Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 214.

REV, B. F. DOTSON IS IE-ASSIGNED TO U.B. CHURCH Annual Conference of u.B. Church Closed At W inona Lake Sunday Afternoon. N EW CHURCH PLANNED Local United Brethern Congregation To Erect $35,000 Bldg. Next Year. The Rev. B. F. Dotson was re-as-signed t<> the pastorate of the Decatur Vnited Brethren church, at the annual conference of the church., held at Winona Uke last week. The conference opened last Tuesday and closed on Sunday afternoon, at which time the assignments of the ministers were announced. Rev. Dotson attended the conference. Rev. Dotson came to the Decatur charge a year ago and has enjoyed a very successful year here. He and his family have mSHe a large number of friends, who are pleased with his return. • 4 Rev. Dotson announced today that the local United, Brethern congregation will erect a new church on the site of the present church, corner of Madison and Ninth streets, next year. The new building, which will cost approximately $35,000, will be constructed of bricks. Construction work is expected to be started next spring. The conference just closed signified a willingness to assist the local congregation financially, in the way of a church loan, in erecting the new building. A building fund is already on hands and contains a large sum. The old buildings will be moved or "wrecked, its future not being definitely determined yet. The local United Brethern church was organized in 1890 and now has a membership of 330. Other assignments of pastors made at the conference yesterday are as Wtows: Craigville, L. ft Sharp; Ft. Wayne Calvary church, F. P. Overmyer; Ft. Wayne South Wayne church. M. R. Richardson; Monroeville, Alonzo Nicodemus; Ossian, W. Rodenbush; Union Chapel. B. B. Blauvelt. The bishop of the East District, of which the local church is a member, is W. M. Bell. D.D..LL.D. CITY COUNCIL MEETS TUNIGHT Special Meeting For Purpose of Adopting Budget for the Coming Year. The city council will meet in special session at seven o’clock this evening for the purpose of hearing remonstrances against the proposed budget and tax rate for next year, should any be submitted, and to finally adopt the budget and fix the city's tax levy for 1924. The total of the city's budget is approximately $59,000.00. wltich in•dudes all appropriations for general expenses, salaries, hydrant rental, street lighting and payment of school bonds. The proposed rate is 87 cents ftn the hundred dollars, based on a Bet valuation of a little over $6,700,000.00. it is possible that several items may be eliminated from the budget and the levy reduced below the eighty-seven cent figure. Tuesday evening the council will receive bids for the construction of the addition to the city light and power plant. 9*Year-Old Yegg Sentenced Omaha, Neb., Sept. 10.—(United Press)—Billy Yates, 9, declared by Police to be the youngest yegg in •owa and Nebraska, today began a 12-year reformatory sentence. Billy was sentenced by Judge Peters following a confession that he robbed two safes and a half dozen stores and bouses in Red Oak, lowa and other Places. — • Thurman Gottschalk, of Berne, att(>n'l<M to''businesß 'interests herei 22* afternoon. Weather Increasing; cloudiness and some"hat warmer tonight; Tuesday unsettled.

