Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1923 — Page 1

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MEMORIAL day I bill vetoed by governor I senate Sustains His Action; I Races to be Held I As Previously I NO ACTION ON BONI'S I Governor Refuses to Say I Whether He U ill Sign | the Measure I (t'nltwl I’rpSß Service) I March 6.-A Special to I Dail) I)niio<ral>-VetoinK the bill to I prohibit 11"’ • ,nnl,:11 Memorial ,la - v B " 0 ' I pule automobile race here on the I grcnnds that it *a« <>»*» leKisialion I and ufK-onstitJ ioiiid Governor Me I Cray returned the measure to the I . legislature shortly before sin.' die adI jourunicnt early today am! the senate I sustained his position. I The governor’s veto was attached I tn the measure on advice of Attorney I General Lesli. and other prominent I lawyers. This means that the race will he h Id this year and "in the future, as it has in the past. Reciting bis desire for proper ohserv*a<e of Memorial day and proper n-spect to th? soldier dead, the governor in substance said the measure was class legislation in its present form and it should not become a law. It already had passed both branches 01 the legislature, but the senate refused tc override the v»to. "I do not feel inclined to see plaeedl upon the statute books laws that ar. held to be strictly class legislation." the governor said in his veto message read to the senate at one o’clock this morning. "I realize the tendency othe times is in that direedion and 1 consider such tendency extremely dangerous. "Patriotism consists of proper respect and observance la.w.w oink any laws enacted that do not create such respect or that bear the liupres sion of <iass discrimination defeat the very purpose for which they wer. intended." The dignafted senators and repre sentatives were indulging in the uulla’ pre-adjournmeiit celebration when Miss Adah Bush, secretary to Gov einor McCray, entered the senate (handier with the message. They ■'topped their jubilation temporarily, received the message and voted 29 tc 5 to sustain the veto. The American Legion had sponsored the bin and their efforts steered i’ through both houses. It generally had been conceded however, that the bill could not become a law if the governor vetoed it because it did not hove ♦ enough friends in either house to set aside an executive veto. Preceding adjournment, the house was tlie scene of some contusion Re preset at ive James I. Day of Lake county, presented his resignation to the house with a declaration that bills were being passed without members knowing what they provided. He said he would not be a party to such procedure. The house refused to accept the resignation, however. Ihe forty six Democrats in the house, all present during the closing hours, filed a protest against what they termed railroading tactics. It was dicovered the administration • hill doubling the automobile license fees had heen approved and signed by offifprs of both houses bearing a rider tn include, the inheritance tax measure. in much the same manner, amend ments to the "blue sky" law to put teeth in it were adopted as a rider to hist without members of the house "'ha-t they were voting (Continued on page two I . - -

SHEIK POSTPONES HIS MARRIAGE Rudolph Valentino Forced to Put Off His Second Marriage nr Month While Waiting on Decree of Divorce From < ahfornia.

(United Press Service) 'huago, March 6.—(Special to “ ly Democrat)—Rudolph Valentias postponed his second mar- /'***’ to Winifred Hurnut until April r waltinK nervously all day n< ay for word from Los Angeles, a ,~ 9Cree divorce from his “sh it"* 10 hai ' been entere< t the on * pos tponed the ceremony for \vt | ,nnnl ' l 011 a ** v * c ® of attorneys. 11 e his divorce was granted a

