Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1922 — Page 1

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PRINCIPLES OF I ROTARY CLUBS I ARE EXPLAINED ■rank Hatfield, The District ■Governor Os Indiana Rotary Makes Address INTERESTING SPEAKER ■ Ko Speaks To High School T Students During Afternoon Yesterday ■ The ideals and principles of Rotary ■i<c how to practice them ami show the that you are a true Rotarian. K-ere told by Frank Hatfield, district of the Indiana Rotary clubs, an heart-to-heart, father-to-son talk K, the members of the Decatur Rotary Hub last evening. <■ Mr. Hatfield is making a trip over Mie state visiting every city where Hiere is a Rotary club and making to the high school students and Hieuib&'s of Rotary clubs, and when I ■ ( completes his tour, will have visit • ■<l everyone of the fifty cities in tile State where Rotary clubs are located , ■tr. Hatfield in his talk to the high ■chool pupils urged every boy ami girl J ■d complete the four year course and [ make good use of their time, stress the importance of a high school ■location. Talk Follows Luncheon I Mr. Hatfield’s talk to the Rotarians i Hast evening followed the regular'• ■ineheon and previous to making his I ■ddress, State Senator George L. Satin J ■ers, editor of the Bluffton Banner and ■ ■roup representative of the Rotary i Eflubs in group two, includidng Decatur. | Ht- Wayne, Bluffton and three other ■clubs, told of the plans being made ■or the state conference to be held ' ■'ebruary 2122, at Michigan City, ami ■Urged the Decatur Rotarians to al ■tend the convention. I Mr. Hatfield has a swaying and sen I ■ti mental power in his talk and his j ■words were greatly appreciated by tin | ■Rotarians. He described a good Ro-1 ■tarian as being a man who gave ser I ■vice, who was -a leader in thought and I ■ action, and one who wanted to get ■ back of good and worthy movements ■ and that service given a community or ■to a fellow citizen could he measured ■as the rent paid by the individual for I the space he occupied in this world ■ Touching on boys’ work, Mr. Hatfield I stated that no man should try to teach I boys unless he was absolutely dean ■ himself. He complimented the local ■ dub members, stated that the Decatui I Rotary club was a good one, and urg I ed the members to live up to the funI damental principle of Rotary and thus I he of some service to the community., I Frank McDowell and Jack Belger. o I Bluffton, were also invited guests of ' I the dub. Talks At High School Mr. Hatfield in his talk to the high, f school students yesterday afternoon in | this city said in part: "International Rotary in Its work j lof promoting the "back to school" | | movement, has found that there i> I an ever increasing tendency on the | part of high school boys to leave I high school to get a job," said Gov ! ornor Hatfiehl. "This is particularly Hie case in the great industrial cities and centers. Sometimes this is oc- ■ casioned by necessity, or fancied ne ■ eessity, but in most every instance is cause by the boy being eager to Ret what to him at that time appears to be a good salary. “Now there is one thing that I want to impress upon you above everything else, and that is that if you leave high school to get a job. that is all that you will ever have. And I want to tell you that the man who | most appreciates the need for educa-. tion is the man who has been unable to procure an education. “Permit me to call attention to a case in my own city. I am referring to our late mayor, who died only ai few months ago. He was an uneducated man, but through his determi nation to rise and selPdonial, he was able, in spite of his dearth of education, to rise to be one of the outstanding citizens of our state. (Continued on page tour)

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Thieves Steal Victrola From School Building Thieves broke into the Cottonwood school house, one mile south and four! miles west of Monroe, sometime during | last night and carried away a victrola 1 |and records, and destroyed a large number of valuable papers belonging Ito the teacher. Sheriff Sephus Melclii I was notified of the theft this morning I ■ but no clues have been obtained yet ‘MILK TRUST SUIT ENDED THDRSDAY All Testimony Submitted In Injunction Suit Against Dairy Concerns Indianapolis, Dec. B.—-At the conclu sion of the testimony in behalf of the state Thursday in the "milk trust" in junction suit against the Indiana man ufacturers of dairy prodducts and thirty-five associated milk and dairy products concerns in Indiana, Judge Linn D. Hay, of superior court, Room 12, the trial judge, made an announce ment relieving twenty-six of the thirty five individual companies of any li ; ability under the prosecuton except in so far as they are members of th. ; state organization. His announcement was made in response to a motion by Frank C. Dailey lot’ counsel for the defendants, afte. .the close of the state’s ease, that thsuit be dismissed as to those defendi ants. View of the Court Judge Hay refused to make a flna’ j ruling on the motion, but announced that the concern included in Mr. Dai ley’s request would not be held liable, | individually, but, of course, still would. | be subject to their liabilities as members of the Indiana Manufacturers oi I Dairy Products, the state organize - tion. The reason assigned by