Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 211.

RAIN BRINGS devastated fire dies down MAKING RESCUE WORK POSSIBLE Wild. Wierd Scenes and Stench of Corpses Becomes Unbearable. FIRE DAMAGE GREAT Total of 250,000 Houses In Tokio Destroyed; Casualty List On the Decrease. Bv Staff correspondent of United Press and Osaka Mainichi (Copyright 1923 by United Press) Tokio, Sept. 6—(By courier, Sept. s)—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A merciful rain has fallen upon Tokio. Like an angry beast resisting efforts to drive it from a feast of human bodies, the great fire which has swpet the city for three days and three nights, hissing and enveloping the wreckage in clouds of steam has finally died down. This enables work of rescue to proceed in a more orderly fashion and scores of the injured are being brought into relief stations. Wild, wierd and fantastic are the scenes as the people of the city endeavor to adjust themselves to conditions of the disaster. Slender youths walk through the streets, carrying big Japanese swords aiding police and military guards in maintaining order and asistlng in the search for bodies. The stench bf corpses is becoming almost unbearable. Among the ruins of burned houses are half incinerated bodies. Soldiers have taken over the task of endeavoring to save the city from the consequences that might naturally follow such conditions. Burials are impossible and the soldiers are bending their efforts toward hastening cremations. American Ambassador Woods ahd other foreign representatives and their staffs, whose embassies or legations were destroyed or damaged, are being furnished temporary off.ces in the British embassy. Your correspondent, co-operating with the war office has just completed a three days investigation and check of events. The record shows there were 612 separate shocks felt iu Tokio from noon Saturday to six a. m on Monday. The ministers had dinner with the permier. following the conference. The menu was simple in the extreme The premier and his guests had plain cooked rice and pickled plumbs. This is the same food that the refugees, throughout the stricken area are eating. Meantime, reports of disaster .on disaster came into the government leaders. Thousands of refugees rushed toward the river, crowding the bridges. The weight proved too much for one bridge. It was jammed to capacity and collapsed. Two thousand persons, it was estimated, were on it. All were thrown into the water and a large percentage was believed to have drowned. Women and children, torn from: • heir families, ran screaming along the streets. Mothers, hysterical and searching for their children, dashed madly through the stunned, half-crazed throngs. Children ran here and there with flames about them in search of parents. Immediately following the quake, fires sprang up in every direction. No less than 15 big blazes were counted, breaking out simultaeously. As Saturday and Sunday passed and the fires continued, the smell of burned human flesh permeated the air. The stench from unheeded bodies, the scenes of dead littering •he streets, the cries of the wounded, the pleas of the dying, touched •he sences with sights and sounds •hat one who walked through the streets of this city of the dead, ran never forget. The Dutch, Spanish and Swiss em(Continued on Page six)

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I RELIEF TO JAPAN TODAY iWeishaupt To Address Bluffton Rotary Club I Bluffton, Sept. 6 —Howard) Wist* ’ haupt, the "pep man," will make an I address before the Rotary club FriI day evening of this week. Howard is well known In this city, where he II spent a great part of his young mani hood, and his friends will be pleased to know that lie is at the head of a 11 concern In Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. ! Wisehaupt has made talks on "business" in practically every state in I the union and is highly regarded in the “business doctoring” world. WOMEN DONATE CANNED FRUIT — i Donations To Be Received for Hosnital September j 20th, 21st and 22nd. Mrs. John S. Peterson, chairman of ' the Woman's Franchise League, which is sponsoring the campaign to ' obtain a can of fruit or jelly from , every housewife in the county for the' i county hospital stated today Ihat the i donations will be received at the Niblick Building, corner of Second and ' Monroe streets, on September 20th, 21st and 22nd. The canned fruits and jellies will be placed on display in the building and on Monday. September 24th, will be taken to the Adams County hospital, where the i patients and the sick will enjoy them. Mrs. Peterson also stated that such gifts as potatoes, apples, grape juice and other fruits and vegetables would be received by the women and donated to the hospital. Central receiving places in the towns in the county will be designated it is thought and the gifts from these places received on certain days and then brought to Decatur to be taken to the hospital. Hundreds of women have signified a willingness to donate a can of fruit, jam, jelly or tasty spread and those in charge