Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1922 — Page 1

K olunw XX. Number 267

HUNDREDS LOSE LIVES IN EARTHQUAKE

JURORS DRAWN FOR NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT ■jury Commissioners Met At Office Os Clerk John T. Kelly This Morning ■COURT MEETS MONDAY [Grand Jury Is Called To Meet On Next Monday; Various Investigations Jury commrasoinerß, E. W. JohnLon and Jonathan Rian, met at the I office of John T. Kelly, clerk of the I Adams circuit court this morning, land drew the names of the jurors to I serve on the Petit and Grand Juries I during the November term of court I which will open next Monday, No- | vernber 20. The grand jury has been called to meet on next Monday morning, it was announced today. It is not known how many cases are to be investigated by the grand jury. Grand Jury Following is a list of the men who will compose the grand jury: George Ohler, Union; Earl Martin. Kirkland; Dye Ferguson, Blue Creek. I William Koldeway, Preble; J. N. I Uurkhead, Washington; Daniel NoffI singer. Monroe township. Petit Jury Those who were drawn for the petlit jury are: i Rudolph Eickhoff. Preble; Byron L. ! Hart, Hartford; . Rudolph Kolter, [Kirkland; Jacob M. Hoffman, Blue I Creek; Noah F. Hoffman, French; Charles Estell, Washington; James IM. Haggard. Monroe; Lewis Mason, Geneva; Robert E. Derrickson, Wabash; Hubert Zerkle, Root; Frank Stump, Jefferson; Orvil Morrison. St. | Marys. •— . Daugherty Liquor Ruling Up In Court Again Today Washington. Nov. 13.—Motions to advance the arguments on the validity of the Daugherty ruling banning liquor from American ships throughout the world from foreign ships in American territorial waters were made in the supreme court today by shipping interests which are fighting the order. The government agreed io the proposed expedition. o Selection Os Jurors In Massacre Case Is Begun Marion, 111., Nov. 13. —Selection of the twelve Williamson county citizens who will sit as the jury in the trial of five union miners, indicted for murder during the Herrin massacre last June began in circuit court here today. Less than one hundred spectators "ere in the court room when the quizzing of veniremen commenced. Business continued as usual in all parts of the county. Miners filed into coal shaft and farmers went to their fields apparently unaware of the court Proceedings.

SAMUEL RALSTON, SENATOR-ELECT HAS HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER

Samuel Moffet Ralston, the newly elected junior United States senator for Indiana, will assume in March, 1923, his second important public office. He was elected to office as governor of his state, 1913-1916. He once was nominated by acclamation by the democratic party as its candidate for secretary of state and once as joint' state senator, 1888, and was a presi-' dential elector in 1892. •n the term of Mr. Ralston as governor the Indiana legislature enacted the public service commission law creating the commission out of the old state railroad commission to be appointed to study the tax situation in Indiana, and some of the information was used by republicans who worked over the tax law and enacted a new one in 1919. The outstanding feature of this administration was the fact that he held the state along an even course with no spectacular at-' tempts to make over the government. ■