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I Ireland New Member of League of Nations Geneva, Sept. 10. (United Press) The Irish Free State was unalmously I elected today a member of the League . of Nations. Irish delegates took their seats on the floor of the assembly and President Cosgrave of the Free State iffade a speech. He began talking in Gaelic but shortly swuyg into English. Enthusiastic felicitations and applause marked Ireland's election. After the election of Ireland the assembly adjourned today's session as a mark of sympathy for Japan. BUSINESS TALK WILL BE GIVEN A. R. Kroh, Noted Business Authority, Will Speak Here Wednesday Eve. Decatur business and professional men will have an opportunity to hear a wonderful address on business conditions in general next Wednesday evening, when A. R. Kroh, of Akron. comes to the city to speak at the Decatur industrial Association hoonis, over the Graham & Walters offices. Mr. Kroh is a well-informed ed speaker on business conditions of the day, and he delivers his message in a highly interesting manner. Mr. Kroh is employed by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, of Akron, to travel over the country delivering talks on business. He is well-versed in conditions of today as they effect the merchant, farmer and tradesman. Dan Niblick, president of the Decatur Industrial Association, had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Kroh at Indianapolis last June at the annual pjeeting of the Indiana State Retail Dry Goods association. Mr. Niblick speaks very highly of the speaker and urges all local citizens to hear his address here -Wednesday evening. The address will be free to all. Mr. Kroh will speak in Portland on Tuesday evening and in Indianapolis on Thursday evening. Blow From Fist Is Fatal St. Louis, Mo.. Sept. 10.—United Press)—Police toijay arrested Earl French, 23, on a homicide charge, following a visit of the Frenchs to the Pampy home. Panmy collapsed and died three hours later. —........ CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: Sept. $1.07%; Dec. $1.06%, May $1 11%. Corn: Sept. 83%c; Dec. 68%c; May 68%c. Oats: Sept. 37%c Dec. 39%c; May 42%c. —o — Gus Borne, of near Convoy. Ohio, underwent an operation at the county hospital this morning for removal of tonsils. LOCAL CATTLE ARE CHAMPIONS Herefords From Fonner Stock Farm Capture High Honors At State Fair. Adams county now boasts the greatest aged Hereford bull in the middle west. Brae Fairfax, owned by A. J. Smith .of the Fonner stock farms, bred and raised on the big, farm just north of town, last week captured first premium for aged bulls senior championship and the grand championship, competing against twelve wonderful herds, at the Indiana state fair. This accomplishment makes the Fonner herd the greatest in the land for. the herds which have held that distinction were entered in the big show last week. The herd is in charge of Mr. Adam McNeil, herdsman, and the awards also included: Donald Fairfax, 2nd in two-year-old bull class; John-Fair-fax. 6th in senior bull calf class; Lady Woodford, 6th in aged cow class; Joan Fairfax. sth in two-year-old heifer class; Belle Fairfax, 6th in junior yearling class. The herd was 3rd in aged herd, 6th in calf herd, sth in get of sire, sth in three best bulls, 2nd in two best bulls bred and owned by exhibitor. The herd is showing at Louisville this week at the Kentucky state fair, where it is expected they will re ceive further honors.

MORE QUAKES ARE FELT IN JAPAN SUNDAY More Shocks Add To Terror of People; Volcanic Upheaval Continues. DISEASE THREATENED Danger of Epidemics Becoming Grave; Red Cross Doing Fine Relief Work. o Bulllten Calcutta, Sept. 10.—Fifty persons were killed or injured and many houses collapsed in the Mymen Singh district of Calcutta, when the city was shaken by a severe earthquake at 3:57 a.m. today. Tokio, Sept. 10. (Noon) —(By Radio from Iwaki, Japan. Sept. 10.1 Japan was shaken at noon today (Sunday) by another sharp earthquake. While it and a series of similar though perhaps lighter shocks which preceded it during the last few days, added to the terror of the people, it could do little to increase the havoc already wrought. It was accepted as proof that a vast volcanic upheaval—probably the greatest since the Japan isles wereJ thrown up from the sea —is continuing deep down in the earth. Danger of epidemics on typhoid and dysentery has become grave. Tile great dread of Japanese officialdom is that the plague, repotted in many instances in Tokio and Yokohama, may spread. Local Red Cross organizations are making desperate efforts to mobilize drugs and sanitary materials throughout Japan to combat the first signs of cholera. Relief work is being pressed at redoubled speed in an effort to rid the larger cities of conditions that would further the spread us disease. The last of thousands of corpses of victims of the great quake of Sept. 1 and the fires that followed are being incinerated in hugh public pyres. The damage in Tokio as well as, that in Yokohama is proving incalcuable. Some today estimated the total loss at 5,000,000.000 yen, but this is officially admitted to be purely speculative. HOUSE IN NORTHWEST PART OF CITY BURNS The one story residence on the J. W. Meibers ground in the extreme northwest part of town burned to , the ground at noon today. The house • had been occupied by Frank Straub I who left about a week ago. His household goods were destroyed in the fire. The loss is about SSOO which the owner believes is covered by insurance. He will not rebuild LOCAL MAN'. WON AUTOMOBILE 1 Dick McConnell, of this city, was the holder of the lucky ticket that; won the Ford touring car given away • by the Modern Woodmen's lodge at' New Corydon last Saturday night.