of the campaign artv confident that a variety of donationtions will be received. If possible the women in the county are requested to bring their donations to the Niblick building on the above three days and thus save time in gathering them. No one can tell when they will be a patient at the hospital and a dish of home canned fruit or a spoon full of jelly would taste mighty good. SHIPS CARRYING FOOD TO JAPAN Steamers Leave Seattle and Portland; To Send California Rice Crop. • United Press Service) San Francisco, Sept. 6 —(Special to. Daily Democrat) — Steamers from Seattle and Portland are steaming today towart, T<jkio carrying relief supplies for stricken Japan. Th's armada of mercy will be augmented envoyage by steamers from San Francisco and from other coast ports. The entire rice crop of California is to be shipped to Japan. The naval supply ship Arctic is loading supplies at Mare Island, the naval station in San Francisco bay. Sufficient food to last 28,000 people for thirty days will be carried on this one vessel. The Vega, another naval supply ( ship, is unloading its regular cargo preparatory to taking on relief supplies. Thq Japanese colony here feels fear for the fate of Princess Magako Nuni, who was to have become the bride of the Prince Regent Hirchite next month. No word has come regarding the princess. —o Mr. and Mrs. Jesse V. Essey, of Monroe, entertained at Sunday dinner j for Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gross and children, of Springfield, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. John Gross, of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. John K. Nelson, of Monroe.

ADAMS COUNTY RED CROSS TO AID JAPANESE I To Do Its Share In Raising | Fund for Area Covered By Earthquake. FREE WILL OFFERINGS No Canvassing To Be Done At Present; Amount of Quota Not Known. I. The Adams County chapter of the American Red Cross will do its part in raising funds for the strickened I area in Japan, according to ('. L. Waiiters, chairman of the Adams county | chapter. No word has been received irom the National headquarters as to i what this county’s quota is. but the local chapter is making plans to start the campiagn at once. Voluntary contributions will be accepted at once at the Winnes Shoe store of this city. Miss Anna Winnes, secretary of the Adams county chap- ! ter will have active charge of the fund. People who wish to give clothing and other needed things other than mon ey may do so is was announced, but the cash contributions are more desirable. Other Campaigns Started 1 Other counties in this section of the state have already started their campaigns and large sums of money have alredy been raised in this state to assist the poverty and hunger stricken people of Japan. Marion county start »d a campaign yesterday to raise $50,000 as its share of the immense fund that is being raised. No canvassing for contributions will be made by the local chapter at present, and all donations will be free will offerings. The local Red Cross officers stated ; this morning that the Amercian Red Cross is the only authoriaed body in the United States to receive funds for this purpose, and wish to warn people about giving to strangers with the intentions of contributing to the Japan fund. Money will be received by Miss Winnes a tany time during the day for the next several weeks, and the local officers are desirous o getting a large fund so that Adams County can fare good with the other counties of the state that have given so liberally to the cause. Wells County Man Shot Self Five Times; Lives Bluffton, Sept. 6.—George Blair, 60, farmer, ..living near Petroleum; attt to commit suicide at 5 o'clock tills morning by shooting himself in the left side of his head I five times with a rifle. Only one of the shots penetrated the skull, and Blair is living today to tell the tale. Blair went into his barn and fired one shot. As this shot failed to I produce the desired effect, he fired four more. He was found sitting in the barn with the rifle in his arms. , Physicians say he will recover. Jone Man Killed; Six Hurt — (United Press Service) Martinez, Calif.. Sept. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—One man was hilled, six injured and the nitroglycerine warehouse of the Hercules Powder company destroyed today when a ton of nitroglycerine exploded at the plant at Hercules, a few miles from this city. The force of the explosion shook the country side for miles around. Windows in houses and other buildings near.the plant were smashed in. —o Walb Sends Sympathy | To Governor McCray i (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Sept. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—An expression of sympathy for Governor McCray as a result of his financial difficulties, was issued today by Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman. - — I Auto Struck Large Hog While returning home from Bluff ■ ton at an early hour this morning, Curt Johnson drove his automobile into a hog, two miles east of that city The machine was badly damaged and was taken back to Bluffton.