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Berne To Have Fast Independent Cage Team Herne is to have an independent basketball team this year which will boa fast aggregation, it is said. The players have been holding practices already and their first game is with' ; a team from Muncie at Berne next I J Saturday evening, November IS. , The team is composed of former 1 1 high school stars from Berne, Monroe. Bryant and other towns. Following is I the squad which will take part in the! i games: forwards, Shirk, Claud Clark.; ' and Coppess; centers. Oliver and Whilehead; guards, Cliffton Clark.' I Kleinknight. and Kessler. CANCER WEEK IS BEING OBSERVED Propaganda Read In The Churches And Sent To Schools In County This is the week when special at 1 tention is being called to how to pre t vent cancer. Yesterday the following ! interesting propaganda was read in I ■ every church and today a copy wa> sent to each teacher in the county win was asked to read it. The letter ti . • tho teachers said: The American Society for ill- Con ■ trol of Cancer was founded in Neu ■ York City in May 1913 by some of tin very best and most prominent Doctors of Medicine in the United States. Among its members are such as: Dr. Charles A. Powers of Denver— ! now its President; Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago; Dr. Joseph Colt Blood good, of Baltimore; Dr. Edward Iley nolds, of Boston; Dr. Heuben Peter son. of Ann Arbor; Dr. Walter Chip man. of Montreal. Canada; Dr. Charles J. Hastings, of Toronto, Canada; Dr :W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia; Mrs 'Samuel Adams Clark, of New York. ■ Dr. William J. Mayo, of. Rochester '.Minn.; Dr. Miles F. Porter, of Ft Wayne, Ind. Its Executive Office is located at 370 Seventh Street. New York City. Its object is to assist the Doctors j of Medicine in teaching the people at ' large the Symptoms. Diagnosis, Treat iment, and Prevention of Cancer sc ' that many lives may be spared and much misery prevented. Read in Church and School From the earliest times the church has been interested in the care of the sick and has been instrumental in the establishment of great hospitals sot the treatment of those suffering fron disease. Therefore no apology is needed when, during this Cancel Week, the American Society for the] Control cf Cancer asks for five min utes of the time of congregations throughout the United States to pres jent vital facts about cancer, and t<. enlist your interest in its control. 1. During the great war the United States lost about 80,000 soldiers. Dur the year 1920 the deaths from cancer jin United States totalled 90,000. Can ’ cer is now killing one out of every 1 ten persons over forty years ol age. 2. Many of these deaths are pre ■ ventable since cancer is frequently 1 curable if recognized and properly (Continued on page three) I

Mr. Ralston was born on a farm near New Cumberland, O. December 1, 1857. In 1865, with his parents, he came to Owen county. He attended and later taught in the Owen county schools. He was graduated from the) Central Normal College, Danville, and attended Valparaiso's University for. I a time. He was admitted to the Lebanon bar in 1884. He practiced law there until he came to Indianapolis as governor. Since leaving that office he has practiced law in Indianapolis. He made his first campaign speeches in 1886. Mr. Ralston married Jennie Craven of Hendricks county, December 30, 1889. The Ralstons live in a country home m Forfy-eighth street, just west off the Michigan road. They have three children. Emmet Gratton, Julian Craven and Ruth. Mr. Ralston is a I member of the Masonic and Knights ! of Pythias orders.

TEACHERSWILL MEET AT MONROE NEXT SATURDAY — Eleventh Annual Session Os The Adams County Teachers’ Association DR. ALEY IS SPEAKER President Os Butler College To Be Main Speaker At Both Sessions One hundred per cent attendance is expected when the eleventh annual session of the Adams County Teach ers - Association convenes at the Methodist church in Monroe on Saturday, November 18. Interesting morning and afternoon sessions have been prepared. Dr. Robert J. Aley. president of Butler College. Tndianap olis, has been obtained to deliver an I address at each session. Dr. Aley is a highly educated man and tin interi esting speaker. The morning session will open at 9:30 o’clock with music by the Monroe High School orchestra. Devotion , als w ill be lead- by the Rev. Zechiel. [ pastor of the Monroe Methodist church. The Monroe High School or- | ehestra will render another selection preceding the address by Dr. Aley on ‘Some Problems in Administration." Following Dr. Aley’s address the various committees will be appointed. The orchestra will play another selection before the convention adjournes for noon. Music by the Monroe high school is the first number on the afternoon program. Next comes a talk on “Cancer Prevention," by Dr. Somers, of Mon roe, followed by a business session. Following more music by the Monroe high school. Dr. Aley will speak on "Present Trend in Education." The officers of the Adams County Teachers’ association are: President. 1 C. O. Lehman, of Berne; vice-presi-dent, K. J. Mann, of Pleasant Mills; secretary, Miss Eva Acker, of Decatur; treasurer, Clyde Hendricks, oi ; Monroe; executive members, Superin tendent E. S. Christen, of Decatur, and Virgil Wagner, of Waitash township. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Monroe Methodist church will serve a chicken dinner to the teachers at the noon hour, in the school building. o— IMPROVEMENT AT LOCAL STATION Clover Leaf Railroad Company Putting In Some Driveways Here Several improvements are under way at the local station of the T. St. 'L. & W. railroad. Stone driveways are being put in for the team tracks, j The business at the local station lias been so heavy during the summer and fall that it was necessary to make; the improvements, officials of the 'company state. Mussler & Sauer, lo- [ cal contractors, have the contract for i putting in the new stone driveways. The business during the present j year shows a marked increase over the business handled by the line during the year 1921, it is said. Mr. D. ' F. Mille, superintendent; J. W. Graham, traffic manager; and Walter L. : Ross, receiver, all state that they are well-pleased with the business done at the Decatur station and that nothing is too good for this city. They' plan to make extensive improvements! within the next year, they say, which I may include a new station, for which | local citizens have been clamoring for!, ' several years. — •- + + + + + + 4. WEATHER + a. + + INDIANA— Rain probable tonight and ; Tuesday; cooler in south portion Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fugato entertaiued at Sunday dinner, Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd and Mr. and Mrs. William Yager and family.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, November 13, 1922.

