Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1923 — Page 5

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Howard Mauller, of east of the city, WIIS a business visitor here today. ‘ M ( M Velma Erwin returned to St. Maryß College, of Notre Dame, today , _ tter spending a three weeks’ vacation with her parents of this city. I Mrs. Henry Adler is guest of relatives tat Herne, for a few days. \rtic Small is organizin’ a zouave troupe. He comes from a military ( t ,,,,ily' as his grau’father played a Bliure drum in th’ Civil war, an’ his i ■,t lier cleaned up in th’ Spanish\merican an’ world wars. “I'd rather not know so much than gather up a Sunday paper,’ declared Em Pash. Jtlay—Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Miller were Fort Wayne visitors yesterday. John Hoffman, president of the Bank of Preble was attending to bust urss in Decatur this morning. C D. Yountz, of Indianapolis transacted business here this morning. He represents the W. B. Burford company. i Judge Charles Sturgis, of Bluffton, was looking after at the court house. H. A. Fristoe, of Rochester, who has taken the Daily Democrat ever since he can remember, sends in his annual remittance and a few words of cheer. Al used to be marshal here aud knew everybody In the county. Portland is to have a paid baseball team the coming season with Paul El liott in charge. They expect to make it one of the best independent teams in the state. C. D. Habbegger, of Berne, was operated on at the Jay county hospital yesterday. He is well-known here. Robert A. Noble, 71, Jay county, was found dead in a chair Sunday morning, when his sister went into the living room. The coroner found death was due to kidney trouble. The Kiwanis club at Delphos will give a big indoor fair, the proceeds to be used to improve a public park there. A new baseball league is being organized, the teams included being Kendallville, Bryan, Auburn, Garrett, Waterloo, Butler, Angola, Fort Wayne Lincoln Lifes. Rev. F. W. Moenemann pastor of the Reformed church at Berne has tender-1 ed his resignation and will accept a call at Archbold, Ohio. Dan Costello, of Fort Wayne, visited his parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Costello, here, last evening. William Sellemeyer, of Preble township was looking after business here, this morning. D. Bixler is at Indianapolis this week, where he is attending the annual meeting of the Indiana Optometrical Society. His son, Noah Bixler of Decatur, is one of the vice-presi-dents of the state organization of optemetists. —Adams County Witness. Mrs. Lena Yager has returned to her home here after six-weeks’ visit at West Unity, Ohio, Fort Wayne and Decatur with her children, Marcus Yager and family and Mr ß - Zimmerman and family and Mrs. John Moran and family, respectively. — Adams County Witness. Peter Loshe, of Washington township, was a business visitor here today. Ed Arnold, of Kirkland township, was a business visitor here today. Mrs. Dirk Detro, of Willshire, Ohio, visited friends here today.

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H. G. Edwards, of Pleasant Mills, was u business visitor here today. Mrs. E. A. Goldner, of Preble, was a shopper here today. Miss Oda Shirnp, of Preble, visited friends here today. David Dilling and daughter, Susie, of Preble, were shoppers here today. Charles Voglewedc is in Chicago, attending the Shoe Convention, which is being hold there from the Sth until the l.tth. —o , , . Find Germany In Default Os Coal Payment (Continued from Page One) ropean situation described in diplomatic quarters as similar to those of 1914, that developed the World war, the United States government today considered recall of the American troops of occupation from the Rhine. President Harding and his cabinet are scheduled to meet at the White ] House today and it is highly prob--1 able that the French move into the , Rhine and Ruhr and the advlsibility of bringing home American troops as recently requested by a senate resolution will be the foremost subject to be discussed. Whether orders are issued within the next few days for withdrawal of the American forces in Germany, the government had made it clear that under no circumstances will they become involved in any trouble resulting from the French seizure of Germany's principal industrial region. —e ' ■ Mine Massacre Trial Enters Its Final Lap (Continued from page one) through only a superficial cross ex- | amination. More than 30 alibi witnesses were called by the defense. They told varying stories of the “march of death” but admitted they did not identify any of the mob while it was marching. This line of testimony was continued today. GIBBONS WANTS TO FIGHT Another Heavyweight Anxious For Chance At Dempsey’s Crown (I lilted I’rewM Service.) New York, Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — Action in the heavyweight ranks started by the trans-Continental trip of Jess Willard looking for t£puble, will be increased today by the arrival of Tommy Gibbons, the St’ Paul heavyweight and challenger of the champion. Gibbons announced today that he was on his w’ay “to see what all the doings are about in New York” and if there were any fights to be passed out, to get in on one of ’em. Tommy usually allows Eddie Kane to do all the talking’but he has been “het up” to the conversational stage by his failure to get any action out of his challenges and he has this to say: “I must get a shot at Dempsey’s title this summer. We have challenged him twice and two clubs have "made him offers to meet me, but he hasn't even answered them. When is he going to box? I not only want a Dempsey match but a contest with any of the other contenders.”

