Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1923 — Page 1

yMume XXt. Number 25.

HOUSE EXPECTED TO PASS BONUS BILL

jffIMMIC SCHOOL PLANS ARE DISCUSSED 0 - the Officials A modern BULDING plans Call for a Spacious Building Containing Gym and Auditorium Herman Gaul, one of the leading tfrtitectt of Chicago, was here today i 0 conference with Rev. J. A. Helmet? rcetor of the St. Mary s Catholic cJuirch. and the board of building tnl ‘ st ee 3 . discussing plans for the building of the new Catholic school building Mr. Gaul, who makes a specialty of designing school buildings and Catholic churches, was em plovM some time ago by Father Srimetz and the building trustees to prepare the plans for the new school building and church to be erected by the St. Mary's Catholic congregation. Will Fac» Fourth Street The school building will be erected fret and it will be located at the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, occupying that quarter block of ground between the alley north of the Catholic parsonage to the Monroe street corner on Fourth, and west on Monroe street to the alley alongtlde of the Sister's house, formerly the John W. Tyndall home. Modern in Every Respect The building will be modern in nay respect and besides providing rootn.’ for the 361 pupils, including the high school students, it will be built with a view of taking care of the growth of the school in the future. It will also contain a gymnasia, manual training department, nd auditorium and will be built to coiforni with the state school regulatioui. It is not known whether the building will be two or three Kories in height, exclusive of thi basement. Work Will be Delayed Breaking ground for the new’ school building cannot be started until the first of May for the reason that the Christian church congregation retains possession of the ground and building at the corner of Monroe and Fourth streets until this date- The St. Mary's church just recently p>ir chased this corner, paying $20,000.00 for the 132x66 foot plat. Work on the construction of the new and beautiful church will not bf started until after the school building is completed. According to tentative plans the church will face Fourth street and will be erected Just south of the present Catholic church. The old school buildings Ud present church edifice will be torn down with the completion of the now buildings. Congregation Pays Cost The school and church will be built wd maintained by the members of the congregation. Funds are to be raised within the congregation to Wray the cost of building and as heretofore all maintainance expense, including the paying of teachers, will 1)4 Paid by the congregation. A parochial school does not benefit or rerwlve funds from taxation and in this rwpect the conducting of a parohial : 'hool is a great saving to the taxpayfrs' for if the present school was fOßso’idated with the public school sjstrni it would necessitate another “bool building, larger than the pres*'Ot high school and the most of its instruction and raaintainence would • raised by taxation. Maier returned here after fading the week-and with his parFt. Wayne,

JUMPS TO HIS DEATH AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN COMPANY W ITH ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE

Cl.-n.J ’ "lied Press Service) Ho, Jan. 28.—(Special to Daily ta°7 at 1 ~ ’J° sep * 1 Krunger, 20. Mat! t 0 k ,s death from an elevated ’ -ortn here last night while fleeing »» hate husband. * n company with Mrs. ' t rii|i a "' eßton . alighted from an “L" &t avenue. Walter A. ; On ' the husband, was waiting for i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

