prices, I but punishes them if they obey the ■ law. I Prevents Payment of Foreign Debt. "The new tariff law will prevent the I repayment of the loans from foreign I countries who can only pay us in I goods. They have no gold." Mr. Myers then declared opposition I to the boards and commission, state I and federal, which pry Into every one's I business and charge you for it. "Let I the townships, cities and towns and I counties of the state, and let the states I of the nation mind their own bttsiI ness," said Mr. Myers. Ridiculed Beveridge. The speaker ridiculed the attitude I of Mr. Beveridge this year and comI pared his record during the past ten I years, declaring him a theorist whose I Proper place is in the library, toastI ing his feet by the fire and studying I the questions of the American RevoI lution. it was a speech for the votI era to hear and think over. He told I of the record of Mr. Ralston as govI ernor and urged that the people of Indiana send this strong and safe man to represent them and to fight that Property rights be not placed ahead °f human rights. Pat Harriaon Meeting Nov. 4. Judge Moran announced the Pat Harrison meeting here on Saturday, November 4, and asked the voters to awaken to the importance of the issues. He declared the state administration had proven their inability. Just now we are building a palace for our criminals at a cost of millions, >''t there is no place in the state where on page five)

WALLS AT THE SUGAR PLANT ARE “STUCK UP ON THEMSELVES” NOW

Molasse# was thrown on the walls and windows yesterday at. the Holan -St. Louis Sugar company when steam got into one of the molasdea Tats and for a few minutes caused a 1 e excitement. It was rumored, and like all rumors It traveled and &rew worse, that an explosion had occurred at the beet sugar factory.

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iPLAN SPECIAL : SUNDAY WORSHIP 1 Sunday School Rally and Missionary Meeting at Reformed Church ii I The members of the local ReformR ed church are looking forward with e eager anticipation to the coming Sab_!bath when special services will be I held at 9:15 o’clock a. m. in the Sun , 1 day school room. The annual Rally Day exercises will take place. The . children of the primary department s will have a special part in these ex- . ercises, which ought to make them j interesting as well as instructive. I At 10:30 a. m. in the regular wor- ? ship hour, the Missionary societies of I Woman’s Missionary society, the . the congregation, consisting of the Young Woman’s Missionary Auxiliary and the Mission Band will have then J annual Thanks-offering service. At j this service the Thanks-offering boxes 1 which should have been receiving reg I ular deposits from time to time dur t ing the past year, will be brought in I and opened. The speaker for this j I service will be Miss Minerva Weil, a J returned missionary from China, who ;is from the same station where oui , Miss Esther Sellemeyer is working ( The last named fact makes her presI ence here especially interesting and , 1 all are looking forward with eagerj ness to hearing her. I On Sunday evening Dr. William E. ’ I Lampe, of Philadelphia, Pa., who is the executive secretary of the mis- ( sionary and stewardship board of the ( Reformed church in the United States, . will speak at the local Presbyterian I church. Since Dr. Lampe is a man of prominence in the Reformed church, it is expected that members of th< local Reformed church will join with the Presbyterians in this service. Community Meeting at 1 Kirkland Township H.S. i A community meeting will be held 1 in the Kirkland township high school > ( 27. Mr. O. L. Vance of Decatur, will 1 speak on the "Importance of Bible ■ Study for High School Students.” The 1 public is cordially invited to attend 1 the meeting. — o Arrest In Murder Case Expected Soon i Newark, N. J.. Oct. 25.—An arrest 1 in the Hall-Mills murder case "may 1 come any hour" Wilbur Mott special ’ prosecutor recently named to take ■ lull charge of the investigation told ’,the United Press today. 1 He indicated that the arrests it any 1 is made will be based on the state- ’ ment of rs. Jane Gibson, who claims ’ to have witnessed the murder and ' who has given the name of a woman she alleges she saw at the scene. I o Sister Is Critically 111 In Garner, Ark. ■ I ■ '- ■ * Mrs. M. F. Martz received a tele- ’ gram this morning stating that her sister, Ella, wife of Daniel Estell, of Garner, Arkansas, is critically ill with tumor of the brain. Mrs. Estell ' has been bedfast for about four ’ 1 months and no hopes are held for her ’ 1 recovery. She is known by many Deicatur residents. - - . .. '

Factory Superintendent Will Simpson stated that no damage was done, except that the molasses was thrown on the walls and would have to be cleaned off. Things are running smoothly *1 the plant and tons of beets are being ground every day and made into sugar.