Mr. Dailev and indorsed by Judge Hay for till:attitude was that U. S. Lesli. attorney .general, had presented no testimony to hold these concerns liable indivii ually. The companies, besides the state organization, which were not relieved o’ individual responsibility were: Jes sup & Antrim, Ballard Ice Cream Com puny, the R. W. Furnace Ice Cream Company anil the Wadley Company, al’ of Indianapolis; the J. A. Long Com puny, of Union (Tty; the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc.. Huntington. Schloiser Brothers, Frankfort; the Vincenne I Milk and lee Cream Compaq nf Vin cennes, and the Beatrice Creamery Company, Muncie. Objections Overruled At the beginning of the trial Thursday, Judge Hay overruled objections made by attorneys for the defense to the introduction ol testimony per taining to toll telephone calls niadi between the defendant companies. The arguments preceding the ruling oi the . court on tills matter consumed a great part of the forenoon. Mr. Lesk’wus unsuccessful in his at i tempt to present rules of the stat< ‘ (board of health. He sought to show by these rules that the state board of health laws already provided for the same rules as the organization Judge Hay said, nevertheless, (he com panies mad a right to organize. After Judge Hay had made his announcement regarding the twenty-six concerns Ire told Mr. Dailey that he did not need to prepare any evidence in support of these relieve concerns W. A. Klepper, of this city, vice preßient and general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, is in Indian apolis attending the trial. Q — +++++ ++++++++++ 4, CONGRESS TODAY 4> 4.4.++++++ + + + + + * > ’ Senate President Harding expected to ad j drps.s joint session. Commerce committee resumes fight over ship subsidy bill. Minor calendar bills under considI eration. House Debates treasury appropriation bill Public land committee hearing on 1 Holium gas bill. • — W. A. Klepper Is attending to business in Indianapolis this week.

FACULTY PLAY FURNISHED FUN FOR DID CROWD “Deestrick Skule” Scored Howling Success At Gym Last Night GIVEN AGAIN TONIGHT Demand From Public Induces Teachers To Present The Play Again 1 It was a scream—“Deestrick Skule” ■Wit the Gym last evening and from 1 tile time the curtain went up at 8:15 until dismissed by the closing son* the big crowd which jammed tile building laughed until it hurt and then laughed some more. The evening entertainment opened with two solos by Mrs. L. A. Ilolthouse with Mrs. Carrie Haubold accompanying, "In tiie Gloaming" and "Ben Bolt”, very beautifully rendered. The play was in three scenes. The first showed tile school building, an old fashioned country school house located in "Krooked township. Mean district. No. 13. 1853. The second seem- showed the classes at work, reciting, playing tricks, making love and otherwise improving themselves as in "ye olden days.” The third was the program of the closing day of school. It was a show in which there was no place for a fellow with a grouch. As the curtain went up the school master, M. F. Worthman, with long, gray hair and whiskers was found ring, ing the bell and the children began to gather. They came from every direction, east and west and down the aisle. They played and sang and fought and pulled hair and chewed gum, much to the delight of the audience. The master’s paddle was often in evidence and about every prank known to the days of the district school was played. The old oaken bucket that hung in the well was there and the boys had fun work ing it. The boys played marbles and the girls kept house, intermingling many jokes. The hoys and girls were dressed in garb of ’53. the hoys wore (font in tied on page eight) o . WILLSHIRE LADY FATALLYEURNEG Mrs. Charles August Met Death W hen Kerosene Exploded In Stove Mrs. Charles August, of near Willshire, Ohio, was fatally burned and her two daughters, Gladys and Georgia, were seriously burned, in an ex-1 plosion of kerosene at the family home Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. August had just returned from Willshire and while Mr. I August was engaged in putting away their automobile, Mrs. August went into the house to kindle a fire in the kitchen stove. She poured kerosene, from a can, onto the kindling which she placed in the stove. Live embers In the stove exploded the gas fumes from the kerosene with such force that the contents of the can was exploded and Mrs. August and her two daughters who were in the kitchen, were caught in a mass of flames. Mrs. August’s clothing was ignited and she was terribly burned over her entire body. She died within a few hours after the explosion. The two girls, who were not so close to the stove, received severe burns about their hands and arms. Mr. August, who heard the explosion, rushed into the house and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Mrs. August, was a daughter of the late Enoch Gause and was born and [reared in the vicinity of the tragedy in which she met death, one and onehalf miles northeast of Willshire. She is survived by iter husband, Iwo daughters, and oue son, Roy August, who is connected with a hardware store in Willshire. James Gause, a brother, lives in Delphos, Ohio. The August family resides on what is commonly know as the George Troutner farm.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, December 8, 1922.