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Fined In Fort Wayne John Gaffer, of Decatur, paid a fine of $25 and was sentenced to 15 days In the Fort Wayne lockup Friday following a collision in which the car i he was driving smashed into a mai j chine driven hy Fred H. Brown, of • .Montpelier. The accident occurred near Fort Wayne. Gaffer was arrested on a charge of driving a car while • Intoxicated. A bottle of white mule was found in his possession by the Fort Wayne police. DEATH CAUSED BY GUN SHOT Mystery Surrounds Donald Andrews’ Death; Funeral Friday. Funeral services for Donald An- , drews, 25. son of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Andrews, of Monroe, who died in > Westville, Ohio. Monday night, will be held front the Monroe Methodist church, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The remains arrived in Fort Wayne yesterday evening and were taken to the parents' home in Monroe. A bullet wound through the heart, caused Mr. Andrews’ death. The exact manner in which Mr. Andrews met death has not been learned. He had been employed as a telegraph lineman for the Pennsylvania railroad company in Ohio for the last four years. On September 27, 1922 he was married and hail been living in Westville since that time. Last Saturday he and his ' boss came to Westville to spend Labor Day and on Monday night they planned to leave Westville for a camp along the line where they were to 1 work this week. Shortly before train time, Andrews left his boss and returned to his home. A few minutes later he was dead. Mrs. Andrews stated that she and her mother were sitting in the house 1 when they heard a shot in the rear of the house and found her husband lying on the ground, with a bullet hole through his heart. He died almost instantly. it is said. About twenty feet from his body a revolver was found. His boss declared that Andrews never carried a gun and the shooting is a mystery. Donald Andrews was born in Monroe, August 22. 1898. He was a popular young man and had a large circle of friends. Besides his wife, he is survived by his parents; tw,. brothers, Hobert of Fort Wayne, and Charles, at home: three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Rich of south of Monroe; Mrs. Lielah HotTman. Monroe and Miss Veda Andrews, at home; two grandmothers, Mrs. Jennie Rainier, of this city and Mrs. Sarah J. Andrews, of Fort Wayne; five uncles and four aunts. OPERATORS AND MINERS PARLEY Final Concessions of Both Sides DiL'ussed; No Decision In Sight As Yet. By PAUL R. MALLON (United Press Service) Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 6.—The final concessions of anthracite operators and miners were discussed for more titan two hours and a half today at a meeting between the two parties and Governor Pinchot. When the session recessed for lunch there was no indication that either side had receded front its pisition. The ultimatum of the operators is that the strike must be settled on no more than a flat 10 percent wage increase basis; the contract sh. not run longer than 1925; the union check-off cannot be granted; disputed points must be left to arbitration. The “final word" of the miners is that day laborers must receive assurances in dollars and cents of how much of an increase they are to receive. o__ Bill Linn and Dick Durkin attended the fair at Van Wert yesterday afternoon. Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, with ipcal thunder showers; cooler.

