Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1923 — Page 1

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GERMANY SENDS PROTEST TO FRANCE

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editor of the yeoman shield COMING MONDAY Committee Plans to Entertain Harry C. Evans, Prominent Yeoman TALK AT AUDITORIUM Mr. Evans Will Deliver Famous Lecture, “Conservation of Child Lite' Harry C. Evans, editor of the Yeoman Shield, brilliant student, and ow of the biggest men in Yeomanry, whose editorials have attracted the attention of the country upon several occasions and who is a leader ir. the work tor helping children, will visit Decatur next Monday and at ’:45 o'clock Monday evening will deliver his famous lecture: “Conservation of Child Lite," at the high school auditorium. It is an important event not oni because of the opportunity given ou public to hear this wonderful talk hut because Mr. Evans Is interested enough in this community and our people to wish to visit here. Invitations have been sent to Mr Erwin, state manager} Mr. Carter state foreman; and Mark T. McKee director, to attend the meeing. Th. General committee met last evening at the Old Adams County bank ano discussed plans for entertaining Mi Evans and others who come. Th< affair was referred to a committee composed of han Niblick. C. A. Du gan, French Quinn, S. E. Brown ant. J. H. Heller. This committee mei the- morning at the First Nationa bank and announce the following committees: Reception: Dan Niblick, chair man; S. E. Brown W. A. Klepper ant. French Quinn. Site committee: Mayor H. M. De Voss, Judge J. C. Moran, M. Kirsch C- J. Voglewede, H. B. Heller, A. D Suttles, A. L. Bowen, Guy Brown, C T Schafer. J. H. Heller, Dr. Archbold C- N. Christen. French Quinn, J. T Myers, Hugh Hite, H. .1, Yager. E. X Ehinger, F. M. Schirmeyer, W. A Klepper, J. G. Niblick, C. J. Lutz k C A. Dugan J. W. Tyndall. J. F. Anrold Fred Reppert, Mat Briener and A. J. Smith. Autos—Charles N. Christen. Music—Dr. Fred Patterson, Hugh Hite and E. W. Kampe. Mr Evans will arrive In Fort Wayne some time Monday and w-il * ire the exact time of arrival. The reception committee will meet him t tere and accompany him to this city, raveling via autos it weather Is fa voraoin. a trip to the sites will ocn l>> the afternoon and in the even’nß the lecture will be *'en in the new high school audionum. M r Evans is an unusual b < r and speaker and his address »e well worth your time. Mr. u z "ill preside as chairman. Dr. Patterson will lead the singing, and H evening will be a delightful one. [ e complete program will be given orrow, after communication with ■ v "ia! outside people who are ex--0,., t 0 Visit the cit y that <lay- The pie Sl ° n ' S iln,)or tant and the peoSure °J th!s com,n Ubity Will, we are Pack ti S| ’° n(l t 0 the invitation and Pa<k the auditorium. Let's give our through 8 J*** Welcorae un(l continue Yeoim i' m ° Ur eß,re t 0 bring the contin 8 h ° nie her ® so that we may nt.nue our efforts to help the clfiloren of tomorrow. Della H.utoy Harruff and daughter a »d broth 6 ** 1 Eaßter with their son Wayne usse " Harruff, of Fort

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

STAYS IN U. S. I MW?lßffi (Pacific and Atlantic Photo.) Mme. Elizabeth Girenko, whose ieportation was vigorously sought, aas emerged victoriously and will bo allowed to remain in this country. FINAL LYCEUM " NUMBER PLEASES Southern Musical Company Gives Splendid Program Last Night in spite of the rain last n ! ght, a good-sized audjence attended the final number of the high school se: lots’ lyceum course whic h was held i in the auditorum at the high schoa building, and those who did attend were abundantly rewarded in hearing The Southern Musical Company, :. trio of artists whose work merited enthusiastic expressions of appreciation and praise. The evening's program was a | wonderfully well balanced arrange* inent of popular and c lassic al musicinterspersed with novelty sketches , and short readings designed to re | lieve any monotony that might in any wise detract from a continuous - program of pleasure and entertain I tn ent. Mr. Stalling, violinist, displayed ■ the tethr.ique and interpretation oi m artist in "Chromatic Valse.” by i Goddard, anti two numbers by Kreis 'er, "The Old Refrain," and "Span sh Serenade." Soon after the com mencement of the program Mr. Stal ling was warmly applauded each ime he appeared on the* platform as well as after his numbers. Mrs. Stalling proved an excellent . accompanist, both with the 'cello and the violin. Her interpretation of Goddard's “Chromatic* Valse" , plainly placed her in the artist's class as a pianist. Miss Hildegarde Berthold, 'cello Ist, delighted her audience witli her every appearance. Her sweet, rich i toned instrument and her wonderful performance will long live in the . memory of her hearers. , The entertainment last night . brought to an end one of the best , lyceum courses ever presented to I the public in Decatur. Each and • every number given during the past i winter was much above the ordinary j and all were greatly appreciated by , those who attended. The attendance . at the lyceum course, as a whole, was not as large as it should have been and consecnently the seniors : lost money on the course. The seni iors are to be complimented on t bringing such high class entertainments to Decatur.