Survivor Tells Hou) 32,000 People Were Burned Alive In Tokio Disaster

By MOTO TAKATA (Assistant Foreign Editor Osaka Maiuichi) (Written for the United Press) (Copyright 1923 by United Press Associations) (Copyright in Great Britian and Canada) Osaka, Sept. 10.—A story of how 32,000 survivors of the Tokio earthquake were burned alive in a huddled, screaming, struggling mass at Hongjo was told today by the lone survivor, singed and nearly crazed, who dragged himself to Osaka. The man told a tale of unparalleled horror in what was probably the ' worst tragedy of the quake. “At three p.m. on the first ray of the earthquake (Saturday, Sept. 1) I rushed with thousands of others for an open space of about 15 acres near the Ryoogoku station in the Hongjo district of Tokio,” the man, still shaking from fatigue and fright and the delirium through which he had passed, began. "Army stores formerly were kept

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Three Killed In Gun Dual' Madison. 111., Sept. 10. —(United Press) —A coroner's inquest will be held today on the bodies of two officers and a Mexican laborer killed In a revolver fight in th® yards of the Commonwealth Steel company here early Sunday. Patrolman Joseph Zentgraf, 37, of the police department, and Watchman J. W. Libby, 54, of the Commonwealth I Steel company, were shot down and instantly killed by two Mexicans as they commanded the Mexicans to hand over revolvers with which they had been firing into the air. i Patrolman Charles Ramsey came| up from another direction and engaged the Mexicans in battle. He shot and killed Facorro Montoya, and seriously wounded Bartolo Ramrez. LOCAL MEN GO TO CONVENTION Local Post of American Legion Represented At State Meet This Week. The annual Indiana state convention of the American la-gion convened at Michigan City today. Adams Post, No. 43, of this city, is represented at the convention by Clarence Berber, Leo Ehinger, Frank Shoemaker and Robert Meibers. Mr. Herber and James Staley were elecI ted delegates to the convention recently but Mr. Staley was unable to attend. l**o Ehinger and Frank Shoemaker were alternate delegates and one of them will take Mr. Staleys place. The official program for the convention shows something doing every minute. The 15,000 Buddies who are expected for the three big days, Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, will have all they can do to keep up with the program. State officers, national officers, celebrities and distinguished guests began arriving in Michigan City Saturday. Rival candidates for state commartder opened headquarters in hotels and the boosters for them are actively soliciting support for their favorites. Several hundred of the advance guard arrived Sunday. They were entertained Sunday evening in Washington Park with a band concert by the Hello—Al Band of Michigan City. Special trains and special cars rolled in this morning from all over the state and it is predicted that by atternon the registration headquarters will l>e swamped and may haw to go out of business as they did in Terre Haute last year. Tuesday will see 15.000 Legionaires io Michigan City. All will be provided for. Sleeping quarters have bee» arranged in resort hotels as well as city hotels and private homes. Two thousand cots have been set up in local halls to accomodate the overflow. So far Evansville is the only seeker after the 1924 convention. Would Stop Immigration Michigan City. Ind., Sept. 10 — (Special ko Daily Democrat)—Lem- ! uel Belles, national adjutant of the ! American Legion, in an address toI ...... ........... 1 (Continued on Page six)

in this space which was surrounded by houses. We thought we would be safe there in the open. “I was vainly hunting for my par ents among the thousands who were willing about, when suddenly I felt a scorching wind from the eastern edge of the open space. “I noticed that many houses there were burning. “The flames were driven by the wind into the space where thousands of us stood, crowded helplessly. "Screams arose as those about me felt their faces and flesh seared by the fire. "Everyone tried to make their way to the western side of the compound which was already full. There they were packed in, thirty-two thousand of them unable to move further. “Then flames broke out there and , the crowds on the edge were tramplled to death. Cries and screams fillI ed the air in deafening confusion. “Then a terrible whirlwind of flames swept the compound, devouring humans as it had the houses.

