Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 210.

ctunty cauNGi l reduces budget fornext year Lowers Tentative Tax Levies Six Cents On Each One Hundred Dollars. CUT GENERAL EXPENSE Highway Repair Fund Also Lowered; Appropriations Reduced. The county council trimmed the estimates in the proposed budgets and reduced the tentative tax levies under their jurisdiction six cents on the hundred dollars before adjourning in continued session Tuesday afternoon. The ordinances fixing the tax levies for next year and the levying of funds for the different departments and offices were passed by the councilmen yesterday and their signatures affixed to the instruments today. The bridge fund levy was reduced OD e cent, the rate now being ten cents on the hundred dollars and the amount of money to be raised for the construction of ten new bridges an the repair of theirs will be, $41,70000. General Expenses Reduced The budget of general expenses was reduced $5.202.66. the levy being cut two cents on the hundred dollars being fixed at 22 cents, instead of 24 cents as first proposed. The amount to be raised in this fund will be $90.279.24. No change could he made in the bond and interest levy. the proposed rate of 4 cents on the hundred dollars being left to stand. This levy will yield. $16,600.00 the money being used for the payment of bonds and Interest on the A. J. Smith bridge north of Decatur and on the Adams County Memorial hospital. The highway repair fund w*s reduced to $102,000.00. the proposed levy being cut from 28 cents to 25 rents on the hundred dollars. The highway superintendent asked for (114,837.27 to keep the 750 miles of macadam road in repair during 1924. However, the highway department will have twelve thousand dollarh more next year than this year if the above rates are fixed as final by the state tax commission. The total reductions in the budgets. exclusive of the highway department amounted to approximately (12.302.66. The C.illig bridge in Washington township, estimated to cost, $5,500.00 was eliminated. Reductions were also made in several of the poor funds in the different townships. The expense of insanity inquests was reduced from (2.125.00 to $1,800.00. The appropriation for a deputy county clerk was reduced from $2,500. to $2,000.00. Other small cuts were made in the various ft’,nds bringing a total re* duction to the above figures. The appropriation for a county agent was left at $1,500.00. According to law ten or more property owners may file a remonstrance against the proposed tax levies and budgets, but as far as known no intentions along that line have been heard. Monday, September 24th is the last day on which such objections fan be filed. Other Appropriations The county council also appropriated $6,142.67 from the general fund with which to pay a number of unpaid bills and allowances to the hoard of guardians and other departments. including $200.00 for the salary of a county probation officer, which officer, judge J. C. Sutton will appoint. Mrs. William Soulier Died This Morning Mrs. William Spuller. 70, died at her home, one and one-half miles east of this city at 10:10 o’clock this morning, following an illness of four weeks of paralysis and heart trouble. Mrs. Spuller would have been 71 years old in November. Besides the husband, the following children survive: Mrs. Bertha Eaton and Miss Flossie Spuller, both, at home, and Mrs. Otto Johnson, of east of this city. One sister, Mrs. Oss Wolf, of east of the city, also survives. Funeral services will be held from ’he United Brethren church in this '’’y at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon. Short services will be held from the residence at 12:30 o’clock.

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Bluffton Young Man In Japan Earthquake Zone Bluffton, September 5. —Pau) Gordon, 25, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. (Gordon, 618 West Market street, this city, is in the earthquake stricken ‘section of Japan, and his parents are anxiously awaiting word us to his welfare. He is a graduate of Earlham college, Richmond, Ind., and is principal of the American School at Tokio, which was in Jhe midst of the catastrophe. He went to Japan as a Sieacher tjbr the {American Friends board of foreign missions. OPERATORS AND MINERS DISCUSS NEW PROPOSALS Gov. Pinchot Meets Delegates Behind Closed Doors This P. M. A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK More Hopeful Atmosphere Prevades Conference Chamber Today. Harrisburg. Pa., Sept. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —New proposals for breaking the existing anthracite deadlock were discussed when Governor Pinchot met miners and operator delegates here this afternoon. The union and mine owner representatives went into conference with Governor Pinchot behind closed doors in the executive parlor of the capitol shortly after *2 p. m. Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A more hopeful atmosphere pervaded the executive chambers in the capital today as the deadlocked miner and operator conferees re-assembled to meet again , with Governor Gifford Pinchot. The general belief is that the ' wrinkles in the Pinchot peace plan may somehow or another be ironed out and bring an end soon to the anthracite coal strike —now running its fifth day. o Mrs. Eugene Runyon who fell down the cellar stairs several days ago is improving and was able to sit up for a little while this afternoon. FUNERALFOR DR. MAGLEY FRIDAY Services To Be Conducted From Home and Lutheran Church In Afternoon. The funeral of Dr. L. K. Magley, who died at his home on Winchester street yesterday afternoon from acute dilitation of the heart, will be held from the home Friday afternoon at one o’clock. After the services the body will be taken to the Lutheran Evangelical church where another short service will be held. Interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Reverend A. W. Hinz will be in charge. Dr. Lloyd K. Magley was born tn Adams county. October 15. 1893. He has lived in this county his entire life with the exception of the two years he was in the United States army. He was educated in the public school of the county and later, studied to become a veterinary surgeon. Dr. Magley enlisted in the U. S. army, August 28, 1917, and served as a second lieutenant, first lieutenant 'and later captain for the two followi ing years, when he was honorably discharged. He served with the Vet(erinary Hospital Unit number six, and was overseas for a period of eight months. Dr. Magley had been in comparative good health until yesterday morning when he suffered considerably from cramps. Death came at ’3:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon. 1 Dr. Magley is survived by his wife, I Mrs. Lueila Magley, a daughter, Vi'ola, aged 5, his father and mother, 1 Mr. and Mrs. S. S .Magley. one sister, Mrs. Maude Mahan, of Monmouth, and a host of other relatives and friends who mourn his death.