HIGH SCHOOL SPELLING BEE FRIDAY NIGHT Annual County Championship Match at Monroe High Auditorium TEAMS ARE CHOSEN I — Seven Pupils to Represent Each School; Decatur Team Picked Today The annual county high school spelling contest will be held in the Monroe high school building at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening. Clyde Hendricks. principal of the Monroe high school, will be chairman of the contest. Teams composed of seven contestants and two alternates have been chosen to represent the different high schools in the county. The schools to be represented in the contest are those from Geneva, Berne. Monroe, Monmouth, Kirkland township. Hartford township. Pleasant Mills. Jefferson township, and Decatur. The judges for the contest will be Superintendent Don Collum, of Geneva; Principal B. H. Smith, of Kirkland township; and Principal L. B. ; Sawyer, of Monmouth. The pronouncers will be Superintendent C. O. Lehman of Berne, and Martin Jaberg. of Decatur. John Martin, of Geneva, won the I county championship last year. Geneva is always represented by an exceptional!* strong team of spell--1 ere. and this year is no exception, it |is said. The elimination contest in the Geneva school was started last Friday afternoon but it was impossible to eliminate all but seven and the contest was completed on Monday . The team to represent the Decatur high school was chosen in a preliminary contest held this forenoon Nineteen volunteers answered the call for contestants and it required much time to eliminate all but seven. (Continued on page six) BANK IS WINNER IN COURT CASE Linn Grove Bank Gets Judgment Against Pearl and Amos Buckmaster i Judgement in the case of $1,510.66 was awarded today to the plaintiff in the case of the Hank of Linn Grove ! against Pearl Buckmaster and Amos D. Buckmaster. The case was a complaint on a note and suit to foreclose ■ a mortgage on real estate owned by the defendants. The court ordered the ' mortgage foreclosed and the real estate sold to pay the debt. The proceeds .from the sale are to be used in paying the note and the .costs ot' the trial. The balance is to be paid to 1 the clerk of the court who thereafter will pay it out to the parties entitled I thereto. Case is Dismissed Tile case of Joseph K. Yoder vs. 1 Fred F. Liechty et al. was dismissed today and the costs were paid. 1 Attorney C. J. Lutz today appeared for the defendant, the Hartford Accident and Indemnity company, in the case of the state on relation of the ' Old Adams Couty Bank, against Flor--1 ence Fruit, and Keller et al. In the case of William H. Johnson vs. Wayne E. Wolf, the defendant was 1 ruled to answer to the complaint with- ! in five days. Terms End This Week 1 The November term of the Adams 1 circuit court will end Saturday of ’ t{iis week. There will be no vacation ' between this term and the April term, ’ the next term starting on next Monday . morning. The members of the grand 1 *ond petit juries for the April term » have been drawn. The grand jury, however, will not be called d iring the t. April term, it is said, unless some un•[forseen case, which needs investigajtion should develope.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, April 5, 1923.

