Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1923 — Page 1

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“BUCK” HOWARD IS LIKELY TO BE NEW COACH Indiana University Athlete Reaches Agreement With I School Officials FORWARD CONTRACT An All-Round Athlete; Was Graduated From University This Week Lorn C. "Buck” Howard, of Mondovi, Wisconsin, all-around athlete from Indiana University, in all probability will be the next athletic coach and physical training director of Decatur high school, it was announced today. Howard was graduated from the University this week and is now at his home in Wisconsin. An agreement is said to have been reached between him and the local school officials and a contract was forwarded to him yesterday. The signed contract is expected to be returned within a few days. Howard is a brother to the famous "Tubby” Howard, who was one of the greatest full-backs who ever played on the Indiana University football team. He finished at the state university in 1917. The younger Howard won his letter in football.' playing at the full-back position last fall. He is a large man, weighing in the neighborhood of two hundred pounds. i In addition to being a football player. Howard plays basketball and baseball and is well acquainted with the track and field sports. He is capable of glvifig excellent instruction in physical training, as well. He is a member of the Sigma Chi national college.fraternity and was a popular young man at the state university. Several prominent athletes have had their applications in for the position here and the school officials spent considerable time in investgating the merits of each. The new | director will succeed Coach A. G. "Tommy” Moore, who left at the close of school this spring to resume his studies in the University of Illi-; nois. Coach Moore spent two years i here and did very good work. Special attention will be paid to' the pupils who do not play on the . interscholastic teams during the i next school year, it is said, and those youths who need corrective exercises will receive a large amount of assistance. The work was started last year following the completion ot the new gymnasium and much good was accomplished. o Daughter Os Co. Coroner Mattax Seriously 111 Word was received here at noon today that Mrs. Harry Lynch, of Hartford City, is very ill following the birth of a child late Friday evening. Mrs. Lynch was formerly Miss Louise Mattax. daughter of Dr. L. L. Mattax. county coroner, of Geneva, and a sister of J. Lee Mattax, an employe c-f the Decatur General Electric plant, who resides on Tenth street. Mrs. I yneh was music instructor in the Hartford City school during the past year.

WELLS COUNTY SHERIFF ARRESTER FOR SPEED IN MICHIGAN, BUT HIS OFFICE WINS HIS RELEASE

Sheriff Noah 4'rauhiger, of Wells County, experienced Thursday afternoon some of the sensations that he | h#s furnished for quite a number of other persons, ’whom he has stopped on the highways on charges of speeding. He was driving out of the City of 1 Niles, Mich., Thursday afternoon, "ben he noticed another car approaching rapidly from the rear, occu- 1 Pied by two men, one of them a police- 1 nian in uniform, and he stopped to ! learn what was wanted. The other 1 •ar pulled up alongside and when Sheriff Frauhiger inquired what was wanted, the policejnan told him he : rould consider himself under arrest. What is the charge against ,me.”: asked the sheriff. Speeding in the city of Niles,” wag the response. "What are you doing, just picking °ut Indiana machines?” inquired I’rauhiger, pointing to a Michigan car occupied by three young men which

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GIRL SOUGHT % wf* MARIE GETSON Ch cago.—Chicago’s underworld is being combed for a 20 year old girl of the “stinker" type, wanted for the killing of Richard Tesmer, wealthy insurance man. The "slinker” girl killed Tesmer when be attempted to interfere w'lh the robbery of his wife by the girl. Tesmer and his wife were lield up in the rear of their home as they were putting their car in a garage. As Tesmer approached the “Blinker” girl giggled and shot Tesmer through the head. She escaped with a male companion in the Tesmer sedan. Police seek Marie Getson. paroled flapper bandit anil a gunwoman of record, of whose picture Mrs. Tesmer the widow, said: “If she had blue eyes it is the fiend who killed Richard." Police said she has blue eyes. State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe has completed plans for rushing the trial of the girl bandit and her companion immediately after they are captured, which is expected momentarily. Two assistants, one of whom just obtained the death penalty for a mur-. der, and the other who secured life imprisonment for two women charg ed with murder., have hern assigned to handle the prosecution. This preparation is being made “so that the first woman might be hanged in Illinois—the one most deserv ing of death on the gallows,'' SCHAFER CO. IS MAKING GROWTH Great Progress Is Shown At Regular Salesmen's Conference Today The regular conference of the salesmen of the Schafer Company, local manufacturers and jobbers, was held in the company's offices here yesterday and today. A representative of the Daily Democrat had an opportunity to visit the offices during the conference this morning. After being priviledged to meet the eighteen salesmen personally, anyone can begin to understand how it has been possible for this local concern to establish their business connections over such a wide territory and make the splendid progress which lias been made during the past three years, as the salesmen are all progressive, alert and fine young men, carefully trained (Continued on pave four*