WHERE NOTHING REMAINS BUT RUINS 1 — 11l I. I H W —W— .IW. 11l I, I. 40* I" WWW w •'> I L * ___ I J K- J Nagoya, Japan, a city of 620.000 inhabitants, is reported to have been almost completely destroyed by the earthquake and fire which followed.

TWENTY OUT FOR PRACTICE High School Football Candidates Hold First Workout of Coming Season. Twenty candidates for the D. H. S. football team turned out for the initial practice of the season yesterday evening on Ahr's Field. The field has been disced and levelled but the ground was soft yesterday, due to the heavy rains. Coach "Buck" Howard put the candidates through a series of conditioning exercises and worked on a few fundamentals of the game yesterday evening. Thu squad contains several promising looking recruits in addition to the veterans from last year’s first team and a number of the sec-ond-string players.. Among the veterans who were working out yesterday evening were Bud White, Swearinger, Jack Teeple, Mills, Farr and Rex. Captain George Wittgenfeld was not present for the practice yesterday. Wicky spent the summer in California and has not returned home yet. A card was received from him last week saying he had started home and was 400 miles from Los Angeles, but nothing further has been heard. His parents say that he has not informed them that he has started home. In the meantime other members of the squad. Coach Howard and the fans are anxiously awaiting the return of the big blonde end, who is one of the most valuable players on the squad. Coach Howard was assisted in coaching yesterday evening by Joe Sloat, of Akron, Ohio, who was one of the star halt-backs on the Indiana University team last fall and who will be one of the veterans on the squad this fall. Sloat spent con-' siderable time with Bud White, teaching the big boy the finer points in the art of punting. Don Farr and Milt Swearinger were catching and run-| ning back the punts. Bud was getting away several nice punts yesterday evening, for this early in the season. More candidates for the team are expected to turn out as the season gets under way. Principal Paul W. I jnton said today that the schedule still stands as it was published in the Daily Democrat recently. No word has been received from Portland in regard to the opening game on September 29, but it is thought this game will be played in this city. Mr. Linton stated that he had written to Fort Wayne South Side High School in regard to the game scheduled with that school for October 6. The Fort Wayne school published its schedule recently and Decatur was not includ ed on the card, the date of October 6 being left open. As the South Side is in the Wabash Valley Conference with Decatur it is thought that the two team will meet this fall. The schedule likely will be definitely arranged within a few days, as all of the schools soon will open. — o — CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: Sept. $1.01%; Dec-. $1.05%. May $1.11%. Corn: Sept. 85%c; Dec. 67%c; May 68%c. Oats: Sept. 37%c; Dec. 39%c; May 42%c.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 5, 1923.