TO ATTEND K. C. MEETING E. X. Ehinger Will Go To Indianapolis! Next Sunday For Conference E. X. Ehinger, grand knight of | the local knights of Columhus. will leave early Sunday morning for Indianapolis where he will attend a special meeting of the Indiana , councils of the Knights of Columbus, called by state deputy. Joseph Nurre. Supreme secretary. William J. Me Qinley of New Haven. Conn., will address the meeting and important business matters will be disposed of . CLASS OF 71 JOINS CHURCH Remarkable Services Heid al First Methodist Church Here Sunday 1 i A class of seventy-one persons were received into the membership lof the First Methodist church here 1 yesterday morning. This makes a I total of seventy-six new members I obtained during the present evangelistic campaign which was begun , three weeks ago. Thirty, including infants, were baptized yesterday. ' The campaign will be continued . throughout this week and many more ’ will be received into the church be- ' fore the close, it is said. There has been a total of 110 decisions of all i kinds to date. ■ I The deep interest in the campaign was apparent yesterday in the ati tendance at all services. There ! were 459 in Sunday School and the auditorium would not hold all at the morning service, several finding . seats Ln the Sunday School room. i Another large audience was present at the evening service. At the morning service yesterday the pastor, the Rev. U. S. A. Bridge; spoke words of congratulation, en couragement and advice to the young j ' Christians and those who united with the church. He presented Paul’s Counsel to the Christians at Ephesus In the evening the theme of his ser ; mon was "The Life-Giving River.' ‘ Life, he said, is transformed by the ’ gospel of Jesus Christ. There Is no! other means whereby life may be saved, both now and hereafter, he I I declared. There will he evangelistic service! , each evening of this week, Saturday j excepted, at 7:30 o'clock. The pastor will preach and the male chorus! will sing. The meetings will be openied with song- services. Everybody I is very cordially invited to attend the services. o GETS HOME NEAR MAGLEY Wells County Lad to Make Home With Christian Barney and Family Bluffton, Jan. 29. —Edward Mote, 12 year-old son of Mrs. Christopher Ter ' rell, of Jackson township, was taken ; to the Christian Barney home, near ■ Magley, Saturday morning. Juvenile Officer Lipkey obtained the l home for the lad and he may pos sibly be later adopted by the Barneys. The officers have every assurance that he is with an excellent family and will be given the best of care. The two Mote boys have been at the county detention home since theii step-father was sent to the Easthave.n asylum, a few weeks ago. They appear to be unusually bright lads and the officers took particular care to see that they would be placed in homes where the best advantages could be given to them. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: May $1.16%; July sl-11%, Sept. 11.09%. Corn: May 72%c; July 72%c; Sept. 72%c. Oats: May ‘43?-sc; July 41%c; Sept. 40%c. ■MMWMaMMaMMMWMWWMWMMMMWMWXMMMMMMaOaMMM

— them. A fist light followed and the men swayed back and forth on the narrow platform. Suddenly Kruger broke away and leaped over the railing to an adjoining building but missed his footing and plunged to the street. He died a few minutes later.

THIEVES TAKE THIRTEEN BAGS CLOVER SEED — Theft Is Discovered at Monroe Elevator Early Sunday Morning ARE TRACED TO EATON Thieves Tracked As Far As Eaton Yesterday; Reward Is Offered I Thieves broke into the elevator of| i the Monroe Qraln company, at Mon- | roe, sometime early Sunday morning, 'and stole thirteen bags of clover seed, ' i valued at sl3 per bushel. Each bag I contained from two to two and ouehalf bushels and had been recleaned. The theft as discovered at 7 o'clock i Sunday morning by Ijiwrence Morgan, 1 who noticed the large doors standlug ' open as he was passing the elevator. He investigated and discovered that 1 ; the seed had been stolen and he at ;once notified John Floyd, manager of the elevator. Mr. Morgan and Mr. ■ Floyd soon started in pursuit of the thieves and traced them as far as Eaton, Indiana near Muncie. Th-» trail of the thieves went through Portland Red Key and Hartford City. Sheriff John Baker was notified and cards, offering SIOO reward, have been sent I out to officers in various localities. Sheriff Badders, of Jay county, and the marshall of Red Key, joined in the search yesterday. Enter Through Side Door Entrance to the elevator wareroom, where the seazi was stored, was gained through a small door. The thieves had to go through the basement and crawl through much machinery to get to the wareroom and the officials of the elevator company feel that the i work must have been done by someone 'who was acquainted with the elevator, since it would have been a very difficult task for anyone not acquainted with it to get through the machinery and find his way to the wareroom. The large wareroom doore were unlocked from the inside and the sead loaded I into an automobile. (Continued on page two) o WILL CONDUCT MISSION HERE St. Mary’s Catholic Church; Announces Two Weeks’ Mission for March A two weeks’ Mission will be conducted at the St. Mary's Catholic i church beginning Sunday. March 11th, and continuing until Sunday, March ; 25th, inclusive. Father Daniel and Father Andrews, Franciscan missionary priests from the . Cincinnati province, will conduct the special services. Announcement of i the holding of the mission was made in the St. Mary’s church at the masses I Sunday. The last mission conducted at the I St. Mary's Catholic church was held [in 1915. Services will be held every ! day, morning and evening and al--1 though the arrangement of the schedule will be left to the missionary fathers, Father Seimetz stated this morning that in all probability the schedule would be as fellows: Morning service, regular low mass. 7:30. Mission mass and sermon, 9:45. Evening service, 7:30. Feast of Purification The feast of the Purification will be celebrated in St. Mary’s Catholic church on Friday. It is not a holy day of obligation and masses will be said at six and seven-thirty, the blessing of the candles taking place at the seven-thirty mass. Feast of St. Blase The feast of St. Blase will be observed on Saturday, February 3rd. The blessing of throats will take place at the seven-thirty mass and at 2:30 in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gass visited in Ft. Wayne yesterday.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, January 29, 1923.