I f High School Coaches Meet At Fort Wayne Local high school athletic directors ; and Coach A. G. “Tommy” Moore j received invitations to attend a meeting of directors and coaches of high ' schools from .all over the state which , is being held at the Central high school, in Fort Wayne, today and tomorrow, but none of the local officers were able to attend. The sessions of’the meeting will. |be held in the afternoons and evenings of both days and the purpose of the meeting is to get the different coaches together to discuss topics of interest to state high school athletic association. Good speaknes will ad | dress all of the sessions and their [ work will be very instructive. INDIANACOAL MINERS STRIKE I Unauthorized Walkout Os 900 Ties Up Three Mines Near Terre Haute (Vniled Pres* Service.» Terre Haute. Dec. 8. — (Special to. Daily Democrat) —Unauthorized strike! of 900 coal miners in Indiana today tied up three mines near here and threatened to become general by tonight as union leaders prepared for a state wide walk out effective at midnight Saturday. * Mine operators were adamant in their refusal to check off $4 from (lie diggers *age. demanded by the United Mine Workers to cover losses sustain ed during the recent nation wide I strike. if they don’t agree to check off to-i morrow—payday—30.000 men will quit work. The informal declaration of John Hessler, district union president, that the strike will materialize unless mine owners accede to the demands will serve as a strike call, but a formal order will likely go out EXTRA Terre Haute. Dec. B.— President John Hessler, of District 11, United Mine Workers, today set December 16 as the date for a general walkout of union miners of Indiana in all mines where operators refuse to check off a special levy of I dues for the months of November and December. AUDITORS HOLD ANNUAL MEETING Martin Jaberg, Os Adams County Attending Indianapolis Conference Harry M. Gardner, auditor of Cass county, was elected president of the Indiana County Auditors’ association ' at a meeting at the Claypool hotel Indianapolis, Thursday afternoon, and J. P. Dragoo, auditor of Delaware county, was elected secretary-treasu-rer. Mr. Gardner, who was secretary of the association, succeeded H. H. Nuttier, of Martinsville. The legislative committee was authorized to work for an amendment which would make mandatory the present law which makes it optional with county councils and boards of commissioners to appropriate money for clerical help in the auditor’s offices. The law was passed in the 1920 special session. Previously to that the auditors had paid their assistants from their own salaries. Martin Jaberg. auditor of Adams county, is attending the meeting of the auditors, having gone to Indlanap oils on Wednesday evening. rs- * ■ — - — — “—-

SEEGER FINED AND SENTENCED I IN BOOZE CASE Michigan Man Was Arrested Near Berne Yesterday Pleaded Guilty CABIN WAS BURNED Wells County Officers Failed To Notify Local Sheriff Os Raid Frank Seeger, the man arrested in tile raid made by Wells county officials on the farm owned by Fred Kohler, near Berne, yesterday morning, pleadi ed guilty to a charge of transportation i of liquor when arraigned in the court ("of Mayor Thompson, of Bluffton, yesterday evening, ami was fined $l5O I and sentenced to 100 days on the I state penal farm. Seeger is unable to I pay his fine, jt is said. The log cabin in which the still wa i i located burned down about 6 o'clock I yesterday morning. Tile origin of the I lire as not been definitely determined, although Mr. Kohler stated that he be lieves the blaze started from the fire left beneath the still in the building. When Sheriff Noah Frauhiger, of Wells county left the building following the road yesterday, he placed the pad lock on the door and ordered Kohl er not to touch It before Federal proibition officers came to make au in- | vestigation, it is said. When the ; fire was discovered yesterday. Mr. Kohler < ailed Sheriff Frauhiger and asked what he shqpld do. stating that he refrained from attempting to extinguish the fire on account of the orders which the sheriff had given him. Seeger Explains According to the report coming from Bluffton today, Seeger told the I officers that about three weeks ago he | brought a load of apples and potatoes I from his home in