Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 212.

quota fob bed CROSS IN ADAMS COUNTY SI,OOO Plan Is To Raise Most of Quota Through Churches of Adams County. MEETING HELI) TODAY Executive Board of Red Cross and Ministerial Association Meet. Adams county's quota (for the Japan Relief fund which is being raised by the American Red Cross has been set at SI,OOO, according to a letter received by C. L. Walters, Adams county chairman. The names of each donator will he published the first part of next week, it was announced by local officers this morning. A greater part of the quota will be raised through the churches of the entire county. Plans are being made to send envelopes to each church in the county with the instruction.; to pass them out at the Sunday morning services. Everybody is asked tc sign their names to these envelope.; and also put the amount that th“y are giving on the outside. They will be sent to Miss Anna Winnes, local secretary, by the ministers. Executive Board Meets. The executive board of the local Red Cross met this afternoon at .1 o’clock to complete the plans. The meeting is being held at the office of C. L. Walters. It is very essential that the people of Adams county give liberally to the fund being raised to assist the suffers of this great disaster. Mr. Walters asserted this morning. The National headquarters sent a letter to the local chapter today urging that the money he raised at once, because it was needed now for those brine in the stricken area. Rev R. R. Eliker, of Zion Reformed church of this city, and president of the Decatur Ministerial association, called a meeting of the Decatur pastors this morning, to explain the matter and get their sanction of the plan. Every pastor responded favorably. Letter from National Headquarters. Following is the letter received yesterday urging that Adams county do her share for the great cause: "September 5. 1923, "Washington, D. S. “Mv Dear Mr. Walters: "By a proclamation issued today. President Coolidge has appealed to the nation for contributions for relief of the Japanese disaster victims. He has fixed, as a minimum figure to cover the urgent needs of the situation. the sum of $5,000,000. By the terms of the proclamation, this money will be both contributed through the American National Red Cross and administered by the same body. "The disaster in Japan has no parallel in modern history. The partial reports which alone are available at this writing indicate that the extent of the disaster far and away overshadows the San Francisco earthquake of our own experience. From every standpoint, the magnitude of the relief project which is presented to us calls for the utmost effort from every resource which the community affords. The Washington Division has accepted a position Os utmost responsibility in this crisis. The states comprising the division are not only the most prosperous in the country but represent substantially half of the entire membership of the American National Red Cross. Almost before the machinery for receiving contributions had been adjusted to meet the situation, the offices of the Red Cross were this morning flooded with money, offers of assistance, and requests for opportunity to be of service. The widespread character of these responses indicate the desire of every part of the division to share in the work. Each chapter is to be given its Part in the quota of the Washington division. Your chapter is asked to raise one thousand dollars and to 'aise this chapter quota immediately. An organization following the lines °f the W’ar Fund Committees should be created at once and put to work. Let me impress upon you once more the need for haste, the need for Teal, practical relief expressed in b 'Pls of dollars. I have assured the f hairman that the Washington Divi“loiHwill do its part and more! j (Continued on page five)

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Pleasant Grove Circuit Buys Church Parsonage The Pleasant Grove circuit of the L. V. B. church, comprising the Pleasant Grove, Union, Bethel and Mt. Zion congregations, has purchased the Curtis Baker residence property in Willshire. Ohio, and will use it as a parsonage. The pastor, Rev. P. W. Lutz, who now resides in Rockford, will probably move there with his fam lly about October 1. Willshire is more centrally located for the circuit than is Rockford. GRABILL BANK BANDIT CAUGHT Two Port Wayne Men Arrested Early This A. M. Loot Is Recovered. Ft. Wayne, Sept. 7. —George Moore, 26, a sand pit workman cn the Huntington road, who claims his-home ns Wisconsin, and Arnold Hutchens. 13. rooming at 1902 Alliger street, were arrested early this morning by Detective Sergeants Rundell and Byers of the city police department, Detective Smith of the Pennsylvania rail road and two Grabill officers, and both confessed to the holdup and robbery of the Grabill State bank yesterday noon.