SEVEN U.S.NAVY DESTROYERS ON ROCKS IN PACIFIC Tweny-Five Sailors Lose Lives When Ships Strike Rocks; Sea Is Heavy. QUAKE IS THE CAUSE Sea Believed To Be Reflecting Earthquakes In Japan; Many Ships Destroyed. Los Angeles. Cal., Sept. 10.— (United Press!—The pounding waves of the Pacific are slowly breaking up the seven navy destroyers which piled like cordwood upon the rocks of Point Arguella Saturday night and , caused the deaths of between twenty I and twenty-five members of the crews. The exact number of sailors I drowned cannot be definitely determined. The sea is running heavy, possibly reflecting with the violence of earthquakes, eruptions and tidal waves from Japan. Racing full steam ahead at 20 ' knots through an impenetrable fog the destroyers Delphi, Young, Woodbury, Chauncey, Fuller. S. F. Lee and Nicholas crashed on the rocks. Running in formation and believing themselves eight miles off shore the boats piled up like sheep following a leader. > Each one steered by the lights of the : boat ahead. 1 They lie today on the treacherous • Point Arguella. north of Santa Bar bara, where they probably will be ■ completely destroyed. r Only one man, the foreman mate > named Conroy, of the Delphi, has - been officially listed as dead by the navy department. His body has been i recovered. Nineteen of the Young have been found, it is said. They . have been listed as missing. Thirteen seamen received severe . injuries wnile half a hundred more , were cut and bruised during their , rescue ‘after swimming through jag- , ged rocks. More than a hundred half clothed , and unshaven "gobs" and officers . saved from the hulks have been taken from the wild barren point to San Diego. Half dead from exhaustion, exposure and lack of sleep, they lay sprawled on the floor.or on the seats of the 13 train coaches and told the story of their night of terror and of the toll taken of their comrades. i • > Marie Price Sentenced In Juvenile Court Today , (United Press Service) ’ Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 10 —(Special ( to Daily Democrat;) —The stage ca- , reer of Marie Price, former compan- . ion of John Whitfield, was abruptly ended today even before it began. , She was sentenced in juvenile court to the Delaware reformatory but the sentence was suspended on condition that she leave the city and - return to her home in Fort Wayne. The fifteen year old school girl had j been billed to appear at a local theater yesterday. authorities arrested her Sunday on delinquency charges.

"I was forced back to the eastern edge, then providentially I reached the edge of a big pool. “Into this pool 1 plunged, seizing a thick bed quilt which was swirled in my direction by the high wind. Almost subconsciously I wrapped myself in this. “Hundreds were being burned alive at each caprice of the wind. The flames approached me and so intense was the heat that my soaked quilt was instantly dried up. "I jumped again into the pool, which was also drying up, and rolled up and down on the muddy bottom, of the others farther ( away baling would open and I could catch plimpes •'Occasionally the tortured crowd burned or trampled to death, the baggage they had brough with them feeding the flames. , “I fell delirious with the heat and horrors all about me. It was 9 o’clock at night when I recovered consciousness. (Continued on page two)

A. N. Farmer Writes Concerning Yoemen — S. E. Brown has received a letter from A. N. Farmer, secretary of the Jointing committee for the Yoemii’i lodge, stating that for three months past nothing definite has been done towards the problem. Ho hopes that at the October meeting the towns proposed will be sifted to six , and that the decision cun lie reached by late fall. This Is opposite to the news that only three towns have a chance and while Mr. Farmer does not say whether Decatur will be one ’ of the six. many believe we will still be In that bunch. TWO FINED FOR HEAVY HAULING Highway Officials Are Determined To Save Roads of Adams County. Hugh Reynold and Harry Kilpatrick, arrested on affidavits filed by C. C. Beer, highway superintendent in Monroe township, for heavy haul- ) ing while the roads were in soft condition. were found guilty by David ■ Depp, justice of the peace at Berne, and each was filed $16.30. Mr. Beer, backed by Charles Magley, the county superintendent, and the other deputies, are determined to save the roads. They have given frequent notices and now will proceed to arrest those who violate the law. Saturday another truck overloaded with cream and milk was stopped but upon promise to obey the law hereafter the driver was released. The same •hing was done with a man who had a load of seventeen logs on his truck. Heavy hauling must stop and those who do not use good judgment will be arrested, the highway men declare. Byard Smith Completes Law Course At Yale Byard H. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Smith, of Fort Wayoe and formerly of this city, returned home last night from New Haven, Connecticut, where he has completed his course In law and received his degree. Mr. Smith expects to take a vacation before beginring the practice of law. as he has\been in school work almost lontinuously for a number of years. o — • K. of C. To Elect Officers This Evening The election of officers of the Knights of Columbus will be held at the K. of C. hall at eight o'clock this evening. E. X. Ehinger has been grand knight of the local council for the past two years. A joint meeting with the Holy Name society of the St. Mary's Catholic church will lie held following the election. All members are invited to attend. CORNMEASURES THIRTEEN FEET County Commissioner. Frank Breiner, Brings Sample To This City. Frank Breiner. county commissioner and well known farmer of Washington township, has as fine a field of corn as a person ever looked at and if the old sun comes out in all of its glory and warms up in good shape, the sixty-five acres will have a bumper yield. It will be remembered that Mr. Breiner kept an actual measuremi nt on the growth of his corn early in the season and for five days certain stalks of corn grew thirteen inches. While attending the commissioner’s meetings recently the "boys” around the court house have been asking Frank about his corn, so this morning he brought in a sample stock. The stalk was thirteen feet high and the first ear did not start to grow until seven and one-half feet from the ground. The ears were large and if the weather warms up and the corn is not injured by a frost before it it; thoroughly ripened and hardened, the yield may reach seventy five bushels to the acre. ! Everybody in this county is hoping I tor warm weather for the next two or ] three weeks and if the corn is given a chance to ripen the farmers of . Adams county will have a record breaking yield.