DISCOVERER OF KING TUT'S TOMB IS DEAD (United Press Servi< • ) Cairo, Egypt, April s.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Surrounded by his family, the Earl of Carnavon died peacefully early today of blood poisoning sustained in excavations at the tomb of Pharaoh Tut-Ankh-Amen, which he discovered. Lord Carnarvon, who had made a brave fight against the poison and against pneumonia which developed recently, sank rapidly shortly after midnight. The countess of Carnarvon, their daughter and Lord Porchester, the earl's son, and heir, were summoned hastily. After bidding them farewell, Carnarvon drifted into unconsciousness and died at two o’clock. LUTHERANS END ANNUALMEETING Choose Officers and Meeting Place at Conference in Fort Wayne Offices for the ensuing year were elected at the annual conference of Lutheran pastors and teachers of Northeastern Indiana in session at Emmaus hall in Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. The session closed after the selection of a meeting place for next year. Rev. Phillip Wambsganns, president, will hold his office for another year. Rev. August Buuck, Fort Wayne. Route 13, was elected secretary, for the ensuing year to take the place of Rev. C. Purzner, of Avilla, and Prof. T. Eggers, of Emmaus church, was elected treasurer. The annual meeting next year, to be held the first week after Easier will be in Zion's hall. At the closing session yesterday afternoon. Prof. A. W. Rossman, of Bingen Ind, x read a paper on “Spelling,” which treated on the method to be followed in gaining greater efficiency in Ulis study. Prof. M. Pohlmann, of the faculty of Concordia Lutheran church, addressed the session .telling of the dangers which beset the schools in laxness of curriculum. Prof. G. Schmidt, of the Concordia College Faculty, spoke on the "History of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity," tracing It through the various ages down to the fourth century, to the time the Nicean Creed was adopted in 325 A. D. A number of routine business matters concluded the conference. burriswilT GIVE ADDRESS State Supt. to Give Commencement Address in Jefferson Township Benjamin J. Burris, state superintendent of public instruction, will deliver the annual commencement address of the Jefferson township high school, on April 26. There will be seven graduates this year. They are as follows: Alice Kenney, Anna Fetters, Ordine Butcher, Madeline A. Robin, Lois L. Buckmaster, Margaret F. Remaklus and Edward J. Billinsky. The Jefferson township high school orchestra will furnish music for the commencement exercises. County Superintendent, E. S. Christen, will present the diplomas. John M. Bollenbacher is trustee of Jefferson townshp Plan Entertainment The entire school will give an entertainment on April 19. This will be in the nature of a minstrel show and musical program. The high school orchestra is preparing to give a play and entertainment which will be given In about four weeks, probably the first week after the close of school. School will close on April 27.

BIG RAILROAD MERGER MADE REALITY TODAY Toledo, St. Louis & Western Line Included in Big Consolidation TOTAL VALUE IS LARGE Total Value of All Property of Five Roads Amounts to $103,500,000 (Unite,! Press Service) Indianapolis. April s—(Special to Daily Democrat l Actual consumation of one of the biggest railroad mergers in Indiana in recent years fame today with the filing of notice of consolidaton of five roads with the Secretary of State. The total value of the properties was $103,500,(M10. The merger which will be known as the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad company, combined the following lines: New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co., the Chicago and State Line railway Co. the Lake Erie and Western railway, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville railway and the Toledo, St. Louis and Western railway. Rumors of the consolidation had been circulated persistently in railway circles. o .— Dr. K. S. Neptune Returns From California Dr. K. S. Nepfune returned home i this afternoon from California where he has been visiting with his father, C. E. Neptune. Dr. Neptune spent two weeks with his lather, several days in San Francisco on business, and stopped in Dallas. Texas, on his way home for a visit with Mr. anil Mrs. Floyd Brittson and J. R. Schaler. He reports that he had a very enjoyable trip. A new window glass has replaced the one that blew out several weeks ago at the Murray Hotel. o SPRING PAGEANT BY NORTH WARD One Hundred Pupils in Entertainment at H. S. Auditorium Friday On next Friday evening at eight o'clock in the high.school auditorium one hundred children of the North Ward school will give the beautiful spring pageant, “The Shut-up Posy.” Spring is sleeping. Who can awaken her? In this dramatic and musical pageant, Mother Earth after trying in vain to waken Spring, calls to her aidi the Angel of the Wild Things. The Angel tells Mother Earth, "Somewhere there is a flower, a plant, a bird, a living breeze, with mystic power to call her into lite. Send forth a call to everything of life, to come.” The following characters, interspersed with appropriate songs, approach to pay homage to sleeping Spring, trying to waken her. Mother Earth —Bernadine Schraluka Angel of the Wild Things—Dorothy Young Spring—Mary Madeline Coverdale Winds: South Wind, Harold Mel chi; North Wind, Thurman Ireland; East Wind, James Thomas; West Wind, Robert Gay. Field Daisy—Alice Brown Easter Rabbit —Richard Macklin Violet —Mary Jane Schafer Red Bird —Rolland Reppert Forget-me-not—Katherine Hower Jaek-ln-the-Pulpit—Raymond Baker Dutch Boy—Daniel Schafer Shut-up-Posy—Louise Haubold Woodsmen —Donavan Fish, Glenn Addy, Rex Sheets. Cecil Schafer. Frederick Evans, Edward Diehl. Welcome Address Glen Dickerson, Robert Odle, Earl McClure, Carl Sheets. Paul Hendricks (Continued on page six)