-!-<!*4-4*4-4-*F4*>!-4-4-4-4*4>4* 4- BACK TO HIS BOOKS 44" 44- Indianapolis, Nov. 13. (U. P.)— 44* Albert J. Beveridge, former (’nit 44- ed States senator and author of 4' 4- the "Life of John Marshall" has 44" begun work on a. companion Iwiok 44* "Tlie Life of Abraham Lincoln," 44- he announced here today. The 4- work will continue interpretation <• +of tlie constitutional develop + 4- ment of the nation, Beveridge 44- said. 44- 4* 4* 4 1 4 1 4» 4 1 4- 4" 4- 4ARE PREPARING CONTEST ESSAYS Central School Children To Enter National Essay Contest This Year Tlie boys and girls in tlie fifth, sixth seventh, and eighth grades of tlie Cen tral building will spend a half hour or more at the close of each school day at the Library for the next threi weeks preparing essays on the subject, "My Share in .Making tlie High way Sale." The Highway Education Board of Washington, D. C„ is award.ing tlie following prizes for the best essays written: First prize—Gold watch and a tree trii> to Washington. (National prize). Second prize—Gold loving cup. (National prize). Third prize—Silver loving cup.(National prize). Fourth prize—Gold medal and sls- - (State prize.) Firth prize—Silver medal ami $lO- - (State vrize). Sixth prize—Bronze medal and $5.00 (State prize). The. essays are not to exceed five hundred words and must lie handed in either typewritten or in writing on or before December 4. Central boys and girls hope to draw a few of tile prizes. Yeomen Hold Parcel Post Sale And Supper Tonight Tlie Yeoman lodge will meet in the Yeoman hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight The hall will be open to the public lieginning at 8 o'clock. The Yeoman guards will hold a parcel post sale ! and two cent supper. AU members and the public are invited to attend. 0 ELKS MEETING Meeting of building committee ol Elks lodge at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening. Regular meeting of lodge on Wednesday evening. Important business relative to new building and ballotting on candidates. D. M. HENSLEY, E. R. TROLLEY POLE BLOWN DOWN Automobile Wrecked When It Struck Pole On North Second Street A trolley-pole along the interurban I tracks on North Second street blew 1 down across the tracks during the . rain yesterday evening about 6:40 o'clock, delaying traffic for a few hours and causing an automobile ac i-ident in which three people narrow ly escaped serious injury. The automobile was driven by Mr. Albert Johnson, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. John Kirsch, also lof Fort Wayne, were passengers in the car. When Mr. Johnson saw the j pole across the street he attempted ito avoid striking It and he steered | I his car into a mass of wires, which | overturned it. Mrs. Kirsch was tlie, [most painfully injured, receiving several bruises about her head and body All three were able to return to Fort I Wayne last night on an interurban earl however. The automobile was damaged. A short circuit caused by the electric wires when the pole tell, caused a blaze but it did not spread. Interurban section bands were called and succeeded in getting the pole out of the way and the tracks repaired for traffic about 8:30 o'clock.

