Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1923 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Volume XXL Number 8.

FRENCH INVASION OF GERMANY CERTAIN

BE MASSACRE TRIAL ENTERS ITS FINAL LAP ————— I Murder Trial At Marion, 111., ' Is Expected To Close This Week homicide IS CLAIMED Defense Alleges That Guard Sent To Mine Caused The Disturbance - , Inltrd PreHK Service.) Marion 111-. J» n - 9~(Special to paily Democrat)— The first Herrin' massacre trial swung into its final j lap today. With the major portion of the evi , dence completed the defense was, expected to rush the case to a close , this week. 1 "We have proved a case of Wil ' Hamson county and committed acts' of violence, ranging from assault and highway robbery to unprovoked , murder. A. W. Kerr, leader of de sense attorneys, declared. "The press throughout the country ' has been debauched with tales of ' murder committed by union miners. We have shown and will further show that the real crime was committed by professional gunmen and the men who sent them here.” Attorneys for the prosecution ad mit the guards at the Lester mine may have been guilty of minor abuses, but contended that when the guards laid down their weapons and surrendered to the mob, that incident was closed. The state charges that when the mob took advantage of the surrender and massacred the prisoners it was a pure case of murder. The state started its testimony on December 12 and completed its case in seven court days. The high point of the state’s evidence was the appearance of four survivors of the riot on the stand. They pointed a graphic picture of the “death march’’ - and identified two of the five defend snts as members of the mob. William Cairns, one of the guards, identified Otis Clark and Peter MU ler, two of the men on trial, as members of the attacking forces. "Clark made a speech to the mob at Crenshaw crossing,” Cairns said. “He urged the mob to kill us all and end the breed of them." Cairns asserted Miller was guilty ' of atrocities in the Power house woods. “I was laying in the underbrush wounded. One man near by had been shot repeatedly but was still alive. He stood against a tree yelling at the top of his voice every time a bullet hit him. This fellow Miller came up with a gun. “ 'Can’t any body kill you, you big ' Miller shouted and fired into his body killing him instantly.” The state's star witness, Dr. P. F. Shipman, identified Leva Mann and Joseph Carnaghi as members of the firing squad which shot down six victims at the Herrin cemetery. The defense failed to shake Shipman on cross examination but asserted they would impeach his testimony by Kany defense witnesses. Bert Grace the fifth defendant Was identified by Donald Ewing. Chi “ko newspaper man, who viewed the bodies of the six men at the cemetery. The defense put 51 witnesses on •he stand to build the foundation of justifiable homicide.” Farmers and miners told of being stopped on the Public highways and ordered away rom the mine. One farmer charged ; e guards killed a cow and so! rghtened other cows that the qual- - 11 of milk was affected. biore than a score of witnesses adttod no act of violence w r as com•tted by the guards. One farmer' ® B ®rted that on the night of June 21' e ook his family into the cellar for safety. unemployed miners assert-1 - a * * he y were driven away from j when they went there to wid k erries ’ A farmer’s daughter , tv. ow guards forced her to give | ® milk for wnich they did not pay- j Its * e^ enB * was evidently basing Thp CßSe ° n s Hne of testimony. however, put the witnesses (Continued on page five)