' KOREA WILL BE , DISCUSSED IN ' LECTURE HERE : Interesting Facts About the i Eastern Country to Be . Given Tonight I ' PRESBYT’RIAN CHURCH I I Illustrated Lecture Is Sec- ’ ond Number of Mission School Session Do you know where the country of Korea is located? Could you point it out on the map? Do you know any I of its recent history since the Japanese have assumed the government of the nation? The people of this historic province have stoutly maintain | ed their racial characteristics in spite of the plans of absorption attempted by Japan. Many stories of heroism of the devotion Qf these people to their country and to Christianity have come to us through the uncensored reports 1 of diplomats and missionaries who have returned to this country. These are some of many interesting facts which will he related tonight in an illustrated lecture on Korea, the Wonder Land of the East," at the Presbyterian church at 7:45 o'clock. The stereopticon will be used to exhibit 72 beautifully colored slides, each full of items of interest concern ing the country. Preceding this |the seven o’clock period will be devoted to mission study classes. The foreign missions class are studying India, while the home mission group is considering the negro problem. The aforementioned meeting is the second session of the church school of missions being held at the Presbyterian church this month. A large audience was present last Wednesday evening to greet Mr. Vandersall and it is hoped that many more will be present tonighU Next Sunday evening at 7:30 Dr. W. E. Lampe, head ot the stewardship department of missionary education of the Reformed church, will speak before the united congregations of the Reformed and Presbyterian churches at the church of the latter. Dr. Lampe is a live-wire and has something worthwhile to say. It is a rare opportunity for Decatur to have such an out-stand-ing man and a large attendance is desired. AGED LADY DIED HEREYESTERDAY Mrs. Sophia Tester, Age 91 Years, Died at Home of Son, Jacob Mrs. Sophia Tester, 91 years old, died at the home of her son, Jacob Tester, in this city, at 9:25 o’clock last night. Mrs. Tester fractured one of her hips and suffered other injuries in a fall four weeks ago, and she never recovered from the injuries. Mrs. Tester was one of the oldest residents of the city. Although she has not resided here many years, she is well known by local residents. She was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, August 28, 1831. She was to George Tester in Ohio and they moved to a farm near Liberty Center, Henrycounty, Ohio, where they resided for many years. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tester while living in Ohio. They are Charles, of Okmulgee, Okla.; Jacob, of Decatur; Peter, of Seward, Neb.; Mary Ann Stevens, of Cedar Springs, Mich.; Emma Jane Amspaugh, Jefferson township; George of Liberty Center, O.; and John, of Liberty Center, O. The Husband of the deceased died twenty years ago. For a number of years Mrs. Tester remained in Ohio following her husband’s death, but during the last three years, she has spent most of the time in this city at the home of her son, Jacob. In addition to her children, Mrs. Tester is survived by a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Ellenwood, of Henry county, O. The remains were taken overland , to the old home In Ohio, this afternoon. Short services were held at the residence in tills city at 1 o’clock. 1 Funeral services will be held in Lib- > erty Center Friday morning and burial f will be made in the Young cemetery, t o I Burial caskets of glass are now manufactured.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, October 25, 1922