Hart, Michigan, intending to sell them. He said he bebrought a load of apples and potatoes from his home in Hart, Michigan, intending to sell them. He said be be(Continued on page eight) SUSPECTMOTHER MURDERED BABY Bluffton Man Starts Investigation Os Disappearance Os His Son Bluffton, Dec. B—Morris Swath ! wood, well known local scavenger. I enlisted the aid of local police last night in an effort to determine the whereabouts of a son who was tak en away by his wife four years ago. Mrs. Swathwood told him that she had placed the boy, then 6 months old with a Marion family but Swath wood has finally come to the conclusion that she murdered the child. She would never tell him just where she had placed the boy and always eluded or refused to answer his questions in connection to him. The Swathwoods separated last week and the wife went to Decatur but returned here later and is now reßiding with the. Albert Millington family. Steps will be taken by Swathwood, probably through the Marion officials, to make her account for the child’s disappearance, and if she cannot do so, charges of murder will be (lied, he says. The wife told the officers last week that he had threatened another "Tom Clark case” with her and a son as victims. They have hud considerable domestic trouble, having separated on several occasions and been a constant source of trouble for the Bluffton officers. LEGION ‘ NOTICE Regular meeting of Adams Post No. 43 American Legion in Legion hall, 7:30 p. m. Monday night. Nomination of officers. All members urg ed to be present. 288t3 V. J. Boremann, adjutant.

Boy Accidentally Shot While Hunting, Died Bluffton, Dec. B—(Specal to Dally Democrat) —Francis Cloud, age 18, was fatally wounded about 4 o'clock 1 yesterday evening when accidently shot through the hip by Ray Hunni--1 cutte. while the two boys were hunting near Mt. Zion. The bpy died at two o’clock this morning from loss of blood. Francis was the son of Mr.' and Mrs. Deming Cloud. ALLEGEDFORGER WANTS LAWYER • Does Not Enter Plea; Other Court Matters Disposed Os Today H. H. Heaton, who has been held in the jail here since he was brought to this city Wednesday to answer to the charge of forgery,- was taken be--1 fore the court this afternoon. Heaton, who claims to have relatives in In- ' dianapolis, asked the court for permission to telephone them in regard to employing an attorney. Permission was granted and the sheriff Instructed to place the call for Heaton. As soon as he has employed an attorney he will be arraigned before Judge Moran for a hearing. Heaton is alleged to have passed a fraudulent ’ check at the Kitson garage here about a week ago. It is reported that he ' is wanted in several other cities in the state on similar charges. He was ' arrested in Fort Wayn e Wednesday and brought here by Sheriff Melchi. ■ In the case of the Bank of Linn ■ Grove vs. Amos D. Buckmaster, et al., I inventory No. 1 was filed in the court yesterday and was approved. In the estate of Joseph W. Murphy, ■ the administratrix has been authorized to expend a sum of money not to exI ceed S3OO for a monument for the : : deceased. The administratrix was au- . thorized, also, to borrow money to pay . taxes on the estate. . A report of distribution of funds and a final report have been filed by I the administrator and the admlhistra- . | Jor uischarged. An inventory has | been filed by the executor in the . estate of Rosa Rumschlag. Letters of administration have been issued to Harvey H. Lammiman in the estate of Charles Lammiman. In the i estate of Samuel H. Teeple the sur- [ viving widow and children filed a ! written waiver and the Fanners & - j Merchants State Bank of Geneva apI pointed administration and letters isI sued. Th t > appraiser has filed a report in the estate of William Presdorf and ■ the court fixed the date of December 30 on which the inheiritaiice tax report will be heard. The appraiser s report showed that the total estate was valued at $10,691.84. George A. Myers has been appoint[ed guardian of Dale E. Myers and , i Lloyd A. Myers, minor children of Bessie Johnson, deceased. o Catholic High Five Goes To Lima, O. Eight members of the Decatur* i Catholic high school basketball squad and their coach. Lank Linn, left Decatur at 3:20 o’clock this afternoon for Lima. Ohio, where the local team will meet