COUNTY AGENT J ' RE-APPOINTED : FOR TWO YEARS L. M. Busche Re-Appointed By County Board of Education Here Yesterday. OTHER MATTERS UP > Schools In County To Close For Thanksgiving and Day Following. L. M. Busche was re-appointed county agricultural ngent for Adams | county by the county board of edu- ■ cation, in session at the office of the' county superintendent. E./ S. Christen yesterday. The appointment; was made for a period of two years. j 1 The last legislature provided that 1 I a re-appointment of a county agri- { cultural agent could be for one or' two years and the local board of . education decided to make the ap- ( pointment for the longer term. The I salary will be the- same as paid dur- , ing the past year, namely, $1,590 from the county and SI,OOO from the state. Mr. Busche has been county agent of Adams county since his gradtiaI tion from Purdue University a few: ( years ago. He is a native of this' . county, having been raised in the 1 ! vicinity of Monroe, and he has linen 1 I very successful in promoting the in-1 , forests of the farmers in the c ounty, j Ho if busy every day from morning 1 I until night and his services are in . big demand throughout the county. Several other matters were taken I ( up by the l board of aducation yesterday. The board allowed two vaca- ( tion clays for the teachers and pupho in the county, permitting them to dismiss school on Thanksgiving Day: I and tile day following. The hoard , decided to make is compulsory that I . all teachers in the county attend the I annual meeting of the Northeast* rn Indiana Teachers' Association to be held in ort Wayne on October 12 and 13. Several matters pertaining to, the opening of school were l discussed . also. Missionaries Are Safe Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 6.—A cable- , gram received here today by L. C. Willis, treasurer of the churc h mission ; board, announced that all mission-' aries of the Southern Presbyterian, church in the earthquake area of Japan were safe. ■■ • —— Preacher Tied To Rails Waldron, Ind., Sept. 6.—Rev. U .3. Johnson, Baptist minister here, warfound tied hand and foot to a rail of the interurban tracks here today by the crew of an interurban car. Rev. Johnson said he was seized 1 by a mob bound hand and foot and tied to the tracks. When he was found by the crew he had wriggled off the track but was still bound to the rail. z The minister was unable to identify any of his assailants. He was recently charged, with arson in connection with the burning of his church here. Allen County Prosecutor Offered State Position 'United Press Service) Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Louis Crosby. Allen county prosecuting attorC ney has been offered a place on the Indiana Public Service commission, in succession to E. M. Blessing, re-[ cently resigned, it was reported here, today. Crosby would neither confirm nor deny h's acceptance of the post bit admitted having it under considera•lon. The prosecuting attorney went to Indianapolis todtajt to confer with the governor. Crosby is 32 years of age. •. — Preliminary Teachers’ Institute This Week The preliminary teachers institute for the teachers of the southern half | of the county will be held at Berne on Friday. The preliminary institute 1 , for the teachers in the northern half of the county will be held in Deca-' tur on Saturday.

ITALY’S CHALLENGE TAKEN UP BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Case Funeral Held At I Willshire This Afternoon Funeral services for Mary Emma Case, who died at her home south- ', west of Willshire, Ohio, Monday I mornin;', were held from the Brethren church in Willshire at 2 o'clock! tins afternoon. Mrs. Case’s first hits-, band. James Ault, is not deceased, at was stated yesterday, but resides with his son. Charles, in this city. , The second husband. Warren J. Case, 'and three children survive, two stepI children and one sister, also survive, I WIN PRIZES AT i VAN WERT FAIR — Adams Co. Stock .Makes Fine Showing; Fair To Continue Over Saturday. Adams county stock raisers are giving a good account of themselves at the Van Wert County fair this j week. Four loi al men won prizes ion their animals yesterday, an.l every 1 animal entered from this county wot. I a. prize. Henry Deincr won first pr'ze on j his three-ycar old mare .'♦nd first | on his matched team. aye Gundei ! won first on his l.elgium stallion and today he is showing the b’.g stallion for the grand championship. Theodore Brady won third prize on his two-year-old colt and second on his three-year-old mar ■. Fred Ahr j won first prize on '.'is Holstein heifer < alf and second prize on his Holstein I cow There are a large number of entries in all departments and the show-i ing maJe hy Adem, county stork is I considered very good. The management of th. Ven Wert fair telephoned the Daily Democrat this morning, saying that the fair would be continued on Saturday thi week, owing to the fact that rain interfered with Wednesday’s program. It began raining at the fair grounds about 10 o’clock yesterday morning and rained hard for nearly an hour. I while up town, a half mile away, it did not rain any. It was impossible 'to hold any races yesterday. Each day’s raring program will be postpon ; ed one day, Wednesday’s races being held this afternoon. There are 142 race horses entered in the speed events. The fair is being will attended and many Adams county and Decatur people are visiting the grounds. • THINK BERNE PEOPLE SAFE. —— Two Former Residents of, Adams County In Japan During Earthquake. Apprehension has been felt for the 1 safety of two former Berne men, wife it was at first thought might have been in the districts of Japan, which suffered greatly in the earthquakes of last Saturday. The two men are Noah B. Gilliom and Joe F. Habeg- 1 ger. although it -T. thought that both ! men are safe. I Mr. Gilliom is at Kobe, Japan ns a, ; representative of the American Trad- 1 I ing Co. He was sent to that country i about four years ago. He had been I assigned to Tokio, but later was! I tran: furred to Shanghai. China and' then to Kobe, Japan. Kobe is very mar Osaka and ac- • cording to the newspapers, it is just, j outside the district where the great, damage was' done. It is quite certain that he escaped injury, although he was undoubtedly near the devas-j tated area. Joe Ilabegger, who is returning frern Russia, had intended to travel. via Siberia, China and then perhaps to sail from Yokohama. Japan. It is thought that he undoubtedly had left ■ that city before last Saturday and that he was at that time upon the | ocean. It was not known on which ship lie would sail and at what date. llt is slightly possible that he was j still in Japan at. that time.