MAY PLAY DURING SUMMER Indiana High School Boys May Play Baseball During Summer Laporte, lnd„ Jan. 9. —Th fi Indiana High School Athletic association is a step ahead of the "Big Ten" in allowing boys to play independent base- , ball in the summer, providing they ' do not receive remuneration or use an assumed name, declared Arthur L. I Trester, secretary of the association, i which has 703 members and is the ■ largest of its kind in the United States | in an address before the Laporte Coun--Ity Basketball clinic held here last j night. Trester said that in his opinl ion the "Big Ten" is wrong in making the rule, inasmuch as it was not | enforced and that it made cheaters out of college athletes. BEGIN CAMPAIGN AT M.E. CHURCE — I Evangelistic Campaign I Opened At Local Church With Much Interest The evangelistic campaign at the . first Methodist church was started on Sunday and very interesting meet |ings were held on Sunday morning and evening, and on Monday eve jning. Meetings at the church will !>■ continued di.'fing the remainder ot this week. Throughout the next two weeks a visitation evangelistic camicaign will be conducted, the member; of the church doing personal work. .A. the end of the two weeks’ peroii’. meetings at the church will be resut. , ed for at least one week. The Rev. 0 T. Martin, a successful evangelist. w“ assist the pastor in the campaign. Special programs of addresses hav been arranged for each evening tlr week. Following are the program beginning with this evening: Tuesday, January 9 Miss Nellie Blackburn, presiding Address—The Church Universal Th. "One Body” of which Christ is the I Head. —D. N. Erwin. I Address—“ The Prayer Life of Yount' People.”—Rev. Dotson.' Address —“Jesus and the Friendship of Young People.”—Mrs. It. 1). Myers. Wednesday, January 10 Miss Marcella Hower, presiding Address—“ Nations and Their Rulers." C. L. Walters. 'Address — “Young Folks Winning ; Young Folks.” —Rev. Elliker. j Address—“ Jest's and the Pleasures of Young People.” —Laura Stanley. Thursday, January 11 Miss Laura Stanley, presiding Address —“Home and Foreign Mission.”—Mrs. F. W. Downs. i Address—“ Christian Service of Young People."—Rev. Covert. Address —“Jesus and the Ambitions j of Young People.”—Nellie BlackBurn. Friday, January 12 James Downs, presiding Address — “Families, Schools, Colleges, and the Young."—Judge J. 3 Merryman. Address —“Young People—Members oi. ■ the Church and Young Peoples’ Society.”— Rev. Haney. j Address —“Jesus and the Life Plans of Young People.”—Mary Brown. q PHI DELTS ELECT OFFICERS _ i Decatur Chapter Re-elects Joe Brennan As President For 1923 Officers for the year 1923 were, j elected at the regular meeting of the i Gamma Xi chapter of the Phi Delta 1 Kappa fraternity in the club rooms on i Second street last night. Joe Brennan was re-elected president of t,he frater- j J nity. Other officers elected were masI ter of ceremonies, J. R. Blair; secre-tary-treasurer, Harry Knapp; sergeant 'at arms, Adrain Lenhart; inner guard, | Robert Krick, and outer guard. Gregg i Brandyberry. Following the business j meeting refreshments of sandwiches and coffee were served. _ o * WEATHER + ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; colder tonight.

CITY SCHOOLS HOLD SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS — Most Os Pupils Will Have Tests Completed By This Evening RE-ORGANIZE FRIDAY Second Semester Opens; Examinations In County Schools Last Week Examinations covering the work of the first semester were held in the city schools yesterday and today. Most of the pupils will have completed their examinations by this evening and will enjoy a vacation until 1 Friday noon. However, irregular pitI pils will have examinatons yet tomorrow and Thursday. Examinations in the St. Joseph Catholic schools will not he held until January 17, 19 ami 19. The city school teachers will ho busy tomorrow and Thursday grading examination papers. Registration for the second semester in the high school will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, and the school authorities are anxious that the pupils not delay registration. School will re-convene at 1:15 o’clock Friday afternoon anti be continued throughout that afternoon. A number of pupils will be promoted from the eighth grade work nt the Central schools to the first year of high school, but the list of those pulpits is not complete yet. The list will be made public Thursday or Friday. - — All children in the city who will b? six years of age on or before February 15 of this year, are eligible to enroll in the city schools on Friday, anil the parents nf those children are requested to have their children in | the school in their respective district I bv 1:15 o'clock Friday afternoon. Examinations were held in the countv schools last week and the second semester was started on Monday i of this week. Mr. E. S. Christen. j county superintendent of schools, | stated today that there had boon no! changes in the teaching force in the | county at the beginning of the second semester. NAMED HOUSE STENOGRAPHER Miss Agnes Costello Appointed To Position In State Legislature Miss Agues Costello of this city left this morning for Indianapolis where! she will assume a position as one of the stenoraphers in the State House ot | Representatives, having received a ; message from T. A. Gottschalk, repre-j sentative for Adams and Wells county, last evening, that she had been j I appointed for the sixty day session, j The democrats were allowed two j stenographers and Miss Costello was I one of the fortunate applicants. She served as a stenographer in the state' senate in the 1913 session, is experI iencod and will make good. She was | a stenographer in the insurance claim department at Washington for a year j ! during the war. was secretary for the : democratic committee here in 1920 i 'and 1922 and is capable and worthy. She began her duties today and will .serve during the entire session though most of the appointees will work only j lor ton, fifteen or thirty day periods. Fifty Families Driven Into Streets By Fire llnlted Pre«« Service.) Chicago. Jan. 9.—Fifty families were , driven to the streets in their night clothes when fire broke out in the St. Benedict apartments here today. Tlie blaze was.quickly extinguished by the fire department at a slight loss. The fire started from a lighted , . cigarette thrown into a dummy elevator shaft, /