the St. Rose Catholic high five tonight. , Very little is known about the strength of the Lima five except that the St. John’s quintet ' of Delphos, Ohio, which was defeated by Decatur recently, succeeded in winning from St. Rose. Those who ’ made the trip today were: Captain Christen, Ilolthouse, Snyder, Vogle- ' wede, Appleman. Schulte, Myers and ' Wemhoff. They will return on an early morning train over the Erie railroad. i Legion To Nominate Officers Monday Night Officers for the coming year will i. be nominated by the members of Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion in the regular meeting of the post next Monday evening, at 7:30 o’clock. The election of officers will 1 be held on January 11. All members 1 are urged to attend the meeting on next Monday night. o- ■ —- Joe Spangler of Washington town . ship was a business caller hdre today.

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GIVES PROGRAM IN A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Message Calls For Extensive Legislation During Present Session STARTLING PROPOSALS Favors Abolition Os Rail Board And Anti-strike Legislation Washington, Dec. B—ln a message that covered the entire scope of domestic and foreign problems confronting the nation. President Harding today laid before congress the most extensive legislative program outlined by any president in many years. At the same time Mr. Harding re-affirmed and defended before the world the American foreign policy as developed by his administration. The preßident’s domestic program, as outlined to the joint session of congress included startling proposals, among them being abolition of the labor board and substitution of a labor branch of the interstate commerce commission, consisting of four members; anti-strike legislation to make decision of this new board enforceable; credit and marketing legislation for agriculture; consolidations of the railroads into a few systems; and anti-child labor amendment to the constitution. He announced that he would call a conference of all governors on prohibition enforcement. He answered Georges Clemenceau, war time French premier and others who criticize American aloofness. * To them Mr. Harding said in effect, that America had not shirked and would not shirk international obligations, nor permit infringement of American rights anywhere but that this government would not engage in treaties of armed alliance, or any commitment where either a council or an assembly of league or nations may chart our course. The president in emphatic terms called attention to uphold the eighteenth amendment and prohibition enforcement, declaring that conditions relating to enforcement of the Volstead law "savor of national scandal” and denouncing those who would break down this law as breed ing a contempt for law which will ultimately destroy the republic. “Ho asserted that the prohibition enforce ment problem is "tile most demoralizing factor in our public life." Volstead Act To Stand The eighteenth amendment will never be repealed, Mr. Harding predicted. He said the country may as well recognize that and act accordingly. To dear up iudefiniteness concerning- tiie responsibility of the federal government and of the various states and territories in enforcing prohibition. Mr. Harding announced he would call a conference here of the governors of all the states and territories to work out definite policies of national and state co-operation in administering the law. Mr. Harding tackled first the farm problem, recommending credit legislation by enlarging (lie powers of the farm loan board to provide ample agricultural and live stock "production credits." Linked with the problem of farm credits, he said, is that of transportation and he declared with respect to it: 1 — That the nation must begin to co-ordinate its transportation facilities. including water ways, motors and steam driven vessels. 2 — That government operation does not afford the cure for transpor tatiou ills. "It was government operation which brought us to the very order of things against which we now re- ‘ bel," he said. “And we are still * liquidating the costs of that supremo 1 folly.” ' | 3—That railroads ought to be 1 merged into a few systems and their equipment pooled. 4—That’the lobar board be abolish(Continued on page five)