Moore, believed by police to have been the leader in the banditry, was in a surly mood when questioned by the officers and little could be sained from his confession other than the fact that he had planned the bank robbery and caused the other youth to become a partner. They had heen acquainted for several months, he said. Monro said that h« recentlv purchnso-t tho machine in which thov made tho<>esrane from a local automobile dealer. Hutchens, a mere hoy, was the fl’st of the nair to be taken into custodv. being detained bv the officers shorttv after midnight when he was found at his room. He denied for n time having had anv connection with the holdtin hut flnallv broke and told the "renter nart of his storv in tears. He directed the detectives to his room where half of the *784 taken was recovered along with the gun which he had used in the holdup. Cashier Albert Egley, of the C.rabill bank, who also assisted the officers in the search for the yottne bandit here, immediately identified both as soon as they were taken into custody. Practically every cent of the loot obtained by the bandits was recover ed. Moore, when being searched at headquarters, had four paper dollars and several cents in change, and when asked whether it was a part of the loot, admitted that such was the case. The remainder of the money was found in his room. He threw the money onto a desk, saying, “take these pennies, they belong to him, too.” Both youths were locked up at the city jail and held pending preliminary arraignment this morning on bank robbery charges. A continuance of 10 days will be asked in order that both may be thoroughly investigated, detectives said, before the final hearing of the case and transfer to tl*e higher courts. Hutchens, whom police believe to have been merely a tool of the older man, has been employed for sometime in the Pennsylvania railroad shops. The two men entered the bank at noon while Cashier Egley was alone in the building. They walked to one of the windows and as Egley approached them they pointed revolvers at him and told him to throw up his hands. The cashier complied and one of the men then walked around the counter and into the vault. He twirled the combination of the safe, and finding that he could not open the door he appealed to his partner, who was covering Egley with a revolver and said "come around here and help look.” The man guarding Egiey refused and the second man then asked "What’ll I do?" Egley was asked where the money was kept, and the cashier informed the robbers that it was in the drawer beneath the counter. The second man opened the drawer but hesitated in taking the money it contained, again asking his partner what he should do. The first bandit told him to take the money and put it in his pocket. After the money had been pocketed, the two men ordered Egley to step (Continued on Page six)

GREECE ÜBGED TO ACCEDE TO ITALIAN TERMS I 1 Council of Ambassadors Sends Note To Greece Urging Acceptance. LEAGUE AT STANDSTILL Work of League of Nations Stops Pending Outcome of Test of Strength. Paris. Sept. 7.-—The counsel of ambassadors tonight sent a note to Greece containing conditions approximately the same as Italy's ultimation. The note virtually suggests that ac-1 ceptance of the terms hy Greece will assure the evacuation of Corfu. A note announcing the Ambassadors decisions was sent to the league of nations. The counsel made public a decision , to appoint a committee of inquiry in-, to the assassination of Janina from , which all the present difficulties arose. Mussolini Gives Interview Rome, Sept. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“Nothing could make us recede or accent a compromise on this question, where our national prestige and honor is involved,”. Premier Mussolini, of Italy, declared! in an interview today. "The wrong against Italy; the crime against Italian officers must not be submitted to the Geneva assembly.” "The rights of little nations cannot include murder of the represent- ‘ atives] of great nations,” Mussolini said to the Matin correspondent. "Our inquiry has revealed sensational circumstances in connection with the assassinat'on of our representatives. "Let the council of ambassadors in Paris proceed with their inquiry, * which mav load to any one of the throe conclusions. “The first one is verv improbable.* but I like to consider it. It is that Albanians and not Greeks committed the murders. In that case our ultimatum to Greece would be modified as the only responsibility of that country would be a territorial one. I "The second conclusion might be that the Greeks were responsible for| the murders. In that case my demands must be accepted in their entirety. “The third conclusion might be that not only Greek citizens, but Greek officials were, responsible. In that case my demands will be increased.