Ihe had passed shortly before and which was driving past him at high speed as the officers stopped him. One of the officers stopped the Mich. Igan car, one remaining with Frauhiger. Noah says he began to laugh and the officer asked him what he was laughing about and Noah replied by asking if it was anything to cry over. The officers asked him his business and when they learned that they had an Indiana sheriff in charge, they conferred and told Noah to drive on. The local sheriff said that the roadwav on which he was driving on at a speed of about 35 miles, was evidently a suburban thoroughfare, tor he thought he was out of the city hmits. He said he told the officers he was no better than anyone else and was wi 1ing to go to poice court, but was told ,< ..a The sheriff did not remain to s what was done with the occupants of the other machine.

GREAT WHITE WAY SHOWS TO EXHIBIT HERE Will Furnish All Attractions For Firemen’s Convention .lune 2021 TO ARRIVE JUNE 17 Decatur Girl To Be Selected To Act As Queen Os The Carnival George E. Snyder, advance representative of the Great White Way Shows fl- in the city today and, with the assistance of Charles O. Meibers,' Jack Freidt and Clarence Stevens, a committee from the Decatur firemen's association, is making arrangements for the big firemen's convention to be] held here during the week of June 18. The Great White Way Shows have engaged to furnish all attractions during the convention. This is an aggregation consisting of eight shows, three rides, and twenty concessions, travelling in their own special train of fifteen cars. The shows will arrive in Decatur on Sunday, June 17, and immediately will begin erecting their tents and rides around the court house square. Everything will be in readiness for the grand opening on Monday, June 18. Billposters are busily engaged in posting pictorial and discriptive posters within a radius of fifty miles, announcing the various attractions, ami from all indications this will be one of the biggest celebrations ever held in this city. One of the preparatory arrangements for the convention is the selection of one of Decatur’s popular young ladies to act as queen of the carnival. Entries are open to all of the fair sex in the city and the contest will start on Monday. June 11 and continue until Thursday. June 21. Enties in the contest can be made by sending the name atrd adrttrss to the contest committee of the Fire Department and a representative will call on the individual with voting ballots. Fire departments from more than thirty cities, who are members of the Northwestern Indiana Volunteer and Industrial Firemen's Association, will attend the convention. The business session of the convention will be held on Wednesday evening, June 20 and the contests and big celebrations will occur on Thursday, June 21. Several bands will be here and a big parade will be held. WILL FURNISH A SUN RBOM Mr. And Mrs. C. A. Dugan Make Gift In Memory Os Dr. And Mrs. Dorwin In memory of Dr. and Mrs. T. T. Dorwin, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan of this city, will furnish one of the beautiful sun rooms in the Adams County Memorial Hospital, their gift being made known to A. J. Smith, chairman of the hospital trustees, today. This is the second gift of a sun room and the twentieth donation to be received for the furnishing of the bed and sun rooms in the hospital. Dr. Dorwin was one of the early physicians in this city and was known throughout this part of the state as one of the most progressive and learned men in the profession. He was also the owner of the drug store, which is now known as the Sm'ith, Yager & Falk drug store, located in the Dorwin block. Mrs. Dugan is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. T. Dorwin, and in memory of her parents the excellent gift of furnishing one of the spacious sun rooms in the hospital was made. I Os the thirty-one bed rooms and the three sun rooms in the hospital, twenty have already been furnished and the trustees are grateful to the donors Cor their splendid gifts. o ——— AMERICAN LEGION NOTICE There will be an important business meeting of the Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion in Legion hall, at 7:45 o'clock Monday evening. All members urged to be present. V. J. BORMAN, Adjutant

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday* June 9, 1923.