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MANY DONATE FOR RELIEF OF QUAKE VICTIMS Total of $297.59 Reported In So Far: Many Churches Yet To Make Reports. MANY GIVE LIBERALLY Red Cross Officers Believe Quota of SI,OOO Will Be Raised By County. With only two or three churches in the city reporting, a total of $297.59 was contributed Sunday towards the Japanese Relief fund, the contributions being seceived by the Red Cross chapter in this city. In a letter to C. L. Walters, county chairman of the Red Cross, from Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, manager of the Washington tivision, emphasis is made that President Coolidge designates the Red Cross as the agency to raise the funds for the poor and hornless people of Japan. No other agency is commissioned to do the work, the letter to Mr. Walters states The largest contribution so far came from the congregation of the St. Marys Catholic church, it being $158.87. Other churches which have reported contributions today are the Methodist. Baptist, Presbyterian and the Evangelical. However, the congregations of these churches have not fully completed the solicitation among their members. Reports from the rural chyches and from those at Berne, Monroe. Geneva and from a number in this city have not yet been received by Miss Anna Winnes. secretary of the local Red Cross chapter. It is thought that the quota will be raised within the next day or two. The following contributions are reported by Miss Winnes: A Tither, $5.00; Albert Sellemeyer, $1.00; A Friend. $1.00; Homer W. Arnold, $1.00; St. Marys Catholic church. $158.87; Baptist church, $14.72; Evangelical church (loose collection) $4.50; C. E. Hocker, $2.00, Bertha Fuhrman. $1.00; H. A. Fuhrman $1.00; Henry Barkley, $1.00; Mrs. Henry Barkley. $1.00; R. W. Loose and wife, $1.00; Alfred Elzey, Sl.OO; Gladys Kern, $1.00; Mrs. Chas. Schnitz, $1.00; Ethel Fuhrman. $1.00; Wm. Alfather $1.00; Annie E. Winnes, $1.00; Mrs. Rose Bernard, $1.00; Mrs. H. Fuhrman, 25c; S. Black 50c; (Continued on page two) WRECK VICTIMS AREIMRPCVING Three Victims of Auto Accident Greatly Improved; One Is Serious Yet. The condition of three of the victims of the automobile accident which occured north of the city last Saturday afternoon; was reported much improved today, while that of the fourth was slightly improved but st 11 grave. Charles Tillinghast remains in a very critical condiiton today. He is suffering from severe shock and general weakness. Both of his legs were broken, one below the knee and the other above the knee, but it was stated today that he did not seem to be suffering much from these two fractures. It is feared that he suffered some internal injuries also. It was impossible for the physicians to operate on Mr. Till'nghast as soon as he reached the hospital, owing to the severe shock, from which he was suffering. An operation was performed about 8 o'clock Saturday night. Mis. S. C. Hoffman, who tvas driving the car. was injured very seriously. but today appeared to be improving rapidly. She received a fracture of the skull on the right side. Her head was badly lacerated and the , right eye injured, but it was said to- , day that she would not lose the sight f of that eye. She also suffered severe I shock and was not able to withstand an operation until Saturday night. Mrs. Tillinghast suffered a broken , collar bone. Mr, Hoffman received a ~ I bioken ankle. Mrs. Tillinghast and 1 Mr. Hoffman were getting along nicef ly today. (Continued on page two)