“Whatever inquiry there is, must be conducted by great powers in the full light of an Italian opinion irrigated owing to the attitude of the English press, especially their threat to block us—although it frightens nobody.” INSANE MAN TAKEN AT BERNE Paul Burkhalter Taken Into Custody When He Acted Queerly Yesterday. Paul Burkhalter, age about 45, a farmer residing a short distance east of Berne, was taken into custody at Berne yesterday afternoon, when he showed signs of being mentally unbalanced. He was placed in the town lockup and later underwent an insanity inquest before David Depp, Justice of the Peace, and two physicians at Berne. He was found to be insane. Sheriff John Baker and his deputy, D. M. Hower, went tp Berne yesterday evening and brought Burkhalter to this city and he is now being held in the county jail, pending the necessary steps to have him admitted to the East Haven hospital for the insane, at Richmond. ’ According to witnesses, Burkhalter attempted to drive his horse through the door to the postoffice at Berne. When several citizens stopped him he struck Eli Reisen over the head with a club, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Burkhalter is uninar-j ried and has been living alone on his small farm, Berne citizens say that for some time they have noticed Burkhalter acting queerly, and recently he is said to have threatened to “shoot up” one of the banks at Berne.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 7, 1923.

“Eternal Triangle” Case Settled Without Bloodshed Muncie, Ind., Sept. 7. —An "eternal triangle" situation was solved here today without the customary fusillade of bullets and holding of a coroner's Inquest. After pleading not guilty to | a statutory charge filed by her husband who followed her and John Morgan here from Gas City, Mrs. Florence Miller changed her plea to one of guilty and her husband paid the fine. Morgan also paid a fine and returned to Gas City with them. HOME BUILDERS PLAN MEETING To Meet On Sept. 18 To Decide On Dissolution or Liquidation of Co. Notices have been sent out for a special meeting of the Decatur Home ■ Builders' association, the purpose of the meeting being to give the stock- , holders an opportunity to vote on the dissolving or liquidation of the company. D. N. Erwin, manager of the company since its organization here in 1920, stated that the meeting would lie held at seven o’clock on Tuesday, September 18th, at the Decatur Industrial rooms, and he urged I every stockholder to be present. The Decatur Home Builders’ asso- | elation was organized for the purpose of building houses following the securing of the General Electric nnd | Decatur Casting Company’s plants |in this city. The Home Builders erI ected several houses and now own seven modern residences and 25 lots. Ilf the company’s dissolves these properties will be sold, it was stat|ed. The Home Builders have a paid in capital of $29,00(1.00 distributed | among 37 stockholders. It was stated that several of the stockholders favored liquidating th* company’s assets and for that reason the special | meeting is called. Several of the houses erected by the company were sold Imnieuiatriv after they were compl-.rq and through the Home Builders, the housing situation was greatly relieved when the demand for houses was acute. CAUGHT THIEVES STEALING AUTO

Glen Straub, of Peterson, Is i Awakened At Midnight and Chases Thieves. Glen Straub,, who resides in the little town of Peterson, was awakened at midnight last night by thieves who were removing his Ford automobile from the garage. He first noticed a flashlight in the garage and he began dressing. When he reached the outside door of his house the thieves had succeeded in rolling the car out of the garage onto the lawn. When tile thieves heard Mr. Straub come out of the house they left his car and started to run down the road. Straub started his own <ar and pursued the thieves. They had parked another car a short distance down the road and when they reached it they jumped into it and started away. Straub pursued them two miles west and two miles north of Peterson. At that point the thieves began shooting at Straub’s car and he decided it was time to stop when the bullets shattered the top half of his windshield. None of the bullets struck Straub. He returned to his home, deciding to give up the chase. Jap Government Has Declared a Moratorium New York, Sept. 7.—The Bank of Taiwan today received a cablegram from Kobe stating that the Japanese government has declared a moratorium, effective for thirty days from four p.m., Sept. 6. and covering only the prefectures of Tokio, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Saitama and Chiba. Weather *- Fair tonight, Saturday and Sunday; cooler tonight.