Large Crowd Saw Performance Os “Springtime” Another large audience witnessed the* home talent musical comedy, “Springtime," given under the auspices of the Woman's Club in the old gymnasium Inst night. This was the , second and last performance of the ! play the first having been given on Wednesday night. Many compliments have been given the members of the cast for the excellent manner In which they staged the production A nice sum of money was cleared by the Woman's Club Which will be used in furnishing a room in the new county hospital. Mr. H. Edmund Hill, the director representing the John B. Rogers Producing company, who directed the play, left early this morning for the company's office at Fostoria. Ohio, this being his last production for the season and Incl- ! dently the last one of his career, he having decided to return to the University of California next fall, and continue his study of law. Mr. Hill made a number of warm friends j during his brief stay here. ASSESSMENTS MAY BE RAISED Member Os State Tax Boad Indicates That Few Are Too Low Here County assessor william Zimmerman and members of the county board of review are wondering if the state tax commission will take the same 1 action regarding the assessment of ; personal property in this county as the state board did in Allen county, the Allen county assessor being notified that unless the values of household goods are increased 100 per cent., automobiles, 175 per cent, and farming impliments 10 per cent., a blanket increase would lie placed on ail personal property in the county. i In the opinion of Mr. Zimmerman : and auditor Martin Jaberg, tlie as- ■ sessment as turned in by the township assessors are nearer the average 1 requested by the state board than those in Allen county and they do not i believe that there is any reason for a horizontal increase here. James Showalter, representative <». tile state board, was here fimrsttay and conferred with County Assessor Zimmerman and the members of the board of review. He signified that the average assessment of automobiles I should be $225,00, the assessor's average being, $197.00; farming impliments, $160.00, an increase of $30.00 over the assessor's figures; sheep, SB.OO, instead of $7.00; brood sows, $25.00 Instead of $23.00; milch cows. $45.00 instead of $39.00. He i intimated, however, that if the increased assessments were not made and the values adjusted in the different townships, that a horizontal increase would be placed on all per- . sonal property in this county. Mr. Showalter was pleased witli the values placed on horses, the average being SBO.OO. He did not say anything about the assessment of household goods and it is presumed that these values are satisfactory. He expressed dissatisfaction witli the way a num--1 her of corporations made their reports and stated that he would reI turn to this city again. The members lot the board of review have been busy Jat work since June 4th going over I the assessments and making adjustments. Ben Hur iMemorial i The members ot the Hen Hur lodge will attend a memorial service ,to be held in the Christian church 'Sunday morning. The sermon will be preached by the pastor, Rev. Harry B Thompson. All members of the lodge are urged to attend the service. Gets Soldier Bonus I V. J. Borman, of this city, today received a check for $189.50 from the . state of lowa, as a bonus from that ' state for his services in the World War. Mr. Borman, whose home was •n lowa at the time he enlisted in the service, served for a period of thirteen months, part of which time was abroad. Weather Partly cloudy in east and north; showers probable in southwest portion tonight and Sunday; not much . change in temperature.