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦+♦+♦+♦ AMERICAN HISTORY ♦ + DAY BY DAY ♦ + BY T. P. GREEN ♦ * ♦ + Wednesday, October 25. + + q. 4- Masssacliusetts sent remon- ♦ ' + strunce to the King against roy 44 al tyranny, on October 25, 1664. + ♦ * + Washington established win- + + ter quarters at Morristown, N. + 4- J. on October 25, 1779. * + U. S. S. “United States” cap- 4 4> tured the British "Macedonian," -5- + on October 25, 1812. + + — ♦ + Steamboat explosion on Ohio + 4- River, in which fifty persons 4- + were killed aboard the "Lucy ♦ + Walker," on October 25, 1844. + — 4- * Dynamite wrecked New York 44- subway station at 110th Street, 44- on October 25, 1916. 4- + — + 4- Territory in the Argonne re- 4•F gion flooded by Germans in effort 4- + to stop American forces, on Oc- + 4- tober 25, 1918. + ♦ 4-4>4-4’4-4-4-4-4-4-4>4’4>4’ SENTENCEDFOR PETIT LARCENY Lloyd Biberstine, of Berne, Fined $25.00 and Sentenced To Jail Lloyd Biberstine. age 17, of neai Berne, was fined $25 and costs am' sentenced to rfinety days in the county jail when he pleaded guilty to petit larceny in the circuit court this morning. The court suspended seventy days of the jail sentence. Providing the fine and costs, which amount to about $45. are paid, the youth will have to serve only twenty days in the county jail. If the fine and costs are not paid he will bo taken to the state penal farm for a term of about sixty five days. Biberstine was arrested recently for the theft of a horse, buggy and har ness. belonging to Virgil Ford. A charge of grand larceny was filed against him. and he entered a plea of guilty. The court did not pass judgment at that time however, as it developed that Biberstine did not steal the horse but turned in into a pasture field along the road, instead. The plea of guilty was withdrawn this morning ind the lad was rearraigned on a charge of petit larceny. He pleaded guilty. Attorney F. M. Cotterell. o Berne, appeared for the defendant. The lad was confined in the county jail for a period of eleven days fol lowing his arrest before he gave bond. Passenger Airplane to Be In Monroe Sunday Otto Smith, of Newcastle, will be at Monroe Sunday with a new airplane for the purpose of hauling passengers. Mr. Smith has been at Monroe before ind many of the residents of the community have enjoyed a trip hrough the air. TRI KAPPAS TO GIVE PROGRAM Benefit Performance at the Gym Nov. 17; Three New Members Are Initiated Arrangements were made at a meeting of the Tri Kappa sorority, held at the home of Naomi Myers, on Fifth street, last night, for holding a benefit performance on Tuesday, November 17. The performance will be held in the high school gymnasium and the proceeds will go into the treasury of the sorority to be used in furnishing a room in the county hospital and for other similar purposes. Beulah Verßryke, five-year-old interpreter reader, from Lima, Ohio, will furnish part of the program. The little Miss is an excellent reader and has a wide reputation. The remainder of the program will be furnished by the Clinton Sisters of Fort Wayne, interpreter dancers. Three new members were initiated i into the sorority at the meeting last night. They are Mrs. Burton Niblick. Miss Frances Harkless and Mrs. Ell mer W. Knmpe. It was decided at the meeting of tho sorority last night to hold the annual Christmas dance on the night of December 28.