JAPANESE ARE NOT ENTITLED j TO CITIZENSHIP • U. S. Supreme Court Affirms Decision Os California Circuit Court RULING IS WELCOMED Decision Os Supreme Court i Long Awaited In Califor- . nia And The West (lulled PreMs Service.) Washington, Nov. 13. (Special to i Daily Democrat)- Japanese ire not white, within the meaning ol th ■ American law and are not entitled to citizenship in the United States the supreme court held today. The high court affirmed a decision of the California circuit court of appeals in a test case brought by Taco Ozawa of Honolulu, who claimed lie was "white" and was eligible tor nu turalization as an American citizen. At the same time the court upheld the Washington suppreme court in denying, citizenship to Takuji Yamashita and Charles llikono, of Seattle. The decision held that the two Japanese were not entitled to naturalization under the United States laws and therefore could not enter a bus iness partnership. The supreme court's decision in these cases has long been awaited particularly on the Pacific coast when anti-Japanees feeling exists. Ozawa contends be Is entitled to . American citizenship as descent of the while tribe ol Aisn. He started his fight for citizenship several years age in Hawaii but was defeated in tin courts there and also in higher courts in Calfornia. Ozawa has lived in Ha waii since his childhood and was edu cated in the American schools there His children, now attending American schools, are being brough up as Amt-r it au i itizens. Yamashita presented an argument [similar to that of Ozawa. He appeal [ ed to die supreme court when th< ! [courts of the state of Washington <1 ■ ' nied him the privilege of incorporat ling a real estate company because o his ineligibility to citizenship. ——'o Harry A. Hart, of Montpelier, visited friends in Fort Wayne and Decatur. Sunday. MANY WILL AID CLEANUP WORK i I i Local Citizens Planning To Cleanup The Reynolds Cemetery Tuesday All persons who desire to aid iiJ cleaning up the Reynolds cemetery I .northwest of tlie city tomorrow am! who do not have any means of reach ing the cemetery, will be taken out in | automobiles if they will meet at How!er s grocery between 7 and 8 o’clock ( tomorrow morning, it was announced ; today. Plans for cleaning up and beautifying the cemetery are progress- , ing nicely, it is said, and a number of [local citizens have volunteered to aid in the work. Mrs. Janies Hurst is at' the head of tlie movement which was! started last week. Several persons have given money to be used in im ' proving tlie cemetery. A majority of the old pioneers of the Decatur, those ; who aided in clearing up the site of (the city, are burled in the Reynolds I cemetery. I Tlie women are to take dinner in | baskets tomorrow and at noon a pic nic dinner will be served. A tent will be taken along in which the dinner jwill be served. If tlie weather is dis-j agreeable tomorrow, the work will be postponed until the following day or the next day which is uiee. o CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: Dec. $1.16%; May $1.15%; July $1.05%. Corn: Dec. 08%c; May t;9>4c; July 68%c. Oats: Dec. 42%c. j May 42He; July 39%c.

Fined One Dollar And Costs By Mayor De Voss — Nate Haley appeared in the court ; of Mayor DeVoss last Saturday after- | noon and entered a plea of guilty »o I a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. The court fined Haley $1 anil costs, which he paid. While driving an automobile on North ’ Second street on Sunday night, November 5, his car collided with an interurban and was badly damaged. An affidavit charging operation of an I automobile while intoxicated was filed against Haley on Monday and the case was set for trial this morning. RECEPTION FOR FATHER SEIMETZ I Pastor Os St. Mary’s Catholic Church Said He Was (Jlad To Be Home Again A splendid reception was accorded 'Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor of the! St. Mary's Catholic church in this city.; at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, | When approximately five hundred people crowded into the Knights of Co- ! lumhus hall to welcome their pastor 1 hack from his four months' tour in Europe. Father Seimetz returned home last Wednesday. Judge John ('. Moran made the Wellcome address. In his address Judge .Moran reviewed the eight years which Father Seimetz has spent in Decatur. He said it has been a period of progress and advancement. New courses , have been added to the school work; splendid advancement has been made toward the erection of a new church land school building: and unity and harmony exists in the congregation. Judge Moran pointed out. He said the members of the congregation were glad to welcome him back to the 'city. In responding to the welcome ad-. , dress, Father Seimetz said he was glad to be able to make the trip but he was mighty glad to be back in De ! eatur. Father Seimetz declared that I during all his travels he has never | found any place to be compared with Indiana. He said he felt benelitted by his tour and that lie was back here to give his congregation tlie best that is [ in him. The children of one grade in the St. ' Josepli school sang two songs, and William Klepper. Jr., gave a recita- ! tion. o ABOUT THE SICK Friends who called on Mrs. Sophia! Smith who is a patient at tlie St ; Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, where she was operated on for gall stones about two weeks ago reported her getting along as well as can be ex 1 pected. It is thought she will be* (able to be brought home in about! ton days. o — | Mr. and Mrs. M. ('. Braden enterI taiued a number of friends at their | home on North First street, in cell 1 i bration of their Ninth wedding anniversary, Sunday. Forty guests were ' present. Tlie home was beautifully decorated in pink and white cut (lowers. Several of the guests were from out of town, including, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Monroe and children. Dorothy and James; Mr. and Mrs. Gus Lindeman and children. Helen. Maurice, Wilbur. anil Gertrude; Mrs. M. Chaciiniie: Mr. Lawrence Jordan; Mr. Al AitkenI brack, all of Fort Wayne. Many beau ; tiftil gifts were presented to Mr. and , Mrs. Braden.