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, January 9, 1923.

ACQUITTED AT GENEVA Bluffton Youth Found Not Guilty Os Intoxication By Squire Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 9. —Attorne ' John H. Edris, Garth Herbst and Donald Acton went to Geneva on Saturday afternoon, with the expectation o defending Herbst on a charge of intoxication. but discovered after arriving there that Donald Acton was the youth pointed out by the town author ities as the man accused under the fictitious name of John Doe as the person who had been intoxicated, ami there was no charge against Herbst. A plea of not guilty was entered bv Acton and Attorney Edris defended him in a trial lasting about 2 hours, before a crowded house in justice’s court. At the conclusion the justice enter ed a finding of not guilty. CHAS.LANGSTON NEW CGM'ANDER American Legion Elects Officers Last Night; District Committeeman Charles Langston was elected commander of the Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion, at a meeting held in the Legion hall on North Second street last night. Mr. Langston is a competent man to lead the veterans and a successful year is predicted under his leadership. He succeeds Joe Laurent as commander. Mr. Laurent also enjoyed a successful year at th P head of the post. Vincent J. Borman was re-elected adjutant of the local post. Other officers elected last night were Clarem e Smith, first vice-president: Dallas Brown, second vice-president: Miles Roop, finance officer: Frank Shumaker, chaplain; sergeant at arms. Chancy Brokaw: Joe Laurent, historian: and Fred Elzey. Walter Wilkinson and ! Burl Johnson form the executive committee. The newly elected officers will be installed at the next meeting .of the post to be held on Monday j night, January 22. Ross Tracy, of Anderson, eighth I district committeeman of the American Legion, attended the meeting of I the local post last night and made an interesting talk on the ideals of the organization. IRISH REBELS STORMED (United Press Service) Dublin, aJn. 9. — (Special to Daily I Democrat) —Armed Free State forces; | stormed a rebel stronghold in Ixiugh I Roa today, killing four of the defend I ers and capturing the others. Five Free State soldiers were re- ■ ported to have been executed yesterday on charges of treachery in hav-; ing assisted insurgents. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: May $1.18%; July $1.11%; i ) Sept. $1.07%. Corn: May 71%c; July j 71%c; Sept. 71%c. Oats: May 44%e July 41%c; Sept. 39%c. o Y.M.C.A. MAN TO I REFEREE GAME! — . I C. H. Schwan To Officiate At Decatur-Pennville Game Tonight C. H. Swan, athletic director of the Y. M. C. A. at Fort Wayne, will referee the basketball game here tonight between the Pennville and Decatur high school teams. Mr. Swan refereed the game between Decatur and Kandallville last Friday night and local players were pleased with his work. The Pennville girls will play the Decatur high girls in a preliminary game, starting at 7:30 o’clock. The boys’ game will follow immediately after the close of the girls' game. Two more games are scheduled for the high school teams here on Friday night. The boys and girls’ team from the International Business College, of ( Fort Wayne, will come here for games j with the high school tossers.