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CALLED TO FOSTORIA Mrs. Roscoe Glendenning Called To Home Os Sister By Illness Mrs. Roscoe Glendenning, assistant librarian at the Decatur library, was called to Fostoria, Ohio. thIR morning on account of the serious illness of her sister and members of the family. Last week Mrs. Glendenning received a message Informing her of the death of her grandmother, Mrs. Cornelia Claycomh, of Fostoria. Mr. Glendenning’s grandfather,James Gletidcnning of Geneva died last Thursday. - — • Ruffles are coming back into favor rapidly. For debutantes are smart frocks of talTeta in pastel shades, the skirts composed entirely of ruffles. LEASE DISPLAY BOOM FOB CARS Kirsch and Son Lease I lollhouse Building on North Second Street . Peter Kirsch and roll have leased . the Felix Holthouse building on X ’Second street as a display and sale . room for the Durant and Star cars and after doing a little remodeling, will have a number of cars on di ■ play. The north room in the build ing has been sublet to Steph'.’ HroV who will move their accessory an 1 . tire store from under the Boston . store to the new location this wee'... I. A. Holthouse, who formerly o ■ I cupied both the Second street an J J First street buildings, will occttp.’ (inly the garage building facing First . street. He has moved his office to ; ‘ the northeast corner in the First 1 street building and will continue to sell Overland ears and continue to - do a general garage business, irI eluding the selling of tires and a< ■ cessories. Mr. Holthouse has hr. 1 aytu-y f*tf Uhh,. popular > <-.ii.i;. un.L for the Willard Storage Battery ever since they were manufactured. Kirsch and Son will not engage in asseecory. storage, repair or genera! garage business, the entire space i i their new location being used to di i play the popular models of ears for II which they have the agency. Th' agency for the Durant and Star car was secured by them several month: 1 ago. The south room, heretofore. o< • i cupied by Mr. Holthouse as a display room, will be used by them. NEW WELL FOR BERNE Town Board to Have Well Construct ed for Waterworks System .. The town hoard upon recommor. i' dation of their engineer, Hnrrop, hav • ■ decided Io advertise in the near fr I turo for the construction of a town i well for waterworks. According t > , the specifications the well or well; must be drilled on the town lot or South Jefferson street and call for a well or wells being ten or eight > inches in diameter. The wells shall I be reduced to no less than six inches in diameter at the lowest depth . The drilling of this well will bo . under the supervision of Engineer ,-I Hurrop. After its completion a water J test shall be conducted by the city 1- engineer. The well or wells should , I each deliver 150 gallons per minute Jot water acceptable to the State [Board of Health After completion 'of the well it shall be pumped intermittently for GO hours during a period of six days after which the well t will be pumped continually for 21 ( hours and water measured through »■ motor to aacertufivxhe average gaL . lons per minute. In this manner the discharge of the well shall he deter mined.

year ago on March -I, the order was not signed until April S, and Valen tino must wait until that day before marriage to Miss Hudnut would be legal. They were married in Mexico soon after the divorce decree was granted but the ceremony was not recognized by California laws. Valentino expressed his disgust in three languages, when after jvaitiug all day for the ceremony, he was finally forced to call it off.

DRIVES OVER 115 MILES AN HOI R U. • ST rt.. 4 •< - . ■ ■ v* ■ L.„ . (Jimmy Murphy on the Los Angeles speedway.) Los Angeles, Cal. —Another world automobile record tumbled here recently when Jimmy Murphy sent his car Over the speedway track here at an average speed, of 115.8 miles an hour. He won the opening race of the season, covering 250 miles in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 43 3-5 seconds.