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PRIESTS HOLD MEETING HERE Directors Os Priests Benevolent Society, Ft. Wayne Diocese, Are Present A number of Catholic priests were in Decatur today attending the semiannual meeting of the directors of the Priests' Benevolent society of the diocese of Fort Wayntf. The meeting was held at 10 o'clock this morning at the Catholic parsonage, as the guests of Father J. A. Seimetz, rector of the St, Mary's Catholic church of this city. Rev. Charles H. Thiele, rector of St. Peter’s church, of Fort Wayn£, is president of the board; Rev. Thomas A. Travers, pastor of St. Mary’s church, Anderson, vice-president; Rev. Michael A. Ix>uen, rector of St. Peter and Paul's church, Huntington, Ind., secretary; Rev. Thomas M. Conroy, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, of Fort Wayne, treasurer. Besides the officers and Father Seimetz, other directors are Rev. John P. Durham, pastor St. Paul’s church, Marion, Ind., and Rev. Felix T. Seroczynski, pastor of St. Casimir's church, Hammond, Ind. During the meeting reports were presented for the past season. Father Travers arrived in Fort Wayne yesterday and was the guest of Rev. Thomas M. Conroy at the Cathedral rectory last night. CROPS LAND AVAILABLE j Fifty-seven Per Cent Os Farm Lands I In The State Available For Crops In 1922 (By The United Press) Indianapolis, Jan. 9. —Fifty-seven per cent of Indiana farm lands were available for crops in 1922, according to data compiled today in the office of George Bryant, government agricultural statistician for Indiana. There are 20,973,546 farm acres in the state. The acreage not used for crops totalled 8,994,483 and was divided as follow’s: 1. Waste land, 2,206,476 acres. 2. Timber land, 1,319,753 acres. 3. Permanent pasture, 2,807,674 acres. 4. Temporary pasture, 1,388,833 acres. 5. Orchards, 159,195 acres. 6. Fallows or other temporarily unused land, 1,112,552 acres. Bryant said 139,707 farmers own their land, totalling 13,736,844 acres; that 61,671 rent a total of 7,237,002 acres, and that there are\ 972 farm managers. Os the number of farm-, ers 202,308 are white and 317 negro. -- The data revealed that the acreage of corn was equal to that of both wheat and oats. It showed 4,698,251 acres of corn, 2,216,445 of oats and 1,976,453 of wheat. a Primary Law In Danger In State Legislature (Continued from page one) the same period. -Immediate relatives of deceased soldiers were mentioned as beneficiaries. Other important measures introduced in the senate included: Limiting the bonded indebtedness ; of municipal corporations to one per cent of the valuation of taxable property. The limit is now two per cent Repealing the free employment law. Amendment to the constitution providing the majority of votes cast in a referendum is sufficient to enact a constitutional amendment. Preventing sports on Memorial day which would prohibit the 500 mile automobile sweepstake here. Making, bootlegging and manufac-| ture of liquor a felony instead of a I misdemeanor • punishable by imprisonment of 1 to 5 years and a maxi-1 mum fine of SI,OOO. (By The United Press) Indianapolis, Jan. 9.—Tne primary) election law in Indiana was consigned to the scrap heap by political leaders! today. Friends of the system wer e rushing I to its rescue Just as the legislation I hopper w’as being oiled,to enact a re- I peal bill before the end of the week. I The repeal measure, drafted by I Senator Will Penrod, of Loogootee, I before the stamp of th e donkey and I th e elephant. After republican state I leaders had approved it, they went j into conference with democratic state I chairman, Walter Chambers, and) brought the measure out with his] okeh. ; It was prepared) for introduction in ' the senate by Penrod and in the house | by Thurman Gottschalk, minority leader, today with a strong partisan] demand that it be pushed through, both houses and onto Governor Me-] Cray’s desk before the end of the i week. McCray's stand .of opposition to the j primary has been known ever since

—l—he entered public life and there is no question as to his signing it. The bill | provides that all officers, including governor and United States senator, shall be nominated in convention and that the presidential preference primary shall be abolished. The nomination of local officers as in a primary, would be optional. It revealed that the election i committees in both the senate and 1 house were comprised of men opposed to the primary system, picked before the legislature convened. Despite this, however, there was certain to be strong opposition to the bill. Many of the law makers had been instructed by the folks back home to fight for retention of the primary system. Others had an aversion to taking the direct nomination vote away from the people and restoring it to the old convention plan. Anderson, Ind.. Jan. 9. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Edward C. Toner, one of the foremost advocates of the primary election law, said today he does not believe the primary repeal I bill can be rushed through (he legislature. "If it is necessary for me one to establish headquarters in liv' an.ipolis and fight the repeal bill, I v. ill do it" Toney said. “Our way would be to go out into

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the state aud arouse public sentiment against repeal of the primary.” Against Highway Commission Indianapolis, Jan. 9.—An attempt to abolish the state highway commission was seen today in a bill introduced by Senator Shirley, Democrat, of Fort Wayne, late yesterday, seeing to take the Inheritance ttfk money and the funds derived from registration of motor vehicles and examination of chauffeurs away from the highway body. This would restore the highway construction system of Indiana to the status in which it was before the commission existed and in effect would abolish the commission but cutting off its main source of revenue. The bill would leave only the general property tax of three cents and fraction for the support of the commission and the construction of highways. The registration and examination fees would be returned to the counties from which they came. Drunken Drivers’ Bill Indianapolis, Ind., Jiiu. 9. —Drunken I automobile drivers would be liable to a prison sentence of one year and a fine of SSO under a bill before the legislature today sponsored by Senator English of Indianapolis. The I measure would make the penalty one I to five years imprisonment for second offense and would make possible a SSOO fine and two years sentence if a driver of an automobile runs away i after an accident and is apprehended. 0 Waive Kitson made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon.

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