.(PRIMARY LAW IN DANGER IN LEGISLATURE Friends Os System Rush To Rescue As Legislature Begins Operations REPEAL BILL READY f 11 McCray And His Followers Hope To Push Measure Through This'Week Indianapolis, Jan. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A bill providing co-operation of Indiana county commissioners in counties adjacent to neighboring states and on whose com- ■ mon state line roads run, with conimissioners in these outside counties 11 was introduced by Representative Gottschalk of Berne in the house today. Indianapois, Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The fight for repeal of the primary election law — one of the storm centers in the Indiana egislature—was on today when t two bills were introduced abolishing ; the primary system. Senator William Penrod of Loogootee, republican, presented the bill to 1 tne senate and Julius Schwing, of Ijawrenceburg, democrat. Introduced -it in the house. t Minds of those who opposed the primary and those who favored it I were being tightly drawn. It was indicated there would be no possibility of rushing the repeal bill through the legislatlre before the end of the week as republican and democratic leaders had planned. ’ The soldier bonus bill drafted by ’ the Veterans of Foreign Wars was presented in the house by Represent tive Reray Biarly of Elizabeth, a ' democrat, and Ezra Graham. df War- • saw, a republican. The bill would give soldiers, sailors, marines and 1 nurses $lO for each month they ’ served in the world war not to exceed ’ $250. The bill provided a tax levy to be 1 ; stretched out over a period of ihrt e ■. years the amount to be determined by the state tax board with payments ' | to beneficiaries to be extended over j — (Continued on page live) RELATIVEDtED ; IN PHILIPPINES David C. Johnson, Cousin To Mrs. Ed Moses And John Tyndall, Dead The Ed Moses family is in receipt I of a copy of the Independent, publish- | ed at Manila, P. 1., giving an account j of the death of David C. Johnson, sou of Associate Justice and Mrs. E. Finley Johnson, whose death occurred November 29. Funeral services were held on the following Sunday. Death was caused from an acute i heart attack. Mr. Johnson was only 1 thirty-one years of age, being born on ! ' October 28, 1891, at Ann Arbor, Mich, j ■ He was a graduate of Michigan Uni-, ! versify, where he received his A. B.! and LL. B. degrees and was a member ! |of th e law firm of Gibbs, McDonough & Johnson, of Manila. Previous to entering the law firm he acted as clerk to his father. Justice Johnson is a native of Ohio and has a number of relatives and friends in this city. The | deceased was a cousin of Mrs. Ed, I Moses and John Tyndall. a ABOUT THE SICK Mr. Jesse Sutton, who has been confined to his home for several days on account of sickness, does not seem to be much improved today. — . Strike Ended South Bend, Ind., Jan. 9.—(United Press.) —The strike of 250 men in the trimming department of the Studebaker plant over a 10-cent an hour re- ! duction in pay was ended today. The men were paid off and checked out I and their places are being filled. •

NEED BETTER FEEDING Enormous Losses Os Young Chickens Due To Improper Feeding Enormous losses of chicks occur > each year on Indiana farms. Much > of this is due to improper feeding. ■ The Purdue University experiment 1 ried on investigations in chick feedstation has for a number of years car- ) ing. As a result a practical method of feeding chicks has been developed. Useful and economical kinds of feed practical for rearing chicks often , are not given due consideration. The methods that give most satisfactory results are not always employed, s These and other chick feeding problems will be discussed by C. W. Carrick of the experiment station staff at the farmers’ short course to be held 3 at Purdue University. January 8 to 12. ’ BRITISH HANG : PARAMOURS ■ Couple Hang This Morning For Murder Os Woman's Husband (By The Unitde Press) ) London, Jan. 9. —Mrs. Percy Thompr son, was hanged at 9 o'clock this morning at Holloway jail for murder of her husband October 4. , At the same time, in Pentonville C prison. Frederick Bywaters, her lover, I found jointly guilty of th e crime, was hanged. ? ! Hiftidreds gathered in chilling rain t outside the prisons awaiting the sin- . gle solemn clang of the death bell , that announced the executions. One woman bore a placard: “Mur- < der cannot be abolished by murder." ! Mrs. Thompson, who made vain ap- | peals for clemency to the last, was the .••first woman executed in England in ■; ’ fifteen years. Only officials were permitted to i witness the hangings. High board - fences aad been erected about the I scaffolds at the north of London jails 1 and the public saw nothing of the r executions nor of the prisoners as I they were taken from their cells. Official notices of the executions were posted on the gates; that at ' Pentonville saying that Bywaters had I been executed, being put up at 9:25 i! a. m. Mrs. Thompson’s notice was ' i placed at 9:33. The curious crowds outside drifted . away without demonstration. Mrs. Thompson and Bywaters were found guilty after one of the most dramatic murder trials in English court history, of conspiring against ! the former’s husband and effecting ' | his death by stabbing on October 4. Bywaters admitted the stabbing, claiming self-defense. The couple said they had planned to elope together later on and love letters passed between them were produced in! which they discussed ways and means of poisoning or otherwise disposing of the husband. o BALANCE IN ROAD FUND County Highway Superintendent’s Report Shows Balance Os $28,636.96 A balance of $28,636.96 at the beginning of 1923 is shown in a report made by Charles Magley. county superintendent of highways. Th e money ! on hands on January 1, 1922, was $6,j 690.18 and the receipts for the year ! were $116,491.19 making a total I amount for the year of $123,181.37. The disbursements for the year were | $94,544.41 the report shows. Mr. Mag- ! ley has taken an inventory of the road tools and road material on hands and found that the value is $75,480. Harry Clarke Assisting In Meeting At Bluffton Harry D. Clarke, singing evangelist, who assisted in the evangelistic meeting at th e Baptist church here .last week and the preceding week, is now engaged in a meeting at the Baptist church in Bluffton. The meeting at the Bluffton church started last night. While assisting in the meeting here, ’ Mr. Clarke was ordained a minister in the Baptist church. He is an excellent singer and has a wonderful personality. Mr. Clarke will be in the meeting at Bluffton for only one week.