BUYS HOUSE AND LOT Fred Fullenkamp has purchased [the house and lot on the northeast I corner of Madison and Sixth streets, , formerly owned by Albert Langer;man. Mr. Laugerman recently I traded the property to Martin Stalter for a farm and Mr. Fullenkamp , purchased the lot from Mr. Staltir.'. i Mr. and Mrs. Fullenkamp will move from their present home on North Third street to their new home n<xt week. Q. TO BUILD NEW CHURCH SOON Committee Appointed by Reformed Church Congregation to Raise Funds At a congregational meeting held * yesterday, a committee was named by the Reformed church congregation to canvass the membership for funds with which to build a beautiful new church this year. The committee is composed of William Belneke, Ferd L. Litterer, and Miss Matilda Sellemeyer and steps towards raising the funds will be taken immediately. The congregation has on hands approximately half of the amount needed to buil.l the new church. Church on Corner It was definitely decided at the meeting yesterday that the new church when built, would be erected at the corner of Third and Jackson streets, which will necessitate the moving of the parsonage building, which stands on the corner, to the other side of the new church, or where the present church now stands facing Third street. It fe thought the new church will be so erected that Its entrance will face the center of the corner. It la the desire of the congregtion to build a beautiful and commodious church edifice, ample to accomodate the growing membership of today and for the future. If sufficient funds are raised work on the new church building will be started this year. The Reformed church congregation is one of the oldest in the city. It was organized in 1861 and the present frame church building was erected in 1862. Since that time it has been remodeled severe! times, including the building of a Sunday school room. The Rev. R. R. Elliker is the praeent pastor of the church, be coming here about two years ago. FRANK L. ROOP ; DIES SUDDENLY Root Township Farmer Sue cumbs to Attack of Heart Trouble Saturday Frank L. Roop, age 65 years, died suddenly at his home one and one-half miles north of Decatur in Root township, at 11:05 o’clock Saturday night. Death was due to heart trouble and Mr. Roop was ill only about fifteen minutes. Funeral services will be held from the Mentzer church in Ohio at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Short services will be held from the residence at 1 o'clock. Burial will be in the Mentzer cemetery. Mr. Roop was born in Crawford county, Ohio, July 3, 1857. He was the son of John and Sarah Roop. Most of his life was spent in Adams county. He lived for a time east of Decatur. Mr. Roop was a farmer by occupation. Five children, four brothers, and four sisters survive. The brothers and sisters reside in Ohio. The children are Charles John Roop and Harley J. Roop, who made their home with their father: Mrs. John Durbin, of Decatur; Lawrence Roop, of Fort Wayne, and Orville Roop, of Decatur. The brothers and sisters are: Jay Roop EJsworth Roop, Charles Roop, and W. A. Roop, of Bucyrus. Ohio; Peter Roop, of Alberta, Canada; Mrs. David Whitman of Cambridge, Ohio; Mrs. Frank Olmar, Mrs. Jacob Drexel, and Mrs. Chris Miller, all of Bucyrus, Ohio.