FARMERS WOULD AID GOVERNMENT IN ENFORCING GRAIN FUTURES ACT

Chicago, Nov. 13 —Attorneys tor' i the American Farm Bureau Federa-. .lion today tiled a petition in federal | court asking that they be allowed to intervene on the side of the governj meat in the suit brought by the Chi- | cago Board of Trude to prevent enforcement of the act prohibiting trading in grain futures. Attorneys Newton Jeukius and Douald Kirkpatrick of Kansas City, declared they represented 1.300,000 farmers, asked that they be allowed to plead for enforcement of the act when the ease conies up for disposi11 ion.

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GREAT SHOCK I TAKES HEAVY : TOLL IN CHILI I A Devastating Earthquake And Tidal Wave Followi ed By Pestilence ' VILLAGES ARE LEV ELED Earthquake Is Felt Over Entire South American Continent Saturday By LAWRENCE S. HAAS United Prest Staff Correspondent Copyright, 1922, by United Press Santiago, Chili, Nov. 13.— Fourteen hundred persons lost their lives in a devastating earthquake and tidal wave that rent the coast of northern (’hili early Saturday, according to the I most accurate available estimates today. Starvation, pestilence and exposure are claiming additional victims in the wake of the disaster, and relief caravans are pushing to aid homeless inhabitants of the stricken territories. Communication with the shattered towns along the coast from Valparaiso to Antofagas’tq. tlie district whicli( bore the brunt of tlie shock and the upper Pa<lc. was still disrupted, but couriers brough word to the capital of whole villages levelled by the quake, with survivors, wounded lying by hundreds in the streets. Valleuar. Copiapo and Coqtliiubo. three little coastal towns, suffered most fron the great shock at 12:20 a. nt. Saturday. They were inundated by a rush of tlie Pacific which followed the first earth tremor. But lit.tie villages farther back in the hills appear also to have suffered terrible loss of life and destruction of property which it may never lie possible to estimate. There were reports that whole communities were wiped out. Felt Over South America The largest quake, felt over (lie entire South American continent and registered on seismographs all over ■ (he world, lasted for over three hours, although it was perceptible io human senses only two minute-. That was sufficient to drive those whose houses withstood the shock in terror to (ha streets where many, in coastal villages, were drowned by the terrific tidal wave which lifted its millions of i tons of water a thousand feet over the unprotected houses along the shore. Thousands slept in Hie open last 'night, afraid to return to tottering j houses, or even to those that had ! withstood the shock, for fear of a repetition of the quake. Slight tremors were felt Sunday afternoon, spreading panic among the natives for three hundred miles agon the const. Couriers came to Santiago from Vallennr and Copiapo, to arrange tor caravans to take food and medic ines to (lie stricken towns. The former place they declared, was practically obliterated. All the buildings, except the school house, lay in ruined heaps of mortar, brick and dohe. Half the buildings in Copiano were hurled from their foundations by the shock, tlie couriers reported. Those that remained standing were uninhabited. Starvation In Sight Injured and sick are being treated (Continued on page four)

Judge James H. Wilkerson will • rule tomorrow on the request of attorneys for the board of trade that the case be sent to the supreme court immediately for final hearing, without being held up here. Attorney Henry N. Robbins, representing the board of trade, presented to the court, the opinion of nearly twenty professors of political economy of the leading eastern universities iu which they declared that the trading iu furutres had no serious effect on cash prices. They upheld future trading declaring K wa* essential to a stabilized market.