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FIND GERMANY IN DEFAULT OF I COAL PAYMENT Vote Os Reparations Commission Paves Way For Occupation Os Ruhr TROOPS ON MARCH French Officers And Advance Guard Are Already In Germany I ulted I’reNa Wliitr <'orr«-i>i><>u<lrnt Berlin, Jan. 9.—French staff officers arrived at Duisberg today, according to the German government's advices, and troops are en route. I Neuss notified the government that heavy artillery, together with detachments of pioneers and engineers arrived there. At Dusseldorf the French are requisitioning private automobiles, official reports say. Paris, Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The reparations commisi sion. by a vote of three to one, today ■ found Germany voluntarily in default of coal payments to France during i 1922. Sir John Bradbury. British reprei sentative, voted against the finding. This is the necessary technical ac- , tion which was to precede French . invasion of the Ruhr valley and occupation of Essen. Marshal Foch’s military plans waited upon action by the allies finding ■ Germany in default. “The reparations commission noti- , fied the French government of the de- . fault and it was semi-officially stated action will follow almost immediate- , iy, possibly tomorrow. American observer Boyden made a statement to the commission before it took the vote. He refused to divulge its nature, but stated he made no reservation. France, backed by Belgium and Italy, made speedy finish of the reparations commission's sitting today. Ten German experts had succeeded in delaying matters yesterday by haranging arguments but today they were called speedily to account and the vote France asked of the commission was taken. By the vote Germany is found to have wilfully defaulted in amounts of coal that should have been delivered to France during the past year. Germany claimed she delivered as much they were forced to import other coal themselves. “Breach of the Treaty” Berlin, Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat—France’s proposed seizure ot Essen would constitute “a breach l of the treaty,” as an act of force against a defenseless people,” declared Chancellor Cuno today in an interview with American correspondents. He condemned France's course and simultaneously renewed Germany's offer of a peace pact. The chancellor emphasized Germany’s calm view of France’s movements adding "we shall not forever bow to force, and we cannot forever yield to threats and thus go into the abyss. The allies In Paris did not desire to hear our proposals and could not agree to their own. The solution has again been postponed' Certainly French circles apparently really believe that reparations can be obtained through force. said at Hamburg that every compulsory measure signified death to economic reparations. I repeat this today most seriously and emphatically. Just so strongly as we were and are ready to pay the limit of our economic strength, just so strongly are we unwilling to bow to compulsion. We have proved our unwillingness to pay voluntarily. The. German people. If necessary, will walk the road of suffering, but they will not deal under pressure and threats. “We cannot meet force with force, but in the complete agreement of the German peqple and in their fullest resolution we can do this: Show the world in its true light the economir unreasonableness and illegality of the French procedure. Washington, Jan. 9.—With the Eu(Continued on' page~five)