MINERS ACCEPT i GOV. PINCHOT’S PLAN FOR PEACE I Agree To Plan Late Today; Operators Have Already Accepted the Plan. DROP CHECKOFF .Meeting of Operators and | Miners Tn Irnn Out Details This- Evening. BULLETIN Harrisburg, Pa.. Sept. 7— (Special to Dailv Democrat)— | Anthracite miners late today, | fold Governor Pinchot thev ; would accept his four ooint proposal for settlement of the anthracite strike. | The operators have already agreed to the settlement. Both sides will meet the governor at I 7 p. m. to iron out details for 'the new contract and the governor savs he expects “a complete I agreement.” | The miners dropped their demand for the checkoff and will accept the wage increase for all mine men. The action was decided upon at a two hour meeting of the full wage scale committee. — j Prpf”» Service) Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 7—(Spec’al to Dailv Democrat)—Union chiefs representing the striking anthracite miners today drew up recommendations rejecting two provisions of the Pinchot peace plan. A full scale committee will pass on the suggestions in a meeting at 1 p. j m.. and upon their decision rests the outcome of the present strike, which has completely tied up anthracite mining. The answer is to be given at 3 o'clock. The union leaders maintain that no contract can be negotiated for settlement of the strike unless it . embodies more than a ten percent in- . crease for day laborers and the union checkoff. I If the scale committee sanctions this program, indications are that the present negotiations may break down and the strike will continue until some new outside solution is advanced or the two parties get together of their own accord. q. Dayton Man’s Sister Was Killed In Japan Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 7.—Jack Lloyd I today received a cablegram from Yokohama informing him of the death •of his sister. Mrs. M. T. Robinson, from injuries received in Saturday's earth quake. Lloyd’s mother was visiting Mrs. Robinson at the time of the quake but no word has been received concerning her. RUMOR CONCERNS PUMPING STATION Report That Plant At Preble ] Is To Close Is Being Circulated. A rumor has been in circulation l for several days that the plant of ( the Indiana Pipe Line Company, at | Preble, would be closed down in the near future. It was stated by re- 1 liable authority today that no defin- 1 ite information in regard to the matI 1 . ter had been received there. It is t believed the shut down, if there is , one, will be only temporary. Those .1 in charge of tile plant refused to dis- L cuss the matter, saying they had no s information. c Tile Pipe Line Company’s plant is the chief industry at Preble, employ- f ing about a dozen men. The sta- f tion was built in 1889-1890, but since then has been improved anil enlarg- s ed. It is one of a chain of fifteen ; or twenty pumping stations forwarding oil from the mid-contineutal fields to the eastern sea board. The oil is received at the PTebie station from the west and pumped on to the next station. The plant comprises sixteen iron storage tanks, with a , total capacity of about 568,000 bar-! rels. S. D. Henry is manager of the I plant. |

Fogle Boy Improving After Skull Operation I Lloyd Fogle, son of William Fogle, who lives near New Corydon, Is much Imprdved following the kick of a horse over a week ago. Young Fogle was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital after he had been unconscious for forty-eight hours. A( the hospital the delicate operation of lifting the boy’s skull ’was performed and consciousness was regained Immediately. The skull because of the kick by the horse, was pressing on Folgle’s brain. KLAN BLAME IN OKLAHOMA Investigator Says Organization Is Responsible For Floggings. Oklahoma Citv, Okla.. Sept. 7 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —“It's always the klan or some members of the klan." Aldrich Blake, executive counsellor to Gov. J. C. Walton, declared today in discussing evidence gained by military investigation of I the floggings at Tulsa. “In every case thus far examined, except two, the evidence has led straight to the doorstep of the invisible empire," Aldrich Blake declared. “Not an ‘alien’ has been accused; not a breath of suspicion against a , single Tulsa citizen except members of the imperial organization. No arrests had ever been made in connection with the whippings, before the military investigations were started. No investigation had ever been made of any of the dozens of cases now under investigation. “Governor Walton is willing to leave the case to the good judgment of the war department.” Blake declared. “Federal invest’gation, should be instigated, will substantiate the governor's action.” Tulsa Asks Federal Aid Tulsa. Okla.. Sept. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Tulsa today appealed to the federal government from the stringent enforcement of martial law, ordered by Governor J. C. Walton as the result of many whippings in this county. Representative Howard, from the First Oklahoma congressional district. messaged Secretary of War Weeks asking that the federal authorities investigate the alleged stringency of military rule here. o Harding’s Will Probated preps Service) Marion. Ohio. Sept. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The will of the late Pres’dent Warren G. Harding was filed for probate here today. No estimate of the total value of the late president’s estate can be made, it was said, until the probate hearing. Mrs. Harding inherits the lot on which the Marion Star building stands and famous “front porch" home on North Vernon Ave. In addition the widow is to receive the fnetrest on SIOO,OOO in government bonds and all of the late president’s stock in the Harding Publishing Co. —# ' —'' — ———— Red Cross Has Passed The $5,000,000 Mark Washington. Sept. 7. —The $5,000,000 mark lias been passed in tile Red Cross for a $5,250,000 Japanese relief fund, according to advices reaching Red Cross headquarters here today. The Red Cross executive committee at a meeting this piorning ordered the following action: 1 — immediate dispatch from Seattle and Portland of cargoes of timber totaling 4.500.000 feet for construction of temporary shelters for homeless Japanese. 2—Shipment from Seattle earliest possible moment of two million pounds of foodstuffs. 3 — Approved purchase and ordered shipment of six million pounds of foodstuffs there. 4— Ordered purchase of 400,000 suits of underwear for men, women and children and 300.000 pairs socks. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: Sept. $1.03; Dec. May $1.12%. Corn: Sept. 85%c; Dec. 68%c; May 69%e. Oats: Sept. 37%c; Dee. 39%c; May 42%c. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Johnson were Fort Wayne visitors yesterday after- | noon. , 1,.