MAIL CARRIERS GO MANY MILES Adams Countv Carriers Travel Total of 720 Miles Every Day It is necessary for the rural mail carriers in Adams county to travel a total of 720 miles daily to deliver the mail to their patrons on the ten Decatur routes, four out of Berne, four out of Geneva, three, out of Monroe, and one the routes out of Preble, Magley and Pleasant Mills, a total of 24 routes, averaging 30 miles in length. ■ He****-this does not include the thousands of steps taken daily by the four mail carriers in Decatur. During this thawing weather Hto mail carrier’s job is not a pleasant one. at least on the routes where they have mud roads. Out of the Decatur office four carriers must travel over at least 26 miles of mud roads every day and within the last several weeks these four carriers have been forced to walk from four to eight miles every day. W. F. Beery, carrier on route 8, and Howard Manlier, carrier on route 9, have eight miles each of mml or unimproved reads, while Ray Christen, on route 10, and Charles Malloney, on route 3, have-over six miles to travel over or walk over, when its muddy and impossible to get through with an auto. The other six Decatur rural mail carriers are: Earl Butler, route 1: Will Engle, route 2; Henry Fuhrman, route 4: Marion Biggs, route 5; Ray Smith, route 6; and Hubert Zerklc, route 7. Within the hist week J. E. Ellsworth has been substituting for Ray Smith and Henry Fuhrman, who have been confined to their homes on account of sickness. The length of the rural routes in the county range from 28 to 32 miles or an average of about 30 miles. Out of the Decatur office, routes 6,7 and 8 are the longest, they being 32 mile. The rate of pay for a rural mail carrier is $1,800.00 per year, plus $30.00 per year for every mile in excess of 24 miles covered by them every day, making the maximum salary of a mail carrier, $2,040.00, out of which he must pay his expenses, including the upkeep and investment on an automobile. Sometime ago the -Postoffice- department made it compulsory to have a motor vehicle with which to deliver mail on the routes. Personnel of Local Office Those assisting Postmaster Harry Fritzinger in conducting the Decatur postoffice are Charles Hocker, deputy postmaster; George Everett, money order clerk: Ed Macy, general delivery clork; George Flanders and Joe Laurent, dispatching clerks; Carlisle Flanderst. substitute carrier. The Decatur mail carriers wtio deliver mail within the city are: Jess Schwartz. Mel Butler, Harve Rice, and Leland Franks. Mel Butler is one of the veterans in the service. —o —■ — ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WEATHER ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ + + + ♦♦♦♦♦ Unsettled tonight; probably light rain or snow in east and south portions; somewhat colder in south and west portions. Wednesday fair.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, March 6, 1923.

CONTRACTS ON THREE ROADS ARE AWARDED County Commissioners Lit Contracts for Improvements in County MANY BIDS SUBMITTED — Total of Contract Prices of Three Roads Below Estimated Cost Due to the fact that the countv commissioners* had to attend the hearing held at Geneva this morning, relative to the issuing of the bonds on the proposed Warren Striker con-1 crete road, contracts for the construction of three macadam roads, ■ totaling 5 miles in length and esti-i mated to cost $40,521.84. were not awarded until 2:30 this afternoon, the total contract, price of the three roads being $28,513. Meshberger Brothers, of Linn Grove, secured two of the contracts, they being the John Ludy road in Monroe and Blue Creek townships, and Babertsclfer and Brann road in Monroe township, their bid on the former was $4,898.00 ami on the latter, $9,685.00. Arthur Zehr was: awarded the largest contract of the' three, he securing the Zimmerman road in French and Hartford townships on his bid of $13,930.00. The bids on the throe road improvements varied considerable this time, the difference between the lowest and highest bid on the Zimmerman being $3,570.00, while on the other two roads, the per cent of dis ference was about the same. The following bids were submitted (Continued on page six) OORWIN PICKE3 TO LEAD TEAM Center on High School Basketball Team Chosen Captain Yesterday At a meeting ok the members of the. 1922-23 Decatur high school basketball squad, held yesterday afternoon, Dean Dorwin, center, was elected captain for the 1923-24 quintet. The vote was unanimous. Dorwin is a Junior in school this year. Last year he played forward on the tepm but when Lawrence ‘'Lank" Linn graduated. Dean was called upon to fill the big center’s shoes. He played several mighty good games this year but dining the latter part ol the season he hit a slump, due largly to ill health, it is said. Next year he is expected to be a mainstay in the Putpie and Gold quintet. Hobby Myers. Jack Teeple. and Skeet Kern will be lost to the team through graduation 'this year. Teeple will not finish his course until the end of tho first semester of next year, and will be eligible to play on the football team next fall.