RESENT KILLING OF WORKMEN AT ESSEN

WAR ROMANCE -.-— T I ■ B >1 - — MISS IDA CLODELL SMITH (Pacific and Atlantic Photo.) , Mrs. Ida Clodell Smith, French wife ( of a doughboy, sued the mother of 1 her husband for damages. The 1 French girl, who married Myron D. Smith after she had nursed him back I to health, charged her mother-in-law caused her husband to desert her. Mrs. Smith has already obtained a verdict of $4,500, but the case has been appealed. The romance of the Smiths began on a French battleship, where she found him wounded. ( t —— RECEIVE COPY OF FINDINGS I Public Service Commission Sends Rulings on Telephone Petition A typewritten copy of the findings I of the Public Service Commission in 1 the matter of the petition of the Citizens Telephone company to repeal section six of a city ordinance providing that the telephone company shall pay a tax of twenty-five cents on each telephone pole placed on the streets or in the alleys within the city, has been received here, the Service commission, ruling that the tax cannot be charged to the telephone company. The commission review of the case fills six typewritten pages, in which the petition ot' the telephone company is listed, section 8655 Burns’ Revised Statutes 1914 is reproduced, and the following ruling is given: i "After having fully considered the i facts, and being fully advised as to the law affecting this proceeding, the Commission is of the opinion that the i Legislature has not delegated to the Cities and Towns any power which authorizes the inflicting upon a utility ‘lsuch as the petitioner, such additiona' i tax or burden as is provided for in the ordinance under consideration, un■lder the state of facts now existing, as 'above shown, and that such addet • burden upon the utility is reasonable. I being unauthorized, for the reason that it adds an additional burden to the patrons of the utility, and that such ordinance is. therefore, unlaw'.fill and void, so far as this petitioner | is concerned at this time. It is therefore ordered and adjudged by the public service eommissipn of Indiana, that the ordinance of tiie city of Decatur, enacted May 6, 1913. providing that utility companies must have a license before setting poles in the streets and must pay an annual charge of $.25 each for maintaining such poles in the street, is Inconsistent with the provisions of the Public Service Cimmission Act and is, therefore, unlawful, as to this petitioner. It is further ordered and adjudged, that said ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Decatur is unt reasonable, and that petitioner is [hereby relieved from the obligations imposed by said ordinance.” o — I August Elherding, of Preble, was a 4 business visitor in this city today. Peter Loshe, of east of the city, was in the city today.

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DEMAND FULL SATISFACTION FDR VICTIMS France Seeks Agreement With Great Britain on Reparations Question MAKE CONCESSIONS Seem to be Anxious to Renew the Franco-British Entente (United Press Service) Paris, April s—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The German government through its embassy here today delivered to France the most violent protest yet made against the occupation of the Ruhr. The note protests against the killing by French soldiers of thirteen workmen at the Krupp works in Essen on March 31' which is described by the note as “frivilous massacre.” The German government, the note concludes "demands full satisfaction for the victims and their relatives as well as the immediate relatives of the persons murdered to cover the French killed." London, April s—(Special to Daily Democrat) — France today sought agreement with Great Britain on the reparations question and an end of the Ruhr deadlock. The French are understood to have made important concessions with a view to renewing the Franco-British entente. Louis Louchettr, leading industrialist of France, conferred for two hours with Premier Bonar Law at Dawlish. For two days he has been in secret conferences with Stanley Baldwin, acting premier in Bonar Law's absence from London. Louclieur also spent last week end with former Premier Lloyd George. An important change in France's Ruhr and reparations policies is believed to have taken place. The British press has no details of Lottcheur's conversations with Bonr Law. Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, hut believes agreement between France and this country has been; reached on the following basis: 1 — Reduction of reparations to a considerably more modest figure than at present. 2— Reparations to be devoted to rehabilitation of devastated regions. 3 — Germany to assume the allies indebtedness to the United States and to receive an international loan. 4— Creation of a western Rhineland buffer state which will be part >f the Reich bus free from Prussian control. Valentino’s Wedding Is Held to be Legal (United Press S*»rvi<*«) Indianapolis, April s—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Rudolph Valentino and Winifred Hudnut may continue to dance their way through life happy in the knowledge that their marriage in Crown Point. Ind-, was not illegal after all. Attorney General Lesh today clarified the intent of an opinion he issued some days ago which held that the wedding of, "the sheik" and Miss Hudnut was illegal. o—. William Goelc, farmer. Union township, age 33 years to Alma Towers. Union township, age 20 years. *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ j • WEATHER ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦4+++ + +4+4O + t Unsettled tonight; probably rain or snow in east portion; colder in extreme south portion: Friday generally fair.