•TRAGEDY VICTIM ; SUCCUMBED TO i ; BULLET WOUND ► I. <• Dwight Smith Died Early ► Today From Wound Accidentally Inflicted ' ACCIDENT 1 WEEK AGO b Lad Never Regained Coni’ sciousness; Futile Efforts To Save Life of Boy ► After lying in an unconscious state !' since last Wednesday, as the result ► of a bullet wound accidentally inflict !■ ed in his head by a younger brother, I !• I Dwight Melville Smith, ?age 15 years, E succumbed at 4:4b o’clock this morn E ing at his home two miles east of this E city. E Dwight received his fatal wound last E Wednesday morning when he and his E brother were playing in an upstairs room at their home. Delbert found a .22 calibre automatic pistol in a com mode drawer and pointed it at his brother to scare him. He accidentally f pulled the trigger and the bullet ent ered Dwight’s head below the right eye and close to his nose, lodging in the back of his head. Many efforts were made to save the , lad's life, but he never regained consciousness. His entire right side became paralized and it was with great difficulty that he took water and nout ishment. His condition never improved sufficiently to make an opera tion for the removal of the bullet ad visable. The tragedy was considered purely accidental. Dwight Melville Smith was born ir Adams county, on April 2, 1907. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Byror i K. Dague. Although not a member <>: any church, Dwight attended Sunday school and church at the Decatur Methodist church. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, Archie am. Delbcrtr hvhl one haJf brother, Wilbm Gassinger. TAKE STONES OFF HIGHWAYS 1 i enton. Oct. 25.—State state highway , department is being highly praised by Northern Indiana automobilists for re moving cobble stones from the paths of motor vehicles on the state roads Tons of such stones recently have been removed from state road No. 44 running from the Dixie highway through Bourbon. ABSENT VOTERS MAY VOTE SOON May Vote By Absent Voters’ Ballot After Saturday, October 28th Beginning Saturday, October 28th, i those voters who have application and who will be out of the city or county an election day, Tuesday, November 7th can vote an absent voters' ballot at the County Clerk’s office. Fifty-two applications for absent voters’ ballots have already been filed t with County Clerk John T. Kelly and , as the applications arrive the ballots ( ire mailed to the voters. These ballots can be voted anytime between ‘ now and the Saturday before the elec- ‘ 'ion, but must be in the hands of the I county clerk by Saturday, November j 4th. The application and ballot must ( i be sworn to before a notary public and delivered to the precinct in j which the voter votes. [ Anyone leaving the county after next Saturday and will not return tin- » til after the election should go to the 1 1 clerk s office and make an application 1 f and then vote. County clerk John T. ' . Kelly is chairman of the board of 1 election commissioners, the other two members being C. L. Walters and . Charles W. Yager. As yet the tally 1 clerks for election night have not been .. appointed. i County clerk John T. Kelly will go to Indianapolis tomorrow to get the y regular state ballots. The county ami i, township ballots were printed at this office last week and will be distributi ed to the inspectors in the different t precincts on the Saturday before the :. election. [. Chicago, Oct. 25 —(Special to Dally o high school boy liked Mrs. Dorothy .1 Weiss, 40, better than her daughter, !• Muriel, 17. The liking resulted tn a divorce for Weiss.

NEW BRITISH GOVERNMENT REGAN OPERATION TODAY London, Oct. 25—The regime of Premier Bonar Law and his conservative government starts today. Great Britain is to pass formally out of the control of the Lloyd George coalition government when King George welcomes the new Unionist ministers in office and turns over their seals to them. This will take place this afteroon. The king, before this, is to receive Lloyd George and his repudiated cabinet and bid them God speed.

GIRLS TO SELL FORGET-ME-NOT Decatur to Participate in National Forget-Me-Not Day, November 4 — This city is to participate in the ■ great national movement of Saturday, i' November 4, when "Forget-Me-Not 1 Day” is to be observed throughout 1 the United States. Arrangements are 1 rapidly being completed for the sale I of the little forget-me-nots by the girls and women of the city, on the streets ' and in the public centers of the com 1 munity, on November 4; and a great ' force of salespeople will be out on the ' streets on that day, to distribute the 1 little flowers to the citizens. The ' entire proceeds of "Forget-Me-Not Day" are to be used for the relief and j welfare of the nation’s wounded and' disabled veterans of the World war.! 1 assisting their national legislative ac-j tivities, establishing clubhouse quar- j ters and summer camps, and for gen- ’ eral advancement of the men who| ( were maimed and crippled during the late war; so that they may be aided i in their fight to regain the places in I' civilian life. The Disabled American Veterans of I the World War, which is sponsoring ’ "Forget-Me-Not Day,” has within its rolls over 100,900 of the wounded and disabled veterans of the United States; and is also functioning for the re- , maining 150,000, all of whom are to be benefited by the activities of No- ( vember 4. C. Hamilton Cook, national commander of the Disabled , American Veterans of the World War, has sent out an appeal to the moth- j ers, wives and sweethearts ot the na- i tion’s war veterans, to take an active . part in the sale of the little forget-me-nots, the proceeds of the day ( counting for much in the general welfare of the disabled veterans of the j nation. Thos. J. Durkin is chairman of the ( "Forget-Me-Not Day” committee in this city, being assisted by the schools ] and every organization in the city. The First National bank is treasurer ; of the committee, and donations to the “Forget-Me-Not Day" campaign can be made direct to the bank, by I mail or in person. Enthusiastic Meeting of Football Players Held ' < An enthus’iastic meeting of local football players who are interested in ] the independent football team being 1 organized here, was held in the gymnasium last night. It was decided < that the first practice will be held on Ahr’s field at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. following the high school game. The following men are r ■ quested to report for practice at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon: M ( Teeple, L. Kern. B. White, H. Yahne, i C. Fike, F. Maier, F. Costello, C. i Peterson, C. Archbold, F. Ahr, C. Mil- 1 ler, L. Beal, D. Hensley, T. Moore, i H. Daniels, M. Hoagland, E. Frauhiger, and H. Staley. * o CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE I Wheat: Dec. $1.11%; May, $1.11%. July $1.04%. Corn: Dec. 66%c; May 66%c; July C6%c. Oats: Dec. 40%c; < May 41%c; July 39c. 1