MANY ATTENDED ROAD HEARING State Tax Board Member Conducts Hearing at Geneva Today Over a hundred people attended the hearing conducted this morning at the K. of P. home at Geneva by Philip Zurcher. member of the state : tax hoard, relative to the issuing of $36,400 in bonds with which to build the proposed Warren Striker concrete road in Wabash township. The hearing began at ten o’dock and continued until after twelve. Mr. Zurcher heard the arguments for and against the proposed improvement and then informed those present that he would present the case Ito the other liu-mbers of the tax 1 board for final action The petitioners, numbering over 1250 who signed the petition, w. e represented by Judge James Moran of Portland.* The remonstrators were represented by John A. Hendricks and Russell Long. Mr. Zurcher heard a number of witnesses and stated that he would travel over tho proposed route. The remonstrators in offering their objections stated that they wore not against building a macadam road, but they objected to the concrete road as : long as mud roads in the townships were not improved. The petitioners and those who favored tho building of the road stated that it was one of the principal roads in the township and that they believed a hard surface road would be of beter service to the public. Among those who wore called ns witnesses were: Charles Magley. highway superintendent; James Hendricks, Dick Boch, commissioners Ernst Conrad. Gem go Shoemaker and B. F. Breiner, Silas Hale. Andrew Briggs and a number of others. Two months ago the contract for the building of the Striker road was awarded to George W. Fennig and Son and following this action the third remonstrance Which has prevented the building of the road was filed by the remonstrators. It may be a week or longer until the state board makes a final decision in the case and in the meantime those concerned will await their action with interest. .— • St, Joseph Girls Won Final Net Game As a fitting close to their basketball season, the C. H. S. girl eagers of this city last evening won from the gl. Augustine players of Fort Wayne by a score of 24-2. Tho visitors experienced considerable difficulty in locating the basket and were unable to score until the second half. However, the Fort Wayne girls are to lie complimented on the , splendid sportsmanship spirit, that they showed throughout tho garni Brazil -Dennis Fisher appeared at a dance here wearing a pair of toreador.) trousers with electric lights i in the legs. Bluffton—William Connett, 104, who died at the home of his daughter in St. Joseph, Illinois, will be brought here for burial.

JOHN CARMODY SPOKE Cave Interesting Talk to Knights ol Columbus Last Night Ju.in Carmody gave an lust rm Gve and intere ting talk on the Knights of Columbus at their hall last eve nlng, lite <»•< asimi being the regular monthly meeting of the council. Fa tlier .1. A. Seimctz, pastor of the St. Mary’s church, also made a few re marks relative to the mission which will open at the st. Mary’s church on Sunday, March 11th, and urged the iiu-ii al attend the services. Mr. Carmody complimented the local! knights of Columbus on the purchase l of the Big Store Bio k a an invest ment and as a home for the cotimil.i and also dwelt on other subjects of! interest to the members. His re marks wen greatly appreciated. CHICAGO OPENS WAR ON VICES — Uniformed Policeman at Front and Rear of Every Vice Den Today Chicago, Mar. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A uniformed policeman was stationed at the front and rear of every vice den and gambling joint in Chicago today. More than half the police force was I assigned to the vice detail. Fifty per cent of the city’s total appropriation of 113,000,000 for its police force will be spent to wipe out vice. As a recent of drastic orders by Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris. efforts of practically the entire city’s police organization will be devoted to stamping out vice. The step was taken when a third grand jury investigation was ordered into vice conditions in Chicago by Chief Justice McKinley of criminal court after two previous juries had I failed after exhaustive investigation to find any connection between w-< ! ganized vice and the city police department . Fitzmorris told friends he believed | the vice investigators were on a man hunt —and he is the man. Chief. Fitzmorris has always previously opposed allowing his force to spend I most of its time in hunting down. gamblers and immoral resorts. Ho believed the officers should give most of their efforts to protecting residential districts and hunting major criminals. CHLIRCH KSUES ( ALL Reformed Church At Berne Calls Minister At Louisville, Ky. At the morning service of the Reformed church in Berne Sunday, the congregation voted to extend a call to Rev. C. W. H. Sanerwein. of Louisville, Ky'., to Hie pastorate of the Herne churcli. Rev. F. \V. Hoerue maun who tendered his resignation to Hie congregation in January, will preach his farewell sermon next Suneveninp. Rev. Hoernemann has ac cepted a call to become.pastor of the Reformed church at Archbold, Ohio. Next Sunday morning conformation and communion services will lie held by the Reformed congregation. Rev. Sav.erwein lias during the past four years been pastor of the Zion’s Reformed church at Louisville, Ky. Sunday lie preached a trial sermon at the Reformed ehnrch in Berne and the congregation has good hopes that Rev. Sanerwi in will accept their call to assume the pastorate.