Henry B. Goss Dies Funeral services were held from the Pleasant Grove ihuch Monday afternoon. for Henry B. Goss, died I at the home of his grandson, Charles | Wheeler, in Wabash township, last Saturday. Mr. Goss had been ill for 1 about four weeks with kidney trouble Surviving are one son. Charles Goss in Adams County; two sisters. Miss Salor.e and (\ireline Ridenour, both ~ of Columbus, Ohio. DIES AT HOME > NEAR WILLSHIRE _ Mrs. Marv Emma Case Ex- , pires Following Long Illness; Funeral Thursday. Mary Emma Case. 60. died at her home three miles southwest of Will- . shire, Ohio, at 5:30 o'clock last Mon- . day morning, following an illness of I more than four years' duration of I dropsey and complications. Funeri al services will be held from the lire- . them church in Willshire at 2 o'clock i Thursday afternoon with interment in . the Willshire cemetery. J Mrs. Case, a daughter of Hugh and , Cordelia Bay, was born in Adams county, September 12, 1862. She . spent her entire life in this county. Mrs. Case was married twice and was the mother of ten children, seven of > whom proceeded her in death. Her . first husband. James Ault, preceded . her in death also. She is survived i by her second husband, WarrenJ. , Case; the following children: Charles Ault, of Decatur; Mrs. Alfred Farter, i of Huntington; and Elmer Ault, of . Kalamazoo. Michigan; one step-son, ,! Calvin Case, of Fort Wayne; one step-daughter, Mrs. Jacob Shell, near , Willshire; and one sister, Mrs. Will- , iam Brodbeck, of near Bobo. | o ‘ Loss In Japan Estimated At Ten Billion Dollars Pekin, China. Sept. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A wireless message from Osaka says the damage by quake and fire in Tokio is estimated at twenty billion yen (equal to ten | billion dollars.) MONROE HOME STORE IS SOLD J. A. Hendricks Sells Establishment To J. IL Painter, Os Bluff ton, Indiana. Monroe, Sept. 5, —(Special To Daily Democrat) —A deal has just been consumated whereby J. H. Painter, pur'chased the Monroe Home Store from J. A. Hendricks. Mr. Painter took charge of the store on Monday. The i new owner and wife are both ex- | perienced business people ami bust- • lers, and they will, no doubt, enjoy a large share of the patronage which was accorded to Mr. Hendricks so liberally. Mr. Hendricks announced that he would conduct the store under the old name—The Monroe Home Store. Mr. and Mrs. Painter will locate at this place and they come highly recommended as worthy citizens.

NEW OFFICE IS CREATED HERE County Council Appropriates Sum for a County Probation Officer. —— The Adams County Council yesterday made an appropriation of S2OO to pay the salary of a probation officer for the county for the remainder , of this year, and an appropriaiton of S6OO for the same office for the year I 1 1924, thereby creating a new office in this county. The appropriation was asked for in a special request filed (with the council by Judge Jesse C. I Sutton, tff the Circuit court. Adams county has not had a proba- . tion officer in the past, but in recent years there has been a noticeable need for such an officer. The duty of sucl) an officer is to investigate juven’.ie cades and extend, supervision to delinquent boys and girls, therebv saving them from crime and from being sent to reform schools, i i Before making the request for the appropriation, Judge Sutton wrote '( letters of inquiry to the judges of nearby circuit courts, in regard to the probation officers in those counties. Judge Frank W. Gordon, of Bluffton, replied in part: “Our present generation of children are the people of the country in a few years, and the amount spent to prevent some juvenile later being tried on a felony charge is money well spent. I believe that a juvenile officer for the proper handling of juveniles is indespensible.” The letters from the different judges ishowed that the following appropriat'ons are made for a probation officer each year: Wells county. $900; DeKalb county, $1,200; Noble county $600; Jay county $750; Blackford county and Huntington county also have probation officers, but the , amount of the appropriation was not ’ given. When Judge Roscoe D. Wheat I assumed the bench in Jay county, . | that county had twenty-two children in the orphans' home at Winchester , and those children were costing the county a total of $6,000 a year. Since then the probation officer, working with Judge Wheat, has succeeded in reducing this number to three, and they cost the county only S6OO a year saving the county a total of $5,400 a year. When a boy under 16 years or a girl under 18 years of age. becomes delinquent, the probation officer is , notified and at once begins yi investigation of that child’s home life and training and keeps the child under supervision for some time, before the child is brought into juvenile court. In a majority of cases, it is said, the child is reformed and no stain is placed on his character. Judge Sutton stated today that he would appoint an officer within a few i days. He also stated that there were I a number of cases in the county at •' present, that needed investigation by a probation officer. Weather Indiana — Generally fair tonight and Thursday, except possibly showers in extreme south portion; not much change in temperature.