'STRIKES ARE ■ EFFECTIVE IN : RUHR VALLEY X ——————— ‘ French Consider New Measures to Force Germans to Their Terms NEAR EAST TROUBLE I Signs of Impending Trouble Between Great Britain and Turks Appear , U'nited Press Service) Paris, Jan. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Mass arrest and expulsion of all German officials in the Rhineland who have j disobeyed 1 French instructions has been orderI ed as part of a new and drastic' regime, according to the Liberte’s Mayence correspondent. ; —J— Sabotage against the invaders of the Ruhr spread up and down the Rhine today. At Coblenz French troops were ’ forced to tear up railway lines to ’ prevent German rail workers from rushing express stations through to avoid their seizure. ' At Dusseldorf strike of workers on all systems of communications was effective. Walk outs in the lower Rhineland ' were aimed at Belgian invaders. The 1 Ruhr valley was apparently quiet—[ 1 almost completely isolated. The French at Paris considered ’ new measures to force sanctions, while there was a move on foot in r among Scandinavian countries to put ’ the Rttly MUvalifiQ before the League f of Nations council. ' Ramsey MacDonald called a meet- [ ing of British labor parliamentarians to consider the situation. 1 Attention of Europe was diverted ’ from the Ruhr to the near east by signs of impending clashes of arms between Great Britain and the Tfirks it the Lausanne conference ends in disagreement Wednesday. The British cabinet and the war office are 1 considering means to offset the Turkish aggression at Mosul, while \ the Angora government hastily sumi (Continued OB png- six) DRAW JURORS FOR NEW TERM Jury Commissioners Draw Grand and Petit Juries for February Term Jury Commissioners E. W. Johnson and Jonathan Rian, met with John T. Kelly, county clerk, in the latter’s office this morning and drew the names of the citizens who will serve on the grand jury and petit jury during the February term of court, which will open on next Monday. February 5. Following are the names drawn by the commissioners. Grand Jury David Runyon. French township; Jacob W. Johnson, Decatur; Willis H. Laughrey, Blue Creek township; Frank W. Downs, Decatur; Walter Cross. Geneva; Sam S. Egley, Jefferson township. Petit Jury Vernon Pontius, Geneva; William Singleton, Root township; George Geels, Decatur; Jesse Erp, Monroe; | Rolla Calderwood, Blue Creek township; Frank E. Baker, Washington township; Leonard Baumgartner, Berne; Ed L. Arnold. Kirkland township; Roy C. Hook, Monroe; Leo Engle, French township; James H. Armstrong, Wabash township; William H. Clark, Hartford township. j o Mrs. Mike Scott of Fort Wayne, arrived in the city today to be with, her daughter, Mrs. Harry Barnett. ♦ WEATHER 4 ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ■>+♦ + ♦ + INDIANA —Unsettled tonight and Tuesday, probably rain in south and rain or snow in north portion. Somewhat warmer tonight in east and south portions.

ELECT INSTITUTE OFFICERS Ralph Myers Chosen Chairman of Hartford Twp. Farmers' Institute — Ralph Myers was chosen chairman 11 of the Hartford township Farmers' I Institute at the closing session of th" [ annual institute held last Friday, j Other officers elected were Chester Hall, vice-president; June Steiner, ,I secretary; ami A. J. French, treasI urer. The institute was a line sue- [ cess this year and members of the organization are already looking fori ward to another good meeting next year. STATE PROBING BLANFORD RIOT I 'I Two Men Meet Death in Night of Terror at Indiana Mining Town (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Jan. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat >—State investigation ! of the shooting at Blanford last night which resulted in the death of two[ ' men, the wounding of Sheriff Harry! ' Newlin of Vermillion county and the wounding of another man was start- ' ed today under direction of Governor McCray. The governor has been keeping a 1 close watch on Blanford since an attack by a negro on a 11 year old white girl. All negroes were ordered ' from the town on the day following j the attack and most of them left. ! A national guard was sent to Blanford with instrretions to report any ■ difficulties arising there. Last night's trouble was an outgrowth of the race riot, it was said, ' and the governor may act to prevent ■ further difficulties. Town Is Quiet Now Terre Haute, Jan. 29 —Dawn and the lifting of the fog saw quiet restored to the little mining town of Blanford, 20 miles north of here, fol- . lowing a night of terror in which two men were killed and Sheriff Harry Newlin, of Vermillion county and a foreigner were wounded. Six men were arrested and arrign!ed in court at Clinton Monday, charged with inciting to riot as a result of the killings. They Included Pete Pelich, the man wounded in addition to the sheriff. The dead are: Mike Yarach, 44. and Dan Stupar, both coal miners. Prosecutor Satterlee said he hardly believed the killings were directly due to the recent race troubles although investigation which led to the shooting was directed at trouble ' which grew out of the firing of a fussilade of shots at a negro store. Satterlee said the sheriff’s assailants thought he was heading a liquor raiding party. A dense blanket of mist which hovered over the little town on the Indiana side of the state line lent a gruesome stillness to the night following the fatal clash between a posse and a group of miners shortly after midnight. The trouble came as the culmination to ten days of tension following an attack by a negro on a white girl 12 years old. That was January 9, on the day following the attack a warning was issued by a self styled i “citizens' committee’’ to all negroes 1 to quit Blanford. Most of the blacks left but there were a few remained. Two of them were proprietors of the I Hale and Brown store. Last night a group of Serbians, attending a dance fired a volley of shots into the store conducted by the ! negroes. Shortly afterward Sheriff Newlin and a party of deputies drove into the town and went to the dance hall to investigate the shooting. Patrons of the dance, who it is reported were under the influence of (Continued on page two)