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BODY DECIDES THAT IT HAS I JURISDICTION Threat of Italian Premier To Withdraw From the League Not Effective. SERIOUS SITUATION Future of Europe Depends Greatly Upon Course Taken By League. BULLETIN )T nltp'l r-w Service) Geneva. Sept. 6 to Daily Democrat) The league of nations council avoided a break with Italy late today. After deciding at a private session to re affirm the coun"'l's competence to adjudicate the Greco-Italian dispute, the , 'inly action the council look at ! i public meeting later was to recommend that the council ol imbassadors at Paris find a basis for settlement of Italy’s j demand for reparations for the death of her commissioners at Janina. Italy’s Challenge. Geneva, Sept. 6.--The league of nations council has affirmed its competency to adjudicate the Italo-Greek dismite, in the face of Italy's threat to leave the league if this is done. The council met in private this morning, with no Italian delegate.; present. A decision sustaining the _ ; league’s competent*)’, challenged by , Mu&solnii. was taken and a public session of the count il called for 5 p. m., for the purpost? of adopting a resolu‘ion to that effect. The council’s decision means that the league will stand upon its rights to enforce the provisions of article ten, regardless of the size of the nation involved. Mussolini protested ■hat Italy's dignity anti honor were involved anti that this was not a matter in which the league was competent o mediate. If Italy does as her delegate, M. Salindra, threatened, she will now withdraw from the league. What steps will then be taken in the Greco-Italian impasae remains to be seen. Council members declared the league now is virtually unanimous in demanding that the council act. It was said, however, that owing to the attitude of France it is not known whether the resolution establishing the council’s competency will secure j a unanimous vote. The French are Inclined to bo more sympathetic toI wards Italy’s view than the ItaloGredk dispute in its entirety might be best referred to the council of ambassadors. The council convened in public session at 5:30 p. m„ and immediately took up discussion of the Italian dispute. Italians Antagonistic. By Lloyd Allen United Press Staff Correspondent. London, Sept. 6. -While the league of nations counci lat Geneva considered intervention in the GrecoItalian dispute, new antagonistic moves on the part of Italy heightened pessimism here. Italian marines occupied three more islands in the vicinity of Corfu. Italy tiled with Greece a claim for froth 15,000,000 lire to 20,009,000 lire as the first costs of the occupation of j Greek territory as a punitive measure for the slaping of Italian <omI missioners at Janin. [ A regiment of infantry, the Fortieth i Italian, was garrisoned at the islets of j Paxos and Antipaxes. A Greek journalist named Iramenes was arrested by Italians while in a I ailing vessel on the high seas. Italian men-of-war swarm about the little group of islands which Italy has 1 seized, torpedo boats hovering about watching al! Greek vessels that ar- ■ rive or leave. A meeting of volunteer Garibaldians who fought for Greece against Turkey (Continued on Page six)