EIGHTH GRADE COMMENCEMENT NEXT THURSDAY One Hundred And Seventy Pupils Get Diplomas In Adams County PROGRAM ANNOUNCED Charles W. Whitman, Os Seymour, Is Speaker At Monroe Commencement Invitations to the seventeenth annual commencement of the Adams County Common Schools, to be held at Monroe on next Thursday. June 14. have been issued. The commencement exercises will start at 2 o’clock and will be held on the school ground at Monroe. The commencement was held in Decatur last year ami at Geneva two years ago. One hundred and seventy pupils will receive diplomas. This class is much smaller than last year's class which was the largest in the history of the county schools. There were two hundred and twenty-five graduates last year. Rev. Charles W. Whiteman, of Seymour. Indiana, will deliver the commencement address. Rev. Whiteman gave the class address last year and has spoken in Adams county on other occasions. The following program will be given at the commencement: Music, Invocation, Rev. S. 1. Zechiel Music, Orchestra Song. Poe Quartet Class Address, Rev. Whitman Song, Poe Quartet Presentation of diplomas, E. S. Christen, county superintendent of schools. Song. Poe Quartet Music, Orchestra Benediction. Rev. Zechiel The motto of the 1923 graduating class is, "The man who wins is the man who works.” The class colors are blue and gold. Monroe township has the largest number of graduates, there being twenty-eight pupils from that township who made passing gradse on the diploma examinations. The Class Roll Following are the names of the gradnates: WABASH TOWNSHIP ttohert L. Taylor. Berne, It. 1 Clifford Voder, Berne, Jt. t Nina Yoder. Berne, lt.'l Franklin Hofstetter. Oeneva, 1t.4 (Continued on page six I RANGERS WILL MEET ST BERNE Annual Meeting Os Group One Os Indiana Bankers Association Wednesday Bankers from ten counties in northern Indiana will meet at Berne next Wednesday for the fourteenth annual meeting of Group One, of the Indiana Banker’s Association. The meeting will he held in the Berne Co Building, beginning with the registration at 10 o’clock a. m. Approximately 200 bankers are expected to attend the meeting. The counties comprising group one are Adams. Allen, Stueben, LaGrange, Whitely Noble. Huntington. Koscuisko, DeKalb and Wells. Several noted bankers are on the program for addresses. The meeting will be opened at 11 o'clock with the bankers singing "America." The Rev. P. R. Schroeder, pastor of the Berne Mennonite church will give the invocation and Hon. T. A. Gottschalk, state- representative from this dis trict, will speak a word of welcome. Charles M. Niezer, president of the First National Bank, of Fort Wayne, will make a response. Following the reading of the minutes by Secretary J. D. Winteregg anil the appointment of the nominateng committee, there will be music and an address on "Banking Problems.” by Eben Wolcott, bank commissioner for Indiana, from Indianapolis. Interesting Addresses Following Mr. Wolcott's address, C. D. Billings, president of the Indiana Bankers Association, from Seymour, will speak on “Our Educationtl (Continued on page five)

LOVE WINS F J *** . ■ W/ William E. Doeller, Columbus, Ind., who won Miss Catherine Louise Littauer of New York, despite efforts of her parent, William Littauer. American millionaire, to block their wedding. Columbus. Ind.. Dispfte legal effort on the part ot' William Littauer, New York millionaire, to prevent the mar- ' riage of his daughter. Miss Louise Littauer. to William E. Doeller, local boy. the wedding has taken place, according to a cable received by Doeller's mother here from Paris. Doeller is a former service man. He was in the automobile business in New York. The father sought to prevent the marriage through the French courts. The couple first met in New York. Doeller followed the Littauers to Paris where he pressed his suit. S. A. 0. WHIPPLE DIES SUDDENLY Prominent Portland Attorney And Democratic Leader, Died Today Portland. Ind.. June 9—(Special to Daily Democrat)—S. A. D. Whipple, age 62 years, prominent attorney of this city and widely known as a democratic leader 'in the Eighth ( ongregational district, died suddenly here today. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Whipple came up town this morning anti was sitting in a restaurant when stricken. He was removed to a physilcan's office and later to the hospital, but he died shortly after 9 o'clock. The deceased was born on a farm ■in Randolph county. August 25, 1860. After teaching school for a number of years he began the study of law and had practiced in Portland for several years. At one time he served as assistant attorney-general of Indiana and was also city attorney of Portland. Mr. Whipple was an auth' or. also, having written a book entitled, “Arthur St. Claire, of Old Fort Recovery," which won for him much fame. Mr. Whipple is survived by his wife and three sons, John K. of Los Angeles; James D.. of West Baden; and Todd L. of Portland. No Funeral arrangements have been made. ■■ —Q ■——— — - Berne Boys Graduated Berne, June 9 —Raymond C. Wttlliman of this place is among the graduates who are scheduled to receive an "A. B.” degree from the University of Illinois at the fifty-second annual commencement next Monday. Austin Lehman and Edward I.iechty are among the forty graduates who j receive degrees from Bluffton Col- , lege Friday morning. Both young men have now completed a four-year's I college course which entitles them i to the “A. B.” degree.