WALL STREET BETTING EVEN ON NEW YORK GOVERNORSHIP FIGHT

Uy Lawrence Martin United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 25. —Wall Street is betting even money on New York’s spectacular governorship fight—a fight that may make a presidential I nominee in 1924. One bet of $20,000 and numerous smaller but sizable wagers have been I

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The new government will reign at least until November 15 when the general elections which will be the first real test of strength between Premier Bonar Law and Lloyd George, the former prime minister. Bonar Law’.-, government, to stay in office must command a majority of the votes in the house of commons, members of which are to be elected at the general elections. The now cabinet is undoubtedly a disappointent to the "die hard” faction of the Unionist party, whose maneuvers were directly responsible for the overthrow of the Lloyd George government. Only “one die hard” —Lord Salisbury—received a ministerial appointment. The lord, the recognized leader of the recalcitrants, was chosen Lord President of the council, a position which carries with it much dignity and honor but little power. It is anticipated, however, that the "die hard" faction will be placated later when minor government positions are awarded. London. Oct. 25—These are the members of the cabinet of Premier Bonar Law which succeeds the coalition government of Lloyd George. Bonar Law. premier and first lord of the treasury. Marquis of Salisbury, lord president of the council. Viscount Cave, lord high chancellor Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of tho exchequer William S. Bridgeman, secretary for home affairs Marquis Curzon, secretary of foreign affairs The Duke of Devonshire. Colonial secretary Viscount Peel, secretary for India Early of Derby, war secretary Lieut. Col. Amory, first lord of tho admiralty Sir Phillip Lloyd Greame, president of the hoard of trade Sir Arthur Griffith Boscowen, minister of health Sir Robert A. Sanders, minister of agriculture Viscount Novar, secretary for Scotland Douglass Mcllogg, attorney general W. A. Watson, lord advocate Edward F. Wood, president of tho board of education Lloyd George Begins Campaign London, Oct. 25—Great Britain must pay all of her debt to America, Lloyd George declared today in a speech at a meeting of national liberals It is imperative that American and Britain work together, the former premier asserted. It was Lloyd George’s first real "stump - ' speech ot his campaign. He entered the hall in the Hotel Victoria with his wife and his duaghter, Megan walking on either side. There was a great roar of applause. (United Press dispatches from London yesterday said Bonar Law and Curson had agreed on a policy of Britain paying her debt to America. No official announcement was made, however, and Lloyd George in his speech today "beat Bonar Law to it.”) Lloyd George approved the league of nations, but said it would be crippled until the United States and all great and small European nations have joined. Chicago, “Narrow Main street idea” of her husband won a divorce for Mrs. Doris R. Faulkner

made on the chances of “All” Smith, j democrat, and Nathan Miller, republican incumbant. In democratic circles here, this J trend in the betting is regarded as favoring Smith, whose chance of «omi ing back against Miller was not too | highly regarded in. the wtrllcr stages lot the campaign.