Price: 2 Cents.

RELIEF PLANS GETTING UNDER WAY IN JAPAN Stricken Areas Around Tokio and Yokohama Returning To Order. CHOLERA IS REPORTED ■■ / Casualties for Tokio and Yokohama Is Placed At 50.000 Dead. (United Press) Relit f measures on an unprecedented scale are under way in Japan. Tlie resourcefulness and organizing ability of the Japanese nation is hastening the return of the stricken areas around Tokio and Yokohama to a semblance of order. With casualities for Tokio and Yoko hama placed around 50.000 dead anil an unknown number injured by the Yokohama relief bureau, two-thirds of Tokio and pracitcally all of Yokohama razed, the threat of disease and starvation urged the military and civilian forces working in the devastated areas to redouble efforts. Cholera is reported in dispatches from Kobe to have broken out in Yokohama, probably due to survivors drinking muddy water. Most- of the city’s water mains were broken by Saturday's quake. Japan’s financial organizations are expected to survive the disaster. A temporary moratorium may be declared. but banks already are making payments. Accomplishments of the nation thus far in meeting the crisis include: Tokio banks are opening amid blackened ruins and the stench of hundreds of corpses, which sanitary corps of the army are working desperately night and day to clear away. Fears of a possible panic throughout Japan have been dispersed by this prompt action. Postal service in Tokia has been partially restored. The Japanese cabinet is meeting twice daily and is rapidly systematizing relief work for which it is utilizing the army, navy and all the national resources. Citizens are forbidden to carry weapons anywhere in the devastated regions. Homes for refugees are being inaugurated in Tokio as well as in the other cities of Japan, to which thousands have fled. Shipping companies are furnishing free passage to America and to Shanghai to facilitate removal of foreigners if the latter desire this. The municipalities of Osaka and Kobe have been so successful in organizing relief that they apparently have solved the problem of feeding the tremendous influx of refugees. "Mountains” of provisions, clothing and other needed articles are being amassed, to be transported to Tokio and Yokohama as soon as practicable. The military are reported everywhere to have the situation well in ha ml. A report from Kobe says the banks are paying on demand amounts under 100 yen (SSO) and larger amounts only after previous notification. The vaults and books of the Bank of Japan were saved from destruction and the bank announces it has 2,320,000,000 yen in specio. The government is still considering the proposal of the Osaka chamber of commerce proposal for a moratorium. Meanwhile, discussions are under way as to the advisability of extending such a moratorium to the regions that escaped devastation in the calamity. The money market is quiet; there is a strained undertone, but absolutely no indication of a panic. The Bank of Japan announced it was ready to devote its resources, spared by the quake, to stabilization. The Osaka branch of the Yokohama Spec io bank is beginning activity as the temporary central office of that institution and decided to retuse to draw bills on foreign countries. thus preventing speculative importation. Report Cholera in Japan Kobe. Sept. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A rumor is In circulation here that cholera has broken out. in Yokohama. (Continued on Page six)