.JAY COUNTY MAN MARRIES DAUGHER OF HIS FIRST WIFE WHO DIED ONLY ONE WEEK AGO

Portland, Ind., June 9 —Garfield Taylor. 42, of College Corner and his stepdaughter, Guylet Bailey, 21, were united in marriage at the home 1 of Squire A. G. Lewis, South Meridian street, Wednesday night. The girl is soon to become a mother and both contend that the unitorn child belongs to an Ellwood man, who is tnarried and has a family, according to Mr. Taylor, who says he mar ried the girl in order to keep her at home and to protect her. On last Monday morning the county probation officer, Mrs. Henley went to the Taylor home to take the Bailey

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WALL STREET I AGAIN ROCKED BY COLLAPSE Another Larue Curb Brokerage House Collapses During Investigation A “CLEANUP DRIVE” State’s Attorney Declares He “Will Make Wall Street Clean" (United Press Service) New York. June 9.— (Special to I Dally Democrat) —Spurred on by the collapse of two curb brokerage houses on successive days. Carl Sherman. states attorney general, today ' announced he would drive the “street" 1 out ot business. "We will make Wall street as clean 1 as a hound's tooth" Sherman declared emphatically today. I Impetous was given the Sherman inquiry by the collapse yesterday of L. L. Winkelman & Co., and of the i M. S. Wolfe Co., today, I Sherman is making his investigation ! under the Martin law which gives hint board inquisitorial power but does not provide him with the machinery for p osecution. He can, however, put shady brokerage houses out of business by supplying proof of his charges to the stale supreme court. The Winkelman case involved nearly $10,009,000 It was estimated today ' despite the fact that the receivership petition estimated liablilities at 51,750.000 and assets at $L590,000. New York. June 9.—Petition in i bankruptcy was filed against Wall street brokerage house today. Creditors of M. 8. Wolfe and Company. filed a petition to have that concern placed In the hands of a receiver. The creditors are Metropolitan Advertizing company. Dispatch Printing and Jlindery. and Joseph F. Brandenlterg. ...» - Bandits Wreck Train (United Press Service) Mexico City, June 9 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Mexican bandits wrecked a passenger train near Pueblo last night causing death of a number of passengers according to a dispatch to the newspaper Excelsior today. The brigands placed rocks on the track causing the enging to jump the rails. Members of the* train crew are reported to have been shot. Troups arc 1 pursueing the bandits. It is not known whether there were any foreigners aboard the train. * Mrs. A. Engle Dies Mrs. A. Engle, age 88 years, aunt of i Mrs. Jay Cline, ot' this city, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Levi Barger, at New Haven at 3 o’clock this morning. Mrs. Engle had been i blind for the last three years. Funeral services will he held from the residence at I o'clock Monday afternoon. E. L. OF C. E. TO HOLD ELECTION OF OFFICERS TUESDAY At the monthly business meeting of the Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor Tuesday evening at the home of the Misses Bertha and Zeltna Fuhrman, just north of the* I city, will be held the election of officers for the ensuing year. Those members who have no way to go are I asked to meet at the church at 7:30 ■ and they will be taken to the hornet in autos.

girl away, telling her she must not remain there. The girl had her clothing partly packed, ready to leave but . was prevailed upon to remain by Mr. Taylor, he says. Mr. Taylor's wife and small baby, ■ both of whom died last week were buried in the Boundary cemetery i last Sunday. According to Mr. Taylor his wife's last request was to take good care of the daughter. Ouylet, : hence the marriage. Taylor was wedded to the mother ■ of his new wife when the girl was ! hut an infant. Seven children were ' 1 born to them.