' SICKNESS THREATENS TO TIE UP TRAFFIC IN MT. VERNON, ILL., 2,000 OUT OF 12,000 ILL

(United Press Service) Mt. Vernon, 111., Jan. 29.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Sickness threatened a complete tie-up of business in this city today as 2,000 people out of a population of 12,000 w’ere confined to their beds. Influenza and diphtheria was spreading front home to home with many entire families quarantined.

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VETERANS ARE DIVIDED OVER PENDING BILL Factions Created in American Legion Over Memorial Day Measure SCHOOL BOOK TRUST Charges of Trust Behind Educational Bills Are Made in Legislature (I’nited Press Service) Indianapolis, Jan- 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Passage of the state soldier bonus bill by the house of representatives was indicated ns members convened this afternoon. The measure carries provision for a bonus to veterans of the Spanish American war as well as those of the world war. Commander Perry Faulkner of the Indiana American Legion today deI manded the resignation of Humphrey i Harrington, state judge advocate, whom he said was “betraying his organization. ” The action came from the light betw’een factions of the legiou over the bill pending in the legislature to prohibit the 500 mile automobile sweepstakes here and other commercial sporting events throughout the state on Memorial day. Harrington said he had not been notified that his resignation was desired and until he received such notification he would make no statement. Faulkner charged Harrington had quoted him as being opposed to the Memorial Day measure. Open charges that a “school book trust" is in the prime ipover behind two educational bills pending the legislature were made in the state house of representatives. Following heated debate the house voted 60 to 27 against returning the measures to the committee on education for further consideration. The committee had recommended that they be approved. One of the bills introduced by Representative Harris would reorganize the state board of education. The other introduced jointly by Representatives Pittenger, Post, Lowe and Weddeklng would remove power of the state board to select uniform text books for the entire state and empower) each school corporation to select them. Representative Ase Smith asked that the bills be recommitted and de dared they were actively supported “by a school book trust.” He was aided in his fight by Representative Ahldren who characterized the measure as “vicious and a sort of condemnation in school affairs.” Representative Harris defended his measure with declaration that the state board selects the hooks after (he legislature adjourns ami -that the selection last year cost the state $600,000. Pittenger who voted to recommit the bills said lie and his three associates in the text book measure had the interest of the schools at heart and held no grief for the alleged trust He said Indiana is the only state • north of the Mason Dixon line which has a centralized system using text books. Representative Wedeking resented the charge of the school book trust supporting his measure. He said it would at least be better than the present system because one instance of graft now affects the entire state and "the few scattered instances ol' graft under the proposed system would effect only individual communities.” Ttie senate passed the Buchanan bill which would make anyone carry(Continued on page six'

Several hundred cases of pneumonia j were reported. More than 300 men were kept from i ■ work in their Mount Vernon car shops i and nearly 200 employes of the shoe > factory failed to n-port lor work this morning. The death toll has been small- according to authorities, but physicl» ns say many cases are serious.