Catholic High Team To Practice This Evening Sults were issued to the candidates for the Catholic high school football I team yesterday evening and the first j practice will be held on Hos.se Field .this evening. The squad has been equipped with new suits and paraphernalia. Several candidates will try cut for the team. France Confer will coach the team whi< h will be the first one ever to represent the local Catholic high school. MUSSOLINI IS CHALLENGED BY LEAGUE TODAY Italian Premier Meets Resolute Challenge From League of Nations. WILL FIGHT TO FINISH League Members Will Fight To See Which Is Stronger, the League or Italy. Geneva, Sept. 5. —With the fate of the league of nations at stake the league council today resolutely met the challenge of Premier Mussolini. After an Italian representative had reiterated Mussolini's claim that the | council was incompetent to consider the Italo-Greek dispute, the matter was brought up for a discussion. ' Delegates to the assembly declare this constitutes open acceptance of the gauge for a fight to a finish if necessary, to prove which is stronger, the league or Italy. Other delegates say that if Mussolini persists in attempting to take, matters out of the hands of the league council, the subject will be brought ' up on the floor of the assembly. Lord Robert Cecil declared Italy's refusal to accept certain articles of the league covenant providing for its intervention in the present instance would shake the peace of Europe. | The council decided to resume on Thursday consideration of the GrecoI Italian dispute over the slaying of. five Italian commissioners at Janina' and subsequent punitive measures initiated by Mussolini after which a (Continued on Page six) _o CITY COUNCIL HELD MEETING Short Business Session Held Last Night; Several Matters Are Disposed Os. A short business session of the council was held last evening and several matters were disposed of. | The petition of L. Art Blossom for an electric light at the corner of Jackson and Eleventh streets was filed and referred to the electric light committee. The monthly report of Ed L. Augenbaugh, city street commissioner, was filed and referred to the street sewer . committee. |, A motion was made referring the' matter repairing the retaining wall ( and the alley alongside of the A. J. Smith property on Madison street to ( the street and sewer committee with . ’the power to act. It is said that the will is caving in and that the alley ( is in need of repair. I Oscar Hoffman, local architect, submitted the iilans anil specifications ( to the council for the new addition to the power plant. The plans wore adopted by the councilmen. Proposals from contractors will be received by the city council at a special | session on September 'llth. The ( new addition will house the two new boilers which are being installed at the city plant. It is hoped to have the new boilers and equipment at the ‘ plant in operation by October Ist., (about that time the Holland-St. Louis ‘ Sugar factory begins operations on its annual fall campaign. The finance committee allowed a number of bills and the session adjourned. The council will meet again on September 10th for the purpose of considering and adopting the budget and fixing the tax levy for next year.

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FATE OF MANY AMERICANS IN JAPAN UKNOWN Reports of Casualties Still Vary Greatly; Relief Ships Arrive. RED CROSS RESPONDS Food and Supplies Being Rushed To Scene; Communications Restored. San Francisco, Sept. s.—Fate of him- . dreds of Americans who wore caught in the areas of Japan devastated by 273 earthquake shocks Saturday and Sunday still was undetermined today. Many were reported dead in the smoking ruins of Tokio, Yokohama, and other coastal communities obliterated in the catastrophe. With arrival of American relief ships at Kobe and establishments of new lines of communication into the ruined districts, efforts were being made today to locate the United States citizens who are unaccounted for. Dispatches from Osaka and Kobe placed a first estimate of foreign dead at 500. Estimates of the total casualties vary greatly. A dispatch filed at Osaka at 4:40 p. m., today, I and the Tokio dead at 100,000. These I and 100,000 injured. The Japanese . home office, according to a wireless | message received at San Francisco, plated the Yokohama dead at 110,000 and the Tokio dead at 10,0000. These figures do not take into account those who perished in other towns, that were destroyed . Admiral Anderson, commanding the I’nited States Asiatic fleet, which is approaching Yokohama, made a radio report to the 12th naval district at i San Franqisco, in which he said near- [ ly 25Q.000 were believed to have been killed. Fresh stories of death and disaster come to light as refugees who escaped the terrors of the catastrophe reached the outside world. Some are ' apparently too overcome to talk. A ’ message to the British foreign office i said foreign stragglers from Tokio had reached Kobe, but that details ’ were unavailable. Others who arriv'ed at Kobe from Yokohama told of collapse of the American naval hospital in which the commander was injured and some of the staff reported killed. Recovering from the first shock of the tragedy the Japanese nation and relief organization throughout the world were bending efforts to rush food and medical supplies to the ravaged areas. | Huge liners were converted into hospital shops; the Empress of Canada was reported approaching Shanghai with several hundred wounded, who could not be cared for in the over-crowded hospitals of Kobe and Osaka. The first contingent of the American Asiatic squadron which hurried from China to help in the rescue work, put in at Kobe on its way to Yokohama. Red Cross Responds Washington. Sept. s.—An overwhelming response to the Red Cross appeal for a $5,250,000 fund for Japanese relief was indicated in teleprams received at Red Cross headquarters today. Officers estimated today that sl,000,000 has already been subscribed Incomplete reports from New York showed that $121,000 had been pledged there alone. The formal campaign for the fund was launched by all red cross chapters throughout the nation today. Estimates May Be Exaggerated (United Press Service) New York, Sept. 5. First Indications, as carrind by the United Press, . Tuesday, that the early estimates of , the number of dead in Tokio wore greatly exaggerated, were officially confirmed from both American and Japanese sources today. While the world was staggered by reports of 350,000 dead, United Press dispatchers on Tuesday brought the first word indicating that those estimates would prove to be overdrawn. Early today, the Osaka correspondent of the United Press reiterated yesterday's dispatch and stated that the deaths in Tokio were now estimated at 15,000. (Continued on Page six)