- Style Says: “Something on the Hip.” Fashion Art League Says the Bustle Will Play a Return Engagement in the Cast of the Well-dressed Woman this Sum mer. w

(United Press Service) Chicago, March 6. —(Special to I Daily Democrat)—Anji-Volsteadism j today asserted itself on women's styles. The well dressed woman this spring must wear "somethin:;' on the hip." The bustle will play a return engagement in the cast of the well dressed woman, according to Mme. Alla Ripley, president of the Fashion | Art League of America. The spring bustle would never be recognized by its parent, the stiff, ungraceful contraption of grandma’s

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SENSATIONAL CASE STARTED IN COURT HERE ene v a Youth Facing Charge of Rape in Adams Circuit Court MANY HEAR EVIDENCE Expect Case to Last Thru Tomorrow; Testimony is Sensational One of tlie most sensational cases I tried in the Adams circuit court for i some time, was started this morning [ when proceedings were begun in the ■ ease of the state against Vint in Ray. j of Geneva, who is charged with rape. I The charges were tiled by Frank j Dericksan. of Ceylon, father of Edna ( Derickson. upon whom the illegal ' act is alleged to have been committed. Little trouble was experienced in empanneling a jury this morning, only one member of the regular panel. George Dcahl. being rejected. Those selected to hear the caso were: George Engle, James Armstrong. Rolla Calderwood. William jH. Patterson, Roy C. Hook. Frank I Smith, Abe Behout. Harry Butler, 1 Gdorge H. Bright. Charles Fuelling. I William Harding and Charles Sullivan . The defendant is represented in court by Attorney L. C. DeVoss, of this city. Prosecuting Attorney E. Burt Lenhart, is being assisted in prosecuting the case by Attorney Frank Cottrell, of Berne, and Attorney Malcomb Skinner, of Portland. The affidavit filed against Ray charges that on or about August 1. 1921, he committed rape upon the person of Edna Derickson. Testimony I introduced today tended to show | that tlie act was committed In the .town of Ceylon on February 25, 1921. The first witness to testify this morning was Mrs. Crowsby, fori merly Hazel Navel. She testified that she saw the couple in a room committing the illegal act on February ■ 25. 1921. She also testified that she I had been in ihe company of tlie defendant on various occasions after i that date. She told the court, further. that Ray had given her and another girl two bunches of chewing gum to go tc the home of the Derickson girl and get her to come to the home where the illegal act is alleged to have been committed. The second witness railed to the stand was Walter O. Curtz, a farm hand, who was staying tit the home in Ceylfm whore the illegal act is said to have been committed. Only the two witnesses were heard this forenoon. Miss Derickson was called to the witness stand this afternoon shortly before 2 o’clock. She stated that she was fourteen years old when the alleged act was committed. The prosecuting witness is the niQihor of a bastard child and a case is now pending against Ray, charging him with the paternity of the child. The paternity charge was filed previous to the rape charge. The defense is attempting to show that tlie charge of rape was brought in an attempt to black mail tlie defendant. They base this claim on Hie fact that the charge was not filed until September 13, 1922. more than a year and a half after the act is alleged to have be< n committed. Attorneys say that the case will likely continue throughout tomorrow. The state has a large number of witnesses to testify yet and it is said that the defense also has a large (Continued on page six)

1 day, Mme Ripley said. I "It will he a fluffy tiling," the leaj gue lender said. "It will be beribboned and belaeed and so earoiuly camouflaged as to convince the wearJ er that siie has still the straight line silouetfed demanded by the American women Mme. Ripley declared the influence of the late lamented King Tut was , manifest in all the new styles. "The well dressed woman of spring must look like the sands of the desert," she said. "Somber, desert tones with metal and beaten brass ornaments will be the fad.”